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It’s because the majority isn’t here yet. You would have the same quality in smaller subreddits, as long as they are somewhat moderated.
Just wait a few months and you’ll see the idiots returning with their cheap comments.
☝️ This
Don't kill me 😆
Oh god I forgot about those lame “witty” responses, all so original hahaha.
Please, good sir, take my updoot
angry upvote
Thanks for the gold kind stranger
Gestures broadly
Alas, I have only one upvote to give.
Nice
Nice.
nice
I wysh there wuz awwrd here so i cud spend money to giv u a icon also some body giv this man GOOOOLLLLD
Sigh... Unzips
I also choose this guys wife.
broken arms!!!!
Broken coconuts!
I did a SEX
If only I had money for an award!
play stupid games
I love how the emoji is also italic
Ok hang on this is nuts.
How about bold? 🥵🤑😈
How about heading?
😏🤣👽
Strikethrough? ~~😱🤮🤔~~
🤡🤡👀🎉😂 Italics are the best though
Why tf is strikethrough emoji a thing
Kebabs
~~🌶️ 🍤 🥕 🍤 🌶️~~
~~🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸~~
Flower neckless
Because in unicode strikethrough is achieved by superimposing the strikethrough character on another character. So any regular character, emojis included, can be striked through.
𝕏̶
To specifically say I was going to smile, but I choose to not.
My mind is officially blown
Thanks, I needed something to keep me from sleeping so I can continue binging Baldur's Gate 3.
Cocaine’s good for that!
Don't see any difference for bold emojis.
🥺👉👈
That italic emoji makes me uncomfortable.
Listen here you little shit
Sir, this is a Wendy's
Have my poor man's gold 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇
"guys can we not do that reddit stuff here?"
Only been here a day but the main thing I’ve noticed so far is that the user base reminds me of the old days of Digg and Reddit. Nobody downvoting comments for no good reason, nobody being needlessly hostile or starting shit. I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.
I don't know, there's still a lot of needless hostility; it's just around different topics.
Lemmy skews even more heavily left than Reddit and it's still too small to attract organized political trolls, but topics like FOSS vs Paid open source vs closed source gets heated fast. Look at the Sync for Lemmy threads; it's a mess in there.
I'll have you know I start plenty of shit and demand an apology for your assumption!
I upvote basically everything that isn’t “this”, a Reddit-ism, or just mean/racist/etc.
The Eternal September waits for every platform
It’s nice to be here during what will eventually become “the good old days”, rather than finding out about it after it starts to suck.
At least lemmy has lots of mirrored communities so if one starts to suck you can go to a smaller one with the same topic
But the Fediverse will be different. For example, instead of having one giant Politics community, we have two: politics@lemmy.world and politics@lemmy.ml, each with its own moderation style that has to respect the rules of its instance.
I think that's a lot healthier than having one giant Politics subreddit where it's hard to get involved because of the size and the immaturity of the people.
Did you even use Reddit? It has more political communities than you could count. Just because there's only one r/politics doesn't mean that's the only community you can choose from. Reddit has a lot of problems, but this is not one of them.
Still kinda is. Take r/Seattle as an example. A massive segment of that community could not stand the main mod, so they had to make r/SeaWa, which when compared to just hosting a new Seattle community on a different instance, it eliminates that issue where the more popular iteration appears less.. official?
What's less good is when you like two communities by the same name on different instances, so you have to keep checking which one you're on, lol.
This is still an issue with Lemmy though. Ultimately, one instance's community is going to be "the" community for a given topic, most likely because it's on a popular instance, and at a certain point it's going to devolve the same way default subs did. People who wouldn't join r/SeaWa probably aren't going to join seattle@unpopular.domain with 50 active users, either. Personally, I'm more inclined to choose r/SeaWa over r/Seattle because it sounds less official.
This seems more like an aesthetic issue than a real problem, and don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting the community name you want on a different instance, but I don't think that's grounds for "Lemmy will never become a circlejerk".
I may have lost the thread if my response seemed to suggest that Lemmy will never become a circlejerk.
I'm seeing a whole lot of that already.
It’s already starting, I got downvoted to hell the other day for calling it out when it happened