I personelly think lemmy users doesn't just have that reddit feel where if you referenced something most people will get it or when you say something everyone will say the same thing and fill the thread .and people on lemmy seems to think they are absolutely right.

(EDIT :I am not saying i miss these thing or like them even though i kinda do i am just saying things like that were a part of reddit culture like how 4chan have their on culture. Like lemmy is supposed to be a reddit alternative but now there are no niche subs and everyone is too into politics it just doesn't feel like a reddit alternative .) .

I have been on lemmy for more than 2 months and i mostly lurked or had temp accounts with different usernames (there were only one or two which i have now closed) but this place seems more serious than lighthearted fun but i will still stay here becuase f**k corpos . So these are my views and opinion what do you guys think ?

EDIT: I must include one thing which is on reddit i have never had a real account i just made one or two the entire time i used it which were throwaways that i used to view a post from "subs that are not reviewed" and may not be safe (unless in their app of course -logic.exe missing) or comment . Here i have aldready decided to create a permanent account and start contributing to the communities and i have only been here for 2 months. And i guess i just used reddit to access information and just didn't felt the need to have an acc or contrubute .END RANT.

EDIT : DO READ THE EDITS.

EDIT : I AM NOT IMPLYING OR EVEN WANT ANYONE TO GO BACK I REALLY DO WANT LEMMY TO BE BETTER . I AM NIT SHOUTING I AM JUST AFRAID SOME PEOPLE ARE GETTING THE WRONG IDEA . AND FOR WHAT ITS WORTH IN MY OPINION REDDIT IS SHIT COMPARED TO LEMMY. SO PLEASE NO ONE GO BACK AND IF YOU HAVE ANY REDDIT FRIENDS INVITE THEM HERE.

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[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it has all the same problems that (pre-Musk) Twitter did. Centralization was never the problem, turns out. IMO it's just the basic central premise that everyone is talking to everyone, all the time. When your brain does that, it's called a seizure.

Plus tons and tons of furries, which like... you do you, but it becomes a huge ongoing effort just to keep furry porn out of a lot of the feeds, if that's not your bag.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Most of the success of a social network has nothing to do with "X software is better than Y software." Reddit's software wasn't really that good, ActivityPub is kind of a janky protocol; it's fine. The main success hinges on who's on the network and the quality of the interactions to be had there.

[–] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Most of the success of a social network has nothing to do with "X software is better than Y software."

Literally this. Most social networks are just less-featured versions of Facebook.

Twitter was originally Facebook with no media posts and character limits. And kind of cool that you could SMS it, but hands down just worse software that ended up taking off.

Instagram was originally Facebook but images only. Then they added video. It's just less software, but also took off.

Snapchat was Facebook but you could only send pics/video and only directly to friends. And they just removed persistence so all your shit gets deleted. Literally just missing timelines and comments. Blatantly worse software. Popular as fuck, especially with zoomers.

Social media has never been about better software. Arguably Google+ had the best software in many ways (probably the most feature rich, but UI was objectively a problem), it's fucking dead. Social media seems to do better when it has worse software.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Social media seems to do better when it has worse software.

Or maybe, just as with creative endeavors in general, limitations do more to focus and define a social network than to bind it.