Eh, it scratches the itch. I don't touch reddit anymore, outside of web searches. Still, I miss the niche communities that only a massive site like reddit can give life.
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So far so good. In a smaller community I feel more responsible for contributing to discussions. Others seem to be engaging too with thoughtful comments (not just karma-farming inside jokes).
This is helped by the fact that new interesting threads are not immediately buried in heaps of new content, so you actually have time to think of an answer that someone might actually read and reply to. I realize that this is mostly a function of the current scale of the Fediverse and that the more it grows, the more it might just turn into Reddit.
I find I tend to get more replies here.
Lemmy is great. Altho now it's full of Linus apologists so it sucks atm. Also Memmy is fantastic!
weird that you say that when 95% of what I've seen has been very critical of Linus
I mean it beats Reddit's full time coverage of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
I'm just still missing communities that are only on Reddit rn.
Other than that... I'd argue the Lemmy ux is already far superior, so that's great.
The only thing I miss from reddit is the ability to use lemmy as a supplement to stack overflow. I still use teddit to occasionally find old posts on places like r/learnprogramming
I'm a junior web dev so I still benefit from old posts that answer basic questions, but I do wish I could just do a ddg lite search and be able to type in 'lemmy' and get the answer to my question.
Otherwise there's just certain subreddits I wish there was a corresponding community here on Lemmy like specific Indie Video Games. These are small issues and I hope Lemmy popularity grows. Not just for my personal wants, but just cuz I like decentralized alternatives as their simply more authentic imho.
If you create a web dev and indie games communities I will join and answer all your questions.
That's very kind, but I doubt I would be able to moderate should it become even remotely popular.