I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.

  • GameOfHotPotato@programming.dev
    1182·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      5·
      2 years ago

      That was a shitpost frenzy, I didn’t see much of that in comment sections!

      I thought it was pretty stupid; I wonder if people are going to look back on it in a “narwhal bacon” type’a way.

    • blivet@artemis.camp
      1·
      2 years ago

      Right now the first three or four pages in my feed are almost nothing but pictures of cats in boxes. Which is fine, but it’s hardly brilliant discourse.

  • Waldhuette@lemmy.world
    37·
    2 years ago

    To be fair the majority of posts I see have barely any comments at all. Not sure if that is so much better.

      • sheogorath@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        Be patient my friend, the engagements will come. Although the instances having issues doesn’t really make people want to browse lemmy. I practically never browsed past the first page of the feed before Sync for Lemmy got released.

        • nLuLukna @sh.itjust.works
          4·
          2 years ago

          It is so much better now then it was a month ago so imo we are now a floating boat rather than a sinking one that we are using buckets to keep floating

  • Prox@lemmy.world
    33·
    2 years ago

    While I, too, appreciate this, I honestly have no idea how to link to another Lemmy instance (or whatever we call them).

  • crashoverride@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 years ago

    It’s nice to be able to post wherever I want without having my accounts being happening to be x days old or x amount of karma.

    • C4Phoenix@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 years ago

      Im wondering how long that will last. Surely, at some point, there will be anti spam measures to help combat that.

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
        82·
        2 years ago

        When Eternal September begins and all the frat boys no longer getting free booze at Reddit stagger down cyber lane looking for another party to crash and see the light is still on at Lemmy’s.

  • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 years ago

    I hope it doesn’t peter out like Goat did. I deleted all my 100k plus reddit accounts yesterday. I have so much muscle memory from going to reddit daily that I have to force myself not to go.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 years ago

    It reminds me of the time I first started taking antidepressants and they started kicking in. “Holy shit, is this how everyone else feels all the time? This is amazing!” Mine is cripplingly bad and I’ve had it my entire life. Being a suicidal 7 year old is apparently not normal.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      We still have inline images in comments though which are arguably just as bad, if not worse. I can’t be the only one that noticed how rapidly /r/unexpected comment sections went to absolute shit when gif comments became a thing in the Reddit mobile app.

      I’ve already seen numerous cases of people using the place like discord and dropping gifs in reply to a comment, and getting upvoted because “lol moving pictures”.

      They contribute nothing, they’re distracting, take up a lot of space in the comment chain if you like compact mode, often spammed by users that have nothing intelligent to add but feel the need for attention anyway.

      I’m patiently waiting for the setting to disable it.

    • AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
      3·
      2 years ago

      You’re lucky if you get a full word. The worst were the one letter chains that culminated in F U C K M E or something.

  • Gamey@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years ago

    As an alternative we have the same memes you know for years in everyones feed here but I actually kind of love that because it’s only the best of them!