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Lemmy/ the Fediverse is not a viable alternative to Reddit (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by BingoBongo1942@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world
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There is pretty much one thing that these places have that Reddit doesn't and that is a lack of CCP-esque account tracking and banning. Every other problem Reddit has is still here. Asshole mods that have zero accountability, toxic communities with fringe hiveminds, they are all still here.

The one thing that will always be missing because of the independent and 'federated' nature of these websites is the actual people. These website are fucking ghost towns. Looking through the top communities on here, there are only a handful that even get multiple posts a day. If you make a post on here, unless it's one of the top few communities, you're lucky to get a single comment within a day, if you even get one at all. You may get a bit of upvotes, but no one engages. On Reddit, I can make a post on AITAH or CMV or something and get hundreds of comments within an hour.

Another affect this has is basically eradicate any ability to have smaller, more niche communities. Reddit is famous for having the most specific communities of all time. One time I went on r/vizio to fix my Vizio TV, and they had solutions for me within minutes. There is no other platform where you can do that, and Lemmy sure as hell doesn't have the user numbers to allow for it. I mean you basically can't even find populated subs on here for even specific game franchises, the closest you can get to it is just c/games.

So yes, while Lemmy doesn't have the world's most oppressive ban system like Reddit, there is just no real content or engagement on here to justify not just trying to ban evade on Reddit.

This is just my personal experience though, I'd love to hear what you guys have to think

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[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But you no longer trust those 100 comments on reddit are coming from humans. So the magic is dead. Gone. Are you calling out a problem you see here or feeling nostalgia for something you no longer have? One perspective is that the little bit you get here isn't a failure to recapture the magic, but the most of it you will get ever again. The internet will only continue to be less free from here on out. The pre-unleaded generation in power is going to spitefully force us to empathize with their eternal postwar fever dream. Try not to yearn for the ~~1950s~~ early 2000s the rest of your life.

[–] BingoBongo1942@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean I was born in 2006, and have only been on Reddit for a few months. The only reason I came here is because Reddit banned me, which is the same reason I suspect 99% of Lemmy users are here for. At the end of the day, I've just found that if I'm posting to vent or to ask a question, I'd rather get 100 responses in an hour than 1 response two days from now

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Honestly, I think the fact that you can't count on instant gratification here is one of the things that helps keep it from becoming a shit hole like reddit.

I don't mind the slower, more deliberate place here. You get less trolls that way.