At least on the communities i follow. Every so often I come across a thread where i recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members and I haven’t even been on lemmy that long.
What helps me is having the perspective that people change from moment to moment, and we don’t see enough moments in a row to pick out a pattern generally. Even if I see the same names, it helps to treat them with new eyes everytime. Also makes it easier to catch someone on a bad day but then have a nice conversation the next.
I post more on Lemmy since I think people will actually read what I wrote. I used to post a lot on Reddit too, but that was MANY years ago.
However one of the big reasons I post is to hopefully get the conversation started. I figure with zero comments someone is less likely to post. With one stupid comment, someone might respond.
Thank you for the service!
Did you the guy from that maymay was like the coolest guy in the world? He was very important in educating about sustainable farming practices. His death was a real tragedy.
edit: Sorry, I didn’t realize how long the gif went. I love the movie, but the gif kind of undermines your point in situ, I think. I feel nothing but positive things about the content of your comment.
Thank you for your contributions to the communities!
There’s a certain group of users I tend to come across here regularly. I post a lot myself too but I also have a habit of making new account about once a year so that not all my messages are from one user. I doubt many would remember me.
I remember you
Yeah, because I attempted to correct your grammar.
Policing the Grammar Police eh
We had this discussion already
Interesting, I actually do the opposite. I still have the same username as on Reddit to keep my person whole but I’m not sure why it matters. I’m even careful to not give too much info because of my choice.
I had a stalker ex-girlfriend who made me paranoid. Ever since, I’ve assumed I’m compromised after about a year, and that’s when I create a new account to start from scratch and lose the tail. I could probably make a significant amount of money by selling all those abandoned accounts with tons of karma and a legitimate comment history.
Lemmy may be small, but it’s cozy!
Like friends!
That’s very much possible.
That’s why I try to be as nice as I can on here.
There are very few times when I initially joined Lemmy where, I admit, I was a bit shitty towards some users (old Reddit habits). This can get you banned, or blocked, or you can build a reputation pretty quickly. And since we’re not a lot, that can limit your interactions quite a bit. So I changed my attitude pretty quick. And frankly it’s been much more enjoyable this way since.
Reddit did things to us all. You couldn’t like be nice to someone bc you would get your ass handed to you. EVERY comment had to be so defensive, and primarily what worked was snark. Here… is different, most of the time (and when it’s not, we can block and move on:-).
I get snarkier than I should sometimes when I’m really frustrated with someone, but I try to be mindful of it and nip it in the bud when I can.
Hard agree. Lemmy feels like a town hall. A few important people providing updates on reality and we engage in discussions based on those topics. Honestly. As long as it doesn’t get corporate or super weird I’m okay with that setup. It feels a lot more like a community this way. Whereas Reddit felt like a stadium packed with people. You can shout. And no one knows where it came from.
A few important people providing updates on reality
The problem is if those people get burned out for carrying a sub-Lemmy by themselves.
That’s a great analogy. Spot on.
Interesting to hear
This is a good way to think about it. I’ve also been trying my hand at being a bit nicer to tankies. Oops… I mean communists.
I’ve also been trying my hand at being a bit nicer to tankies. Oops… I mean communists.
So, I’m finding things reversed, I spent most of my time on reddit going at it with idiot conservatives, just blasting through their talking points and not being polite at all.
Tankies are different because they … it’s not selfishness, it’s not just seeing themselves as the ultimate victim of “evil libruls!”, they really believe the world would be better under their fairy tale. It’s even different from a lot of religious nutjobs I’ve met, who can’t wait for their God to come back and burn everyone who didn’t appreciate how awesome they specifically were, like their dad who worked at the CIA doing Kung-Fu.
Fortunately the tankies have weak arguments, the best of which is “China #1 now!!!”.
Hmm I don’t know which communists you’re debating on here but there are quite a few who i can say have made me reconsider my position enough times. I don’t know whether that’s because of how good they are at debating or how inherently strong their points are but i would be inclined to assume the latter. Maybe you’re just arguing with the blabbermouthed “cAPitALism Bad” folks
Some are just ‘west bad! China good!’, the last one was actually trying but I’d read Das capital and simply felt base Marxism was hopelessly outdated as a darwinism era construct social model, obsoleted by game theory and other more modern behavioral frameworks.
I’m a moderate centrist on most issues, I think we need more social support systems to counter balance the power of corporations and the rich, I just understand a powerful government isn’t a panacea, you’re just shifting the power and therefore corruption to a different body.
Have you read Consequences of Capitalism by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone?
No, I’m sure chomsky would be great.
I don’t disagree with the criticism that we have far too unregulated capitalism, we need to go way back the other way.
My issue is the stupid, faith-based, communism will solve everything, even though it never has before.
Capitalism is corruption by the rich, communism devolves into corruption by the powerful, always.
In the past the people only had freedom when the king and the nobles checked each other in power, which is why the founders created checks and balances. Now the king has been replaced by the government while the nobility are the rich and corporations.
If both are balanced against each other (which has happened a few times in the past) then we have increased freedoms, often because they have to lobby the people in their struggle with each other.
When they join forces, we have fascism, which is when things are the worst. That’s where we’re going now with our current system. That’s a problem.
The book does discuss a bunch of these topics, especially the history between capital business interests and the US government.
I think communism gets too muddy with everyone’s different idea of what it is, especially do to all the different countries that have ‘tried communism’ to various degrees of success. I think socialism is more tangible to talk about. Changing the structure of businesses to a democratic organization between the workers, where the profit they generate goes to where is democraticly decided (such as fair wages vs reinvestment into the business). Changing the social organization of society would be revolutionary, as it at odds with the profit motive of capital interests
I’ll just come out and say it: there is an enormous difference between a communist and a “tanky”. For one, only one of those actually believes in communism, and for another one of them is capable of rational discussion without resorting to the “your (sic) stoopid (sp), nuh uh YOU are!” schtick. I have found it more protective of my sanity to block the other type.
They’ll come around, eventually. (Tankies I mean)
No.
I can’t believe this guy, we’re not all bots!
I understand what he’s saying, I’ve seen the same usernames respond to different threads before.
It’s a smaller community, you’re going to see the same names, stop making it seem like a conspiracy!
Gotta appreciate the dedication here. Well played.
Ahh! Social contact!!! Kill it with fire!!!
Aaaaand /end scene.
Break everyone, that was great. Time for lunch!
I can’t believe this guy, we’re not all bots!
I hate when people assume everyone who disagrees with them are bots!
I’m a bot.
Speak for yourself.
there are dozens of us
Don’t saw much in English, but in French yes it looks like we are 3 or 4 users
Ouais…Camus est omniprésent haha
Yes. I think that’s notmal, no? Some people have more time than others, and care more intensely about some topics.
Others are bots and paid shills too, just trying to earn a living.
I like it. It feels more genuine
I almost never comment on anything. I imagine most users are like me.
Yes, I do see the same names popping up all the time.
That’s honestly crazy to me. What’s the appeal of lurking?
Just happy to observe and take in people’s ideas and views
If you’re satisfied then that’s enough i guess. 2 comments in 1 year is crazy
To learn…
Sometimes what you were going to comment is already there, you updoot and move along.
Not the person you asked but another lurker. Social interaction is hard, even posting this I’m having second thoughts about it, but I still like to feel like a member of the community.
Welcome to the community, fam!
Congratulations to you on interacting! I agree with everything you said.
I’m certainly not one of the lemmy celebrities, but I’ve got nearly 900 comments on lemmy where I doubt I had 100 on Reddit. Not going back to check.
Lemmy is a just nicer place to comment than Reddit: smaller audience, kinder communities, much less intimidating. I don’t consider there to be any pressure to make posts or to comment, but if you do, I doubt you’ll regret it.
Either way, I personally am happy to have you here.
My published comments are probably about 20% of comments I start. I just give up most of the time because it wasn’t important or I can’t word something how I like in the moment
If I notice that I am spending too much time trying to cover all the bases so someone can’t nitpick or acktually my reply I just give up and hit cancel. I appreciate an entertaining comment thread, what bug the shit out of me are people that reply to a comment with an obscure edge case or who are just pedantic for the sake of being pedantic.
Yeah, that’s what you get with smaller communities, you tend to see the same people over and over.
And I kind of like it. We get to know who is worth reading and who isn’t, for the frequent posters at least.
I used to be active on one of my country’s most popular forums, if ranked by daily visits. Self-help Q&A style. Apart from me, there were pretty much only three users contributing about 90% of the content. One of them being the only mod. It took me years to figure out, from the timing and the writing style of the posts, that this mod also poses nearly all of the questions and gives all of the first answers too, using a new single-use sock puppet each time.
At the start of this year, it devolved into plain attention whoring and it was really sad, so I left.
Yep. Lemmy isn’t that big and it is generally the case that an online space is like an iceberg, with only some of the users seen a lot.
I comment a lot more often than I post. Tho I don’t know if people recognize me, since I’m more active on the ich_iel side of Lemmy.
