this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2024
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I've been enjoying that fact lately, it's been nice to have actual conversations with people, to actually have my thoughts challenged in healthy ways and to have my mind change and to change the minds of others without the intensity that predominates a lot of other sites. I feel I can talk to people here
I think it's because people trend a lot older on Lemmy than Reddit. I imagine a lot of the more vile opinions you see on Reddit are teenagers. I've not seen much unhealthy discussion/ad hominen on Lemmy yet.
Sometimes, easy accessibility is a bad thing. Nobody profits off a large user base here. We should instead focus on having good users and a platform that serves those users.
I completely agree.
Reddit is worse because of its size, resulting in problems with spam/low effort posts and comments.
This smaller size is a bit of a double-edged sword though. If I want to discuss cooking/chef knives with people, for example, there isn't a niche community specifically for that topic. Maybe in this way it's best for people to head outside of Lemmy to other forums for more specific interests, and Lemmy can be more tech/general discussion oriented.
I haven't quite figured that out yet.
If this is what the lemmyverse wants for its future, i am definitely wrong here.
There is definitely no consensus on this. I wouldn't mind having Lemmy 2 or 3 times bigger at least
Oh yeah, we're not at the sweet spot for mass yet. 10 times bigger would still be fine IMO!
No.... you'd have a bell curve. But even that assumes you have a single good measure of intelligence.
I kind of agree with the rest of your post, but I would have worded it a bit differently, emphasizing that people who found it difficult to start using Lemmy might still be worth having around. Also, I don't think "as large as Reddit" or "small niche unknown" are our only options.
People trend towards your expectations. You'll still have a bell curve, it's just a matter of where it's centered.
Uhm can I ask for ~~free labor~~ help with my study? /j
Also makes it easier to keep track of the bigots and idiots