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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed, feels like a fresh start without some of the noise. Reddit will be bleeding users for a long while. A large number of power users have jumped ship and many of them technically apt. Lemmy will improve very quickly now. New UIs and features.

I'm excited.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same man. I'm also trying to get out of my shell and contribute as well. I have thousands of reddit comments, but only a few posts in 12 years, mainly because I didn't see the point. But here, where there are 1-2 orders of magnitude fewer users, what I have to say or post may genuinely interest somebody AND be seen by said person. If people don't like it, that's fine, at least it was there for them to see and not like!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well your username certainly wins my everything for the day!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks! My reddit name got shit on frequently, so I'm not sad to see people appreciating the new one!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

@LemmyAtem @2deck

This is it. The algorithm amplifies the popular and in doing so mutes the rest.

Whether the algorithm is upvotes from the community times hotness or likes from the whole world times your social graph.

It is still inevitably muting more people than it is promoting.

People are worried today that there might not be a single place to find the one true forum, but in wanting that they are silencing the decentralized voices who can only get attention in a smaller group.

You can't have a sensible discussion when everyone is in the same room.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was super surprised to see just how many improvements hit the Jerboa Android app in just a couple days since I installed it. So many PRs lol