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

Lots more pro CCP shills on here. Smh.

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

Just lack of numbers. Reddit's at it's best when I can use it to discuss some incredibly niche topic. That early 2000s RTS that nobody remembers? Got a few dozen redditors still posting memes. New indie game drops? There's enough redditors on it that we can talk about it.

But lemmy seems really bad for trying to enjoy any community that isn't a big political or meme centerpiece. Any particular game or IP that isn't a lowest common denominator? It'll get maybe 3 posts a month.

No more interesting discussions of gameplay mechanics or inspirations or character analyses, no burning out an entire workday browsing the top all-time and giggling like an idiot, it's just dead here.

The same massive numbers that made reddit insufferable for some are what make niche communities inhabitable at all.

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

Numbers are a double edged sword. Yes, Reddit has lots of active niche communities that are active because of its massive user base, but once you get to anything not niche, there are so many users that any sort of constructive discussion is nearly impossible are you're drowned out from the masses. Using Reddit only for the niche stuff (with ads blocked, of course) and Lemmy for anything else seems like a reasonable solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The bot spam is quite a bit worse, even when turning bots off

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

It’s really goddamn preachy. There’s a real sense of superiority a lot of users have that I don’t recall as much on Reddit.

There’s also the fact that small communities are dead and it’s next to impossible to grow them, so you’re stuck with the same people on the front page every day.

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

Chill the fuck out with the linux supremacy. I hate windows too but linux is not as friendly and efficient as you think.

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

Do you have a moment to talk about our God and saviour, Gentoo Linux? /S

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

Would you like a Linux Mint?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m annoyed by all those Facebook-type boomer comics you see on basically all meme subs. Reddit culture managed to get rid of them, but for some reason people here seem to love them

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