Just a little rant. When I first visited Lemmy Sites a couple of months ago it felt empty. Besides the really mainstream community pretty much everything else just felt empty.
Meanwhile though traffic has increased a lot and I feel well entertained by the traffic in c/hfy c/noncredibledefence c/keepwriting c/worldbuilding and so on. It is certainly less than Reddit but often quality is substancially higher and is “enough” to keep me entertained.
Also I like that you can actually post something without running into a bazillion deletes, bans and moderator shitshat because your post was two words to short, not NCD enough and so on.
Sure, the C64 community on Lemmy is laughable. So is the ARMA community. I still use REddit for that. Also I often check up stuff on r/hfy and r/NCD but since one week I have been prefering Lemmy for that.
Also my longer posts don’t get eaten up any more. God, three weeks ago most posts with 3k an more just got lost without feed back. Nowadays I have even manges posts around 20k without breaking them up. Though the editor is still lacking for longer posts. On Reddit I can copy-paste pretty much anything from Libreoffice into Reddits Editor (which is also pretty lacking but differently lacking). On Lemmy I have to run most text through a little perl script to get them even using correct line breaks perl -pe ‘s/\n/\n\n/’ and different sizes for Headlines are much to few to select from.
Not perfect, not even very good but definitely promising.
Reddit just makes it very obnoxious. Like, there are ways to let someone know you thought the same way, like naturally and organically continuing a discussion by saying “yeah I thought the same and yadda yadda yadda” something that feels like an active conversation is happening. That’s not Reddit, not anymore. Everyone has megaphones and they’ve got to announce every single thing that they’re doing, it’s about as obnoxious as FB users who feel like they’ve got to share where they checked in, where they dined at, what food they ate .etc .etc
Only, as you’ve pointed out, it’s with opinions and having this need to feel validated. It’s worse by how many ways a Reddit user wants to feel validated, particularly with their karma system. They feel the more karma they have, the more ‘superior’ they are.
I’ve said it before, for as gigantic as all of those platforms are. They sure do say a lot of nothing.