Yeah. 99% of the time, I can use Lemmy for everything I used to use Reddit for, but if I miss a goal in the games of my favourite football club, I still turn to r/soccer to watch the replay before the disgustingly overzealous Premier League lawyers pounce..
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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I Will host a petition to force people to put TLDRs on top of the comment ....
Nah...they go at the bottom. 😂 because I want people to read my comments and then realise 'Oh duck! There was a TLDR down here!'. Insert young girl evil laughing gif
It's always the same thing, why is there no post aging ? Is there just not enough content ? Lemmy needs a better sorting algorithm with more options for control by the user. Something to control the aging value. Also automatically aggregate communities from several servers, like every /c/book community on the fediverse.
On Hot, posts age.
On Active, there can be issue.
But definitely, discoverability is hard
Nope. I actually post link instead of just waiting for people to post them.
Also, sorting by "new" helps a lot
the only content im missing is from 1001albumsgenerator subreddit because that was already a pretty small subreddit and theres no way itll get to that size on here. so i check every few days to see whats on there
I did reinstall Infinity a few times. But the limit on viewed posts is a good way to keep me away.
I agree 100%. I set up a home server after reddit fell, and unfortunately I've been having to use reddit to ask a lot of my questions. The communities for the stuff I need to ask here on Lemmy just don't exist, and on reddit they do, and you'll get responses pretty quickly.
For any kind of programming questions reddit has been far better than lemmy simply because it is significantly more populated.
I miss the content on Reddit for sure. There really isn't enough people on Lemmy to get that amount of niche topics. But if Lemmy bores me out too much I think I just won't try a different place. When I quit Reddit I promised I would try touching grass more often and I'll fully commit.
I deleted my 14 year old reddit account when they pulled their shit. Then I recently created a new account because I need to be able to get answers to specific programming questions sometimes, and lemmy doesn't have the population of users that reddit still has. I generally post on both lemmy and reddit, but I almost always get more answers on reddit.
Somebody tell this person about chat jippity. We don't need people for that anymore.
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These types of posts feel like they need a density of users to emerge and lemmy might just not have hit that tipping point yet. I have see it in non-reddit niche forums and I think it will just take some time.
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lately I read some post after googling for howtos but without logging it, blocking trackers and ads as always; I go there only if it's the only resource I find
No. With a Lemmy account, and some careful bookmarks, I am fully entertained here.
There is one short story author on Reddit I like to follow. Likely to follow them on another site instead.