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What’s the most positive experience you’ve had on Lemmy / Kbin / Fediverse so far? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by rip_art_bell@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 65 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Just the engagement in general. On reddit, if you try to join a discussion after a post is more than an hour old, you might as well not comment at all because no one will see it anyway. On lemmy, you can have a great exchange and more meaningful discussion even if a post is more than a day old.

[–] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes! I hated that on reddit. I would sometimes have a cool thing to add, but because the thread was 8 hours old and had a thousand comments already, virtually no one would see it. There were some exceptions: on TV episode discussions sometimes they'd use new/contest mode default sorting for the thread and you didn't feel like you were shouting into a void.

[–] Pechente@feddit.de 11 points 11 months ago

The hack on reddit used to be to hijack a top comment. Post something vaguely related to that comment, then add whatever you wanna add. It's silly that this was required at all.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Also I get more up votes and less down votes over hear. Less people trying to game the system, since there is no real reason to.

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

You wrote this 13 hours ago, and I'm just seeing it now and commenting here to agree with you. I love lemmy.