I never understand what people are talking about when they say they like Lemmy for the "closer community", most posts I see barely have any comments, and the ones that are there mostly look no different to what I used to see on Reddit.

the smaller community results in less posts about less topics, so it's difficult for me to find anything I'm interested in. on Reddit I could join dozens of videogame-specific or niche hobby subs and they'd all be at least a little active, here it seems the only posts I can get to show in my feed are environmental and big tech doomerism and occasionally some Linux discussion, with very few memes or otherwise just funny/easy posts. I like talking about Linux, sure, but I don't want a sinking feeling in my gut every time I wanna scroll idly.

there just seems to be a lot of toxicity here on top of everything. I'm constantly seeing people arguing or being rude about Linux opinions, big tech/privacy topics, etc. I worry it's a bit more of an echo chamber than reddit ever was for me as well. I feel there are just a lot of perspectives I'm not getting here.

I left reddit because I hate the business decisions they're making, but every day I get closer to going back. I don't want to support such a shitty company that treats users more like cattle than customers, but I'm struggling to adjust to Lemmy even all these months later.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

very few memes or otherwise just funny/easy posts.

Really? That's most of what I see when browsing /all.

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

If you wanna go back to reddit and can use the app, then go and i am seriously, i browse and post on lemmy mostly but i still browse reddit on the web browser for the nicher staff, without an account

You shouldn't feel pressure to use something that is suppose to be for fun and downtime.

My grips with lemmy are mainly On the UI side, user a lot of client, like eternity(formerly infinity for reddit) had a lot of bugs and can't find a satisfactory client) but other than that i like lemmy

On reddit i felt too overwhelming with the amount of users, to post or comment or someone already said what i wanted to say

You could also take a break from lemmy weeks or even months and comeback with a fresh mind to see if your feelings on it changed

[–] Sadrockman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Smaller population makes it feel like more of an echo chamber. Or maybe it is a bigger one because of smaller population. Still trying to figure that one out myself.