& I’m doing pretty good! The wefwef app has done a great job of recreating the Apollo experience and has made it a lot easier to not want to go and download the Reddit app. The more active it gets here, the easier it’ll be. How are you guys doing so far? Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?

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    Still trying to find my footings. The thing I miss most is active engagement. The comment sections sometimes feel so empty. But I will give it time. All in all, I find the experience better than I anticipated. Using wefwef on my phone and the instance-site on my desktop and laptop. I am sure a decent app will be developed in time.

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      I felt that at first but I’ve found the engagement to be more meaningful here when it does happen, even though it’s sometimes sparse or not at all. I came in the previous influx after spez started forcing subs open. I don’t really miss it that much now.

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      I’ve found myself actually reading articles since I can’t go in and just read someone else’s synopsis of the content, which frankly is a good thing. I can get my own information and form my own opinions, Reddit just let me be lazy but it’s a nice change.

      As for engagement, just be the change your wish to see, and engagement will follow. I think there is still some fine tuning to be done in terms of the sorting algorithms as well, which would ideally get day old content out and active but fresh content in. A lot of dust left to settle with the great migration underway.

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        As for engagement, just be the change your wish to see

        I try. I want to make this work so I try to comment more and perhaps even create some posts (things I didn’t do on Reddit). But I have no illusion that anything I post will be “quality”.

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          But I have no illusion that anything I post will be “quality”.

          Saying this already shows us as a community that your comments are more valuable than any found on Reddit! Any contribution with an inch of sincerity/effort goes a mile. But don’t feel too much pressure to contribute. I’m a lurker myself and new to all this constant activity/mod stuff. Contribute as you wish and we’ll be happy to respond back!

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      Remember to be commenting on stuff that don’t have comments to drive engagement! It’s important for all of us to do our part

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      I sort by new mostly and if I find something interesting I write a comment trying to startup some conversations. The more people do this, the faster the community will grow.

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          If I find duplicate communities, I just subscribe to all of them. Maybe recheck after some time and look through the activity and unsub then.

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            Yeah this seems to be the way to go. Sub to all communities of a topic you’re interested in. Then after you find out which ones end up the most popular, unsub from the ones without much activity.

            In ways, it’s really not all that different from Reddit. There were lots of essentially “duplicate” subreddits, but the most popular ones win out and gain traction.

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              And we’re still in the beginning stages here. As time goes on, the larger communities will become de-facto ‘winners’ as more and more people subscribe to those.

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                And I’m sure smaller ones will do alright too as not everyone will like the culture/curation of the larger ones.

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        Yeah, I do that too, but 50% of people don’t reply to my comments. Maybe I don’t bring anything valuable to the conversation. Thought it was a Reddit problem, but maybe it’s a me problem? Haha!

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      I was a somewhat massive lurker on reddit, I didn’t bother engaging much because I knew 60% of the time the reply would be snippy, even if my post wouldn’t be remotely combative. So over the years I just stopped bothering mostly.

      My inbox has kicked off more here in the last week than probably the last 365 days on reddit. It’s really wholesome, for lack of a better term.

      All it takes if you commenting, to fire off more comments just like now. It’s good shit!

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        I like that Lemmy users tend to be nicer even when disagreeing. “That’s an interesting take, friend. I believe the opposite, because…” type replies are nice to see.

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          Exactly, it’s all it takes right? I do genuinely wonder how many people on reddit were just bots, the amount of vitriol was super unbalanced compared to real people like on old forums. Does make ya think…

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            I mean, anger and hatred does drive engagement, and engagement is what brings in the views and ad revenue, so I wouldn’t be surprised.

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            I felt at least half of the posts on Reddit were vitriolic, so my guess is approximately half of the accounts were bots/shills and astroturfers

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      There is definitely a lower quantity of posts and many of those posts don’t get tons of comments, but the posts and the comments they do get are of a much higher quality.

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      The bigger communities are reaching a kind of critical mass but getting there for the niche ones, particularly for those with no overarching direction to move to Lemmy, will be slow.

      I feel like over time Lemmy as a platform will manage to make it easier to link decentralized communities together (fingers crossed). Until then it’s slow and steady.

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      Even i was a lurker on reddit. But here, I’m contributing more actively.

      “Be the change you want see in the world” applies quite well here.

      Also for app, I’ve been using memmy and it’s pretty good.

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      Yeah I feel you about the active engagement. I personally try to fill in the silence as much as I can by commenting on things I’m even slightly interested in, just to keep the engagement up. Hopefully others do the same.

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        Same. I actually hadn’t realised quite how quiet I had gotten on Reddit. The threads were so big it felt pointless in many cases

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      It reminds me of Reddit a decade ago when most posts in the specialized subs didn’t have much interaction either. But the interaction was deeper and more meaningful and did not consist of everybody trying to crank out witty one-liners to whatever topic.

      The other thing I try to consider: What was okay maybe a couple of years ago now feels weirdly “empty” because our brains have been Pavloved into having a deluge of dopamine-inducing content washing over us all the time…

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        Pet peeve of mine was the top comment being a low hanging fruit joke… Every time. Quite excited for conversation to be more meaningful.

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        Yep, when I first joined reddit the amount of upvotes a post on frontpage is usually on the hundreds, only the most upvoted ones break to thousands.

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      Try to remember that a lot of engagement on reddit nowadays is bots. Even if they seem like humans. How Lemmy is now is how reddit felt back in 2008.

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        Is this to be Lemmy’s future? I tend to believe there’s no practical way to distinguish between real users and bots.

        It’s nice at the moment because it’s new, but it seems ripe for the astroturfing. The bots are on the way.

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          Is this to be Lemmy’s future? I think that we don’t have to worry much about this.

          The fact that lemmy is open source will ensure that sooner or later someone will develop a solution to the problem if it gets too bad.

          The motivation of the lemmy developers is actually to develop a good platform. Unlike reddit where the only and sole motivation is money, that makes a huge difference.

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      Comments are emptier, but I feel like they’re more relevant. To comment is an actual response and discussion, not just the same joke with the expected replies on every thread.

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        I just checked /r/all. It’s all clickbait. All tired memes, the only news is whatever is plastered on every news site anyway. Reddit was awesome when you were the first person to hear about any news. I remember telling my parents stuff, then they’d hear about it 3 days later and be in awe because i already knew so much about it. The news sites have adapted though, reddit isn’t the first source of information anymore. Now its just a social site to waste time on, and it’s even bad at that

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      I hadn’t heard about wefwef until your comment.

      Really excellent web app thanks for mentioning it!

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      I also miss more interactions in communities and comments sections, but this is just the beginning of Lemmy. It will take a while for this to become pretty active, but I’m sure it will create an awesome and loyal community.