If at all possible, lol

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    4 hours ago

    Why not a fifth or even just an tenth as popular as reddit? I get wanting it to be more active, especially for the niche communities to feel more active, but the last thing I want is to go to the “All” tab here and see anything remotely like /r/all on Reddit.

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    10 hours ago

    I don’t know how ethical it would be, and maybe it already exists, but a tool to replicate a Reddit post directly on a Lemmy instance could be useful

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      7 hours ago

      That gives you a ton of dead posts with zero comments and upvotes, some instances do it, but that just leads to dead communities

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        6 hours ago

        I don’t mean automatically replicate anything, that would be pointless. But I’m still a reddit user myself, and from time to time I stumble onto something interesting, and I’d like to let it live on Lemmy as well.

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    18 hours ago

    Why would we want it to be? More people is what ruins websites. A big part of why reddit sucks is the large number of idiots.

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      10 hours ago

      Because there are not enough niche communities on Lemmy. For example as a queen fan, lemmy has no queen community but the r/queen community is thriving with many posts going up every day.

      Also lemmy is currently very underfunded and the only way to really help that is by having more people.

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        7 hours ago

        At one point reddit also had no queen community. Someone created it and built it into what it is now. You can do the same here, that’s kinda the point.

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    17 hours ago

    We should probably gate keep discussion to try keep the standards high in threads where it makes sense. But from what ive seen its already pretty good and conversation feels very human. If we got a influx from reddit id want them to adapt to lemmy culture and not come here and be redditors.

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    21 hours ago

    Up/Downvoting is so 2015. Instead, comment on any interesting posts, and especially the ones with zero comments. This platform is meant to be about discussion, and not just mindlessly sharing links or memes.
    I, personally, am more inclined to check out a post if it has at least one (non-bot, non OP) comment.

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          7 hours ago

          Not everything needs to be put in words though. Simply saying “I agree” with nothing more to the comment is just wasting everyone’s time, except for the single person they replied to getting an ego boost. The thing about comments is they’re public, they’re for more than just the recipient. You’re trying to make comments like DMs, where people can privately circlejerk until they’re both spent.

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            6 hours ago

            I understand what you mean, and agree that not everything needs to be put in words. At the same time though, it’s really healthy to expose yourself to others even if you just write “I like the way you formulated this.” or “Makes sense, I hadn’t thought of it like this before”. That way it turns into a real discussion - a bit like in the real 3d world.

            Up/ downvoting is basically anonymous and adds nothing to the discussion.

            And, sometimes, other users misunderstand our comments, and then we need to respond to them to get our point through. All of this is a healthy way to challenge our thinking.

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    12 hours ago

    One thing desperately needed is a method for mods/admins to check for brigading behaviour. This place (the threadiverse, not this community specifically) is crawling with more reactionary toxicity than almost anywhere I’ve ever seen, but it’s mostly cowardly ignorant people silently hammering the downvote button rather than saying out loud the thing that would get them insta-banned.

    Also real blocks are needed - all we have right now is a glorified ‘mute’. If I block an asshole, not only is it because I don’t want to see their BS, but I also don’t want them to be able to see my posts & comments, at least not from that account.

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      7 hours ago

      Learn to not care about being downvoted. Unless there’s some dumb rule about too many downvotes leads to disciplinary action. You want echo chambers, I’m trying to get away from echo chambers, as are a lot of others i imagine

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        I don’t want echo chambers, I want places that aren’t full of reactionary assholes.

        You’re saying “stop caring about downvotes”, well then, why not get rid of them entirely?

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      7 hours ago

      or keep only spam protection and make it an anarchist place. Tbh that would really hurt peaceful discussions and safe communities but I also hate censorship and dumb reWards

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    1 day ago

    I think the ideal would be not how to make it “like Reddit”, but how to help niche and smaller communities have more members. Unfortunately, I think the easiest way is just to get more users to Lemmy in general.

    It is not just niche topics, I find quite a bit of things that are not (in my opinion) niche, yet there is very little participation in Lemmy. Take for for example Postgresql. By now it is one of the most widely used databases yet there is a minuscule number of posts and users in the related communities.

    Another example. Just did a search for largest communities in Reddit… One of them is music with an estimated 38 million redditors. In Lemmy the largest two music communities seem to be 9.9K (!music@lemmy.world) and 18.9K (!music@hexbear.net). That is an astronomical difference for something that is as mainstream as it gets given the broad topic.

    I think the best each one of us can do is to participate and post as often as possible in the communities we would like to see grow.