The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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Users are more active as the platform is smaller, interactions are more engaging
So in reddit not engaging? What users do there then?
Yes I think what everyone is trying to say but can't quite put into words is that reddit is an order of magnitude larger than lemmy like a massive big box store is an order of magnitude larger than a corner mart & cafe and yet nobody would stand in the corner mart & cafe and conclude it felt less human in comparison to the big box store because so many less people passed through its doors.
The environment of a big box store is steeped in distrust and it is a space where spontaneous interaction is codified with deep suspicion.
A local mart or cafe on the otherhand is more likely to suggest trustful grounds to interact that may provide bridges over the roaring rivers of first impression.
That is a difference that is invisible if you are primarily looking through the lens of large statistical noisey trends, but no mistake that unmistakable difference between "big box store" and "cornermart & cafe" is a multiplicative factor acting on every moment and is of the type that can nullify extreme powerbalances by making the entire paradigm that carefully precipitated it irrelevant in a flash.
Mostly lurk, as there's no point commenting in a thread with 5000 comments
ah yes, true dat, I happened to comment sometime ago on some posts like related to luigi mangione as one of the first ones, and got upvoted like 20k times and got awards and such. Good times good times.