what's your favorite thing about Lemmy?

https://lemm.ee/post/26391800

what's your favorite thing about Lemmy? - lemm.ee

Engagement.

Users tend to like or dislike your comments and posts more, and post comments and reply back more often.

Compared to the millions of users on Reddit, I get more interaction on lemmy.

It’s the small world effect. Federation works better for our tribal human brains. We aren’t designed to be in a room with a million people all talking at once.

At first, the redundancy of having multiple communities on different instances covering the same topics bugged me, but it’s actually a good thing because it means you’re grouped into smaller groups of humans and your voice will get heard. Rather than a few comments dominating the conversation, there are simply more conversations.

At first, the redundancy of having multiple communities on different instances covering the same topics bugged me, but it’s actually a good thing because it means you’re grouped into smaller groups of humans and your voice will get heard. Rather than a few comments dominating the conversation, there are simply more conversations.

I like that take.
Except when i am subscribed to multiple similar communities so i can hear those voices. Then something happens, and i see multiple reposts of the same thing by multiple users over multiple communities.
I dont know what the middleground is.
But maybe reframing towards the “smaller voices get heard” and learning to accept the occasional shouts as an unfortunate downside to a better scenario will help me.

Absolutely, I get replies on almost all of my comments and usually multiple. The engagement is really great.