this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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No Stupid Questions

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No such thing. Ask away!

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All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



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Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



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Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

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On reddit I was a lurker that posted like once or twice a year, but ever since joining lemmy I've started posting multiple times a day.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yep! Since it is a smaller community, it feels less like screaming into the void. There's a good chance people will see a comment, even if it isn't made in the first hour or so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

reddit had two styles of interaction: sort by new and get in on the comments early, or come late to the party and be a spectator

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Towards the end it felt like the only things really left to engage with were the bots. Upvoting and downvoting felt pointless, as every other post felt like it had been submitted and/or written by a bot, and the comments were so flooded with bots advertising, trying to get you to click on a link, and reposting portions of other comments. Towards the end you'd also see so many posts that were clips that bots had ripped from other videos, only without any sound (even when it was obvious that the sound had been crucial in supplying context to the scene).

At least on Lemmy it doesn't feel like it's been flooded with that sort of drivel (just yet, anyway).