1y ago

Does the Lemmy / Kbin (Fediverse) have more helpful content than Reddit?

Pretty much the question, Does it have better help than Reddit?

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Probably not yet.
Reddit has over a decade of content on it, from a much bigger userbase.
- Reddit has over a decade of content on it
  Had. A good deal of it is gone now, some of it forever.
  
  If by a good chunk you mean <0.1% of their content, I agree. The majority of Reddit users did not care to migrate, and many that did migrate didn't delete their old content
  
  I thought they only deleted chat content, not public posts.
  
  Good, the less traffic Reddit gets the better. If someone has a question then the answer can get reposted, or WayBack can be checked. So long as Reddit doesn't get the web traffic.
- Yeah that is a fair point, hopefully as it seems like people on Lemmy & Kbin are more active than Reddit users, we should hopefully see these communities grow a lot more to the point of passing Reddit numbers.

No lol. Reddit has a near 20 year headstart.
- Yeah 20 years worth of content helps, I really do hope we end up with it all on here and people prefer using Kbin / Lemmy in the future.

Depends on your topic. Have a question about a specific video game? Still going to have to go to reddit to ask. More general purpose? Those we can field.
- Thanks, Guess we need to grow our Gaming community more on the platform. Maybe I'll try and contribute to the current games I'm playing and find the communities for them.
  
  This is somwthing I miss the most - all of the games having their subs. There are some here, but not many of those I'd like to follow more closely.

I tried asking a question on both Reddit and Lemmy and got more helpful answers from the Lemmy post.
- That's good to know, Guess a lot of the people who write helpful information has decided to use Lemmy instead.
  
  I think I've only had one interaction which was needlessly hostile here; everyone else is lovely and just happy to be here in a place which you can still see the value of a smaller user base.

For troubleshooting, I still turn to reddit. This is just unfortunate reality of:
Massive community
Very old website
Google search algorithm
But I am confident tides will shift to lemmy sooner or later. And if I am unable to find answer on reddit, I'm sure I'm gonna ask it here not on reddit.
- Yeah I seem to get a lot of quick answers on here and they seem to be very good, reddit still has good answers but are normally slower on the active answering compared to Lemmy / Kbin

I noticed certain communities in lemmy can rival (or even more active than) their reddit counterparts. Maybe not much contents yet, but their users are very active and answer questions quickly. I'm sure other communities will also grow overtime.
- I really do hope so as I haven't seen many people from certain subs / communities move across yet. I even got downvoted on Reddit for even mentioning the Fediverse on my Local Sub.

Well Reddit has years of content by millions of users, it’s definitely better to find an answer to your question but that doesn’t mean that the fediverse can’t be helpful.
- Yeah really do hope the usefulness and content grows so much more on here as it would be great to see people start using it for answers like reddit is used for.
  
  Tbh Kbin and Lemmy are unrecognisable from what they were just a month ago, the fediverse is evolving quite fast.

Yes, sort of: there are few comments but they are much more helpful.
No, sort of: there are fewer helpful comments because there are fewer comments in the first place.
But I prefer a small nice room than a large bad one.

Not until someone posts whatever answer you're looking for on Lemmy. You can help by asking those questions in the appropriate community lol.
- I'll try my best.
- You can also help by contributing good answers to others’ questions. This will attract folks who can answer your questions.

I could have said no. But I'll go with not yet.
- That's a good answer, Just hope we can get it to have useful information bringing more people onboard.

Imo, yes. I think there are 2 factors to this.
1st is being more technically minded people tend to prefer and/or are able to move here.
2nd is being that the people here want fediverae to do well, so they try to be active by answering questions they would have just looked at and moved on on reddit (guilty)
- Those are both fair points as people seem to just want to go with what they know as it's easier. I know I'm having a hard time getting my partner to move across to Lemmy from Reddit knowing she uses Reddit on a daily basis.

I feel a lot of the times you get better answers here if only for the community being a bit better in quality. However, way more questions have been asked and answered on Reddit.

Does I find better help here? Definitely!
Thanks to fellow lemmings, for the past 2 weeks I have discovered a lot new solutions/apps/plugins! My workflow has improved a lot. So much so that now I spend more and more time on Lemmy, looking for new things. My productivity is almost down to zero. I'm loving it.
- I thought your productivity was meant to increase, not go down to zero. :P What things have you found which you could recommend?
  Notion.so has been something I've been warming to of late for planning, writing, noting things and whatnot, like a Google Doc but better organised for your personal stuff.
  
  These are just a few of the new things I've added/discovered recently thanks to Lemmy:
  Consent-O-Matic plugin, a browser extension that recognizes CMP (Consent Management Provider) pop-ups that have become ubiquitous on the web and automatically fills them out based on your preferences – even if you meet a dark pattern design;
  DeArrow plugin, an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube;
  "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux, which always makes me laugh;
  If you're using zsh, it has tetris built-in as a feature. To activate it, you run autoload -Uz tetriscurses, then run tetriscurses. A whole afternoon goes away;
  whateveritworks searxng instance. It's part of a collection of speedy and reliable self-hosted instances of popular FOSS projects, like Piped, Nitter and Hyperpipe. I'm again having fun searching the web.
  These are the ones that I can come up with from the top of my head. Try them out. If you heard of them from me, know you are actually learning them from Lemmy.
- Sorry your productivity is down but amazing you find it so helpful and glad you enjoy it.

I could have said no. But I'll go with not yet.

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