• abbenm@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    This is heartening to me. At this point last year, trolls like this would be winning. I don’t know what changed but the new users seem to be much better

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      11 months ago

      Yeah. Lemmy got a big injection of users from reddit. However, the users that came over are the folks who are active commenters. If you think about it, people who comment a lot are using platforms like this for a very different reason than the average user who just wants a feed of links to scroll through. They are very, very different from users that use them to be a shithead troll. They’re also critical enough and savvy enough to find a new place when things went to shit on Reddit as well. We got a lot of high-quality users is what I’m trying to say. At least that’s my opinion/what I’ve observed