The thing I like most about the fediverse, unlike reddit, is that people are genuinely posting things they care about or like, rather than posting to be a karma whore. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve posted in reddit and it instantly gets stolen and used in another sub simply to get easy karma. It’s refreshing to not have that here. That’s all. Thanks!
I think what you have observed is short-lived. I am starting to notice a lot of poor reddit etiquette showing up more and more here.
One of my huge pet peeves is multiple people posting the exact same link to the exact same article into the exact same community over the span of several hours. I’m not sure if they are doing it for the attention, if they are narcissists and assume that because they just discovered it that no one else might have posted it first, or if they are just too damned self-centered to quickly check the latest couple dozen posts to make sure they aren’t posting a dupe.
Unfortunately, in served the same behavior late last. Ight. I saw the same article posted in five different communities from the same person. I thought we had something better going here. I hope the few who are exhibiting this behavior can get it under control and leave that mentality behind.
I fully expect mass posting like that will be the norm on Lemmy, even more than it was on Reddit. Now instead of a handful of subreddits that cover similar context, there are also a handful of communities on here with literally the exact same name. As annoying as it is to see a bunch of duplicate posts in my feed, I can’t say I blame users for doing that when communities are often fragmented here.
I really think despite that we don’t have overall karma, people still get off on getting highly rated posts. I mostly lurked on Reddit, but would occasionally post something and I can’t deny that I enjoyed seeing the post get a lot of upvotes. But here on Lemmy, I became a mod of a couple communities and I post a lot and I’ve noticed I don’t even pay attention to the scores at all. I think one reason is since I post a lot more, I don’t pay attention, and also the scores don’t generally get as high, due to the smaller userbase. But I agree, people need to get out of that mentality of trying to get the highest rated post scores. It really makes it much more enjoyable to get involved in discussions, IMO.
gosh it isn’t “narcissist” to not “check the latest couple dozen posts”. I guess you are a person who sits all day and all night at a computer ya?
Especially with the weird sorting on the fediverse you could miss it even if you read 25 posts. But do I read >24 posts every time I post 1? No.
If the URL is identical the software should let the user know when posting. It happened to me on reddit before. it would let you post it but you had to confirm. Usually I’d just kill it at that point.
“I just discovered this thing, and since it’s new to me I immediately conclude that no one else has seen it either because the horizon of my reality extends no farther than the diameter of my own head”…is absolutely narcissist.
The opposite of narcissism is considering that other people exist, and that other people might have found it and posted it first, and to assume they have until you do some minimum amount of diligence to find out. That minimum amount of diligence is just checking for recent posts on the same topic - it’s not rocket science - it’s just having the basic minimum amount of social-awareness to consider there are other people in that community who may have already posted it.
I think it’s a combination of all of the reasons you stated AND the sorting algorithm not being the same as some of us are used to on Reddit.
I’m still getting used to finding content I haven’t seen when I’m not toggled to “Subscribed”.
A way to mark something as “read” and not have it show back up for me unless I’ve posted in it would be handy, but as with all new paradigms, I’ll get used to this one eventually and likely wonder how I ever did things the “old way”.
I was posting something that just contained the same word as another post in that community and I got a popup letting me know. I don’t know if that’s a setting the mods turn on. Hang on, I mod the community I’m talking about and I didn’t do it, so no… I’m using lemmy.world on PC with no apps, if that makes a difference.