It’s not the kids, not the lurkers, not the mods… y’all just nice people. Lemmy’s got a good vibe going… or at least enough windows that we can close if the vibe gets shit.
For some reason, this place is just giving me late 2000s to early 2010s vibes.
That’s one of the things I’ve been most excited about so far - it sorta feels like I’m back on an old ~2005 forum again, it’s weirdly nostalgic and nice!
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I sort of had an intuition that the people I want to talk to, the people I enjoyed talking to over there, would also be the ones who made the choice to come here.
Why do all good things come to a
?It’s new. It’s exciting. It’s like Reddit was ten years ago
Not for any particular reason, but for a variety of reasons that work together to make it even better. I have listed just a few of them. Feel free to add to the list as you see fit.
- No king of the hill.
- No hidden corporate interests.
- No karma system.
- Rejection of toxicity. The flow of conversation is civil and has a good vibe.
- The Federation functions as an engine of accountability.
- A bunch of people who actively contribute to making this a good place.
- A vocal community that actually determines what content is important.
- The initial difficulty to make sense of it all (call it a “barrier to entry” if you will) acts as a natural deterrent to those who are less engaged.
- Lurkers who sign up quickly feel comfortable posting.
- The ability to sign up for a particular instance and leave if for some reason you find it’s going in a direction you do not agree with. Lemmy’s decentralized nature saves the day.
- The influx of refugees includes experienced people with a lot of knowledge to make this an even better place.
- The prospect of a quick release of reputable third-party apps. Since these developers bring solid knowledge from previous developments, their new Lemmy apps will immediately translate into a smoother user experience.
I am looking forward to great days ahead.
it’s probably just me but I would do away with downvoting as well.
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why would you want that? out of interest?
I know what you mean, it feels like we’re all on an adventure together to discover what the new front page of the internet will be!
Lemmy kinda sucks for me right now. Laggy, buggy, awkward… I love it. Looking forward to being part of its growth and development.
I tried a few apps and they didn’t work for me at all (Jerboa and Thunder). Just downloaded connect for lemmy and that seems to be working. HAHAHAHA as I was typing this out I got an error lmao
Edit: after getting the error, I assumed it didn’t go through and tried to re-send the comment. Connect gave me no confirmation that it had actually gone through and proceeded to give me another error. So now I’m seeing I put the comment twice on wefwef.app. It’s wild trying out like 5 apps in one day. Can’t wait for Sync to come!
It’s not like reddit you say? Time to be an asshole to everyone for no good reason /s
Just deleted my reddit account. This is now my new scrolling home… lol
Me too!
Same. Goodness I love this. It’s so peaceful.
Thank you.
Yep me too also deleted all posts & comments. Lets hope thry don’t restore them though
I’m going to leave mine up as a sort of testament to eleven years of my life. My last comment is, and will continue to be unless something drastic changes, some argument I was having with somebody about how to fix housing shortages, like the one in California.
17 days ago as of now. Weird feeling.
I deleted every single comment and post on the seven or so accounts I was able to remember passwords for, and then deleted the accounts. That also meant I got to see about ten years worth of comments and posts. There are some phases of life I’d rather not be preserved for posterity’s sake.
Thank god I found Lemmy, because if I didn’t it probably would have only been a matter of hours before I caved and reinstalled Reddit on my phone at work.
Platforms are fun in the beginning because everybody has a voice. This nurtures a lot of creativity and energy. However, as ad revenue starts to flow, advertisers demand that the platform banish fringe opinions and undesirable voices (the magic keyword is brand safety). As a result moderation ramps up, and kills the creativity and energy that made it fun and interesting.
This is why Lemmy works (for now).
Banning fascists is always a good thing however and fringe elements that promote fascists. You cannot tolerate the intolerable.
All I can picture for lemmy users right now is an excited dog at a dog park that is just loving life and wants to say high to every other dog and is wagging his tail so hard that his whole ass is wagging.
Lol ngl, it’s a little like that. I haven’t been excited about a new social thing on the internet in a long while.
The content is nice. The performance, not so much.
Can we say we “made it” when megacorps start making their own instances and communities?
I think we’ll have “made it” when You Tubers devote videos to reading Lemmy posts.
Lemmy kinda sucks for me right now. Laggy, buggy, awkward… I love it. Looking forward to being part of its growth and development.
If people complain about the stability they were clearly not around for the early days of Reddit. It was flakey as hell.
I’m hoping it takes off. It’s a confusing start but seems alright once you have a grasp.
The grasp I’m trying to get ahold of is where to locate where everyone jumped ship to? Is there a master list or do you just gotta hunt and hope for the best?
The instance you make your account on doesn’t matter, as they’re federated you can see and interact with posts from anywhere else.
You can check out the Lemmy community browser to see a list of the most visited communities, then search for them in https://lemmy.world/search to subscribe/post/comment. (note: beehaw.org communities arent accessible from lemmy.world, so ignore those)
Theres a feeling of relief when you find the people (or bots) you once interacted with on reddit.
I mean, its not actually the same people, but when I saw the patientgamers community yesterday, I remember the feeling when I transferred schools expecting I’m going to be alone but theres that familiar face that welcomed me.
