• TairikuOkami@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 years ago

    It started good, but then people realized that it is not reddit, so they moved back, failing to embrace the change.

    I do not blame them, I miss the content and my 15k account, but I have removed it, so there is no going back for me.

    • Mikekm@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 years ago

      Yep, I’m here for good too. Reddit will never get that magic back that it once had.

      • Che Banana@lemmy.ml
        8·
        2 years ago

        There is more variety of content here IMO. I like seeing more international posts even if i dont aleays understand the language or the context.

        Back there it was all ragey clickbait bot karma removed.

        • SpaceX724@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 years ago

          I feel like it’s not dominated by the same sort of content, but a lot of smaller communities and niche interests (at least the ones I’m interested in) have yet to develop on lemmy.

          • Che Banana@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2 years ago

            I’ve got a healthy sub list going, and am actually participating again instead of lurking. Ive got my default set to Alll-New so i come across some great things randomly. The other day some guy posted in ancient coins a greek coin that was about the size of your pinkey nail. Much more refreshing than some rehashed tweet by some asshole.

        • Clipper152@lemm.ee
          1·
          2 years ago

          There is more variety of content here IMO. I like seeing more international posts even if i dont aleays understand the language or the context.

          Wait, really? I’m having trouble finding non-English stuff even after sorting by new and subbing to non-English coms…

          • Che Banana@lemmy.ml
            2·
            2 years ago

            Yeah, really. Its pretty cool. There is a trend that it comes in batches though, like the Swiss sub with 5-6 posts, then the India, Indonesia etc…

      • Forty@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 years ago

        Amen to that. Maybe 5 years here if we’re lucky and then on to blemmy.

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 years ago

        This place is awesome. I like that I can recognize usernames in replies. It definitely feels closer than reddit.

            • Obi@sopuli.xyz
              3·
              2 years ago

              Just shows how unimportant the company behind the interface is, they’re just letting users create all the community and content and use their IP to take all the money, but the platform itself is of little value these days, when some random dude can create the exact same thing from his attic in an afternoon.

        • Deuces@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 years ago

          That was a trip. As simple as the UI is it somehow never occurred to me it could be copied.

          • Bucky@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 years ago

            I used their original spritesheet when I redesigned the css for r/unresolvedmysteries.

        • superkret@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 years ago

          I’m amazed it doesn’t feel like 4chan in 2005. Like, how is it possible that it’s not full of spam and racism? I hope it stays that way.

          • Obi@sopuli.xyz
            4·
            2 years ago

            Shhhh they’ll hear you.

            Really though, defederation is the reason why.

            • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
              1·
              2 years ago

              weird mispelling of “developers and initial server admins have actual prosocial politics instead of standard tech libertarian nonsense, setting the stage for effective moderation”

              (defederation wouldn’t have helped much if Lemmy was full of Nazi chuds when the reddit migration happened)

              • Obi@sopuli.xyz
                3·
                2 years ago

                Instance owners can have full control over who they federate with. From the start, the mainstream in the Fediverse has had a tolerant, open-minded and positive mindset. Over time instances that don’t follow this (e.g. by promoting hate speech) are defederated, leaving mostly decent discourse. Users that try to join instances that follows the Fediverse ethics while not belonging, and try to spread hate, get banned.

                We’re still in early days but this will keep happening until the verse is wide and large, and you can choose your own little corner that aligns with what you want, whether that’s more like what we have today, or the opposite end of the spectrum, but for now we get to enjoy to still have mostly only tolerant instances, and the nasty ones are defederated into oblivion.

                • DoctorPlasmatron@lemmy.ca
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  kind of like when back in usenet days a usenet server could choose to not include certain newsgroups, such as someone not wanting to store all the data for alt.binaries.pron.hamsters on their server or whatnot?

    • superkret@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      I love it. Less content = less addictive scrolling. Deleted reddit the moment lemmy finally let me make an account (on the 10th try or so).

    • Indépendantiste@lemmy.world
      53·
      2 years ago

      I think fediverse users are on average much older than other social medias. I often see polls on mastodon and the most prominent groups are very often the 35-45 year olds. I feel like im in the minority of my age (19) caring about free software and it makes me sad that nowadays tech has to be so dumbed down because even the young can’t use computers just like my grand parents. It’s crazy how my classes most people only knew how to open instagram, but they had no clue how to save a word document

      • superminerJG@lemmy.world
        20·
        2 years ago

        You’re not alone. Most people I know don’t even sort their files into directories anymore, they just search for it (particularly in cloud storages like Google Drive).

        In fact, when I took the introductory computer engineering course at my HS, the teacher made everyone sort their Google Drive files as an assignment.

        • Indépendantiste@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Same, my first semester we had a course litterally about creating word and excel documents, how to format text etc… in a software engineering program. Or other example, (2nd year, 2nd semester of the year on a 3 year program) last semester, we had a semester team project that we had to give at the end. At first, I litterally had tell them how to commit changes to the github repo, because they only did it though the web UI. How they got this far into the program I honestly have no clue as we litterally had a course in the first year that had a few classes dedicated for proper git usage

        • trouser_mouse@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          What the fuck is wrong with people, first cutlery just being flung in a drawer any which way, now apparently files just go wherever it’s all a cloud or whatever anyway isn’t it

        • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
          11·
          2 years ago

          I just found out that people use search on thier computers to find files and have no idea where anything is located. It hurts just thinking about it.

          And paradoxically they refuse to use search engines to find anything on the Internet.

          • ecks0fa@lemmy.world
            6·
            2 years ago

            I completely lost control of my folder structure after keeping all my old backups (before i had a network storage) on HDDs and later copying them over as Backup-Pc-X, Backup-Pc-Y, etc. I should clean up since years. But hey, so far the search worked :D

            • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
              3·
              2 years ago

              That I can understand. I have a folder on desktop I dump everything into that’s loose to sweep under the rug. Desktop23. Desktop22, etc. And these folders go back years on my external drive. They will not be organized ever.

              But I have the feeling you understand where things are supposed to go. The people I’m talking about have zero idea what’s in thier computer.

              • Nowyn@sopuli.xyz
                2·
                2 years ago

                I have been ill this year and as I am pretty limited in what I can do, I am finally sorting stuff properly. It is just that I usually don’t delete anything. Every time I change a device I dump stuff based on file type on folders either on cloud, device or external HDD thinking I will come back to it. Instead, I never come back. And because of my work, a bunch of stuff is pretty depressive so sorting a decade of files and images I would want to forget feels impossible. But I am making a dent.

                • silentashes@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  Digital detritus = SO not important. … i mean RELATIVELY. Trust me.

                  Go live your life, insofar as you are able to, friend :-)

                  Find an actual sharing group like #BuyNothingProject or #ToolLendingLibrary or something crew to kick it with.

                  or https://shareable.net for reading (been ages since I checked it).

      • subnuggurat@lemmy.world
        34·
        2 years ago

        You might be right. I’m new here but so far I’m amused and surprised by the amount of ‘classic’ memes going around.

        I think for many of us in the mid 30s early 40s it boils down to having experienced a version of the Internet where content was king, not personality. Anyone could get their website out there but it was what you put in it that mattered, not who put it there (unless you were an actual celebrity). You could bump into all sorts of new information just by clicking from link to link. Then we saw and experienced first hand the rise of the search algorithms, the echo chambers, click bait and the cult to fluff that social media became pretty much since the beginning.

        The Internet we have now is certainly shinnier but only the way plastic is. When I look at the information being churned out and that gets passed around more often I can only think about it in terms of pollution. The equivalent of styrofoam pellets being manufactured for single immediate use that cover the information sphere and that just end up making people’s life worse in the long term. Twitter, Meta and the like (none holds a candle to TikTok though) are no different from the factories that have been spilling poison down the drain for decades. The latter pollute our physical space, the first pollute our emotional an mental environments.

        I honestly don’t think I’m being a grumpy old fart (though I am). This is the reason I preferred reddit a while ago and why I now came here. It sort of feels like those days when ‘browsing’ was about stepping out of your own world experience and into completely different ones.

        End of rant. Thanks if you made it here. :)

        • trouser_mouse@lemmy.world
          31·
          2 years ago

          Yes Geocities web rings with rotating skulls was the content king!

          Or maybe people rapping in AOL chat rooms

          • subnuggurat@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 years ago

            Sure, yeah trash is trash. If that’s how far you wanted to go you’d have plenty of it. But the web didn’t necessarily trend towards it. Plenty of other spaces where to go. Later, in the mid-late 2000s marketing saw how eagerly people swallowed trash and so the race to the bottom took speed. Most of the web today is aimed at the lowest common denominator. The rotating skullz are but the grand-daddies of the Tiks and the Toks IMO.

            • trouser_mouse@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 years ago

              Totally, many early forums and bulletin board systems had good discussion, it wasn’t all trash at all! But, there was also a lot of trash. The internet has always been a weird mix of wonderful information and genuine useful tools, and a blazing dumpster fire of shit, on fire.

      • Mohkia@lemmy.world
        15·
        2 years ago

        I think there are a lot of computer illiterate people I most generations but there seems to be an overlap of late gen x/early millennial thst kind of had to learn how computers and the internet worked if they wanted to use them as tech wasn’t as easy to use. Plus anyone older than that who used computers where more often considered nerds.

        These days more and more people don’t even have a computer and just do everything through their phones.

        • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
          7·
          2 years ago

          but there seems to be an overlap of late gen x/early millennial thst kind of had to learn how computers and the internet worked if they wanted to use them…

          That’s exactly what happened. It’s like how my grandfather knows absolutely everything about cars, he had to work on his if he wanted to use it.

      • DoctorPlasmatron@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 years ago

        oh the turntables, back in the 90’s the stereotype was the 10 year old showing the 60 year old how to use the “computator”, nowadays maybe it’s the 60 year old showing the 10 year old there are open source alternatives for image editing apps, office apps, and most things with a tappable tablet interface.

  • Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee
    36·
    2 years ago

    This image brought to you by the time-period when anything with young people had to have skateboarding, surfing, or roller blading.

    It was the law.

      • TIEPilot@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        They only alternate theory I have is I use a VPN and that IP was flagged from another users abuse. But since there is no way to talk to the admins its all said and done. Also I bounce accounts (not to evade) as I have been doxxed on reddit more than once I keep my posting compartmentalized. They would all come back to that IP and would be seen as multiple ban evasions or an excuse to kick me. I’m pretty vocal on, well was vocal, about where the site was heading…

        RIP Aaron