Man, to me all of this smells the internet from the 2000s and I can’t tell how excited I am
Oh bring the good ol’ sweaty LAN parties.
Yes! I’m realizing how much I took that for granted when social media came on the scene. Not anymore. I’m not letting this version of the internet die out if we have the chance to bring that energy back.
Same! I was a longtime Reddit user and I’m still learning the ropes here but am getting vibes of my Reddit subs as they felt 10-15 years ago. I hope we continue to grow in healthy ways here
/lurk
This is the way
Haha same! I’ve already commented here more than what I have on reddit in the past 5 years at least. And I’m not even forcing myself to comment. It just feels authentic. I feel that my voice won’t be lost in the void of the internet. I agree with @Disgusted_Tadpole. Last time I had this feeling was on orkut back in the 2000s. Exciting times! :)
Feels like 2000’s message boards as I’ve said on a few posts now. It’s nice - I do feel like my contributions matter more so I actually hit “post”
I’m surprised my first whimsical drunken post got so high up in upvotes. I am also slightly saddened by it lol. I need to up the effort next time .
I rarely post anything outside of the Fediverse because I can just FEEL whatever it is being leeched upon by advertisers and such lol
Yes! I’ve really been missing message boards lately. I didn’t think I’d get to feel that joy again, and here we are! Just gotta keep the momentum going.
I feel like it’s easier and more rewarding to comment when it’s a smaller community. The problem is that I don’t have anything interesting to post :/
I definitely have this feeling too. I’m finding that memes and other picture-based posts are a little easier for me to start with because they do some of the talking for me.
It’s fine, even simple posts like what games are you playing gets responses. I asked what communities you want to see gamewise as Lemmy grows and it got up to 100 responses. Even the littlest posts help
Yes you do. What did you do yesterday?
I went to watch Into the Spiderverse. It was pretty great. I like the original way better, but man this one delivers.
Post early and post often
While I’m sad about the Reddit api changes. I’m also happy about them if they make Lemmy popular, I’d love to ditch Reddit altogether.
I’m really glad we’re not all just jumping onto the next centralised platform. It makes me hopeful for this system.
This is where I’m at too. Reddit is my last non-Fediverse social media account, and I already had some reservations about keeping it. I don’t think I’m ready to delete it just yet, unlike FB/Twitter/Instagram.
I’m excited to see the concept of federation gaining traction. I can’t describe how disappointed I was when Jabber/XMPP failed, IRC faded from relevance, and Facebook/Twitter became the way to talk to people. Now, seeing everyone here and on Mastodon, I’m finally feeling a bit hopeful again.
@argv_minus_one @MrsEaves Honestly I am so glad something like the fediverse exists. This is so much more in parallel with how I try to live my life than some top-down centralized system.
Come to think of it, I’m surprised I didn’t learn my lesson with centralization when AIM died. I just accepted it as a natural part of the tech lifecycle and found a different centralized service. But seeing the decisions and actions of these companies over the past few years - platforms I trusted - hit differently, and hit even harder when I went to look for forums and RSS and realized my backup options were dying. You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone, or pretty close to being gone. It definitely makes me want to support federation and indie web efforts - it’s much closer in spirit to the web I grew up with.
I love it when the communities are smaller but I do hope they get bigger too, maybe I won’t lurk this time and be more involved but as long as the content is good I don’t mind lurking again haha
End of the month is gonna be D-Day when people need to make a decision. I’m pretty confident that a large majority will suck it up and switch to the official app, but that still leaves huge numbers of people that will be migrating. I hope Lemmy is ready for the real wave, this is all just precursor shit.
All that is a long-winded way of saying this is about to get a lot bigger.
I wish it didn’t take a system/site/service imploding to get people to try something new.
MySpace got silly, enter FB. Twitter gets Musked, Mastodon finally takes off after years of not. Reddit nukes their own service, Etc.
Not that bad projects shouldn’t die off, but it’s always a reactionary move for the masses, rather than a proactive “let’s try this new thing because it might be better”.
I think Reddit is an outlier in the sense that until now it has been a good service with fairly minor flaws.
FB is totally garbage and had been that for many years now and yet people are not seeking alternatives, maybe because that kind of social media is not that interesting anymore to the types that would care.
It’s definitely been going downhill but by choosing good subreddits and using a 3rd party app that strips out all the new “features” it was still usable. Now it won’t be usable.
To me with old.reddit & Apollo nothing much has changed until now. As for new Reddit, I used to think it’s okay if they can monetize some things without affecting me, though I did know the good times will end someday.
@sina @dukethorion FB is for lazy boomers who are too scared of anything truly technological
That may be, but they have 100’s of millions of users, and most of them will never entertain an alternative until [insert world-breaking issue/event here].
Maybe it’s OK though. The big majority usually follows what is default, and then you have a minority doing something different. Linux users are like 1% and it’s still enough for the community to thrive and enjoy themselves a lot. It’s probably the same here, that once we reach enough users to keep things interesting, we don’t actually need more users. :)
@smartwater0897 @dukethorion Exactly. FB corrals a big chunk of the low-effort people into one place who would otherwise ruin great communities.
In my own defense, I had literally never heard of Lemmy until yesterday. Maybe I’m just following the wrong things on reddit though haha
I am also usually in the same boat.
Inertia is a pretty strong force with a lot of users.
Many people won’t rock the boat (or even think og doing it) if the current thing is sufficient. Luckly, it seems that, with time, all monitized, centralized platforms inevitably fail.
For real, I feel more confident commenting and posting on here than I ever did on reddit
Feeling pretty seen here. I’ve registered 2 years now and this is my first post…
Honestly Lemmy is much better than I thought it would be. My main problem is the lack of some niche communities that are on Reddit. For example as a GW2 player I get all my news about game updates & store discounts etc from the GW2 subreddit, but I don’t see Lemmy taking that over anytime soon, if ever. Maybe I’ll need to use a Reddit scraper for that, if I want to completely abandon the platform.
What I dislike about Reddit is the system of incentivizing karma farming. This leads to unhealthy posting behaviors that always bugged me. So far to me it seems Lemmy does not have that, so it’s a huge win.
Not seeing any reposts is honestly so refreshing
If it doesn’t exist, you get to create it ;)
Well lemmy.ml/c/guildwars2 exist, we just have to revive it!
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Man I use to be a mad lurker too, I’d occasionally repost a 30K upvote banger, but other than that I’d always second guess myself when I write a comment, go “nah” and then return back to lurking
On Lemmy tho it’s different, and I love it
