this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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I was just thinking about this.
I'm also old, having gotten into the internet back in the BBS days in the late 80s and early 90s. Lemmy is the first platform I've been on that resurrected those feelings of friendly competition, community, and variety. In those days, each BBS had its own character. There was plenty of duplication of content, but it didn't matter because each server you connected to was like looking at that content through a different lens. Users didn't get notoriety from collecting upvotes; they got it by being willing to travel to different servers and make a name for themselves by participating in many communities.
It's good to have that feeling again!
for anyone spending a few days on Lemmy it becomes obvious that stripping off all the advertising, algorithms and gunk attaching itself to online forums makes for a much better user experience.
The priority is to communicate, instead of making money... who knew that makes for an engaging experience!
You don't have to go far into Threads to imagine how that's going.