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!
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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I just got Children of Ruin vibes from your comment.
"We're going on an adventure"
I think it's just survivorship bias, kinda like mastodon. The people inclined to come here are probably anti-corporate, and sick of current social media's bullshit.
I think the barrier to entry also helps a bit. The folks willing to put up with the rough edges that Lemmy has are also likely willing to participate with the intent of making Lemmy a success rather than just "hangers on" as it were. With a 1600% growth in "active" user population, there are definitely a ton of lurkers, yet. Once it becomes more approachable, we'll see if the community feeling that Lemmy has begins to tarnish and fade as the volume of interaction and content rises.
The barrier isnt that high in my opinion at least. Its just signing up to any instance in lemmy and thats it. I choose shitjustworks cuz they seemed level headed and i heard some nasty rumors about some of the other bigger lemmy instances so that was another factor on it i guess.
Totally agree, it's amazing how many people can be discouraged by a small bump over the road. Kinda like how free mobile games have millions of downloads but games that are like, a dollar, are lucky if hit a thousand (and the gap in quality is astounding most of the time).
I was thinking the same, especially after seeing several posts "demanding" Lemmy to change this and change that.
I mean, that's not to say there's no room for improvements, but if the first thing some people do when going to a new platform is wanting changes to meet their personal way of doing things, instead to try and adapt first to how the platform works and learn from it, in my opinion it means those people are not really interested in being here and make lemmy succeed, they're just following the "flavor of the month" and won't last long here anyway.
I think the fediverse being not so intuitive might be a very good thing actually, it can act as a sort of filter so it doesn't succumb to the masses ruining everything, hopefully.
Sometimes I worry I might be being too snobby by thinking it's a good thing there's a small barrier to entry here, but the quality of the discourse is SO much better than Reddit it's hard to argue with the results.
I'll admit I like having a pretty interface to interact with so I hesitated to make my account until I found Connect for Lemmy. Looks nice and easy to get used to
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Just deleted my reddit account. This is now my new scrolling home... lol
In Italy we call it "mountain path behavior": just like in our mountain paths, as long as it is few people you meet you behave cordially and in a friendly manner, but it changes when the number of people goes up.
I, for one, will not be missing the Reddit ads.
Ahhhhhh. This feels better. shakes all the reddit off
we will be forever free of the existential burden of being redditors
It reminds me of internet forums of the days of yore that are long gone. People answering each other's questions. No need for moderators to have rules like, "don't call each other names" blah blah blah. It's kind of funny, but you know, the Internet had a dark age when everyone was nicer to each other. Lemmy brings that kind of social interaction back to the fore. In another stream, someone disagreed with me and did it nicely and I learned something. Give me more of THIS. And give me less of people replying with "this"
Browsing forums as a 12 year old and finding the piracy forums was quite an eye opening experience. Such friendly fellows also.
Personally, and I am bias, I think everyone here is nice and chill because everyone who actually dropped Reddit are principled enough to not just say they hate a change and then do nothing about it.
It feels fresh.. idk how to describe it
It feels rough around the edges still, kind of like the early internet. Like your part of something that's still a work in progress. It also feels a little smaller, like if you say something you're more likely to be heard, instead of your voice being drowned in a sea of comments.
Reddit is too popular and has too much group think, too many of the same types of comments that will get a lot karma, and too many comments that will just be ignored.
NEW is a garbage dump or a pile of duplicates. So why comment on a new post? It will never go anywhere. HOT is already full of comments, so your comment will just be lost.
I mean the lack of ads DOES help though.
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.
I guess you could say the particular reason Lemmy is so good right now is the friends we made along the way
Pretty awesome to be part of something new and growing.
It's new. It's exciting. It's like Reddit was ten years ago
I’m hoping it takes off. It’s a confusing start but seems alright once you have a grasp.
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Lemmy reminds me of how Reddit felt between 2008 ~ 2013ish.
There seems to be a disproportionate number of longtime Reddit users defecting to Lemmy and I think that the self-selecting nature of Lemmites(?) is why there are such great vibes here.
Reddit is dead. Long live Lemmy!
Still getting used to all the different servers/instances but it’s promising
I can't speak for everyone. I've been lurking for the past couple weeks and just signed up yesterday. The prevailing attitude I've noticed is that people realize just how much of a toxic hog lagoon reddit has become, and are glad to participate in a community that isn't. It's nice to be somewhere that isn't full of bots and doesn't coddle nazis.
I also think it helps that most of the onboarding literature is frontloaded with "this is how federation works" instead of jumping right in to "here's how you sign up and use lemmy." Effectively scares off the reading-averse.
If considering that to be a plus makes me an elitist, I'm ok with that.
It’s nice to be somewhere that isn’t full of bots and doesn’t coddle nazis
Depends on instance...
My last one wouldn't defederate from a shitshow instance full of transphobia, threats of violence, and basically anything else you'd see on 4chan.
Apparently all that was just a "difference of opinions" so my old instance said it was fine.
The problematic instance also had a lot of posts shitting on this one for defederating them, so I just signed up a new account here.
I think that's the best part of Lemmy, it's easy to just drop an instance and find another that aligns more with what you want out of it.
A decade from now if the biggest instance pulls a spez, everyone would just move to a new instance
prob cuz everyone who's still on reddit has the shit vibe
There's plenty of shit fringe lunatics here already also.
Heavily weilding that hammer and sickle mentality that they keep telling themselves is mainstream.
Wouldn't be the same without em lol. As long as they are not the majority!
Lol there are political extremists or all kinds but I sure learned about a few new ones. I for one am avoiding all that nonsense for my own sanity.
Definitely a better vibe than reddit, and I really hope it stays this way! The community seems to be a lot more willing to have discussions, and comments don't just devolve into the same lame jokes that get repeated over and over.
I was on reddit about 12 years. Had zero problems. Last year and a half or so started getting banned from communities. It accelerated. Got banned from communities I’d never heard of or visited.
One day I got the old heave-ho from reddit itself, and that was that.
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.
Haven't really seen nearly as much toxic content on Lemmy as of yet. Might actually start interacting instead of rolling my eyes at every other comment lmao
Feels like there's less contrarianism, and people are less interested in being negative for no reason.
There's still some negativity, but it seems much chiller overall.
We can never escape this. It's human nature.
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