As a long time Reddit user, there’s something about Lemmy and the fediverse that feels really refreshing and new. I think it has to do with a few things…
- People are more respectful of each other and interested in discussion and being social.
- Less trolls (users are probably older?)
- Due to it not being absolutely huge, I feel like people will actually see my posts and comments instead of being lost in a sea of content. I suppose once Lemmy grows this will change, however the cool thing about the fediverse are the new servers. So you can stick to the server when you want smaller community discussion and go to “all” when you want more populated threads.
- The clean UI feels refreshing and clean, almost like the early internet.
What have you noticed? Do you find it refreshing too?
Lemmy “feels refreshing” because it is new to you. This deliveres a dopamine hit to your brain because we inherently find new things exciting.
As a concept it is the same public forum we have had for a long time. But it is decentralised which does help with restricting the ability of single groups of people from taking control of the native, so that is a good side-effrct.
It seems like the people who actually cared about Reddit and the community left for Lemmy (and others). It definitely shows.
Reddit will learn very quickly that there is nothing particularly special about it. It’s a forum. With the people who posted and moderated on there being chased away or even banned, there isn’t going to be much of value left on Reddit going forward.
Yeah, couldn’t have put it much better myself. I’m fine with it, let them stay.
It will probably continue as a shell… Like Digg, Facebook and other failed social medias that once were golden.
Yeah, I don’t think Reddit is going anywhere, but it won’t be as good as it used to be.
The only thing special about Reddit now it that it became insanely popular and got its hooks into millions of people. Those who are interested in actual discussion will go elsewhere, and those who want to mindlessly doomscroll reposted memes and have ads shoved in their face will stay. That’s where they belong.
Less repost bots. Seriously, I’m pretty sure 1/3 of posts I would see on Reddit were repost bots.
It is indeed refreshing. But not sure how long it will last.
Just wait until September… ;)
The flood will eventually come
By now, we’ve all been around the internet long enough to know that good things never last. That’s really life: Everything’s impermanent. Lemmy will probably suck someday, as will much of the fediverse. But I’m grateful it’s good right now and for the foreseeable future.
It could suck someday, but it doesn’t suffer from the same things that made myspace -> facebook -> reddit suck. No money hungry executives profiting off underpaying employees to implement features no one asked for and selling astroturfing as a service. At least it doesn’t seem that there’s astroturfing as a service here yet.
You’re right. The fediverse is definitely in a better position to ward off the suck.
We didn’t think those things would suck initially either. Facebook was amazing around 2004 - 2006 before it opened up to the general public.
I don’t think I know a single person who ever thought Facebook was “amazing”… Even back then.
Before it opened up to the general public, we used it to organize parties, share photos without concern, and keep in touch with friends that went to other colleges. There wasn’t anything else like it.
I have hope that as the big corporations enter the Fediverse and start enshittifying it, some of us can sneak off to new instances that just don’t federate with them. Then the masses can enjoy their Meta-branded Fediverse, and the tech bros can make their money from it, while the rest of us carry on quietly in a parallel one.
Ok so let me throw out some old timer wisdom. This is what the social media/forums/the Internet are like when the cream is skimmed off and the 90% of users who only browse, and the 8% who only vote are gone. Enjoy it while you can. The summer always ends.
The funny thing is on Reddit I was mostly a lurker/content consumer. There was little incentive to actually post because your post or comment was likely to just be drowned out in the absolute torrent of other posts/comments. Here I’m actually able to be heard.
Absolutely, my first thought was this is what internet was in the 90s and 00s. Slow, good yarns, and lame jokes.
Tbh there’s already too many memes here though. Half my front page is 196 and German me_irl sometimes.
You can block those communities if you want.
I guess I want some memes not all memes
Yea but dont be too hard on the kids. We were sticking frogs in virtual blenders and abusing the /blink/ tag at their age, so let them have their fun.
I was a bit late one the social media train, isn’t that where the “Eternal September” thing came from?
That’s because way back in the past, every September, a bunch of students who’d never had home internet access would have access via university for the first time. It would take some time for them to pick up the culture, so there’d be a month or so of questionable posts.
This is exactly it. I haven’t come across a forum where the “summer syndrome” wasn’t permanently present in a decade. I’ll be lurking around here to see if this is going to finally be it.
I think it has people with above average reading comprehension because amount of people I saw that said opening a Lemmy account is too hard and they couldn’t manage to do it is way too high
It’s likely all this will change as the user base grows. However there are some distinct advantages.
- Having instances focused purely on certain topics or ethics makes it so you can join the communities that align with your ideas. while all these communities federate having a home base that aligns with your ethics is important. Also if any particular instance becomes overly trollish there is the option that your instance can defederate from them. While this is not ideal having smaller instances with a more homogeneous community means that it will be easier to lobby for things like that than a monolithic service.
- people at the moment are focused on building something that is community oriented and that people will want to use. Right now we have mods, power users, tech enthusiasts, and community leaders mostly. We don’t have a ton of trolls yet. This will change but I think we can adapt to it.
- There is a sense of comradery. People are dusting themselves off after the collapse of a former community of bolstering each other. This will wear off. however hopefully by then the service is robust enough that people will have found their new communities and groups that they jive with.
In addition to what everyone has said, Lemmy doesn’t have an established culture compared to Reddit. No in-jokes like the poop knife for example
The poop knife has already made its way here 💀
wtf did i just read
Quick someone link the swamps of dagobah, Jolly rancher, coconut, or broken arms
I haven’t read any of these words in years and I’m kind of upset you made me remember their existence
I also choose this guys poop knife
huuuuuuuuuurr, we should make a really clever and quirky comment to identify ourselves. something something narwhal bacon sings.
XD XD ;p
But we do have the no poop guy.
Refuses to shit. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves.
I noticed the same, probably because reddit has become really bad in the last years but I didn’t realize it until I joined here a couple of weeks ago.
It’s indeed refreshing being able to have honest discussions on a platform that’s not infested by bots, propaganda, disguised ads, mass shitposting, hidden agendas, etc.
If lemmy becomes wildly popular to the masses, it’s possible things will change for the worse, who knows, but I’ll enjoy it a lot in the meantime.
I feel exactly the same. It’s really feels like the early days of reddit on here. Everyone is nice and the content is genuine.
I got really tired of typing out comments only to delete them because I didn’t have to patience to be told I’m wrong.
If things go bad here and the bots and the ads take over, we can move to another instance make new communities and start over.
I think right now, there are a lot of passionate old school reddit users on lemmy who are exited about it and eager to participate and who are finding a lot of things they were missing from reddit.
The community is a lot smaller and made up largely of enthusiasts.
Definitely this, Lemmy feels like the early days of Reddit. I wasn’t a super early Reddit user as I came over just before the Digg migration (and mostly used Digg prior to the migration) but 2010 Reddit felt quite different to modern Reddit. Lemmy recaptures that smaller community feel, but I am excited to see it grow.
Not to pat ourselves on the back too much but right now it’s mainly the Reddit power users that are here. The normies are wondering why interesting as fuck was flooded with porn as of last night.
People are more respectful of each other
Less trolls
I think you mean fewer 😜
I see what you’re doing there, but it caused me real pain on Reddit that no one could do effect/affect or reins/reigns or populace/populous or phenomenon/phenomena or you’re/your or they’re/their/there or lose/loose or who/whom or counsel/council or “she and I”/“her and me” or may/might or i.e./e.g. or its/it’s or lay/lie or pique/peak or pore/pour or… sorry, I’m a bit anal and a bit traumatized. Anal trauma, if you will.
Sounds uncomfortable
No repost bots, karma farming, or idiots (mostly). The learning curve to joining the fediverse filters out your average facebook/twitter type that Reddit is filled with today. Lemmy right now is how Reddit was a decade ago
The learning curve to joining the fediverse filters out your average facebook/twitter type that Reddit is filled with today.
Let’s call a spade a spade lol this is honestly it.
Agreed. All of the comments against the protests on Reddit kind of give it away in how little they seem to actually understand how Reddit works and what made it great for so long. They see it as just another feed for them to browse and not a community to foster and participate in. Lemmy feels so great in comparison.
Because
Agree, agree, agree, agree!
