I've been really enjoying my time here lately and I have noticed things.
discussions are more chill.
On Reddit people would get into flame wars over things and here while it happens it's not as bad, and I actually enjoy spending time here.
people are nicer.
moderation is amazing.
diversity in thoughts is also amazing.
EDIT:
Image is made by me, please credit me if you use it. Other than that, it's on a 'do what you fucking want' license. Meaning, have fun and do what you want with it, I'm not your mom!
Also makes it much more civil when big changes happen. Like beehaw actually made a post about defederating as they care about our opinions. Instead of just going "we're doing it, fuck you". They care about us. And if we don't like them, we can just change instances. That's ultimately our call, and we don't lose out on the content, we can still view it if we want to.
Don't worry! They'll appear. And if they don't, you can make them yourself! You have the freedom to do whatever you want and no one can tell you otherwise.
Twitter is killing itself, Facebook and Instagram just hit 3 billion daily active users, and Reddit still has hundreds of millions of active users. I'm definitely enjoying it here, but this meme is inaccurate and cringy.
Also, asking for credit when you didn't credit the original comic's creator is a bit ironic.
Yeah, somthing like a agricultural muck spreader casting"enshitifcation" accross them would be accurate...but they are no where like dying people just love living in shit.
I am having a similar experience. I've had a pretty serious reddit problem and since I moved to /kbin, Tildes, mastodon, feedly, and of course a few lemmy instances, I'm a happier person. Seriously.
I guess if you don't subject yourself to social media that aims to magnify hostility and rage for clicks, it has a positive impact on your life.
I, for one, am feeling thankful to spez for placing the final straw, and, more seriously, feel indebted to beehaw, Tildes, and mastodon admins for doing such a great job creating a positive community.
I completely agree! It's a little sad as I go through my saved links and comments through the years before I delete my account, remembering the discussions and communities. But that version of Reddit died long ago.
Lemmy has been really enjoyable though, I'm looking forward to seeing the communities and platform develop over time
Yeah that's the thing, I have not jumped due to API thing (although I am worried about how it will be moderated). I was looking to jump for last year or more, but nothing scratched that itch....between big subs being so big, being shouted down for having an opinion and slowly building up bans (when you post every day for 12 years you are likily to post something mods don't like in that time). Been looking to get out ofr a while.
If they stop being nice or you feel hurt don't be afraid to change instances. The fun of it all is that moderation is dependant on the instance you're on!
If I had to venture a guess, I think it's nicer because the minority of hot-headed people haven't come over, so the level headed are more likely to actually comment
A better comparison is formerly popular social news/link aggregators such as Digg and StumbleUpon. Digg dominated just like Reddit for a while, and then it died when users flocked to Reddit after an unpopular change. The similarities are uncanny.
I don't know, it's been difficult to access a lot of information without reddit, especially when reddit makes up half my google results. I hope people start using the fediverse to share information, but we'll have to see if it catches on.
That's true for some Fediverse platforms (Mastodon for instance opts users out of search engine indexing by default, though they can opt in if they wish), but doesn't seem to be the case with Lemmy.
We just need to post tons about our niche interests until fediverse sites start ranking higher due to having fresher more up to date information, bringing us back to the time where search results yielded hits from a range of specialized forums, except this time they're all connected.
So true. I add reedit at the end of my query to get solutions for very specific problems. Now after that whole fiasco, it feels wrong to do that anymore. I hope this gets good traffic in the future.
You can try "forum" or "forums" instead and it'll pull from Reddit, official MS boards, and sites like Tomshardware. Since all those things come up in the search engine as forums.
I miss it. It was the only massively used social media without a for you page (obviously that doesn't apply anymore) and I've learned a ton and developed so many hobbies from it. Obviously I enjoy beehaw but I'm not going to pretend it's the same experience (maybe if the community grows)
I find that fediverse is perfectly adequate internet fix for me as Reddit was. I checked back last night to quickly see the malicious compliance by r/pics and r/gifs. Also checked out other sub like r/science. With the state of Reddit right now I enjoy Lemmy/kbin far more.
That's alright, I understand. A lot of the people who weren't there didn't understand what made it so great, so people tend to forget about it. I just thought it fit in with the others in the picture.