What even was the name of the other place anyways? Farttit? Boreeit? Reekkit?

Ummm, reddit was a blatant knockoff of DIGG, until they sold out and where is DIGG now?

until they sold out and where is DIGG now?

On the rebound apparently lmao
- Lmao their big new idea is incorporating AI based moderation.
Reddit seemed much more like a Hacker News/Slashdot interface in the early days. They were different from each other in 2005 but slowly started to coalesce into some common features that the other had first. Reddit had robust comments and threading (which I personally consider to be the defining feature), while digg version 2 had categories/tags. Reddit adopted subreddits and Digg adopted comments sometime in 2006 or so.

Definitely an upgrade, just moved from Reddit to Lemmy, I already like the community and the UI here, plus the fact that it cannot be bought or owned by billionaires.

Same, the only thing I'm fighting is the muscle memory of typing in reddit in the url lol. Weening myself off and coming over to Lemmy and it's like a breath of fresh air.
Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.

We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably theTankies, but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. With a .world instance account you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them

Definitely. I joined reddit in 2019 because I like the focus on communities and that reddit was almost uncensored. But since the censorship hat drastically increased since then, I left the platform now. And so far, I like it here

Welcome! Yea, IMO Lemmy is kinda like how Reddit was a decade ago, but the light touch means that there's also some problematic parts. Probably the biggest issue is the tankies, but if you want to just avoid them you can do an instance block of The Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml. Though I think your instance already defed's from Hex and grad. that'll take care of the bulk of em.

We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
- Thanks man. I already joined most of them. And yes, these communities are automatically blocked. But I find it wild that the instance hosted by the developers requires users to copy a part "The Principles of Communism" into the application. I subsequently did not create my account there

I mean. It’s a fun show and all but this meme places us as the murderous megalomaniac, literally one of the worst people on the planet.

Yeah we don’t relate to that asshole.

Maybe Butcher. He has his own issues, of course, but then so do we.
- We're all Hughies that think they're Butcher and could never land Annie.
  
  I didn't really notice until now but The Boys have the classic 4-man personality spread.
I mean... A lot of Lemmy users blindly clap for dictatorial populists because they claim to be from the left, it's hard to take this as an upgraded site when the only thing you read about your country is government propaganda.
- The tankies aren't in the majority, though that's what they'd like people to believe, they're just very very loud
  
  And the bulk of them can be taken care of by blocking the Tankie Triad of .ml, grad and hex

I think it was called digg?

Edit: I mean this as a glib ignorance of reddit and wanted to look it up for the nostalgia, but holy shit they're relaunching digg!!!

I signed up for the digg relaunch with the hope it can kill Reddit off for good.

I wish lemmy could do it, and the fediverse will always be there for the people who are willing to put in the tiny extra effort. But I think it'll take something centralized and easy to understand for the average person who doesn't care about that stuff to really make a dent and start an exodus.
Fark.com somehow still exists
- r$ddit will still exist for at least another 80 years bc there's always the chance someone will be like: "what was the name of that place I had that conversation on once...? let's see if it's still there..."
not again no

Reeeeeek! - a flayer

You don't want Jensen Ackles to represent the "bad" choice.

I mean, he's an analogy for Jim Crow America that didn't do as much to beat the Nazis as it pretends... But yes, still probably better than Homelander.
- You are of course correct wrt Soldierboy. But, forgive my fangirling, I'm talking about Jensen specifically, not the character :)

Are we the baddies?

They both are. And it kinda works for Lemmy.world given that they're closer to Reddit than any other instance as far culture goes.

Are we Homelander in this?

Are we talking about the temu version of lemmy the Bread it or somthing SMH

CompuServe after AOL bought it

Can't remember which one bought prodigy

I like the rat. I trust the rat

It's a lemming, damn you.
- Lemming is crazy piglet rat. Guinea pig is friendly piglet fat rat. Squirrel is tree rat. Beaver is tooth rat. Hamster is ping pong ball rat. Porcupine is pin cushion rat.
- Are you sure it’s not a rat?

Rekshit