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…

  1. People are more respectful of each other and interested in discussion and being social.
  2. Less trolls (users are probably older?)
  3. 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.
  4. The clean UI feels refreshing and clean, almost like the early internet.

What have you noticed? Do you find it refreshing too?

  • jrs100000@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Noedel@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Wander@yiffit.net
    2·
    1 year ago

    You don’t have your post deleted for forgetting a minor rule and there’s a chance that your post will be seen instead of hidden under countless new posts.

  • pickle_party247@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    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

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
    21·
    1 year ago

    I was on Mastodon and Lemmy roughly a year before the Twitter and Reddit fiascos. I never was active on Twitter, never even had an account, but I’ll admit Reddit was my jam. I didn’t even use any of the 3rd party apps, I actually did use their main app and had no issues with it (except for the occasional annoying ad on my mobile device…). But when the needless greed of Spez started to show at the seams and the communities there started to divide, I took an afternoon to delete everything from nearly 4 years of posts/comments.

    Both Mastodon and Lemmy were FAR less active prior to these migrations, and so I honestly checked in once every couple months. But then Mastodon started showing up in my main news feeds due to Musk’s idiocy, and I knew it was time…

    Similarly, when Spez started to make the same decisions, I already knew where the party was likely to move.

    I only started using Lemmy again yesterday when Memmy came out as I dislike using social media from my desktop (though I do occasionally).

    It’s nice to see so much more activity here now. It’ll probably never get to the levels of Reddit, but hey that can be a good thing in its own right.