I visit Reddit all the time. And I visited Digg before that. In fact I was hooked to this mode of operation since Digg. Suffice to say, something about link aggregation tickles my ADHD brain just right. However with the recent blackout of a big part of reddit, I decided to start my own Lemmy [...]
  • shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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    2 years ago

    This is a fantastic point. On lemmy you follow communities and the people specifically arent as important. On mastodon its all about people as it was designed to be

    • raesyn@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      That succinctly summarizes how I feel about Mastodon; I really want to like it, but I just don’t have the energy to join in on a constant flow of random thoughts, even from people I like.

  • MightyMjolnir@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I kinda get this. It’s not reddit that I need, I just need aggregated links of shit I’m interested in. A “front page” to my internet, so to speak. There are plenty of the smaller communities that don’t yet have much presence here, so I feel a little itch occasionally, but hopefully they’ll start to develop too.

    As long as this place continues to grow, it could be really easy to just abandon that old site. I’m trying to contribute and help that process.