Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
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5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
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7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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I can honestly say that I don't give a fuck about anything Reddit related. I'm very happy with my Lemmy experience thus far. This place seems fresh.
Seriously, the handful of times I've checked back in on Reddit recently just made me think, "Wow I hate it here."
I'm so much happier on the Fediverse.
Right? Scrolling through /r/all is just a combination of ragebait, low quality trash and circlejerking. I've been increasingly unhappy with the platform over the past years and the great time I've had on Lemmy has really driven the point home how bad of a site reddit has become.
Literally the only reason I occasionally go back every 3 or 4 weeks is to check if my old app moved to the subscription service yet, and so far it hasn't
Lemmy is my methadone. Not interesting enough to get me hooked but just enough to keep me from going back.
I swear even the memes on here belong in comedy homicide and I see maybe one interesting article per day at most. I started carrying a kindle with me and usually just read instead of browsing. I've gone from a book every 2 or 3 months to a book per week.
I just need to start mirroring my fav book subreddits to my instance and I'm fully done with reddit
Any good book recommendations?
I've just started reading more since a month or so as well, but I'm having trouble finding good books - especially sci-fi stuff
I read the children of time books (2 of 3) and although the idea is cool, the writing style and also the (later) story itself isn't really good.
So I've looked into the Foundation series from Asimov. I started with the prelude and went on to the second book, but after Dune it feels very shallow and somehow written like an action movie (with easy/stupid solutions)
Isn't really the thread topic, but if your have any good books in mind, I would really appreciate it :-)
If you haven't read it, i really like The Expanse series, especially the last 3 books.
Thanks, will check it out!
Edit: just started the first pages and it reads great!
Thank you very much for the recommendation :-)
Been doing that too (though not at the same pace). Like project Gutenberg has a ton of good stuff if you just let go of your preconceived notions about "the classics". Like you could right now drop everything and go read Ulysses. I wouldn't reccomend it (go read Dubliners instead), but like you could. It's like a call of the void.
Only wish there were more comments
I think there's a lot of people who got turned off from commenting.
It was so easy to gain the attention of some deranged Redditor when you commented, it was often just not worth it. Maybe that mindset came here and people are still warming up to the idea.
Funny comments and local jokes was my favourite thing about reddit
Comments on articles and memes is okay, but comments and discussions on Reddit subs about specific topics and interests were very useful. Lemmy would definitely be better with more of that here.
I have been writing a lot of comments on lemmy and people are so quick to upvote or downvote or try to start an argument. I can see why lots just lurk
Oh, don't say. Wrote an opinion on atheist forum and got myself almost crucified, lol
Yeah it feels really hostile here unless you want to circlejerk with everyone, it's worse than reddit in this regard
Also mods tend to just ban whoever they disagree with
Since sync landed it's like I just continued from where I was before because that's the only client I've ever used
Reading about reddit for me nowadays is like seeing a tech news article for something that doesn't concern me.
It doesn't feel really relevant anymore. I think that's a good thing given that I feel like I can find most of the content I used to go to reddit for on the fediverse. With higher quality even. People seem to be of more diverse options as well, which is great.