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To me it feels like a matured Reddit. (At least most of the time πŸ™ƒ)

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[–] Resol 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For the first few months on the platform, I noticed these trends that I would end up agreeing with later on:

  • Liking, or straight up adoring Linux

  • Disliking, or straight up despising cars

  • Everyone is left-wing and liberal

  • Israel stinks

  • Rainbows galore

  • Big companies are cringe

  • Independent media is based

  • Products made by big companies are known to be spyware

  • The Chromium "open-source" browser, as well as the engine that it uses, is basically the reason why Firefox is dying out

  • Right-wing politicians are bad

  • Piracy is basically fighting for freedom of information on the internet, especially when big companies tend to be so overprotective of their intellectual property in situations where they don't really need to

  • Free, open source software is basically the future

  • The European Union is basically where everyone on Lemmy lives in real life, and if not, it's where everyone wants to live (which is my case given that I'm from Morocco)

Other very notable points that I have when comparing Reddit with Lemmy are the following:

  • The community is very passionate yet very small, it kinda feels like Animal Crossing

  • Goddammit, having multiple instances federating with each other is such an amazing thing that literally nobody can wholly own the thing and make crappy decisions that end up ruining the whole thing at once (cough cough Twitter)

  • API is free, API is free, API is free

  • Being such an obscure platform, it has helped me tremendously with cutting down on social media usage due to how insanely addicting it can be at times, sometimes in the worst possible scenarios, like when you have an exam tomorrow

I'm pretty grateful that I made the decision to ditch Reddit for good. I really like this place, and I mean a lot. I wouldn't be called "Resol van Lemmy" if it weren't for Spez being such an ass.

[–] na_th_an 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A lot of this is very similar to how I remember Reddit in 2010 or so.

[–] Resol 1 points 10 months ago

I wasn't active in Reddit back then, but I remember hopping in logged off a couple times per month just to see what they were doing, and that's pretty much I how remember Reddit from those days.

[–] thegreatgarbo 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you explain your user name?

[–] Resol 2 points 10 months ago

Well, here's what it means.

"Resol" can mean a number of different things. Some might interpret it as the word "loser" spelled backwards. Others might see it as the first 5 letters of the word "resolution". To me, it's just a bunch of jumbled letters that are basically meaningless.

"van" is simply Dutch for "from" or "of", no further explanation required. Please make sure not to capitalize the V. It looks hideous this way.

And of course, you already know what "Lemmy" is. Duh, we're both on it. In my username, it can also refer to the fediverse in general. Think of the latter as a continent, with Lemmy being a country in that continent.

So, I'm basically a guy from the fediverse. That's all you need to know.