Asklemmy

Totally agree, I used to only lurk back in Reddit, but here I feel more inclined to participate. Lemmy feels old school internet and I love it.

Yeah man I've been kinda feeling that this whole time but I couldn't put my finger on it. The fact that there is no vote fuzzing and no bots, combined with it being smaller as a whole, is such a breath of fresh air. It's cool to feel like what I post matters to other people and the community as a whole.

The userbase is definitely much more knowledgeable about internet etiquette and it makes all the difference. God, reddit has gotten so bad nowadays, it's just low effort content pandering to the lowest common denominator.

I feel like I engaged way more in the live thread for the NBA Finals last night than most live threads on Reddit. Part of it was the smaller community, but part of it was also the actual chat feature that Lemmy has, so you don't need to constantly refresh and scroll back down to see new comments

I have to say I am doing it artificially, same reason I am replying to your post. I want to see more people using lemmy, so I help make it more active

It definitely feels much more personal here. Like I'm chatting with a small group rather than whispering to the person next to me at a stadium. Even on the smaller subs I was on the we're still a couple thousand people and it was normal for a post to get a thousand or more up votes and a few hundred comments. Which ment if you didn't get the early the chances of anyone reading what you gave to say we're minimal. It feels more like a conversation here and less everyone shouting into the void

I feel like this is what I've been looking for. Ever since reddit was purchased by that Chinese propaganda firm it's rapidly gone downhill.

I knew I was inside an echo chamber. It was pretty plainly obvious. It just got so old with every single comment thread eventually devolving into politics. These last couple days I've felt pretty free to think, less stressed..

I've just been happier overall without that constant reminder in app form that I should be hating someone and that I should fear my own neighbors and society as we know it is crumbling as we speak.

The whole thing is garbage and I'm never going back.

I interact much more here

Also, even as communities get larger, smaller instances will still have a small-community vibe so we'll have the best of both worlds. Plus since everything is FOSS, you'll have tons of open source devs making improvements at a rate that the Reddit UI & mobile app could never.

Yeah the future seems pretty bright here.

Is anyone here old enough to remember SomethingAwful and communities like that from the early 2000s? Lowtax drama aside, during its hayday the community was the source of so many OG memes. Here's hoping that Lemmy will have that nostalgic feeling.