• AtomCreatorMusician@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 days ago

    I like how easy it is to block people, communities, and instances. It makes it so I can curate my feed into something that’s interesting and doesn’t make me want to constantly ragepost. It’s better for my mental health.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
    121·
    6 days ago

    Most of the posts on Lemmy are still made by humans instead of automatically reposting the top posts from 5 years ago forever.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      The bots ran me off. I want to read human comments and converse with humans.

      Caught a permaban for my, uh, spicy opinions on Russians. I rarely go back to look at something and every post has 10,000 bullshit replies.

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
    15·
    7 days ago

    People are slightly less stupid, which makes conversation not as frustrating. I also don’t get banned/suspended because a mod got uppity (and even if it happened, the solutions are easier!). I mean, it happened on .ml but I had to get at least one ban, lol.

  • josefo@leminal.space
    12·
    7 days ago

    Not giving money or content to a shitty company is enough for me. Once I was here, I found out about the public modlog, the nature of the fediverse, and the love for Linux you people have. Also it feels kinda like, less karmawhoring content, because we don’t have karma here. I don’t know, this feels like it’s shaped by communities for real.

  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
    12·
    7 days ago

    I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit’s early days, I recognize users across multiple communities - people haven’t completely closed themselves off into tiny echo chambers so discussions are actually discussions, and not brigading agreements.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit’s early days, I recognize users across multiple communities

      In Reddit’s really early days, there weren’t any subreddits.

      goes back to archive.org to find out when that was

      Looks like their snapshot on January 10, 2007 lacks a subreddit sidebar, and the one on January 13, 2007 has one, so probably somewhere in there.

      The first snapshot they have of Reddit is August 4, 2005, so it was like that for about a year-and-a-half.

      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
        4·
        7 days ago

        I know I wasn’t there that early, but I was around for rage comics, Spacedicks, and the rise & fall of the novelty accounts.

          • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
            6·
            7 days ago

            For a couple of years there were accounts where all the comments they made had a theme, usually the username was related. That’s how ShittyWatercolor started; someone would describe something in a comment and that would make shitty watercolor artwork of it.

            There were tons of them. I remember another that would replace words in the comment with a link to a Magic the Gathering card where the title of the card would fill in the rest of the sentence.

            There was another that would

            witre cmeomtns lkie tihs

            so your brain could read them even though nothing was spelled properly.

            There were a few threads where they’d Assemble like the Avengers and it would be a bunch of folks all playing off one another. It was glorious, and then it all just kind of faded away…

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      1·
      6 days ago

      Not sure if I’d still be there, and thank God for the Connect app for Lemmy that it getting close to the point of being actually useful because without that I don’t know where I’d be