It’s much better here! It’s nice and cozy, kinda like Reddit circa 15 years ago.
For your memes we have !memes@lemmy.world and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch, if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like !science@mander.xyz, !biology@mander.xyzand !astronomy@mander.xyz and for a meme science combo there’s always the fantastic !science_memes@mander.xyz
You can also drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or hang out at !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)
If you want to explore the world of PC Gaming on Linux check !linux_gaming@lemmy.world or for more general Linux !linux@programming.dev and we even have a Linux meme comm at !linuxmemes@lemmy.world (we like Linux around here lmao)
For news !world@lemmy.world is excellent and for US focused news !news@lemmy.world and !usa@midwest.social
Want to ensure your privacy in this crazy world? Checkout !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
And of course, the best for last, the best comm on the Lemmy-verse, !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world !!! Just make sure to buy a krabby patty!
We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies, but here they’re mostly on what’s known as the Tankie Triad: lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. For the most part, grad and hex are widely defederated from (Users and content of those instances won’t be “synced” and you won’t see them) and you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. .ml tends to be more subtle opting for censorship of dissent before things get crazy on their threads and allowing certain propaganda to flourish (If you wish to see documentation of it, checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what’s known as the “modlog”
Obligatory, fuck Spez
It’s funny because I bet a lot of us that came on the API wave had/have 15+ year old accounts.
Mines 18.
I had a post from /r/teenagers show up on my homepage and I realized that my account is older than most people there say they are.
🙋10 year account for me, thousands of comments. 166k comment karma. It was a wild ride, but when they took Boost it was over for me. Fuck em.
Consequently, now that I’m here I post WAY more, I don’t even think my post count cracked a hundred and here it’s…4…thousand…fuck, I’m here too much 😅
Crazy how much more value there is here. 1/1000th the users, 1000x the engagement.
Definitely
You’re doing the lord’s work, sir.
12 years, and almost a million karma, and I was permabanned soon after the election for repeating an anti-HitlerPig post that I had repeated many times BEFORE the electuon.
I was bummed at the smaller crowds on Lemmy at first, then I realized I didn’t have to scroll through dozens of puns, bots, trolls, idiots, etc. on EVERY post.
The lack of the niche communities is the main difference for me, mostly. But that takes time. Otherwise I mostly like it here :D
Stick around. It’ll fill out with time. There’s plenty of low activity niche communities on here, try just making a post in one sometime. I’ve been on a campaign of doing weekly posts like stargazing Saturdays on mander.xyz’s astronomy community.
Same. I still find myself regularly going to old Reddit threads on extremely niche topics that only a few people on the internet seem to have talked about somehow, but a lot of what I want most of the time is already here on Lemmy, so that’s nice.
The lack of karma farming is amazing. Not nearly the same amount of people frantically grasping at low-hanging-fruit puns.
Your talents will be much more appreciated here, I guarantee it.
18, 17, and 10 year old main accounts.haven’t been there since the API fiasco, but I kinda hated it for a few years before that.
I was the primary character in a pretty huge event (fiasco) in Reddit history 16-18 years ago, that I wish I could talk more about without doxxing myself.
Basically when TIFU and AITA got popular, the site kinda went to shit. Welllll, when smart phones got popular and people started to refer to Reddit as an “app”, it went to shit, Eternal September-style.
Those were the very first subreddits I blocked when it was possible. Then thousands more. Now even with blocked garbage subreddits it feels like mostly fake AI content these days, it’s almost FB level bad.
That’s not even the reason I left, “Musk’s fumes are fatally toxic”. Permabanned for violence, like wtf? No way a human banned me.
Well make an anonymous account here and fudge some details, I’m sure we’d all be interested to hear.
Oh that’s you! I saw your post about your ban for musk fuming and my partner and I both had a chuckle about the ridiculoscity of it all.
Quick edit: yeah the creative writing (now AI slop) subs always made me upset. TIFU was always “I SEXED MY POOP” and AITA was always clickbait bullshit.
All I’ll say about the event I was in is rest in peace, Tynan (I_RAPE_CATS)
15yo ago: Someone monetized our prank, not cool! 15 min ago: You are the product.
Those were good times…
It wasn’t even monetized hahaha, had to have a bigger channel for that…
I still hate seeing posts on websites where people are telling me to “swipe”.
Amen hahaha
Society (bottom text) can pry “click” and “scroll” and “program” out of my old, dusty hands!
10y and 400k combined karma (mostly comment)
And I actually managed cold turkey, partially helped by my creating an entire instance which kind of made Lemmy a hobby I was invested in both time and money wise.
Mine is certainly near 15 years old, but for the life of me I can’t remember exactly when I made an account, nor how many fake internet points I’d rattled up - it just seems so insignificant now.
The best part of Lemmy is that if any instance starts becoming like Reddit is now, I can block it individually, or we can collectively decide to shun them! It’s not fool proof, but it’s a pretty large leap in the right direction.
I dare say I miss the niche communities, but frankly, the main niche that I filled was on the pony side of things, and that’s pretty dead now. RIP smol horses, you all get to live your best lives now as glue 🫡
In life, they brought as together. As glue, they’ll keep us together.
how is lemmy diffrent then reddit other then mutliple servers and stuff like that? both is kinda the same reason you use it for and thats why they exist?
There is no central control, which means there’s no CEO to influence into doing ghastly shit to the users. It’s basically one step up from the non-federated Internet forums of old.
ah thats huge!
I hope it is one day.
So we’re literally old reddit.
Works for me.
https://oldsh.itjust.works/ literally indeed
I came here on the API wave and went to Reddit from digg. I left digg after the Digg 2.0 fuck up.
I heard Kevin Rose purchased Digg again and plans to redo it again.
Kevin Rose (Digg founder) and Alexis Ohanian (Reddit co-founder) just acquired Digg together, so we’ll have to see how it goes. But I don’t need to wait for Digg to resurrect itself when Lemmy is already right here.
I’ll take some extra competition. It’ll help reddit burn faster.
Burn, baby, burn!
Whereas I’m one of the people who was annoyed at having all the Digg users come over and ruin Reddit. :)
Oh ya, we sucked. We did like the secret handshake. When does the narwhal bacon?
12 year account here, but was accountless for many years before that. Pretty much a lurker on reddit. Here, I don’t post much, but I’ve been trying to add to the conversation as much as possible. I find I get genuine responses from folks, even if we disagree with each other. By the time I left Reddit for the API changes, it had been either jokes, trolls or bots on the biggest subreddits for years, no real genuine discussion anymore.
Not to say it’s perfect in the comments around here, but it’s a lot better than reddit has been for like, 8+ years
10yr old account, was mostly a lurker. I am actually active on here since I don’t need to comment on a post 5min after it’s been created for my comments to be seen. It feels refreshing.