I honestly love Lemmy and the fediverse in general right now. Ever since I watched The Social Dillema or whatever on Netflix I hate doing anything on big tech social media. I feel like I'm being manipulated all the time and it makes me not wanna use the sites. But here, I just love reading everyone's post knowing that these are things I subscribed to see and is not some part of an algorithm to keep my attention as long as possible so the site can make money off of me

It's not a shitpost, but I'll allow it Here is my shitpost as tribute.

Lemmy has been giving me Old Internet Forum vibes so far and I love it. The shift towards centralized corporate homogeneity over the last 15ish years has been a horror show to watch and it feels like it's starting to crumble a bit, which I'm eager to see happen.

Was thinking the same thing. On reddit commenting seemed daunting or something, here it's much easier to engage for some reason, long live lemmy!

I was super sceptical about the whole fed thing, but now we have apps (Memmy!!) it’s exactly like Reddit more or less.

Yeah it’s really nice to know people will see and reply to your shit.

I’ve also noticed the filtering options seem better recently? Hot used to be shitty and active gave too much hours old stuff (but good to catch anything you missed)

Found this under hot, so I’m rewiring my consumption to sim my engagement to the newish posts here.

Shit rocks, fuxk that other place. Who needs em!

On Reddit, I often felt I was whispering in a crowded room. What’s the point of no one is likely to see it, read it, or engage? I think that’s one reason I’m more willing to engage on Lemmy.

I have made 3 comments on Lemmy these past few days. It isn't much; I'm mostly a lurker. But I'd average like 3 comments a year on Reddit so I'm doing pretty good myself.

I think there's more attempt by "lurkers" to actually post here. And a lot of those lurkers are suddenly like, whoa, I can comment on something and my voice is actually heard? People are reading this even though I didn't post to the thread in the first 20 seconds of it existing?

No karma helps!

Welcome!

Having less users is a benefit for the most part (as long as there's enough content to keep it alive)

Lemmy right now feels much more like traditional forums which is a good thing I think. Only time will tell if it actually stays like that or not long term.

Lemmy is in a sweet spot that old early 2k forums had. Active enough to engage with people but small enough where it's not trashy and circle jerky.

I think the big 3rd party app developers leaving Reddit and coming on here will be a huge boon. Most hardcore power users use the 3rd party apps once we have some great options it will be even better

I have not been on reddit for the past 3 days. I try my best to not visit the site when it comes up in search results, I either use web archive or google cached results to find what I’m looking for.

Full time lemmy user!

I imagine Lemmy right now is very similar to how Reddit was back before it became “mainstream”. Small communities with meaningful engagement.

Totally agree. Discussions are more engaging here, and posts are more relevant to their communities. You'll hear some people try to explain that this is just due to the smaller user base, and it'll quickly become less friendly as it gains more people... but I don't think so. For one, the lack of an overall "score" for each user (like Reddit's karma) means there is no value in creating re-posting bots that try to capture the maximum number of upvotes by copying older successful material. Less bots posting old content means more real people posting current ideas.

I think it has to do with the user base here. We are mostly sane people unlike Reddit.

It's amazing.

You have been banned for enjoying things.

I am new to the platform as well and have found all server instances to be equally welcoming!

I've also noticed that the website runs way smoother than reddit ever did for me which is a big plus