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TBH I feel reddit too toxic…
I would rather use Reddit than Instagram. Holy shit have you tried to see your friends posts on IG lately? You can’t.
Lmao
Half of them are AI slops and the reels… Disgusting
There seems to be a neverending supply of complaints about the size and reach of the Fediverse and I’m just sitting here thinking this is about all the attention I’d like it to ever get. This is fucking nice. Doesn’t monopolize your whole day, always has at least some fresh content, users are free with the upvotes and discourse is downright civil most of the time. Does anybody really want this place to be like Reddit or Instagram?
It’s unironically the meme of Donald Glover showing up with pizza and everything is on fire, every time I go on instagram.
I’d been using Instagram as my scrapbook of neat things I’ve done/made for several years. Mainly it’s for my own personal enjoyment but I left it public because artist types like showing off I guess. Anyway, I accidentally made a post that went mildly viral, 300k views and 8k likes, and it pretty much took the fun out of it for me. I guess I didn’t really want an audience, I just wanted to look in the river like Narcissus. Now everytime I glance I get a notification that ripples my reflection.
I caught the tiger by the tail. What a world.
I don’t know Hal…ima banned Redfugee and I really do miss some specific subs. I’d like to see us grow just big enough to be what Reddit was (as far as niche communities) during its first 5-10 years.
Make the site like Aaron dreamed reddit be like.
It should not get like Reddit, but I still wish for more users so that some more specific “subreddits” (what’s the term used here on Lemmy?) are getting more users and more posts.
They’re called “communities” here
I just call them categories, cause with out exception. The terminology in use is basically stupid as fuck
Lemmy and the entire system is basically just a over grown overly complicated for no reason forum.
Each host is just a board, with a bunch of categories in it.
Its fancy they can talk to each other. But frankly it’s almost too much and kinda dumb. Really the whole concept federation feels like a shitty long term idea that’s gonna fucking implode at some point.
Instead of just a reliable known and useful format we took it, beat it half to fucking death and then shoved an unholy abomination into said corpse.
Basically every open source social media platform is the same damn thing. Its just taking a corpo centralized system, attempting to decentralize it only to realize it’s just a clone of a older thing we had before the corpo centralization showed up. But everyone WANTS the corpo centralized system just with out the corpo. So we ignore the fact that the older system exists and it would be better to make a modernized version of that instead of a hack job of the centralized system.
But logical is never been and never will be the thing that happens in reality I find.
Have you considered more fediverse to make up for that shortfall?
If I run out of things on Lemmy that interest me, I switch gears to mastadon… If I’m getting tired of that shit, there’s pixelfed
With a lot of these new, non-algo driven sites you only see what you sign up for, so whatever kind of mood I was feeling the day I signed up, will influence how the site works for the first few months until it normalizes, and you find all your communities. i.e. my mastadon feed is chock a block FULL of self hosting Linux nerds, AND ITS AWESOME!
the biggest gap still seems to be sports though, especially niche sports (I live breath and sleep MotoGP, and there ain’t shit about MotoGP on Lemmy lol)
Anyone who was on ultra early reddit like I was knows the fediverse is like Reddit, very early Reddit, it was great, this is great.
Same exactly. I love this squirrelly little place. Reddit was great before it got huge and gentrified by bots, too. It’s been trash for a decade.
I like your user name, too.
All 12 of us you mean?
All of them are my alt accounts. Sigh🥀
Hello me
hi
Heya
Ooh, nice. I forgot this one, but then I remembered. Hello!
Heyy
I should really stop talking to myself
Meet the REAL me
And my misfit’s way of life
A dark black past is my most valued possession
There’s a dozen of us! A DOZEN!
It’s a party down here.
I get waaay more comments and replies on my posts here than I ever did on reddit around the API situation.
There’s less people here, but your comments aren’t buried, and my posts are much much less likely to be removed by power tripping mods. (I’ve had posts about Stop Killing Games removed from the popular reddit gaming subreddits).
This place is way nicer to interact with by far.
I like Lemmy. It’s the only social media that I contribute to.
Is it a social media if there’s no socialization and it’s anonymous (just like 4chan)? How about a community board/platform?
The word your looking for is froum. Its literally a forum.
The layout is over complicated out the fucking ass. But fundamentally it’s just a over sized forum.
It’s a little more than a forum. Most forums have one main topic and some smaller offtopic areas and that’s it. Here you get everything from memes to even more memes, oh well I suppose it is just a memes forum.
No, this isn’t right. Fediverse is on the edge of the pool, just getting feet wet. That’s a pre-Reddit user on a platform long gone.
Like Fark. Is Fark still a thing?
I went and looked back at Fark when abandoning ship at Reddit, but the feed is still super slow and the user base is minuscule even by Fediverse standards.
Similarly I went back to alt dot Simpsons dot tee vee and two users posting everything, alternating who does the weekly recap with not much else… It was depressing
What about alt dot religion dot kibology though
started too many cults, got an entire ip block ban
What about digg and vine
!fark@ibbit.at is, anyway. I see it in all sometimes.
Edit: Or do I? I know I see posts from the Fark RSS feed not infrequently in all, but the actual community so named seems dead.
I’m not going back. I have gills now.
I don’t bother posting the content (porn, but silly) I create here
On reddit, it gets a lot of traction
I don’t care about the imaginary internet points, I like it when my fans tell me that they got a laugh from it
“Rip your DMs”
Luckily not such a thing here
But, I’ve blocked plenty of fuckwits and creeps
So anyway, wanna fuck?
In general? Yes.
You? No.
Absolutely
But not you, unfortunately
My fiancée is the only one for me
I’m the luckiest bastard on Earth!
I wish you many happy years of fisting each other enthusiastically!
Thank you!
She’s a wonderful woman
Put a label that says “ADVERTISERS” across the adult, and you’ve got something going.
I’m new and I love it here. More will come.
B-b-but aren’t we the world’s premier source of tankie vs. centrist drama?
Mainly because we haven’t fully defederated from one another (yet), whereas most places (like Reddit) only allow one or the other.
