I like that its smaller, it feels like the Internet used to back in the day. You get to know posters better which is nice
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I like the tone and feel here as of yet. People are more friendly, interactions are more pleasant and it feels easier to participate. A higher proportion of comments are worthwhile to read and/or engage with. It’s still small enough that you’ll have your post or comment seen by people instead of being immediately drowned out by one liners and karma farming injokes.
It’s also still got that homely feeling where it’s small enough that you start recognising usernames, which makes the community feel a bit more closely knit. Sometimes even perhaps being recognised yourself, which makes you feel more like part of a community rather than a faceless Redditor screaming into the void.
Totally agree I love the sense of community. It reminds me of message boards back in the day where you’d feel really close to people
No intrusive ads or trackers. Less AI slop and more genuine human interaction. The ability to easily block communities, users, and instances is nice too.
And it’s safe to say Luigi here
All this plus no profile karma. Meaning instead of chasing numbers to inflate our accounts and increase our perceived worth (whether consciously or subconsciously), people just are.
Or as you put it: more genuine human interaction.
To me it’s more like the numbers mean something different. While they still mean mostly nothing, the numbers that display on your profile tell what kind of user you are and how much seniority you have here. Been here close to two years? Maybe you came from the API fiasco. Got 1000+ comments and 50+ post? Somewhat active user you probably seen once or twice before. 0 post and below 50 comments but seemingly active? Potential lurker. Still mostly meaningless because it could be alt and who really cares but NGL when I look at the stats of the really active users I’m like damn they really contributed to the Lemmy content mill.
I like the fact I’m not giving some megacorp ownership of my 0 thought comments
Don’t worry, they’re here scraping everything being said to train AI
Yeah, model the AI you’re going to sell to the military off my comments.
Funny rat image.
- Self hosting
- Can’t get banned
- Feeling of being a part of something larger but not overwhelming large yet still having some control
- Good range of mobile and web frontends
- No adverts
- No tracking
- Memes, sometimes older memes and not getting ridiculed for them
- Seeing other users from my instance on my travels
Some things I tolerate
- American politics
- Random porn
- Bot spam
Can’t get banned
Well, technically if you’re a chud, you can get widely defederated.
True enough. I hope that my instances behaviour would never warrant such drastic action by other instances.
Your instance is cool!
It’s open source, would be hard for an entity to take over, and permits for third party clients.
No Spez, and not getting permabanned for criticizing Corporate interests, or Musk, specifically.
It’s not reddit. And it’s not for profit. And the people here are great!
I genuinely feel different writing here. On Reddit I constantly analyzed the 18 different ways some random person would take my comment badly. Now I just write stuff and people don’t instantly assume I’m an evil moron.
Fewer conservative dickheads with a persecution fetish than reddit
They’re here, they’re already on the new Digg, but there aren’t as many of them. Yet…
They really hate it when they’re bigots and someone tells them that they’re a bigot
I just block em
I decided not to block them, but I give them user tags for what type of BS they spread. Like if they’re just negative all the time, what type of propaganda they sling, if they troll.
It lets me know right away not to interact with them again, but it also lets me make sure I didn’t make a mistake if I catch them on a bad day or with a random bad take, but if they are up to no good, I can see what they’re trying to say to other users, and then I can try to bring things back in a more legit direction by providing a counterpoint. Or to enjoy watching others call them out too. I like seeing when everyone can call out their BS right away. Makes me feel we have a wise community.
I like how open the ecosystem is. You can pick any instance, any web app, any mobile app, block instances you don’t want to see, etc. You have much more control over what you see and how you interact with the system.
Yes that’s a really good thing, you don’t get spammed with stuff you don’t want. You’ve got choice
Less reposting of “funny” TikToks / Instagram reels / YouTube shorts.
I feel like this will be inevitable with growth. Unless we get to foster a consciousness about its problems and get instances to actively prevent those
I do NOT miss those
- Third party apps.
- The subscribed feed doesn’t contain uninvited random junk. I guess irrelevant trash drives engagement among some people, but it’s just driving me mad instead.
- Lemmy is still wild and untamed, like Reddit used to be.
Not THAT wild and untamed, unfortunately. I’d love an eyeblech/NSFW community, but that’s not really welcome here.
Ability to selfhost.
Honestly, I like that it’s Reddit-like. Minus admins slapping [removed by Reddit] onto things and minus the kinds of moderators that make your comments disappear without notice.
Personally, I wish there were more people here though. Maybe it’s great if your jam is memes and politics and nothing else but I miss the discussions everywhere from Reddit. The not dead communities. Being able to visit the Harley Quinn subreddit in between seasons to still get your fix of silly memes and discussions and newcomers giving their reviews, just as a wild example. Having alternative style communities that are for more than just posting Spotify links to songs. Having more options in general so that if the one community around dealing with a thing that you’re actually interested in turns out to be not on the level, there’s another 5 at least to choose from.
Also, I liked being able to disappear into the crowd on Reddit. Here, I often feel more like deleting something I’ve posted a couple of days later because I feel like I stick out more here
Personally I’m not that interested in the technical aspects. I just want a Reddit-like platform to interact with my interests, learn from people, mingle with people from different walks of life to me and expand my mind. The federation thing is a bonus but not what I’m actually here for.
Personally, I wish there were more people here though.
Most of us do. The people who always complain about growth when we’re barely at 50k monthly active users are a vocal minority
Yep I love my serials so I’d love specific comms about them. People would always pick up on things I hadn’t… it’s missing here
And it wasn’t just ongoing stuff but pretty much anything you could think of, including some obscure '90s series that you never even see anyone mention, there’ll be an active subreddit for that. Same goes for individual bands or artists as well.
Like, I totally get what people are saying when they say they like it smaller than Reddit here. I actually agree to an extent because even Reddit was better in a lot of ways 10 years ago when Spez wasn’t trying to be the next Zuck.
But I do still think it could do with more users than it has now for a lot of reasons. Enough users for there to be a little more variety and choice than there is right now.
That’s all true
I kinda like the attitude some instance owners have about communities- that they aren’t people’s own little fiefdoms.
The users are cooler than anywhere else. 😎
Does this mean I’m cool? 🥺
You’re on an internet chat board. By definition you’re uncool.
You’re just less uncool than other such places.
🤭
I’ve seen you around here before! 🤨
