I use a few social media platforms at the same time. I’m used to seeing the same things on each platform. That’s how the internet has been for years - you read the same things on the same five sites.
To be fully transparent, Lemmy isn’t at the top. I don’t post much and I lurk. Sometimes I post a comment here and there.
But this past week, I’m seeing more and more interesting content in the “Everything” section of Lemmy that I didn’t see in my other social media feeds. New communities and more interesting convos.
Uncertain if the fediverse has gotten a wave of new posters, some algorithm has changed, or every other social media company is sucking more and more thanks to America Team Police…
Just wanted to share my extremely limited anecdotal non-fact checked viewpoint.
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As more of the world is moving into the #boycottUS movement more people are moving to open source alternatives. I personally wish more people would move to more open source things rather than alternative closed source things that could be sold to a US company.
Exactly. It’s like people that move to Bluesky, which is under private control, and then are shocked when abuses start there.
The problem is exactly that social spaces shouldn’t be privately owned and a source of profit. Until you address that, the slop hellsites will always wind up that way.
I just subscribed to new communities and i’ve gotten more involved in Lemmy again. New content yey!
It comes and goes here
Had some gems recently indeed
There seem to be more and more comments and I have seen posts with almost 1000 upvotes in top 24h in ALL. It was usually more around the 300.
yeah I agree to I avoid “All/Everything” and just build my fave feeds:
Browsing “all” I can get through “top 12 hours” in about 30 minutes.
You say that like it’s a bad thing!
Yeah and no. When I moved from Reddit, which I also browsed on /r/all it would be an ever ending stream of content.
When moving to Lemmy the amount of content was much less, even more so in 2023. It’s been getting better and better since then.
It was a shock at first and my immediate reaction was of disappointment. However it quickly became apparent how addicted I was to the phone, and not having the content and an absolute refusal to go back to Reddit, meant I started living.
Lemmy has been an absolute plus to my life. I am grateful.
Well said!
I find that I often use Lemmy to point me to music, books, movies, etc. instead of just being an end in itself.
Also I find myself posting more. The fact that niche communities tend to be smaller means that I can be an important part of those communities.
Bots vs people
You think there are a lot of bots on here? I noticed a few influence agents pushing israeli bullshit, forget the instances. They had a suspiciously large number of votes for them. Others are grinding axes, hard to say which might be influence agents necessarily, but plenty that could be, pushing wrongheaded opinions that when challenged with reasoned arguments reply with personal attacks and obscure the issue with slander. But that is learned behavior from the top down so it could be they just emulate rotten people.
Yeah I think So, bots.
You could be right: The bots have been very bad but I agree that I’m seeing them get shutdown faster lately.
It’s always amusing browsing all with ‘new comments’
How so? I check that one occassionally, am fairly new to lemmy, I didn’t notice all that much different about that one but idk.
Oh it’s like old forum mode, where comment in an old thread bumps it to the top. It lets you see if people are still replying in a week old thead
I come for conversation. Granted its just snippets here and there but im not here to got links or media dropped on me without context.
It feels a lot more organic. Once in a while, I get into a heated argument where we go back and forth.
But it doesn’t feel like I’m arguing with an obvious troll. Just two people with disagreements.
On Reddit, argue with someone and they go, “Yeah will you’re a cuck and you post on lolcats” and then you find out theyre a Indian teen or a bot.
I jump between social networks every few years. My social network path has gone from AOL chat groups, to Yahoo News groups, to Facebook for a few years, to Twitter, to Mastodon, to Reddit.
Last week I decided to test Lemmy out. Best thing I can say about it is that it’s not any worse than all the others. Which is a pretty good compliment really, considering the resources and network advantages that all the others have.
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They were so… Innocent.
Like, everyone trusted everyone. Like, sure perfect stranger online, I don’t mind telling you my real name, home address, and age. What’s the harm?
Haha I don’t know about that!
It was ingrained into me to never share anything until Facebook normalized it. I always feared some nutcase would come to my house because I made a solid yo momma joke that broke him.
I did a/s/l in a vague way, telling people I was 1-2 years older than I was, which was required to meet hotties also in the AOL chatz.
Absolutely. It’s a testament to what people that care can do.
I love it here.
I think a lot of it is unfortunately tied to how quiet US politics is, more outrageous things happen, the worse the lemmy experience becomes.
We are just not the type to put our heads in the sand.
This is why I I try to limit the political stuff to the extent that I feel energised for action.
I’m someone who just re-joined after trying out lemmy & kbin a couple years ago then dropping off after a few months. I can say the experience now is a lot better. There’s so much more content and activity.
I still use Reddit for more niche topics but I don’t miss it nearly as much as expected to.
NGL, I got permabaned there in October… just 2 weeks shy of 15 years… Found old.lemmy.zip, fell in and fell in love.
Haven’t missed Reddit at all.
I keep catching reddit bans for calling Trump a pedophile lol. Really tells you where their moderation is at these days.
Very cool feedback, i hope newcomers enjoy their stay too. It’s not perfect but i do hope the fediverse is a fun place whatever fedisoftware you are on. 8)
fedisoftware
“Fediware” ;-)
Fediware, is it widely used ? Cool name :)
Yes widely by all my alts!
Amazing ! Let’s spread it even more ! :3
I decided to look into Lemmy in the last week. You’re welcome!
Not sure about divergence, but there are definitely a lot more interesting posts now. I’ve tried fediverse (kbin) when the reddit API shit happened. I’m a gamer and there weren’t many interesting gaming posts at the time so I returned back to Reddit like a week later. This time with the Discord bullshit I gave fediverse another try and it’s so much better now. It’s still not as many compared to Reddit but at least there are actual content I enjoy scrolling.
