BlamemetaSame here. Came over in the digg migration, left when 3rd party apps died.
Does this feel like Reddit did then? Does to me.
Kinda? I was a lot younger then, and this feels way more left wing politically now. Maybe I just got more conservative as I aged, or the internet got more left wing. Or maybe a little of both.
Or, maybe, the world is more liberal than you’ve been led to believe as your circle of influence grew smaller as you got older.
TrickDacyStopping in to drop a semi-ironic “this^”
10 years ago people would write “this^” without a trace of irony on Reddit. So you are kinda ruining the experience by being semi-ironic.
Only semi-ruining tho
TheBenCommandmentsReality has a liberal bias
TheHighRoadI’ll piggyback and say that it feels similar. The biggest difference is not having huge default subs shaping the experience. Lemmy also feels more sparse in the comments, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Guy DudemanAgreed. Feels like early Reddit did. Lower quantity, higher quality.
Another thing is I feel like I’m trying harder to contribute positively; I want Lemmy to succeed so that (hopefully) we can avoid the enshitification that inevitably plagues the commercialized platforms.
Totally agree. I’ve only posted a pun a handful of times!
Scotty_TreesI’m fine with a few hundred or two size type comments. Reddit had threads with like 1.4k comments or even double that sometimes. While it’s nice to have that type of size, I am NOT reading all those comments, so the size is irrelevant after a certain threshold point.
There’s similarities, but it’s a little more empty, and it’s a little too reposty from other sites still. reddit then felt a bit more like the place, this isn’t that yet.