š“šššLemmy Babies of the Rexodus - it's been 9 months, how has Lemmy changed you?
I want to actively build community and engage with people here; to make this place home. Thatās how it changed me. Iām not a lurker or passive. It has made positive improvements to my reading and cooking, along with bending my language more positively. Iāve also further grown in my appreciation of diversity.
mononomiWhat do ya follow for improved cooking?
As far as fermentation, I donāt even recall what prompted me now. I mostly watch the All feed so I catch what most of Lemmy is doing. It may have beenā¦ in factā¦ I think it was something I was discussing with my offline AI. That is not a valid primary reference source, but searching online helped. That lead to asking questions here, and resulted in more confidence.
On my Beehaw account and their food community I asked about how people cook rice back when I was developing my recipe and working on ways of altering cooked grain texture. Someone there mentioned making a sauce for topping fried rice using spicy mayo and teriyaki sauces. That one was a game changer for me and really pushed me into playing with sauces. That got me thinking about fermented sauces because adding Worcestershire sauce to that spicy mayo/teriyaki blend makes it even better. This is what I am exploring now. I want to play with unique flavors by wild exploration.
That is just how my intuitively driven mind works. I attribute inspiration to a root fork in my thinking, but I donāt really āfollowā anything. I havenāt cooked something with a recipe and measuring in 10 years or more. It is the motivation to explore an new space, and just enough reinforcing motivation to help me take action that I value. I didnāt expect a place this small to have many people experienced in fermentation, but I was pleasantly surprised. In other words, my investment into engaging paid off even in a relatively small niche subject.
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JohnnyEnzymeI want to actively build community
That was the key for me. To take one of my favorite communities (ābande dessinĆ©e,ā i.e. Euro comics) and create a version on Lemmy eight months ago. Itās taken a load of work (usually daily), and sometimes I get really discouraged, but overall it locked me in to the FV.
Also, you might have to burn me at the stake for saying this-- I still visit Reddit because of the far more prolific content, and do have worries & reservations about the tankie founders of Lemmy. But so far, so good. The more the FV grows, the more Iāll have no problem leaving Reddit behind.
NerfHerderI comment now.
ScrubblesAnd we enjoy them!
RBGI comment more again. Used to a lot on reddit 5-7 years ago, less and less the recent years. Now back on Lemmy.
I was very active on reddit until around the 3rd meetup year or so. Thats when I noticed a major change in what had been an amalgamation of communities and while I still visited there was no urge to interact.
Same, never did before!
āļø-when you are in a smaller community, read: when you are around a manageable amount of people and even recognize some of them, you are more likely to interact. and your comment wont be buried, and its less likely some random asshole really hates what you said and makes sure you wont bother anymore. oh and less bots and chills whats not to hate.
9 month already ?
Well, I was already active on mastodon, and had a pixelfed account (but not active there) for years. So the reddit fiasco was the right time to move.
Moving to lemmy wasnāt such of a big change as I was familiar with the federation, and the fediverse in general, was already considering it for a while.
HamartiogonicIāve already moved on. Couldnāt care less about Reddit any more.
Before the APIcalypse, I was already playing with the thought of quitting Reddit. Spez just sped up that process.
Same lol. Was basically just waiting for something new to pop up, was already using lemmy for a bit before reddit cut third party apps and made the transition that much easier.
Iāve already moved on. Couldnāt care less about Reddit any more.
This.
But not much has changed, functionally, for me: I still get downvoted when I point out where people can improve their English and surpass my nephew when he was in the third grade. And I still get to debate technical things based on what I know, so thatās really no change. Different pile, is all.
Not here to fight you, but this line of thinking might be why people downvote you for being a language/grammar nazi.
i downvote because 99% af the time people already know how to write, they just donāt want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boring
i downvote because 99% af the time people already know how to write, they just donāt want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boring
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i didnāt improve my english with your corrections, it was just annoying
AshtearCorrecting someoneās English also almost never adds anything to the conversation at hand, which is the literal purpose of the downvote.
no. itās a disagree button!
The admins made it really easy to quit when they suspended me after RvW for saying that riot police should quit their jobs en masse
But somehow straight up calling for the end of trans people is totally fine and dandy by them
Itās refreshing to not have so many Trumpers. Theyāre still around but not as prevalent. Overall this is just so much friendlier.
That said I feel the % of people with *uninformed but fairly extreme in their viewsā being higher here, but itās more varied.
Lot more tankies here, thatās for damn sure. This place feels a lot easier to run a social network campaign against fwiw.
Really? When I first got here I noticed way more nasty and dismissive comments.
Directed at you or elsewhere?
Comment less, but Iāve enjoyed it much more. Thereās so much shit slinging in reddit. Every comment thread eventually devolves into one guy with an out of pocket comment or hot take, or miscommunication even, and then everyone dunking on the guy. So much negativity.
Folks are generally nice here.
The endless trains of people responding that clearly saw the other comments but are commenting as if they didnāt was - and imagine continues to be - maddening over at Reddit.
OpenStarsSpez did manage to understand something real about Reddit: that many people (not all but enough for the sake of his profits, he hoped) want to speak, rather than listen. Never mind about feeling heard or it being worthwhile by adding anything to the conversation, just simply, plainly, shouting your opinions into the void. Like Discord chat except based on topics rather than channels.
Those of us who HATE that about Reddit, and want a greater balance, enjoy it here much more.:-)
Itās a very interesting way of putting it. Iām gonna be chewing on that for a little while. I think youāre definitely hitting at something very important. Iām also loath to admit that I know I have brought some of my nasty Reddit habits here. For instance, sometimes I can get pretty combative in the comments. Not all the time, but sometimes I look back on the way I talk to people and think ājfc I am not actually that nasty of a person,ā but something about being online certainly draws it out of me unfortunately, so clearly Iām capable of it.
I get you.
Even toddlers learn to speak first by babbling, and only later to converse and communicate with someone rather than talk at them. Some technological platforms have even evolved to facilitate that - like instead of ā^Thisā and āI also choose this guyās wifeā, what about emoji reactions that do not extend the length that you have to scroll through to find the next substantive comment? Except that - this is the enshittification part - when ads can be placed in-between comments, or even someone hopes that they could be in the future, or more likely they want to purposefully obscure the signal so that āx number of comments appear on this postā, rather than āx number of comments + y number of emoji reactionsā, that works against their profit model. (and yeah, there was āawardsā, but who even used those, plus they just were notā¦ good, especially for this purpose)
About both that and being combative: fwiw, we all are that way - the good thing is that some of us are honest about it, which gives hope for change.:-) But we all will have bad days when we are cranky and especially when we feel āattackedā we feel the need to strike back, and the feelings at least are not wrong, just how we handle them may not be so productive.
So I get you - I am the same way, though fortunately less and less over time. Leaving Reddit truly has helped me leave a lot of that behind. Over there that is just the āexpectationā that people encourage you to do, but the culture is better here.:-)
Appreciate the thoughts, truly. I know this response isnāt as through and thoughtful as yours, but know that I do appreciate it.
I think I was āwordyā - I appreciate your thoughtfulness and conciseness both.:-)
RustyShacklefordItās nice to rarely deal with trolls. I say rarely, as Iāve seen a few users recently argue, just to be assholes.
Ironically, both appear to be very heavy Lemmy posters, and one seems to be downvoting he spoke with, still.
That said, Iāve actually met users I run into semi regularly in others posts, which is a nice change.
I hate the idea that most people have on lemmy that every interaction has to be a positive experience and full of sunshine and rainbows and butterflies. I like to argue.
But whatever. Itās iight. I stuck around.
ZachariahI disagree with your comment. Change my mind.
demesisxDebate me, betch. ;)
Iāve seen some really good arguments here, with both sides being respectful and explaining their perspective and just concluding that they understand each other but just donāt agree. Itās pretty refreshing. If you donāt like that kind of thing youāre just stupid and wrong.
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I donāt work for free and get called names by the business that profits off it, so thatās nice.
Iād scroll for hours on reddit. And while Iād love to see more content here, Iām glad that I donāt spend so much time on mobile as I used to. And when there is more content, I hope Iām already trained to stop if Iād start to be exessive.
Iām a lurker. This is my speed of social media and itās cool to watch it grow.
NightoftheLemmy[Insert witty comment here]
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I had been looking for an out from Reddit for years. I like commenting and responding to comments, or simply enjoying thoughtful comments. Iām there for the commenters rather than the posts, the social part of sharing news. especially the commenters providing context or a new way to think about things.
Trying to enjoy Reddit the way I like became a game whack-a-mole of removing communities that were too large and filled with copy paste jokes.
I dunno if Iām a weird kind of redditor but i know am a stubborn one, and as reddit changed i bounced harder and harder off of it.
Coincidentally i was a month into a sanity sabbatical from Reddit when my friends told me about the api fiasco. Somehow i stumbled in here, and while i thought it world be a tough transition and that i would struggle to ban reddit it wasnt.
Long story short, I wouldnāt say i changed at all. Reddit changed, and i found a home better than it ever was.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]Iām a full-time Linux user now.
Do you wear rainbow high socks now too?
Itās been 9 months, theyāre definitely wearing rainbow thigh highs and are probably looking at starting hrt soon
Do you have any recommendations for rainbow thigh highs? Hard to fit a cyclist without the flex tear. Need a pair to neofetch libreboot/gentoo on my X200t with support. No need for the ineffable cloy sophistry. I donāt start my computer with my genitals, and the direction of the wind on the wind sock is irrelevant. I will however stand with confidence and freedom over insecurity and bigotry.
Nah, not a fan of high socks.
AussiemandeusHahaha yeah Iām so close to jumping in
do it
Evkob (they/them)I switched to Linux, got a new phone to install GrapheneOS on it, and started self-hosting a few things.
I havenāt had this much fun with technology since I was a kid.
FeelThePoweritās made me learn to figure out a lot of things on my own instead of making Reddit posts asking for help. I do wish some of the more niche communities I followed were more active on here though. but overall itās business as usual, same concept different app. except now my friends call the links I share āweird websitesā because voyager canāt copy URLs as your host instance.
You may not see the same communities, but I have been surprised to see a lot of similar expert types are present here if you can find the right place to ask.
Like I have asked about Linux kernel code regarding the CPU scheduler and gotten good results here too. I miss stuff like Amateur Telescope Making (ATMing), some Maker niches, and people sharing more electronics projects on the grass roots side. Like I etch circuit boards and like to reverse engineer hardware. I like those peripheral projects that popped up and pushed me to get back into a project or start something new. But, I havenāt been doing those projects myself and wonder if most of the hobby community has kinda moved on as well.
The only reason I have thought about checking out reddit is for the AI community stuff. There are too many negative people here for the kinds of stuff I play with and no depth of engagement when I do post. There are a few great people, and several researchers but not the hobby like constructive dynamic I need. However I have not visited reddit a single time since June 9th.
What do you feel is missing?
well, for niche communities I moreso meant hobby stuff rather than questions haha. for example, russian is my second language but there isnāt really a community here for that. Iām also into anime and like seeing anime collectables, of which the main anime communities are pretty dead (though I try to interact with them) and there really isnāt a community for the latter.
I do wish some of the more niche communities I followed were more active on here though
This. I have a few communities on Reddit that I loved browsing that seem to be a lot more niche and quiet here than what I was used to. Would be nice to have them here as well.
Less niche content from the subs that I couldnāt find an equivalent for here. Also less random bullshit from all the reposted recycled memes that were often somehow just perpetually in my face. It would be nice if there were more people here on Lemmy commenting to link over to relevant related communities (sublemmys??) to a post that they think others would like. Sometimes thatās a good way to find more subs. Donāt really see that happening round these parts.
TL;DR Wasting less time on interwebs
Iāve noticed two things.
Iām glad you are here and having a great time participating in the Fediverse!
I feel the same, but one big thing I miss from reddit are the more niche hobby communities. Back when I spent time on reddit Iād interact more with those kinds of communities because they were smaller and I actually had some good information to give to other people with the same interest. In lemmy getting those kinds of communities is practically impossible, there is not enough people here to make more niche stuff more than a few individuals, and thats not enough to maintain a community alive.