I’m currently browsing Lemmy with a third party app.
Reddit wiped out that capacity, and I in turn wiped out my participation on reddit.
i use a minimalist app written in rust that i prefer to the reddit or default lemmy experience
No advertising. No algorithms driving content at me.
It’s one of those things I don’t notice until I make a trip back to Reddit to pick up something I left (moving out takes time).
At least once per visit I end up clicking an ad by accident, because they’re everywhere.
I downvote every one . Even the ones with a puppy dog or cat.
That might be worse than not engaging at all 🤷♂️
Reddit advertising was particularly toxic. Ads were unskippable and often predatory. Beer and gambling ads in addiction subs, Jesus ads in atheism and minority religion subs, etc.
I hate the adds…and the bots
Lemmy hasn’t been enshittified.
People are slightly less stupid, which makes conversation not as frustrating. I also don’t get banned/suspended because a mod got uppity (and even if it happened, the solutions are easier!). I mean, it happened on .ml but I had to get at least one ban, lol.
Lemmy didn’t try to force me to dox myself for “age verification”.
Not giving money or content to a shitty company is enough for me. Once I was here, I found out about the public modlog, the nature of the fediverse, and the love for Linux you people have. Also it feels kinda like, less karmawhoring content, because we don’t have karma here. I don’t know, this feels like it’s shaped by communities for real.
Nobody is making profit from my content or selling my data to advertisers.
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People are nicer here. For the most part.
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There are a shit ton less corporate ops manufacturing consent.
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I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit’s early days, I recognize users across multiple communities - people haven’t completely closed themselves off into tiny echo chambers so discussions are actually discussions, and not brigading agreements.
I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit’s early days, I recognize users across multiple communities
In Reddit’s really early days, there weren’t any subreddits.
goes back to archive.org to find out when that was
Looks like their snapshot on January 10, 2007 lacks a subreddit sidebar, and the one on January 13, 2007 has one, so probably somewhere in there.
The first snapshot they have of Reddit is August 4, 2005, so it was like that for about a year-and-a-half.
I know I wasn’t there that early, but I was around for rage comics, Spacedicks, and the rise & fall of the novelty accounts.
The fall of novelty accounts? That’s a new one on me.
For a couple of years there were accounts where all the comments they made had a theme, usually the username was related. That’s how ShittyWatercolor started; someone would describe something in a comment and that would make shitty watercolor artwork of it.
There were tons of them. I remember another that would replace words in the comment with a link to a Magic the Gathering card where the title of the card would fill in the rest of the sentence.
There was another that would
witre cmeomtns lkie tihsso your brain could read them even though nothing was spelled properly.
There were a few threads where they’d Assemble like the Avengers and it would be a bunch of folks all playing off one another. It was glorious, and then it all just kind of faded away…
Does anyone remember 9M9H9E9? I stumbled on that account around the time of the “magical space pussy” part of the story.
Ah, gotcha. I don’t remember seeing a decline, but maybe I wasn’t looking for it.
EDIT: It looks like /u/ShittyWatercolour is still posting as of two months ago:
Yeah they still exist. But there’s a lot less
Unpopular opinion time: Virtually nothing. Lemmy is, from the end-user perspective, just another Reddit clone filled with the same idiots as Reddit, posting the exact same bullshit as is posted on Reddit.
The only reason I can tolerate this format of interaction has been to have a policy of blocking at least 1 imbecile per day. It actually helps, try it. Block me if you think I’m a loudmouth idiot.
I like the idea of contributing to something built by users.
Most of the posts on Lemmy are still made by humans instead of automatically reposting the top posts from 5 years ago forever.
The bots ran me off. I want to read human comments and converse with humans.
Caught a permaban for my, uh, spicy opinions on Russians. I rarely go back to look at something and every post has 10,000 bullshit replies.
Smaller user base means discussions move a bit slower.
Better blocking and other tools for sorting content and users.
No ads.
Far, far fewer petty mods and admins. There will never be zero, but it is much better here overall.
Banned.
No fucking Spez messing with the API.
better discussions, no ads, better mobile experience
