“Sometimes there’s a man… I won’t say a “hero,” because what’s a hero? But sometimes there’s a man who… well, he’s the man for his time and place!” – Sam Elliot (the Stranger) from the glorious The Big Lebowski
You know that classic quote about standing on the shoulders of giants (and pioneers)? Honestly, in so many ways, that’s how I truly feel about the good ol’ Fediverse.
So, to sum up-- who are YOUR heroes here, and what does keep you hanging on here, baby…?
EDIT: For people wondering about what kinds of ‘bumps & difficulties’ I’ve personally experienced, here’s a tiny sampler:
I’m not here despite what it is, I’m here because of what it is.
I can do no better than to second this sentiment.
I’d love to third it, but it would start to look like a reddit thread
This
Love
Interactions feel genuine. I like talking to people here.
Can confirm. I am a human and I love human things such as… um… breathing air, and um…
It is a great day to be a human, fellow human!
I humbly confess I never watched that show
one of those things that’s quite funny and high production value but the fandom is largely obnoxious and some of the creators are jerks
it’s also not everyone’s style of humor. give it a shot sometime and see if it resonates though!
At first I also refused to watch since its animated and I thought it was childish, but then I learned that there are like a lot of dirty stuff and supposedly for adults, so, given how popular it became, I just had to watch it.
And its worth it. Yes, its weird af and I always feel so confused and something things just makes zero sense, but some stories are interesting. Never really got bored of any of it (although some episodes aren’t really that great for a re-watch imo).
It can be brilliant, and I find it rare that it’s any less than very good. It plays with scifi tropes (any and all tropes really), is very self-aware… I am sure it stands to be criticized, but I personally love the show. Apart from season 5, of course
I love that with shows anymore there’s always a pariah season, lol. Maybe I’ll catch it on tv one day.
The people. Gotten to know a lotta lovely people here. Like you! Also the Lemmy community as a whole is nice. It’s also a small cozy place.
Good to see you here!
I’m here because fuck Reddit and the US.
Just to be clear, what happened?
Why did we evidently lose your trust, if I may ask?
Trump threatened our countries sovereignty.
Yup.
It’s strange to think that this only narrows it down a bit, lol. But yea, certainly fuck that
Here because its a great experiment and a reminder of the old internet that is otherwise mostly lost.
I’m a regular user of forums boards (modern ones like Discourse, but still) on which the interactions stayed mostly the same as 20 years ago… it feels close-knit, almost intimate. Conversations are usually well reasoned, if not as slow as they were back in the day -given that thread pages update on their own when a new message is posted, it’s not as static as it used to be, and I think that’s for the better, even though I am nostalgic of phpbb boards
Joined Lemmy because of the whole r€ddit API thing. I was only on there maybe a couple years at the end, so I had no real super attachment like people who have been there for years. Not much else to say.
Same.
Except my -oldest- account was well over 10 years old when the API thing shut down the Baconreader app for good. Joined the squabbles app which imploded when the owner decided to let ‘free speech’ be allowed and it basically turned into a hateful place in about two weeks . Then joined lemme.ee, which got shuttered a few months back. Joined sh.itjustworks annnnd, bam, here I am.Though I’m only on here for about half hour or so a day due to deciding it was time to have less screen time in my life.
What does this tell us? Hate speech is the natural state of humans.
We need a replacement…
It sucks that lemm.ee was shuttered because that was where I first joined Lemmy as well before moving to whatever instance I’m on. Never heard of squabbles and don’t wanna known what it’s like Noe based off what say about it.
I like this place because it’s a work in progress and because of all its perceived imperfections.
I’m an old GenXer who remembers AOL chat rooms and Usenet. Each featured a small cluster of folks you’d talk with each day and thought of as friends. Reddit offered that kind of connection once, but now it’s become a monolith that believes its own hype. Not to mention the infestation of bots and trolls that no one cares enough to do anything about because engagement is engagement.
I’m new here so I’m still learning my way around but I like this way better. I have more control over what and who I see, the memes are fresher, and the communities feel more human.
FWIW, I’m GenX myself, BBS’s all the way! :D
Same age and feelings.
My anger for the destruction of the old internet. My hatred of those who profit from aforementioned destruction. My pettiness for going against the current.
I don’t find that commercial social services are free of bumps and difficulties; they’re just different bumps and difficulties. They variously want me to:
- Log in to view this content
- Complete a captcha to view this content
- LOOK AT THIS AD
- Look at this other thing instead of reading through the rest of the comments on the post I opened
- Look at this other content instead of the people I chose to follow
- Consent to 237 different forms of tracking
- Pay for a premium account
- Don’t post anything too spicy for the advertisers
- Install an app
And people think picking a server to sign up or using an unpolished UI is a hassle? It’s a small price to pay to avoid that load of crap.
I use Lemmy and Mastodon because independent services that interoperate are how I want the internet to work. I still use some of the big commercial services because people or communities I value are there. It’s not all-or-nothing.
Pfft
I love the FV. No ads. No algorithm.
And that it requires a little effort means fewer dumbass jerks around.
It mostly works well.
Plenty of good and garbage content. I want both.
I don’t get the feeling there is a “motive” behind what I see when I am browsing content. It feels organic, like the old internet.
This is actually my third attempt at trying to stick to Lemmy since Reddit changed their API rules and gutted third party apps. My problem with Lemmy is pretty simple: it just doesn’t generate content as fast.
But Reddit, Reddit I have really come to loathe, but after spending what’s probably over a decade on it, it’s hard to leave.
I hate that the most upvoted posts on Reddit are lowest common denominator jokes that can often be predicted at a glance. It used to be there was a good chance you could get something informative at the top, or a source if showing someone else’s skill/talent.
I hate that the most common response to skill/talent being displayed is often a declaration of normalcy rather than praise for the skill/talent on display. For example, someone pulls off a skateboard trick, then you get a mini-thread of people saying variations of “I walked up the stairs this week,” or I “tripped and fell leaving my house today.”
I hate that Reddit has repeatedly narrowed what can show up in /all over the years.
I hate that Reddit does not allow me to block communities that show up in all.
I hate Reddit’s algorithm, it is complete ass at predicting what I want to see.
I hate Reddit ads.
I hate that Reddit now has politics make up a huge chunk of /all these days.
I hate shitpost, circlejerk, and buddy subs. Subs where people encourage one another to just be stupid and asanine for fun. It is my firm belief that they played a major roll in the dumbing down of reddit comments over the years, as idiots were given the space to be idiots, normalized that behavior, and then it spread outside those subs to the other serious ones. And there’s so many people that participate in it, and it caught on. I would put these subs to the torch if I had my way.
I hate the proliferation of certain cultural media fanboys. An example is EldenRing and FromSoftware fanboys. I have some 80 hours in Elden Ring, and played the first Dark Souls. They’re not bad games. They’re not great, either. And for whatever reason, they just seem to have a massive fanbase within Reddit, that the games genuinely do not deserve, leaking out of their sub and constantly posting elsewhere about the game or showing up in my /all since, to reiterate a previous point, Reddit won’t just let me block that shit and save me the headache. For a while, Jujutsu Kaisen Fans and memes were the same as well, but it has since died down. But the point being that this kind of thing happens in the first place.
I hate how Reddit community has latched on hard with image replies, leading to a proliferation of non-comments that are nothing more than passing memes around. This is also something that I believe was fostered and encouraged within the shitpost/circlejerk/buddy subs.
So, when you ask why I still hang on to Lemmy, that’s why. Because I fucking detest what Reddit has become. It is a shithole and a shell of its former self, and I desperately want Lemmy to be something better.
Gods, I do not miss the dumbass circle jerk comments from Reddit. “I also choose this guy’s wife”. Just. Go away. Blech.
I see them very very rarely here, but they’re easy enough to ignore because it’s maybe one comment, not 900
The original was funny, but the permanent rehashing of old references demonstrates that reddit stopped producing originality a while ago. Makes me think of Halo… sigh
And eventually someone adds “our wife”
it just doesn’t generate content as fast.
“It” isn’t an entity of its own, just the sum of around 36k monthly active users.
!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com if you want to help promote it
!fedigrow@lemmy.zip if you want to help communities grow
Sort by top:24 hours. Set your client to auto-hide read posts. Theres lots of content, the “hot” algorithm just doesn’t work very well.
I’ll give it a shot.
I feel comfortable here. Fediverse overall gives me an earlier Internet feel. Organic, but better. Maybe it feeds my nostalgia…
It was pretty rough for the first 2 years, but I feel like the overall popularity is growing, and in general it’s attracting more of the type of person I’m interested in talking with.
Sure, even highly intelligent people can be jerks at times, and I’m no exception. But despite the friction that all discussion forum have, overall the community is just better for me.
I can talk about all kinds of different types of technical and artistic interests and when I do, people pop out of the woodwork to share connect and share their experiences. I am frequently informed by others here and I in turn can share my knowledge. That makes it worth it.
This is the answer I most relate to. I feel the same way.
I miss some subreddits I was part of in the old days that just aren’t replicated here but the fediverse is not as broad. The knowledge base that did move here feels deeper though. I just hope it doesn’t become an echo chamber because it is too narrow.
I feel like the amount of knowledge and expertise in the overall community is very high.
I also think this platform suffers from the same issue that is natural and normal in every other sharing platform: very few people contribute, most people just drink from the content hose.
Because fuck Reddit
