Was just browsing my favorite communities, commenting on posts I found really interesting, and engaging with other users who wanted to have conversations.
… and not a single paid ad in my feed. I effing love this platform.
I feel a lot more comfortable commenting here than anywhere else. Was always a lurker in reddit, but am a lot more active here. The feeling of not having your comment buried by thousands is kind of nice.
There’s also the whole fact that you’re less likely to get downvoted and berated to hell on lemmy. Still happens sometimes though if you openly present as American
I like this too! There wasn’t much point in posting anything on an r/popular post because no one would see it. Here I feel like I’m actually contributing [which really helps my fragile self-esteem ;)]
I’m a big fan of the Fediverse and Lemmy in particular. Thanks to the Fediverse, but mostly Lemmy, I was able to build my home lab and now when I walk around my house, the lights come on by themselves. I love the conversions I get into. I love the open nature of Lemmy and how you can look at the repositories and watch how it grows.
There’s definitely things that can be better and I’m happy to be on the train.
My only true desire is to see more people and communities distributed across more instances.
Less bullshit from US is also a plus. Less “muh guns”, “muh rights”, “freedumb” and “here’s why it’s fine when US does/did bad things”.
The reddit exodus increased these types but generally there’s not a hoard of them yet.
Less American propaganda is nice too.
Yet it’s still noticeable that people from the US are way overrepresented compared to all other countries.
You’re swapping it with more “all police are schwein”, “capitalism hasn’t ever done anything for anyone” and “the West is the wicked” though.
I’d prefer some balance in the middle.
As usual the early adopters set the precedent.
I CANT wait till the average joe discovers the fediverse! They won’t know how shitty the regular web is until they join and actually use it.
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I’ve been on Lemmy since June and I haven’t once seen a video of a dude punching a girl. It always made me queasy that shit was soooo popular on reddit.
As a former reddit user for over a decade… What??
So much of Reddit was shit like that.
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User controlled social media, what the internet should have been on day one. We’re taking the web back.
It’s really nice. I have no need to use anything else.
Reddit feels like you are in a thread of bots talking each other. And the thread sliding is so tiring.
I’ve thought about it too … but with federation it’s a non issue.
Don’t like X or Y community because of their toxicity? Block them!
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Now use closed source apps and suffer. Seriously tho glad you are enjoying it.
