I really want to like lemmy, but it’s difficult. I’m new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but… I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having subscribed to like 30 communities there aren’t that many new posts to read.
Part of it probably that subreddits had millions of people so a lot of posts every minute, but it still feels underwhelming.
It’s not as doomscrolly. Maybe I should find something else to waste my time on haha
What is your experience with lemmy? Maybe I just do things wrong. Let me know
Personally I am glad that decentralization is slowly picking up again with things like Lemmy and Mastodon. To me using it does not feel all that different from Reddit actually (UI-wise).
I grew up in the days of the old internet where newgroups and mailing lists were the way to interact with other “netizens” (a term I have not heard being used in years btw). Very little moderation and yet people behaved themselves, though of course the number of non-tech people on the net were far lesser as well so that certainly had something to do with it. Lemmy has that advantage too currently of smaller, ideologically-inclined, and willing-to-jump-a-few-hoops people.
TL;DR: I’ve no issues with using Lemmy and I like it so far, including smaller size of the community.
Honestly my issue with Mastodon is the lack of any algorithm whatsoever. I know algorithm is often seen as a bad word, but even just a simple upvote and interaction based thing would be nice to make cool posts more visible. I like that Lemmy has this like Reddit. For me Lemmy has been much more successful in replacing Reddit than Mastodon was in replacing Twitter.
I remember the pre-AOL Internet, and what happened when AOL opened the gates to the masses. That was the day the civil internet died, and soon after the commercial internet devoured it, forever changing the way people can scam, deceive and show hate towards each other.
Yups, I remember getting AOL (or maybe CompuServe) floppy disks with some US Robotics modem purchase back in the day with a free one-month subscription or something.
Not being in the US, I never used it, but later found that AOL spammed everyone over and over with these disks and later CDs. That was indeed the beginning of the end I think. And then a decade or so later the proliferation of smartphones was the final death knell for the old internet. “Netiquette” is dead and people feel anonymity means civility is unnecessary.