It’s not the kids, not the lurkers, not the mods… y’all just nice people. Lemmy’s got a good vibe going… or at least enough windows that we can close if the vibe gets shit.

    • teuast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      1 year ago

      I’m going to leave mine up as a sort of testament to eleven years of my life. My last comment is, and will continue to be unless something drastic changes, some argument I was having with somebody about how to fix housing shortages, like the one in California.

      17 days ago as of now. Weird feeling.

      • ilex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        I deleted every single comment and post on the seven or so accounts I was able to remember passwords for, and then deleted the accounts. That also meant I got to see about ten years worth of comments and posts. There are some phases of life I’d rather not be preserved for posterity’s sake.

    • ecoboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Deleted my 9-year account yesterday and never looked back. Reddit has become so toxic these past few weeks and Lemmy has been such a breath of fresh air.

    • Mihuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yep me too also deleted all posts & comments. Lets hope thry don’t restore them though

    • Spudly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same, I used redact to delete my post and comment history and then deleted my 12 year old account.

    • Spudly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same, I used redact to delete my post and comment history and then deleted my 12 year old account.

    • GatoB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

      I asked the people there some stuff and I got downvoted for everything I said and then I said something and they said unironically: whats wrong with being selfish? That made me a bit angry

    • BurtsBS@reddthat.comEnglish
      611·
      1 year ago

      There’s plenty of shit fringe lunatics here already also.

      Heavily weilding that hammer and sickle mentality that they keep telling themselves is mainstream.

      • o_oli@lemmy.worldEnglish
        92·
        1 year ago

        Wouldn’t be the same without em lol. As long as they are not the majority!

      • Ataraxia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Lol there are political extremists or all kinds but I sure learned about a few new ones. I for one am avoiding all that nonsense for my own sanity.

  • biofaust@feddit.itEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    In Italy we call it “mountain path behavior”: just like in our mountain paths, as long as it is few people you meet you behave cordially and in a friendly manner, but it changes when the number of people goes up.

  • croobat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    I think it’s just survivorship bias, kinda like mastodon. The people inclined to come here are probably anti-corporate, and sick of current social media’s bullshit.

    • CthuluVoIP@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      I think the barrier to entry also helps a bit. The folks willing to put up with the rough edges that Lemmy has are also likely willing to participate with the intent of making Lemmy a success rather than just “hangers on” as it were. With a 1600% growth in “active” user population, there are definitely a ton of lurkers, yet. Once it becomes more approachable, we’ll see if the community feeling that Lemmy has begins to tarnish and fade as the volume of interaction and content rises.

      • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        I was thinking the same, especially after seeing several posts “demanding” Lemmy to change this and change that.

        I mean, that’s not to say there’s no room for improvements, but if the first thing some people do when going to a new platform is wanting changes to meet their personal way of doing things, instead to try and adapt first to how the platform works and learn from it, in my opinion it means those people are not really interested in being here and make lemmy succeed, they’re just following the “flavor of the month” and won’t last long here anyway.

        I think the fediverse being not so intuitive might be a very good thing actually, it can act as a sort of filter so it doesn’t succumb to the masses ruining everything, hopefully.

        • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          Sometimes I worry I might be being too snobby by thinking it’s a good thing there’s a small barrier to entry here, but the quality of the discourse is SO much better than Reddit it’s hard to argue with the results.

      • croobat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Totally agree, it’s amazing how many people can be discouraged by a small bump over the road. Kinda like how free mobile games have millions of downloads but games that are like, a dollar, are lucky if hit a thousand (and the gap in quality is astounding most of the time).

      • the_inebriati@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        I have been thinking this over the past week on reddit every time I see a “Lemmy/Kbin needs to sort out X, Y and Z otherwise it’s going to fail massively.” or “Lemmy/Kbin is impossibly hard to use/sign up for”. Usually with CAPITAL LETTERS and emojis.

        Like… ok. I don’t think you’ll be missed with that attitude. At least for the time being.

          • gornar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Yeah “having a future” is always under the lens of “marketable/corporate profits” anyway. Some people don’t understand that sometimes, humans just want to build nice things because they want to!

        • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          If a person if truly interested in moving to a place with better discourse, they’ll make the effort. If not, they should stay on Reddit.

        • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          To be fair, I had some of those complaints with the instances initially being linked. It clicked when RIF linked to Lemmy.World in its final update message. It didn’t have dumbass hoops to go through, just a straight forward email, username, password, you’re in system like the first few things I was seeing. That and many people were over explaining it and just confusing the hell out of people.

      • icepuncher69@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        The barrier isnt that high in my opinion at least. Its just signing up to any instance in lemmy and thats it. I choose shitjustworks cuz they seemed level headed and i heard some nasty rumors about some of the other bigger lemmy instances so that was another factor on it i guess.

      • Chucklin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ll admit I like having a pretty interface to interact with so I hesitated to make my account until I found Connect for Lemmy. Looks nice and easy to get used to

    • cazyius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m excited about the fact that people who are anti-corporate usually are the same people that will moderate and build community for free just because they want to be a part of something bigger than themselves. If all content creators and moderators find their home here Reddit will only have takers and lurkers left!

      I know I’m being naive but I’m enjoying my little dream of utopia 😄

    • kratoz29@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m just here because of Reddit dick move, not that I hate all companies, the transition was quite nice that is to projects like https://wefwef.app and the upcoming Sync for Lemmy!

  • violetgreendev@programming.devEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    I know what you mean, it feels like we’re all on an adventure together to discover what the new front page of the internet will be!

  • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    It reminds me of internet forums of the days of yore that are long gone. People answering each other’s questions. No need for moderators to have rules like, “don’t call each other names” blah blah blah. It’s kind of funny, but you know, the Internet had a dark age when everyone was nicer to each other. Lemmy brings that kind of social interaction back to the fore. In another stream, someone disagreed with me and did it nicely and I learned something. Give me more of THIS. And give me less of people replying with “this”

  • maple@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy reminds me of how Reddit felt between 2008 ~ 2013ish.

    There seems to be a disproportionate number of longtime Reddit users defecting to Lemmy and I think that the self-selecting nature of Lemmites(?) is why there are such great vibes here.

    Reddit is dead. Long live Lemmy!

    • drivingcrooner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      The grasp I’m trying to get ahold of is where to locate where everyone jumped ship to? Is there a master list or do you just gotta hunt and hope for the best?

    • apigban@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Theres a feeling of relief when you find the people (or bots) you once interacted with on reddit.

      I mean, its not actually the same people, but when I saw the patientgamers community yesterday, I remember the feeling when I transferred schools expecting I’m going to be alone but theres that familiar face that welcomed me.

  • DeImmortelPotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    Thank god I found Lemmy, because if I didn’t it probably would have only been a matter of hours before I caved and reinstalled Reddit on my phone at work.

  • son_named_bort@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    It helps that it’s a fairly small community, which gives it an old school internet forum vibe. Hopefully it retains this vibe as the site continues to grow.

    • Veltoss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been on the internet long enough to say it won’t. It will last a long time depending on the design of the system that creates the communities (mods, upvotes/downvotes, rules, algorithms, etc), but even that is limited because eventually every community reaches the size it needs to to encourage toxicity, echo chambers, circlejerks, and attracting even more toxic people from outside the communities.

      It took reddit many years to start reaching that point though, I hope it takes these federated sites longer. And hopefully due to their design, they can keep most of the toxic people isolated.

    • mr_washee_washee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      sorry to spoil it for u but paradoxically growth could in fact ruin the peaceful vibe of lemmy, maybe to a certain user count… and then it will start to get worse…user count should be capped at some point and with regular bad user swept, to leave place for contributive people. as much as the content here is cured, userbase need to be cured too…its like harmful weeds that grow in ur garden and that needs to be weeded out periodically

  • S_204@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy kinda sucks for me right now. Laggy, buggy, awkward… I love it. Looking forward to being part of its growth and development.

    • veroxii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      If people complain about the stability they were clearly not around for the early days of Reddit. It was flakey as hell.

      • o_oli@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        I mean while that may be true, reddit is still providing a benchmark. old.reddit still works on desktop and mobile, so unlike reddit when it was new, lemmy has competiton.

        • fidodo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Before Reddit there was digg and the users left for Reddit because digg was the one pulling shenanigans back then. Reddit definitely had competition even back then.

  • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    1 year ago

    Personally, and I am bias, I think everyone here is nice and chill because everyone who actually dropped Reddit are principled enough to not just say they hate a change and then do nothing about it.