I’ve had a great time here. The people on the various communities I’ve joined are very nice and actually constructive! I haven’t encountered any rude or sarcastic responses or one word answers.

I’ve had really cool conversations and I haven’t been told anything toxic or given any anatomically impossible suggestions at all! I really see a difference between here and Reddit.

What particularly amazed me is the lack of knock down dragouts on the Politics and News communities on Lemmy.

People bring up their points of view even if they have contrasting arguments siting historical precedents to support their side of the discussion.

I’m excited to see your experience as well?

I’m really glad to be a part of Lemm.ee and thank you very much /u/sunaurus for making this instance! :D

  • daveyeah@beehaw.org
    51·
    1 year ago

    I’m feeling really good about the Fedivere.

    I started out being “social” on the Internet with IRC in 1994 and it was so exciting to have people in my computer to talk to; it felt so cutting edge and so much cooler than chat rooms on AOL and such.

    Then I moved into StumbleUpon, which was my first link aggregation type of site. Not much social about it but it let you pick categories and you could submit links to it. I found tons of awesome and weird stuff on it, it was like discovering a “find cool shit” button on my browser; I’d click that button for hours, for better or worse. I don’t know how popular SU was but it felt so innovative to me; I was so sad it was gone one day or at least just a shell of it’s former self.

    Digg came next, and I had no idea what it was but once I got into it it was amazing; new interesting/funny stuff and a community that comments on it, everyone was hilarious and clever. We all know where that went.

    Then it was Reddit, it felt like such a breath of fresh air after digg. It has all the edge of old digg and hilarious commentary that I liked from digg, without since of the stifling ideas that digg had. I have a fond memory of holding back laughter while sitting in a waiting room every week; of course there was no Reddit app back then so I used Reddit is Fun. And I never stopped until last week.

    Fedivere has that vibe for me again. I loved the insane amount of content and communities that Reddit has with it’s 13+ years of history and Internet culture. But it’s just time to move on. Fedivere will probably have hiccups and might even fail to get a meaningful grip but this is such an interesting take on the social link aggregation site and I’m really excited to see where it goes! Thanks to all the hard work being done behind the scenes!

    • yesdogishere@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      awesome experience for me, it’s only been 10 minutes. Lemmy/kbin is light years ahead of reddit’s shmangling shmongling corrupt bullshit. Sick of reddit owners STEALING OUR WORK and selling it for their profit. Ohanian and spez need to cough up 99% of their assets back to us. WE CONTROL REDDIT. If they refuse, then reddit dies.

    • Hyperi0n@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Wow! That is a lot of history on the web to have actually lived through. I started on Facebook of all things, my parents lied about my age to get me an account where I mostly just played games. I was on and off for years, trying to connect with people, share opinions and ideas, and get chased off the site by the mobs of angry people would would harass me whenever I posted something.

      I messed with Twitter, and Snapchat (both were as brain dead as Facebook) nothing really connected with me, until I found Reddit. I found the site in my early teens after watching channels like EmKay and I subscribed to all of babies first Reddit subs. I used the site for many years but it was frustrating. I would ask questions or share my opinion on something, and basically just get ignored, or attacked by deranged users who wouldn’t even answer my question but insult me for being a n00b or just debase my character based on an opinion (stupid stuff like if you like Darth Vader you’re a n@zi) or there were so many rules, SO many rules! There were certain subs I frequented that had over one hundred rules, and I would try to post over and over and over again but there would be some rule that I broke, like having the tags on the other side from the title, or misspelling tags, or not using the official mandatory start word like aita, or my favorite, referring to the group as the ‘hivemind’. Whatever!

      It just felt geeky and tyrannical more so than Facebook even. I got tired of getting downvoted into oblivion post posting basically anything so I left, only coming back a few days ago to find the crap show going on. I had heard people say that the Fediverse is a nicer place than Reddit so I went here and I’m not regretting it in the slightest.

      I never experienced the internet during the old king of the hill days, with AOL and IRCs (though I wish I did) but this place has a nice, retro feel to it that is just delicious. My parents used to talk about their time on AOL and how everyone was nice in those days. They’d get random people wishing them a happy birthday, just because, imagine that! I missed those days even though I never lived them (try to figure that out) and I think this is my equivalent.