Totally agree, I used to only lurk back in Reddit, but here I feel more inclined to participate. Lemmy feels old school internet and I love it.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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I was just commenting that it feels like early 2000s internet. Reject modernity embrace tradition.
Yep, Iโd be totally fine if it just stayed small. 1% of the Reddit community maybe. Way more meaningful engagement imo.
Yeah man I've been kinda feeling that this whole time but I couldn't put my finger on it. The fact that there is no vote fuzzing and no bots, combined with it being smaller as a whole, is such a breath of fresh air. It's cool to feel like what I post matters to other people and the community as a whole.
The userbase is definitely much more knowledgeable about internet etiquette and it makes all the difference. God, reddit has gotten so bad nowadays, it's just low effort content pandering to the lowest common denominator.
I feel like I engaged way more in the live thread for the NBA Finals last night than most live threads on Reddit. Part of it was the smaller community, but part of it was also the actual chat feature that Lemmy has, so you don't need to constantly refresh and scroll back down to see new comments
Is anyone here old enough to remember SomethingAwful and communities like that from the early 2000s? Lowtax drama aside, during its hayday the community was the source of so many OG memes. Here's hoping that Lemmy will have that nostalgic feeling.
I remember SomethingAwful being the spearhead for getting Anderson Cooper to do a story on reddit's /r/jailbait! They weren't standing for that shit over in SA and made sure the media ran with a story about reddits unsavory side.
At least that's my memory, I remember a lot of anti-reddit-gross-shit organizing on SA during that period.
EDIT: Also, in the theme of early 2000's communities, MetaFilter is still going strong! They are similar to SA in that you had to pay a small fee to even make an account. They are one of the only places on the internet to this day which treats moderation as a job and pays their moderators. Kudos to MeFites, and hope to see some here.
I interact much more here
Also, even as communities get larger, smaller instances will still have a small-community vibe so we'll have the best of both worlds. Plus since everything is FOSS, you'll have tons of open source devs making improvements at a rate that the Reddit UI & mobile app could never.
Yeah the future seems pretty bright here.
Yeah exactly! I feel the same way