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Same here. Came over in the digg migration, left when 3rd party apps died.
Does this feel like Reddit did then? Does to me.
I'll piggyback and say that it feels similar. The biggest difference is not having huge default subs shaping the experience. Lemmy also feels more sparse in the comments, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Agreed. Feels like early Reddit did. Lower quantity, higher quality.
Another thing is I feel like I'm trying harder to contribute positively; I want Lemmy to succeed so that (hopefully) we can avoid the enshitification that inevitably plagues the commercialized platforms.
Totally agree. I’ve only posted a pun a handful of times!
I think this is a good point. When I got here, before I started shaping my feed, it was basically rule196, furry porn, tankies and memes.
Actually... A lot like Reddit in the Digg days, minus the tankies.
Less "gems" and rage comics and "Le", but the same idea, modernized for 2023.
It was those of us (probably in this Lemmy thread, ironically, 15 years-ish later) who outlasted the Le gems of Reddit, and turned it into the modern place.
Then, spez. Fuck spez
I'm fine with a few hundred or two size type comments. Reddit had threads with like 1.4k comments or even double that sometimes. While it's nice to have that type of size, I am NOT reading all those comments, so the size is irrelevant after a certain threshold point.
There's similarities, but it's a little more empty, and it's a little too reposty from other sites still. reddit then felt a bit more like the place, this isn't that yet.
Kinda? I was a lot younger then, and this feels way more left wing politically now. Maybe I just got more conservative as I aged, or the internet got more left wing. Or maybe a little of both.
Or, maybe, the world is more liberal than you've been led to believe as your circle of influence grew smaller as you got older.
Stopping in to drop a semi-ironic "this^"
10 years ago people would write "this^" without a trace of irony on Reddit. So you are kinda ruining the experience by being semi-ironic.
Only semi-ruining tho. Life is about balance ;)
Reality has a liberal bias
Same boat. I remember being a big fan of Digg (and Kevin Rose), and looking down upon "new" copycat... Reddit. Then they completely changed (removed voting?) almost overnight, and so I gave Reddit a chance. Loved it (and later Sync) and used almost daily! Until... well, fuck Steve Huffman, we all know what happened. Hello Lemmy.
I have not deleted account or comments yet, but logged out everywhere, try to never visit, and will never use the (ad-infested) app. Lemmy community (and Liftoff) has been great, just needs to keep growing with good people.
I remember scratching my head as Diggv4 happened and the clueless tech journalists were parroting how former digg users were flocking to "alternatives like facebook and twitter". Reddit was very much under the radar back then.
Digg migrant here as well. I'm getting cozy over here now, not looking back.