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People who have been on Lemmy since the very initial reddit API debacle, or before even that, how much do you think it has changed? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Title basically. I was here at the very start of it all and really enjoyed it. However I felt it lost its uniqueness within a few months of mass migration and started turning a bit like reddit again so I deleted my old account. However Reddit has only gotten much much worse since, and Lemmy has stayed about the same. So here again.

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[–] 14 points 5 months ago* (9 children)

My account is 3 years and 5 months old. I joined Lemmy before it was cool, because I like open source things. In fact, when I joined, Lemmy.ml was the main/recommended instance. Now you all hate it.

Lemmy used to be a barren wasteland of content. Now it is not. I've noticed no further changes. The tankies, the in-fighting, the debates about whether to de-federate with instances, the arguing over whether it's becoming too much like reddit - it's all been here as long as I can remember.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I joined, Lemmy.ml was the main/recommended instance. Now you all hate it.

    Hated for good reason, as you point out in your second paragraph partly for tankies and China/Russo propaganda bots.

    Though it raises a question for cases like yours: is account migration to another instance possible?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Do you think it's fair to ask someone to migrate their account just because you hate pro-China and/or pro-Russia bots, assuming they exist?

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Yes. It's the same reason I migrated my party banner from Republicans to Democrats over the decades. No longer wanted to be associated with the prevailing winds of those coalescing beneath it.

    But also, I didn't ask them to move; rather, I posited the question of whether or not they could.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    i make the mistake of commenting in a .ml thread yesterday and I got like 30 replies telling me what an idiot I am for not thinking the USA is the great Satan and how it is a 'puppet regime' that will soon fall apart before the MIGHT of Iran, Russia, and China.

    it was insane.

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