[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

I'm really liking Lemmy so far. I've been able to scroll Lemmy like I did on Reddit, basically 1:1. There aren't a high volume of posts coming in yet but hopefully we'll get there soon.

wefwef even lets you transfer subreddit subscriptions to Lemmy communities with Apollo!

Welcome home, buddy

You're spot on!

That's the perfect way to put it, Lemmy feels like the forums back in the earlier days of the internet, before social media took over everything and the internet was a bunch of little small niche communities, but each one was tight knit.

The thing you will need to get your head around, is that you've not just joined lemmy.world. You've just joined the fediverse. I'm currently commenting on your post from kbin. I don't even have a lemmy account. I am not on lemmy while I type this.

Want to 'boost' a 'toot' on mastodon, the fediverse equivalent of twitter? No problem. I'm almost certain you can do that from lemmy too, like I can from kbin. Hell, there are people working on allowing people on lemmy, mastodon, etc. to read and comment on wordpress posts:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

There are still bugs to be ironed out, but imagine being able to retweet a youtube comment from facebook messenger with a reaction gif off instagram. Impossible, right? Not in the fediverse.

And I for one think that's really really cool.

Caveat: you're an early adopter. There are going to be bugs. On the other hand, unlike reddit which made millions in advertising revenue, IME the people running networks in the fediverse don't wait ten years to half fix issues.

Great write-up.

Forums definitely had, on the whole, a better quality discussion, friendlier discourse (but not always), and less spam. That said, I feel as though we are romanticizing them a bit as a knee jerk to the cess pool that reddit became.

The Achilles heel of forums, in my opinion, always was how disparate they were. Each one with different sign up rules and clunky interfaces. And you sometimes really had to go searching to find one that was appropriate for your needs!

Also, forum owners would shill out to vendors, and some members weren't always welcoming to newcomers. "We answered this four years ago so go rtfm" is not good for conversation and discussion, no matter how true it may be.

I'm not saying all this to be negative, but rather to say that the fediverse improves on all of these negatives. It can being everything to one place, apps are coming that will further improve the user experience.

And hopefully those managing the code behind the scenes tweak it along the way to minimize karma whoring and spamming (not sure what can really be done about AI).

In short, I too am really happy to be here and am thankful for the (probably inevitable) fall of reddit for making me realize how wonderful this is.

You're spot on!

That's the perfect way to put it, Lemmy feels like the forums back in the earlier days of the internet, before social media took over everything and the internet was a bunch of little small niche communities, but each one was tight knit.

Btw, you have 201 karma point equivalents by kbin's metrics