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I like it. I'm not much into the memes but the communities are much smaller so you get more personal discussions.
It's very much like reddit circa 2008 or so. It feels like the claws of marketing people have no presence here. I dare say the word, it feels like there is freedom of expression. To be free, at least partially, from corporate control.
I love it here but have one gripe… I can’t play videos in-app. (Maybe it’s just my app’s problem, but it’s a bummer for me.)
Lemmy is entertainment / social media for me, and I’d like to have something like Reddit’s TiktokCringe sub here. I don’t like Reddit and I don’t like Tiktok, but I do like funny videos that are presented to me because people think they are funny rather than because Youtube’s algo thinks it’ll boost an advertiser’s clout. Playing video without having to open another app would be nice.
Beyond that, I love it here. Conversations can actually happen here and I’ve even met people on Lemmy and continued to chat with them outside of the platform on other apps — I’ve never had that happen on any other social media. So cool.
Well, so far I haven’t had anyone crawl through my history for personally identifiable info to email me with threats to my family. So, aces as far as I’m concerned.
That really did happen, not exactly a Reddit thing specifically though. Still, community so far feels far nicer and mature here than the old place had devolved into. IMHO this feels very much like Reddit did after the digg exodus years ago. I am hopefully optimistic about this place and the fediverse in general but I do fear what may happen if the big players are threatened enough and get some legislation passed in their favor.
I like it. Lots of memes, I'm learning a lot. Less people to help, tho.
Reddit where I can block people and without /as much/ absurd delusional nonsense.
Seeing quite a few comparisons to reddit.
As someone who went to reddit when digg shit the bed all those years ago and in turn came here after the api debacle, this is how it always goes no?
-> Social site has cool features for awhile but is unheard of
-> social site gets adopted by more tech literate people (we are here)
-> social site gets noticed by corps, receives investment and becomes able to handle more people (threads is an attempt at this and what is next)
-> social site gets adopted by millions of average joes
-> enshitification begins as social site/corporations begin to extract money
-> other social sites form from people tired of the diluted content
-> tech literate people leave for smaller social site with cool features
-> cycle continues
I'm settling in just fine here. The people can be a little more on the tankie side in some places, but it's better overall.
I've already started to see posts like "People of Lemmy, blah blah" and posts about username meanings, so it's becoming Reddit. Get off my lawn.
I found a lot of people who are willing to put effort in posting and commenting.
I first felt like I was missing on news for my niche hobbies but just started going sites directly for news (testing an rss reader this week for the first time in over a decade so that might change). Besides that just looking at the default hot or rising threads hit a lot of what I'm looking for with good discussions.
I never had a reddit account so I used it's implosion as a push off to set me free from 4chan but also not going to that overly policed place.
I think Lemmy is a nice middle ground.
Actually, reading these comments, this place is starting to feel like reddit.
There's absolutely nothing more Reddit than people on Reddit complaining about Reddit and how everyone else on Reddit is shitty and unreasonable (without supplying any context).
So yeah, it seems Lemmy is right on track.
