the big percentage of FOSS users, privacy enthusiats and the self-hosting community
It does feel like a bit of a purity contest/circlejerk to me at times though.
it does feel like that sometimes tho
TBH it feels like a pretty continuous evolution of Reddit, Digg, and whatever was between Digg and usenet. There’s self selection that’s made it a bit more harmonious than Reddit, but that’s it.
That being said, it’s super cool to get a glimpse into the million different experiences people have had. The internet is a magical place.
whatever was between Digg and usenet
for me, it was a mix of Slashdot and a bunch of discussion boards.
Don’t forget Fark!
Oh yeah, I forgot about Slashdot!
I was around for a bit of the disparate forums era, but I have no idea which ones fed into which 2.0 platforms.
Not the most extra ordinary of things but I do like that there is no (USA ?) babysitting when it comes to say fuck etc.
Citing sources
A few months ago, I would’ve said how people try to engage you in good faith and how people would read walls of text and engage
Lately I feel people are scared and angry. Which is totally reasonable, but has some of the best parts of our communities
We also probably got a lot of new refugees and more interest from botters… But I used to get love with near every message I posted. Or at least honest engagement. Now? I get way less replies, and way more of them are reading into something I didn’t say
See this is why we have to stand up for blueberries— this guy just spouts off with his hate for blueberries— it’s just unwarranted. He can have my love when he gets his hands off my blueberries.
Alot of people are really helpful for any questions you might ask, as long as you are respectful
Beans.
Also jeans
I just thought “You’ve heard of bananas in pajamas, now get ready for beans in jeans” and then my mind went the elf on a shelf meme where you’d depict it visually, and picturing an anthropomorphic bean wearing blue jeans, my mind looked at that and guessed “Kidneys in dungarees?”
Renals in jeanals
Ha.
The high proportion of Linux users is nice
Yes, so nice proportion of smart people. I was whining to my wife the other day how I miss the internet of the 90s when that was more the case.
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Much kinder than Reddit, people here know how to disagree and discuss things in a more constructive way.
Yep! Even when I’ve disagreed with people, it’s been more of an exchange of knowledge rather than one person asking for citations and then proceeding to ignore them all.
It’s okay to disagree, sometimes you can learn from each other :)
Can you cite these comments or do I need to just believe you?
Seconded. I’ve definitely had more discussions here than my last year on reddit. Reddit is just a rat race to get the most upvotes for flippant comments or you get downvoted for being nonconformist, especially in the big subs. Also, participants on lemmy with agendas tend to be way more transparent - as in political or pseudo-science. Far easier to avoid or block if need be.
Nuh-uh!
Oh yeah? Well heck you and your dumb frickin position you stupy dumb dumby dumb idiot small smooth brain moron. I’m right youre wrong !!!1!1!1!1!1!2!
Nuh-uh-uh!!
Being able to comment and post without jumping through arbitrary hoops. No automod bots telling me I need 10 karma to post, no oops sorry not allowed to share external links to other websites, no oh no sharing pictures in the comments below post. Lemmy aligns with the principles of respecting user interaction on a technical level and not choking the life out of you with corporate TOS regulation.
Lemmy is not perfect. I am not really politically or ideologically aligned with a lot of the stuff the community as a whole is into, so being constantly exposed to the same themes and propaganda over and over gets a little grating. However I’m happy to deal and tolerate as long as I feel respected by the platform as a intelligent person using an open free as in freedom discussion fourm and not made to feel like yet another drone fueling a corpo content mill.
At first I liked that it was nicer and more intelligent but recently that hasn’t been true. My current favorite thing is that it is selfhostable and many users do it.
That it doesn’t feel like a culture at all, that you have to adopt. There’s genuine discussion, not just a few top meme-comments and a sea of ignored participation.
you have to adopt
I’m not ready for kids.
That it doesn’t feel like a culture at all, that you have to adopt. There’s genuine discussion,
I disagree. It’s more likely that your instance’s culture happens to largely match what you feel internt culture should be, or at least what you on some leve have already been accultrated to so there is no friction.
One thing that is noticeable is that each instance seems to have a distinct local culture. It’s not a great difference, but it is noticeable. It reminds me of the difference between the cultures of the town I grew up in (a decaying community in the rust belt where hope goes to die) and my current town (the sort of farm town that has a holiday celebrating corn).
Blahaj and dbzer0 are my favorite instances.
Same here. I’m mainly on dbzer0 because I like piracy and also like having limited interaction with Hexbear people.
Topic is about Lemmy as a whole, and I’m responding with my impression of that. Your re-interpretation of my impression doesn’t really make sense to me. I’m sure others have different experiences with their own usage of Lemmy but mine does not revolve around my instance enough for me to even form an impression of it. It certainly doesn’t dominate my user experience.
I do appreciate the responses here hinting that I’m wrong about my experience on Lemmy but I had a 13 year old Reddit account that I nuked after the API debacle and I remember the monoculture that developed. Lemmy is not Reddit even if a few instances have their own subcultures. Doesn’t invalidate my impression.
Thanks for pointing out how my opinion is wrong though.
I think the other person that commented is having a worse experience because they are on lemmy.world lol. I didn’t realize how bad the trolls were on that instance was until I hopped to dbzer0.
I remember how reddit was. I stopped using it as a social media around 2015ish, around the time I stopped using Twitter. This is better. I was trying to disagree on why this feels better, not telling you that your opinion is wrong.
This
Public modlogs limit power tripping (!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Yes, it’s good, although I’ve noticed there’s a purge feature now that’s being inevitably misused.
Is it federated, or would the purged content still be visible on other instances?
Hmm, it’s hard to say. The purge record doesn’t display anything like username searchable by the standard frontend, and it’s still a lot rarer than normal removals. The top purge on .ml right now relates to this thread, shown federated to my instance, and it’s neither of the ones visible there, but that could just be that it wasn’t federated in time.
The reason given was that it’s a reply to the wrong thread, which should definitely be a normal removal. The only clear-cut case for a true purge is doxxing or CSAM.
