In part because it reminds me a bit of the old internet, with stuff being spread around everywhere.

Being “harder”* to understand than reddit, twitter or other big companies’ services is also a good thing, because people should remember that they have a brain and they should use it.

  • “harder” because not everyone understands the fediverse right away, since usability is extremely similar

PS: ^superscript doesn’t work with phrases? at least not on preview^

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    As a soon to be 30 yr old this reminds me of the internet I grew up loving lol, feels just the right amount of old school to me

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      When I see the notifications popup in the top right corner, it surprisingly reminds me of old FB. Back when instead of an app buzzing in my pocket 24/7 with notifications that are actually just ads or BS, I intentionally choose to log on, see the notification, and think “Oh, someone interacted with me, let’s go see what they said.”

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        Oh man, I never thought about that, but you’re 100% right. I’ve had this nagging feeling of nostalgia while using Lemmy for the longest time, and that’s exactly what it is.

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          It’s beautiful and I hope the rest of the internet has a revolution like this.

          Idk much about servers or anything but I hope someone finds a good way to replace YouTube next

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            That’d be PeerTube, but federated video is hard. It’s very expensive in terms of bandwidth and storage. In comparison, hosting a mostly text-based website with very little embedding of images and no embedding of video and sharing it with the world is relatively easy.

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        Yes! At first I wasn’t too keen about that, but it’s actually more freeing this way. I get to choose when to notice a notification, not the other way around

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    I like that the rough edges keep the boomers away. That’s the point where I know to move on from a social media site.

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      I used the old site for more than a decade, and I remember when the highest upvoted posts on the frontpage had only 2K upvotes. Lemmy is at that point now and its future is full of potential.

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    I’m loving the community feel of it, everyone seems to be here because they want to be here rather than just cus it’s where everyone else is

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    It’s definitely forced me to learn a lot within the past few days. I guess I should thank reddit, because if they hadn’t forced the 3rd party apps out of business I wouldn’t have ever heard of Lemmy or kbin.

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      What is kbin and how does it relate to Lemmy?

      I am guessing kbin is an app for Lemmy like wefwef?

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        It’s actually another Reddit clone similar to Lemmy, but much newer. You can use kbin to see posts from kbin, Lemmy, or Mastodon. There’s a bit of a guide to it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/145npay/the_redditors_guide_to_how_kbin_works_your/

        After using Lemmy and kbin a little bit over the past few days, Lemmy seems to be a bit more stable at this point so I’m sticking with it for now. But with more development time, kbin might ultimately be where I head to.

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          Thanks! I will check it out kbin.

          I have Mastedon but Lemmy is more enjoyable. I’m thinking it’s because mastedon is more like twitter and I never got into twitter to begin with.

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            Kbin is a mix of both.

            The UI is built like lemmy and has a micro blog which is more twitter-esque.

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            You can subscribe to kbin “magazines” just like communities from other federated lemmy instances too, so you can view them all through lemmy.world or whichever instance you’re on

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      If reddit hadn’t banned me on the most ridiculous of charges, I wouldn’t have learned of this place.

      Over the course of a decade reddit became less and less satisfying, yet I still grieved when I got banned. Over twelve years I accumulated a lot of cool stuff I’d written and I had the evidence of it touching thousands of people. That hurt to lose.

      But then I found Lemmy, and it’s like being back in early reddit.

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    I’ve come to like it more than Reddit at this point. The community feel here you can’t buy and can only make it with actual factual care.

    The only complaint I have is a minor one, and that’s speed and sometimes things don’t load. Though I know that’s a symptom of growing pains. That will likely be a non-issue in the future as the tech grows with the popularity of the community

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      Reminds me of Reddit in 2008 when I joined. Legitimate communities forming and finding their way. Wasn’t super intuitive how to use or what to do, but something special.

      Reddit has since just transformed into something almost unrecognizable, but its tough to beat the size and reach it’s built.

      On thing Lemmy is going to have to worry about is bots. I’m hoping the decentralization is a good solution to both monetization and bots. We shall see.

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      Hey, the speed issue is solely because the instance you’re on, Lemmy.world, is way overcrowded. You can resolve this issue by joining a smaller instance or even hosting your own. The best part of Lemmy is you aren’t tied to any one server. You can create an account on a different instance/site and never miss a Lemmy post. I’m on my own private instance and have zero issues with loading speed

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        That sounds very doable. I’ll have to look for a tutorial and work on that next chance that I get.

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        How do I transfer my subscriptions to another server, though? Do you really just have to re-sub to everything all over again?

        Because I have so many subs now…

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            I made an account on a separate server just to test and it does indeed perform tons better. Just sucks there isn’t some way to “own” your user and download like a fingerprint of it on demand from a server, so you could easily transfer yourself somewhere else.

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      Unpopular opinion: it should stay a little bit slow. Every other commercialized platform trains us for immediate gratification.

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        Agreed. “Losing” Reddit was and is still painful, but I’m more and more convinced that it was necessary. Both in general and for me as a person. I’m going to try to get back into reading and other oldschool, ‘slower’ stuff. Modern internet has been poisoning our brains for like half a decade at the very least.

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          Highly recommend getting back into reading. I stopped reading books for a while and completely forgot the joy of it. Don’t be disappointed if your reading discipline isn’t what it used to be. It’s like a muscle and I am still in the process of re-training it.

          One of the best tools that helped me was signing up for my library’s digital service (Libby). It’s so easy and accessible that it kind of blew my mind. I also invested in a refurbished backlit e-reader that could display the epub files that I borrowed from the library… Utter magic!

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            Thanks - I have the entire Stephen King catalog and I think I stopped somewhere around 2017 or so, so I’ve got a good bit of backlog to catch up to.

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    Oh ya buddy? Well change is scary for me and I’ve been cowering in a corner. This jerboa app seems yo sort of be working tbo.

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      For me lemmy is pretty much impossible to browse without jerboa, the oficial site has a very clunky UI and jerboa solves that problem. Thankfully third-party applications aren’t going extinct here

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    Also forces me to learn more about the Fediverse, third party apps, hosting my own Lemmy instance, etc which I always appreciate

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    I want Lemmy to grow but it’s a lot of fun right now because the people that took the time to figure this out all genuinely want to be here and have a sense of community.

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    This is what genuine grass root communities look like. Compare that to crypto and NFTs which had insane amount of VC funding to pretend to be grass roots.

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      Crypto and NFTs are money-laundering scams with a lot of technobabble thrown in to hide the truth from normies. I knew it was a scam when one of my friends, who is a smart guy but not a tech guy, bought into BTC because he thought it was clearly the future. I think he made money on his first BTC, and I’m pretty sure he lost on his second and third BTC, and I feel terrible for him because it was with some of his retirement. He’s going to have to work a trade job for years longer than if he’d just put that same money in an index fund, because he got sucked in by the allure of crypto.

      I’m not huge on governmental regulation of people’s decisions with their money, but I have a personal rule. If you can’t explain it in a sentence to the average 10 year old or they understand it and it sounds like it should be illegal to said ten year old, it’s not a good idea. It’s easy to explain how a basic investment in a company that makes physical goods can be profitable. Try to explain NFTs to a fifth grader without using words like “profit from nothing” and see what they think.

      If the stock market is already artificially high for a few reasons, crypto and NFTs were/are even a step higher in artificial pricing and being a tool for rich people to get richer and hide their money from the few governments powerful enough to dare tax them.

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        I think the original Bitcoin proposition had some merit in introducing a new concept and a new type of trustless economy. However probelms in scaling the PoW mechanism and transaction fees make it infeasible for daily use.

        99.9% of the other stuff? Never understood why people see value in NFTs. Especially given that they mostly link to image files on someones web server that would point to a 404 page if taken offline.

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          My main complaint with crypto is not the underlying idea of a digital currency, is that people used it as a straight investment like it was a normal stock, they traded it like it was a different currency without understanding currency trading fundamentals, or they used it as a hedge against the USD/Pound/Euro collapsing as though that would gain without taking down the complete grid which is how crypto transactions get tracked against the public ledger. Yes, P2P crypto rejections are possible, but in a collapse scenario they’re effectively useless, even more so than gold and silver, and I’m a big believer that the only true precious metals in a grid down scenario are lead, steel, and brass in the forms of tools and weapons to defend communities.

          Gold has value as a transaction medium in some scenarios, but they depend on being able to accurately assay the quality and weight, neither of which lend themselves to quick transactions in small purchases. It’s also super heavy, and since the mined coins are a full or half ounce, in a collapse scenario they’re too valuable for little things, which means massively overpaying and therefore spending the hedge at an accelerated rate.

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      Fuck those crypto shills. I’ve fallen for their bait back in '16 and 17. I learned the hard way that it’s grifts on top of grifts all the way down

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    reddit also started out rough around the edges too!

    I like when things take more time to build but it’s far more of a collaborative effort. It makes me much more invested and devoted to the platform’s success!

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      Reddit would never come to exist in that case, I think. MySpace and Facebook would probably’ve had a harder time growing. The sheer amount of php forums over the net was mind blowing.

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    Tbh I was spoiled for ten years and I have to get over that. It’s definitely an adjustment coming to Lemmy, but I’m having fun.

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    I remember being surprised when anybody in the media knew what reddit was. This was only 5 years or so ago. I felt happy at that time, but didn’t realize that was the jump the shark moment for reddit.