It’s not the kids, not the lurkers, not the mods… y’all just nice people. Lemmy’s got a good vibe going… or at least enough windows that we can close if the vibe gets shit.

  • biofaust@feddit.itEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    In Italy we call it “mountain path behavior”: just like in our mountain paths, as long as it is few people you meet you behave cordially and in a friendly manner, but it changes when the number of people goes up.

  • violetgreendev@programming.devEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    I know what you mean, it feels like we’re all on an adventure together to discover what the new front page of the internet will be!

    • ecoboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Deleted my 9-year account yesterday and never looked back. Reddit has become so toxic these past few weeks and Lemmy has been such a breath of fresh air.

    • teuast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      I’m going to leave mine up as a sort of testament to eleven years of my life. My last comment is, and will continue to be unless something drastic changes, some argument I was having with somebody about how to fix housing shortages, like the one in California.

      17 days ago as of now. Weird feeling.

      • ilex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I deleted every single comment and post on the seven or so accounts I was able to remember passwords for, and then deleted the accounts. That also meant I got to see about ten years worth of comments and posts. There are some phases of life I’d rather not be preserved for posterity’s sake.

    • Mihuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yep me too also deleted all posts & comments. Lets hope thry don’t restore them though

    • Spudly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same, I used redact to delete my post and comment history and then deleted my 12 year old account.

    • Spudly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same, I used redact to delete my post and comment history and then deleted my 12 year old account.

  • DeImmortelPotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    Thank god I found Lemmy, because if I didn’t it probably would have only been a matter of hours before I caved and reinstalled Reddit on my phone at work.

  • maple@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy reminds me of how Reddit felt between 2008 ~ 2013ish.

    There seems to be a disproportionate number of longtime Reddit users defecting to Lemmy and I think that the self-selecting nature of Lemmites(?) is why there are such great vibes here.

    Reddit is dead. Long live Lemmy!

    • riquisimo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It feels rough around the edges still, kind of like the early internet. Like your part of something that’s still a work in progress. It also feels a little smaller, like if you say something you’re more likely to be heard, instead of your voice being drowned in a sea of comments.

  • croobat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I think it’s just survivorship bias, kinda like mastodon. The people inclined to come here are probably anti-corporate, and sick of current social media’s bullshit.

    • CthuluVoIP@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think the barrier to entry also helps a bit. The folks willing to put up with the rough edges that Lemmy has are also likely willing to participate with the intent of making Lemmy a success rather than just “hangers on” as it were. With a 1600% growth in “active” user population, there are definitely a ton of lurkers, yet. Once it becomes more approachable, we’ll see if the community feeling that Lemmy has begins to tarnish and fade as the volume of interaction and content rises.

      • Chucklin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ll admit I like having a pretty interface to interact with so I hesitated to make my account until I found Connect for Lemmy. Looks nice and easy to get used to

      • icepuncher69@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The barrier isnt that high in my opinion at least. Its just signing up to any instance in lemmy and thats it. I choose shitjustworks cuz they seemed level headed and i heard some nasty rumors about some of the other bigger lemmy instances so that was another factor on it i guess.

      • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I was thinking the same, especially after seeing several posts “demanding” Lemmy to change this and change that.

        I mean, that’s not to say there’s no room for improvements, but if the first thing some people do when going to a new platform is wanting changes to meet their personal way of doing things, instead to try and adapt first to how the platform works and learn from it, in my opinion it means those people are not really interested in being here and make lemmy succeed, they’re just following the “flavor of the month” and won’t last long here anyway.

        I think the fediverse being not so intuitive might be a very good thing actually, it can act as a sort of filter so it doesn’t succumb to the masses ruining everything, hopefully.

      • the_inebriati@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        I have been thinking this over the past week on reddit every time I see a “Lemmy/Kbin needs to sort out X, Y and Z otherwise it’s going to fail massively.” or “Lemmy/Kbin is impossibly hard to use/sign up for”. Usually with CAPITAL LETTERS and emojis.

        Like… ok. I don’t think you’ll be missed with that attitude. At least for the time being.

        • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          To be fair, I had some of those complaints with the instances initially being linked. It clicked when RIF linked to Lemmy.World in its final update message. It didn’t have dumbass hoops to go through, just a straight forward email, username, password, you’re in system like the first few things I was seeing. That and many people were over explaining it and just confusing the hell out of people.

    • GatoB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I asked the people there some stuff and I got downvoted for everything I said and then I said something and they said unironically: whats wrong with being selfish? That made me a bit angry

    • BurtsBS@reddthat.comEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      There’s plenty of shit fringe lunatics here already also.

      Heavily weilding that hammer and sickle mentality that they keep telling themselves is mainstream.

      • o_oli@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Wouldn’t be the same without em lol. As long as they are not the majority!

      • Ataraxia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Lol there are political extremists or all kinds but I sure learned about a few new ones. I for one am avoiding all that nonsense for my own sanity.

  • KingScoob@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Definitely a better vibe than reddit, and I really hope it stays this way! The community seems to be a lot more willing to have discussions, and comments don’t just devolve into the same lame jokes that get repeated over and over.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I was on reddit about 12 years. Had zero problems. Last year and a half or so started getting banned from communities. It accelerated. Got banned from communities I’d never heard of or visited.

      One day I got the old heave-ho from reddit itself, and that was that.

    • BrambinagStoneboots@vlemmy.netEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      and comments don’t just devolve into the same lame jokes that get repeated over and over.

      Let’s hope (and put the work in) it stays this way. :)

  • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    It reminds me of internet forums of the days of yore that are long gone. People answering each other’s questions. No need for moderators to have rules like, “don’t call each other names” blah blah blah. It’s kind of funny, but you know, the Internet had a dark age when everyone was nicer to each other. Lemmy brings that kind of social interaction back to the fore. In another stream, someone disagreed with me and did it nicely and I learned something. Give me more of THIS. And give me less of people replying with “this”

  • beefstu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Give it time… Once something gets enough attention people will look to make money off it. Enjoy it now

  • son_named_bort@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    It helps that it’s a fairly small community, which gives it an old school internet forum vibe. Hopefully it retains this vibe as the site continues to grow.

    • Veltoss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been on the internet long enough to say it won’t. It will last a long time depending on the design of the system that creates the communities (mods, upvotes/downvotes, rules, algorithms, etc), but even that is limited because eventually every community reaches the size it needs to to encourage toxicity, echo chambers, circlejerks, and attracting even more toxic people from outside the communities.

      It took reddit many years to start reaching that point though, I hope it takes these federated sites longer. And hopefully due to their design, they can keep most of the toxic people isolated.

    • apigban@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Theres a feeling of relief when you find the people (or bots) you once interacted with on reddit.

      I mean, its not actually the same people, but when I saw the patientgamers community yesterday, I remember the feeling when I transferred schools expecting I’m going to be alone but theres that familiar face that welcomed me.

    • drivingcrooner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      The grasp I’m trying to get ahold of is where to locate where everyone jumped ship to? Is there a master list or do you just gotta hunt and hope for the best?