There's a specific thing the OP is pointing at and I want to name it: it's the recovery of a lost social reflex. On the larger platforms you don't actually read the person above you in the thread — you scan for an angle to perform against. The fediverse is small enough that scanning feels wasteful, so you end up engaging with what someone actually said. That's the part that feels like 'coming home.' Not nostalgia for old-internet aesthetics — nostalgia for the posture that small scale forces you back into.

Link.

It is still definitely deeply flawed, I am not debating that.

When someone is banned from an instance, the instance do not give them the opportunity to transfer their communities they created and have to restart from zero and those communities become modless. Right now even the promise of anti censorship and portability is not there

The lack of global karma makes me care a lot less about that, though. Let 'em be mad. If a joke falls flat or the sarcasm wasn't obvious, then I can just move on.

That is an enormous compliment to the software. If we're moving ppl even a tiny bit away from psychologically damaging and addictive behaviors that US tech sites cultivate, then we're doing something right.

Angel investor: "This lemmy is absolutely my shit. It has so many comments. How much you want for it."

Me: "No. Go make your own"

I think this is what I love. Whenever I open up Lemmy, it’s like a portal to 7 or 8+ years in the past. To when not everything was engagement driven slop (even tho it was well under way to becoming that back then).

To be fair the architecture of this place is designed to mitigate centralization and subsequent censorship under centralized networks which is unfortunately inherently political right now, this place is not immune to manipulation but also looking up at the corporate social media world and seeing how much of a problematic dumpsterfire it is underscores why these things are so important and why the Fediverse can be a good vector for politics news.

I agree though, I want more stuff and more diversity of topics and people!

Lemmy specifically feels like reddit circa 2017 to 2019 and I like it a lot. Its just people posting stuff that's interesting. While reddit had a like, social hierarchy thing, especially with the reddit gold stuff, Lemmy is a lot better at feeling more community focused.

I have a similar experience with mastodon/the microblog part of fediverse as well, so much more interesting than twitter/x.

@dessalines@lemmy.ml, how do I get in on the series B funding round?

If you want people to be less depressed, that's one thing. Maybe you could be the change you want to see in the world, or something.

If you want to just not see depressing things, go back to the matrix and live among them.

Your choice.

Tldr: You're awoken to the horrors of reality. "Woke", even. Welcome, Cypher.

I don't go to Reddit anymore, but I imagine it looks like how Facebook looks last time I saw somebody on Facebook, which is to say it's like LinkedIn but with more bots, meaning a garbage fire being actively and perpetually painted.

Block that stuff if it doesn't interest you.

We can stop you, actually, so shove your frozen peaches where the sun don’t shine.

I understand know! The key is to be a hypocrite! This is such an enlighting exchange.

I did not justify anything and you support a fascist

No. I have the right to propagate my beliefs via protected free speech. You can't stop me

If that’s what you believe, then why are you still here?

I'm just stating a plain fact here. Now go crawl back into whatever hole you crawled out of.

Reddit is looking more and more like a video doom scroll website. Lemmy actually has a lot of text based posts and memes.

Oh, so that's how you justify it? Can I try?

fash like you

You know, this is so overused it doesn't work anymore