The last remaining bastion of Web 1.0. The forums that had held out got absorbed by Reddit. Its fall seemed to crush all that was left.
What the Fediverse is building is over infrastructure that can last. It’s the first chance at something permanent.
you and me both! The existence of fediverse has been doing wonders to my mental health.
Hell yeah!
Reddit is supposedly worth $17 billion, and yet this place feels more alive by an order of magnitude to me so what does that say about the value of this place?
Its cozy. I feel we are still becoming a monoculture, but one built around one very specific type of nerdy person.
I like it here. Got permabanned from reddit formoffering general safety advice to protestors in Minnesota in early 2025.
Starting an account with Lemmy has been The closest I’ve come to the glory days of Orange-Red vs Periwinkle, and knowing exactly when the narwhal bacons.
I suspect this site will remain largely unknown for a while, among people that don’t like reading words. I’ll stay a while.
Fediverse seems like a step in the right direction, but how do I make my feed less depressing ;_;
I miss Usenet. This is as close as there is.
Fedi is where it is at!
Reddit is looking more and more like a video doom scroll website. Lemmy actually has a lot of text based posts and memes.
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 hardly find any interesting posts. It's mostly memes and tech news.
Fediverse is great. Funnily though I’ll point out it hasn’t “survived” per se during the internet, it’s more so a new in the past few years right, which proves to me great things and the right idea can still be conceived and created no matter if the current environment is shit - we can always say no and build something better.
The only issue is how difficult it is to onboard. If you don’t spend time building a list of subscribed communities/people, your feed will be very stale.
I’d love to see something like Bluesky’s starter packs. One button to follow a bunch of people/communities.
it's alright. there were a few BBS's I swore I'd never stop connecting to. a few usenet groups.. a few email lists... a few web rings, a few bloggers... a few social media sites ... etc. etc etc etc
Groupthink here does sometimes hit reddit narwhal beckons levels sometimes, still much better than the modern internet elsewhere
Preach.
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.
Nah. It's a cesspool like 4chan, except for far left.
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