By the way, check your language settings in the profile. I had some issues with the posts that I could not get, because βEnglishβ option was somehow unchecked in the languages listβ¦
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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Agreed. Its all a bit too confusing. I'm sort of understanding it all now after a few hours. I think great apps for android and iOS will definitely help a lot, but also I just really miss apollo :(
I just sort by hot, check twice a day, make a thread if I want an inbox and it's fine
What is your experience with lemmy?
Personally I am glad that decentralization is slowly picking up again with things like Lemmy and Mastodon. To me using it does not feel all that different from Reddit actually (UI-wise).
I grew up in the days of the old internet where newgroups and mailing lists were the way to interact with other "netizens" (a term I have not heard being used in years btw). Very little moderation and yet people behaved themselves, though of course the number of non-tech people on the net were far lesser as well so that certainly had something to do with it. Lemmy has that advantage too currently of smaller, ideologically-inclined, and willing-to-jump-a-few-hoops people.
TL;DR: I've no issues with using Lemmy and I like it so far, including smaller size of the community.
Very little moderation and yet people behaved themselves, though of course the number of non-tech people on the net were far lesser as well so that certainly had something to do with it.
I remember the pre-AOL Internet, and what happened when AOL opened the gates to the masses. That was the day the civil internet died, and soon after the commercial internet devoured it, forever changing the way people can scam, deceive and show hate towards each other.
Yups, I remember getting AOL (or maybe CompuServe) floppy disks with some US Robotics modem purchase back in the day with a free one-month subscription or something.
Not being in the US, I never used it, but later found that AOL spammed everyone over and over with these disks and later CDs. That was indeed the beginning of the end I think. And then a decade or so later the proliferation of smartphones was the final death knell for the old internet. "Netiquette" is dead and people feel anonymity means civility is unnecessary.
Honestly my issue with Mastodon is the lack of any algorithm whatsoever. I know algorithm is often seen as a bad word, but even just a simple upvote and interaction based thing would be nice to make cool posts more visible. I like that Lemmy has this like Reddit. For me Lemmy has been much more successful in replacing Reddit than Mastodon was in replacing Twitter.
"netizens"
The term has become meaningless since the internet is just a part of everyday life now.
True. Somehow the term popped into my head as I was reminiscing about the good ol' days and then I realized I haven't actually heard it in a long time. I liked the connotation it brought of a borderless global community distinct from the real world.
On Reddit I sometimes see the same posts for days. In that respect I don't think there's anything different. It's about how you sort / filter and how much content is posted.
@jaykay I'd actually like to see bots rip top posts from reddit to post to Lemmy, and the subreddits who would like to I would love to see them create their sister Lemmy instances and create an auto crosspost process. This way, they are keeping their subscribers happy and can make the transition whenever they feel like it if it really comes time to completely abandon ship... Which for me it is time!
Other people have said the important parts. I'm not sure if you were on reddit for long. But if you think back to the early days of reddit it was not as stable as you might think now. The site was constantly down and there were many bugs. The user interface was still in development. Lemmy could be a diamond in the rough. Give it some sharpening and it will be a good place. I guess it's up to the users.
I had trouble with Mastodon, primarily because I had a very curated list of people I followed and most of them didn't move to Mastodon. Those that did are clearly using some type of program to just copy posts over from other platforms.
But for Lemmy, it feels different. I've been able to find most of the same communities I was a part of over there. The fact that they are smaller and less busy means I can spend less time scrolling, but still feel like I got my "fix" in for the day.