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To me it feels like a matured Reddit. (At least most of the time πŸ™ƒ)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I like it. I'm not much into the memes but the communities are much smaller so you get more personal discussions.

It's very much like reddit circa 2008 or so. It feels like the claws of marketing people have no presence here. I dare say the word, it feels like there is freedom of expression. To be free, at least partially, from corporate control.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well, so far I haven’t had anyone crawl through my history for personally identifiable info to email me with threats to my family. So, aces as far as I’m concerned.

That really did happen, not exactly a Reddit thing specifically though. Still, community so far feels far nicer and mature here than the old place had devolved into. IMHO this feels very much like Reddit did after the digg exodus years ago. I am hopefully optimistic about this place and the fediverse in general but I do fear what may happen if the big players are threatened enough and get some legislation passed in their favor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I like a few of these communities, and I've had some nice conversations on some things I'm passionate about. But it seems like the population outside my small communities is dominated by violent wanna-be political activists competing for who can express the most outrageous sentiment.

Advocating against violence against one's parents in a hypothetical situation where a parent developed the wrong US politics not only got me downvoted, but also replied to by some asshole from Australia who wanted to rub it in that I was clearly in the out-group.

I don't normally reply when I see things like that, but after seeing so much vitriol I felt the need to leave a comment. I won't be doing it again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I came here after the API falldown and I like how quiet and normal it feels. I like coming across people in different threads and topics and while sometimes I'd like to see/read more content, this also helps me put the phone down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Reddit where I can block people and without /as much/ absurd delusional nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I've already started to see posts like "People of Lemmy, blah blah" and posts about username meanings, so it's becoming Reddit. Get off my lawn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I never had a reddit account so I used it's implosion as a push off to set me free from 4chan but also not going to that overly policed place.

I think Lemmy is a nice middle ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I like how many of the users don't resort to memes or namecalling (not that there aren't a few here and there) and the replies are straightforward

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I like the folk here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Windows hate and politics. It's nothing like reddit imo but it's all I've got as I've abandoned reddit.

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