Memes about the Fediverse
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The lemmings are a squeaky bunch.
I kind of feel like Reddit is the biggest bar in the world and having a conversation there feels like it. If you aren’t loud and early, you can’t really participate in a meaningful way. The smaller crowd of Lemmy is a sweet spot for me. Enough people that it’s not dead, but small enough that I can still participate in conversations.
Also, on Reddit I felt dread seeing that there was something in my inbox. On Lemmy, I'm excited to see what someone wrote. Just a very different experience overall.
Well well well, look what you have waiting for you. A nice blip of free dopamine. You're welcome and have a lovely evening.
I hope you have a wonderful day my friend ❤️
Get blooped, hope you have a wonderful day
you are neat =) take that!
Agreed, and it's kinda neat to start recognizing people's names across different communities. Really feels like old-school internet forums in that way.
I love the modern retro internet vibe.
Humans work better on the tribe model. Having diverse communities and even fractured topics covered by multiple communities on different instances promotes this model.
It feels like a properly social media that isn’t trying to exploit me, and I think that’s something special.
You can always be heard on Reddit. Reply to the top level comment with a sex related joke or the popular meme trend and upvotes will roll I'm fast. You could also make a post that allows others to be judgemental, like relationship advice or am I the asshole; and again you'll get lots of attention. Or pretend to be a girl and comment of weed and sexuality. There are lots of ways to get attention.
It's small enough to recognize names. Big enough where running into a furry with an unreasonably flashy emojis in their name, or someone from some place you never ~~herd~~ had the knowledge of its presence forcefully injected into your brain through an unspecified method of perception is common place.
Edit: Typo.
Turns out mindlessly scrolling through 10 000 comments isn't actually a great experience.
I’ll take a meaningful comment from one human being over 10,000 bots any day.
I have had good conversations about fastener heads (screw driver bits) and getting rid of timezones recently, my people
I didn't expect to like square heads as much as I've enjoyed using them. But coming from Philips it's hard for something not to be an improvement
I never understood how people would complain that a site with thousands or tens of thousands of users is "too small". I feel like that is a real sweet spot, you can have actual conversations and interactions that matter a bit more. Meanwhile, the constant flood of posts, comments and spam on the top social media sites made me feel like nothing I write will even matter, since all the posts will be buried under the information flood in the matter of minutes.
There's definitely a difference with scale.
On reddit, I was never on the default front page or /r/all. I was subbed to a hundred niche communities.
On lemmy that's harder in 2 ways. The first is the critical mass you need to keep a community active, and the second is fragmentation.
For instance, I was super active in the scuba and underway photography subreddits. Not only is the community tiny here, but which scuba sub do i go to? With multiple instances, there's no default community named "scuba."
I would say the population size makes it a little easier to recognize the more friendly responses too. I feel on Reddit the friendly responses are quickly buried by the more spiteful ones.
It feels much more human on Lemmy. Reddit was mostly bots and training models. Do we have any statistics for Lemmy on percentage of bot users posting to the platform, who pretend to be human?
Sometimes I miss chatting with the bots on Reddit. The platform always kept you emotional and scrolling. All the gore, violence and other sensationalistic content. All the arguments arguments arguments always against you. It was a plastic experience.
Reddit gets a lot more votes and comments.. but I think the number of people actually talking to each other is about the same. Most the comments are just noise.
My last year of Reddit (prior to the API purge) was very much filled with low effort comments. You get a lot of votes and comments but the votes don't matter and the comments are largely empty one-liners. I doubt it's gotten better since I left.
I'd say even the assholes on Lemmy put more effort into the comments than Redditors do. Except tankies who just love to flood the comments with their copy paste list of sources for "everything".
Yep, better quality engagement all around. I still visit reddit for some niche communities that aren't represented here but I always come back and I'm spend an increasing amount of time here. People are smarter and nicer in these parts.
Same, though I primarily just lurk on Reddit, I got tired of the hive mentality and the bots. Lemmy has grown quite a bit since I joined, which makes me come back for more
Lemmy is my doom scroll and I feel like its much healthier. Took my time to build a decent plock list and functionally I get 2 long lists of stuff per day. If you want more, get people talkin or get back to work. Reddit on the otherhand will go on forever. Plus the lack of global updoots score makes all the conversations have actual opinions instead of chasing imaginary internet points.
Lemmy is a great place to BS about whatever is going on with the world at any given moment. I think the “small” size of the user base increases the quality of the discussions. You have to jump through some hoops just to get here.
But that small overall population and the barriers to entry mean we don’t have a busy community for almost any hobby or topic you’d like to discuss. And that’s fine, there are still websites and forums and search engines.
I think the fediverse should replace the corporate internet long term, of course. For what it is right now though, and especially Lemmy in particular, I’m not complaining.
The fediverse doesn't need perpetual growth. That's VC investor bullshit. You don't need to be posting on a platform where the whole world is present. Again more corporate bullshit. As is the "digital town square" thing. It sounds profound but it's pompous.
What made the internet so good was variety. Which is what reddit seemed to offer in a time when the older paradigms namely message boards were becoming antiquated.
What we got with the oligopoly of social platforms is watered down to memes and politics. It's right wing cultural imperialism quite frankly. People have been battered into fear of being who they are online because in this age of centralized internet has made it a war to remove anything unacceptable (aka "woke"). There's no variety. There's nobody being themselves.
The fedeverse will have arrived if it manages to achieve distinct varieties. On a technical basis it's perfectly positioned to achieve this. Right now it's largely just reddit clones offering little more than an extension of the cultural/political wars embroiling the handful of centralized social media platforms.
The fediverse doesn’t need perpetual growth. That’s VC investor bullshit.
I reckon this is key. So many people seem to take the view that since such-and-such site is very small compared to Facebook or Twitter or whatever, then it must be failing; As if maximising the number of users is the ultimate goal.
Maximising users might be the goal for investors, so that they can monetise and maximise profits. But for people actually using the service, it's totally beside the point. We don't need to be in conversation with 100,000,000 people at once. More people doesn't always make it better. In many cases it actually makes it worse.
I feel like I’m even starting to recognize user names throughout the platform
Yup. A certain flying squid comes to mind.
There have been so many times I’m in a conversation , and then boom realize it’s FlyingSquid
They are my homie at this point
Reddit would be scared of Lemmy gaining more traction.
I really don’t mind when Lemmy isn’t mentioned in the news when the topic of users bailing on Reddit/twitter/etc comes up.
Flys under the radar and keeps Lemmy small and nonthreatening to big platforms. We’ve certainly learned that growing to Reddits size means a breakdown in quality and who the hell wants to attract the kind of users that ruined Reddit?
Fr. I'd say a comment I leave on reddit has like a 3% chance of meaningful response that might turn into even a brief meaningful interaction.
I think that conversion rate is vastly higher on Lemmy, much closer to like 30-40%.
That's a difference so profound so as to be nearly incomparable.
So do I wish Lemmy was a bit more active so the front page was always fresh? Sure. Is it a very small price that I am enormously willing to pay for the significantly better experience here? Yeah, abso-fucking-lutely.
anyone else remember 2010/2011 reddit? Just me? Feels like that tbh back when everyone was fleeing from slashdot and digg. 31yo millenial since I've already dated myself lol
There's a scene where someone (Homer?) plans to go to Moe's but changes his mind after he opens the door and sees that the interior is dark and everyone inside looks miserable. I can't remember the episode so I can't post a screenshot. Imagine that I did.
I think you may mean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffless . Saw that one recently. If so, then https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Duffless/References has the picture you are looking for
Nuh uh. Oh shit...
Anyway, it must be your sunny disposition!:-)
it's as varied as it is big, though
because of that, naturally, people share the same communities
I see the same person everywhere, and I bet there are some that may even recognise me
I decided to stop starting fights here and exclusively drop my payloads of spite upon the denizens of Facebook groups and getting right in rightwinger's faces.
As such, I now don't have much of a use for Lemmy other than news and flicking the occasional Russian apologist off of the bottom of a string of comments like a dangling turd.
We are growing somewhat of our own, genuine piracy group here, though, which is rather impressive. I wouldn't be surprised if practical groups like /r/selfhosted moved over here just for ease of use.
Actually there is !selfhosted@lemmy.world which is an active community.
Active yeah, but I wonder how close we can get to the reddit side just being a referral here.
It's not enough that Lemmy succeeds.
Reddit must burn.
Im not sure if i want all The toxic assholes from Reddit coming to Lemmy.
Welcome Sunshine 😎
