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The end of the world, His coming?
:-P
OpenStars
joined 1 year ago
You are not wrong - the entire experience in the Fediverse is foundationally different than Reddit. In the latter, you mostly would visit niche subs, and then supplement with the popular subs when you ran out of content there. Although in those, I mostly would avoid talking, bc it was so toxic (did you notice how defensive you became on Reddit? Yeah, we all were that way), and eventually got to where I could barely stand to read most content either bc it was just so freaking juvenile.
^This. And my Ax. I also choose this guy's wife. And so on.
It would even be fun if it were like 1-5 comments and you just scroll on down to read the real stuff... but damn, soon enough it became pretty much all there was, period. HUNDREDS of them IN A ROW. Or at least 90%, with anyone deviating from that norm getting pounced upon, and thereby their subsequent obvious defensiveness and eventual demise painful to see (as every conversation simply wound down to the side not participating in group-think simply giving up and walking away).
When Reddit collapsed, I came here, but I was leaving Reddit either way. It just became un-fun.:-(
Anyway, whereas here, niche communities barely exist, getting a post a week perhaps rather than one per hour, just to throw out some numbers but ofc ymmv. So you do see more the finer grain details of individual posters, simply because of how much smaller the entire Fediverse community itself is. Which sort of gives it more character?:-D
And spending more time on All rather than the niche communities becomes more mandatory, plus spending less time here overall. Though I do not think of that as a bad thing at all - we should be doing things other than merely gabbing at one another, even if only in order to have more to talk about:-).
Most everything here seems spot-on, as to be expected from you who are careful with your words so that they can be relied upon:-).
But there is one aspect that doesn't mesh with my own experiences. I am not doubting that you are seeing it, but personally I have not seen much serious witch-hunting since leaving Reddit, or rather, since I blocked hexbear and lemmygrad.ml. Can you elaborate more on that? Is it limited more to certain communities, or certain instances? I wonder if I am merely leading a charmed existence here that differs from the norm, but even if so, that would mean that curation is possible to avoid that.
I did see a LOT of that in Reddit subs though, so it could be that my standard of comparison was perturbed from that side of the matter.
And Reddit did change me: I used to be proud of never blocking anyone at all, always ready for conversation with pretty much anyone who was even halfway trying, but now I do it and don't think twice when I realize that someone is not trying at all. So... perhaps I've blocked away this entire aspect of Lemmy, which if so, I will consider a success rather than its opposite:-).
but I’m always watching the next iteration in the ecosystem.
As you should be:-). Plus don't forget that you can host your own instance too - be it Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, discuss.online's newer thing, or whatever.
And it's only 0.19.3 alpha software - there's so much room to contribute to it, or at least watch it grow:-).
Likewise as people get deeper into Linux, "distros" become far less relevant bc you no longer depend on others to make those decisions for you, and can make anything happen that you want, at any time.
Back in the day I used to see tons of posts claiming that Reddit was "the elite", in comparison to the likes of Facebook, or Twitter, or Tumblr, or Instagram, and so on. So, while your statement is technically true (the best kind!), that anti-Reddit people don't tend to say so...on Reddit, so much as here anyway (though if you look in the likes of r/ModCoord, occasionally there is a comment that makes it past the new mods and is allowed to criticize Reddit in some way) I think it's common to all social media. We (in-group) are The Best! :-P
Literally true, bc when an actual world leader (USA, UK, Canada, ofc Israel, Brazil, etc. etc. etc.) says stuff, some people strangely are likely to believe it.
Like: "Drink bleach". I am 100% not kidding you there - multiple people did precisely that!
It emboldens the crazies to realize that they are not alone.:-(
I like how on Lemmy we can actually talk about things such as Climate Change. If the question is 1 + 1 = ? then we can discuss whatever the actual solution might be - whether it be 3, -1, 1.9, 2.1, whatever - as opposed to "it's not even happening and you are stupid for thinking that it is".
That's not even Right vs. Left, it should just be Polite, and it is Engaging and Fun or at least more so than getting yelled at by bots and toddlers on Reddit.
I think I'm in love with you now.
What are you, happy on crack or something? Oh then, carry on my good man. :-P
I have decided: The Musk specifically asked us not to call it "Twitter", therefore I shall call it "Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter".
I dunno, maybe some days I could call it "Twitter" for short:-D.
The prerequisite for being a hermaphrodite is to be a human. The Musk is not that.:-P
Also, ~~he~~ it wants us to specifically not call the company "Twitter" anymore. So I'm thinking maybe I could call it "Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter"? :-D
American healthcare does suck donkey balls, but I am glad that you are able to find a source to get the diagnostic aid that you need.
Knowledge is power, so whatever the cause, if you can find ways to deal with it (like somehow eat food that has no smell? well you already said crackers don't work... but if you can find SOMETHING) then that would be great!