I just wanted to tell you how great you all are.
I moved to Lemmy shortly before the mass exodus from Reddit in 2023. I eventually created an instance of my own and to begin with, leaving Reddit felt like a mistake.
I could browse Lemmy’s equivalent of /r/all top-last-24-hours in about 15 minutes, so my doom-scroll time plummeted. I was better for it. However, I still yearned for the meme laughs and thought provoking comment threads of Reddit. Lemmy had them, but they were much fewer.
Fast forward to today. My instance is hosting a popular up and coming community, of which I’m honoured, even if I’m not welcome. The top-24-hour of all posts is now more than enough to satisfy my needs. I laugh at memes, I get to share posts I found on Lemmy with friends and family, I’m exposed to more cultures than just American which is a real refreshing change.
It isn’t mainstream, and I think its better for it. It has its own culture, and we are beginning to get all meta with Lemmy in-jokes which I think is both annoying and awesome at the same time (ie. Hussain memes).
Overall, I am just really happy for Lemmy and am glad to be sharing it with all of you. May the good times continue.
Been on Reddit since the digg migration, ran a few big subs at various points. It’s unusable now. Automod filters silently remove so much. So many people speaking into a void. Mods are increasingly ban happy. Lifetime bans from the default subs for daring to question Israel with facts, or calling someone thick as fuck. My last account got nuked for making a guillotine joke.
Fake news and conservative misinformation subs are rampant, creating a mainstream pipeline for the general public into all this delusional shite. They are a major contributor to the current algorithmically induced psychosis epidemic tearing apart society.
Lemmy is good now, agreed. Same flawed moderation system however. At least it’s a bit more transparent here usually and communities are a bit more decentralised. Maybe moving away from individual communities to something like combined feeds (ie subscribe to @uk and you see all uk communities) could help mitigate any one community gaining dominance.
Would you mind pointing to some info on following combined feeds? I’ve never seen that mentioned before and it sounds interesting but I’m not sure how to, as you say, subscribe to @uk for example.
I’m on one of the apps so its not the first time I’ve heard of some magical feature I never conceived of
It’s not a feature that’s implemented, just an idea. I did see something similar floating around as a proposal last year though
Fair enough! I would be none the wiser if it was or not lol thanks for letting me know