I keep seeing the same names popping up. I think it’s rather cute!
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Somebody has to fill this place with content…
Sorry
Comments and votes are content too.
Sorry, I’m just making a bad joke about my frankly unhealthy posting habits.
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And this is my second account. The previous one had over 1000 posts and a similar amount of comments.
Thank heavens for your unhealthy posting habits, we need to clone you Stamets
the cutest character on ST:D is also the cutest character on the fediverse. who’d have thought!
There’s two reasons for that:
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Lemmy is still small (compared to centralized social media).
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We all chose to be here instead of mainstream social media for a reason, so we’ve all got something in common.
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Yes, that’s one of the nice aspects.
Thanks to @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz and @BrikoX@lemmy.zip for their tech posts, and @ZeroCool@slrpnk.net and @realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city for the movies posts, you guys rock
Back at ya Blaze, it’s always a pleasure running into the other moviesandtv regulars!
I would suggest there’s also a lot of lurkers and folks who just don’t post much. I’ve noticed The Fediverse has a good and healthy number of folks on the Autism spectrum, and it’s not surprising they don’t actively post a lot.
It’s a lesson I learned being a professional puppet builder (yes you read that right) and running a little community around the craft. There’s a lot of people on the spectrum in that field too. They may not post a whole lot, but they are definitely engaged.
The freedom to have a voice is also the freedom to remain quiet 😁
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Most of you are alright.
Sometimes I feel like @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website literally keeps my feed (and all my subscriptions) alive. Thank you for your service 🫡
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It’s like back in the day of Internet forums. I don’t mind it at all.
bro i thought i was old but then i met an old nerd who said they use these things called IRC servers or some shit idk
The golden days of IRC were the best. Every day I use the current internet, I miss the way of the old internet. Back when everything was just run by a bunch of nerds doing whatever they wanted, as opposed to everyone being shut out by the big names now, looking to control everything and maximise profit.
when I was young (but still way past the prime time of IRC, 2000’s), I was invited to a few IRC servers for raids and etc. I didnt realize other kids werent doing the same…
I miss the format of old forums. I wonder if they still exist?
Depends on which old format you mean. The late 90s php-bbs is rare, but you can still find some of them around, I think the forums for the Commander X16 (a new retro computer) uses that style, or something closer to 2004-ish.
Mostly only the very active users moved over from Reddit, so we have a lot of content for not as many people. But it’s nice how active and invested most people here seem to be.
Long time reddit lurker here. I’m active now i’m here. I wonder how many peeps there are here like me?
That’s generally not a good thing…
That means it’s more likely to be an echo chamber or just bots auto posting…
You want a lot of diversity - within specific groups sure, the same names are fine but across groups that’s a bad sign.
It’ll largely be an echo chamber regardless of size. The fediverse tends to lean into tech, and is very left wing. If you don’t fit the bill, you are either driven off, de-federated with, or realize the content posted here isn’t what you’re looking for, and you leave.
I don’t mind the small knit community, as I agree with most stuff, but this simply isn’t a place you can host competing ideas, or at least not feasibly. This isn’t a place for open discussion. You get down voted for your opinion, even if it is a shitty one. This isn’t the fediverse I want to see. I want to see people upvoted for their opinion, and enticed to engage with whatever discourse is present, regardless of views. Downvotes should be reserved for trolls, bots, and fascists. Everyone else should be welcome.
Is there somewhere online where you can have an “open discussion”? I’ve been struck a few times by how some ideas (even presented in a balanced way) just get downvoted hard.
Lemmy.world choose to become an echo chamber like beehaw did.
Downvotes should be reserved for trolls, bots, and fascists. Everyone else should be welcome.
Definitely. Downvotes can be monitored by admins now, hopefully this can help
why are “echo chambers” considered bad? i come to communities to chill and chat with like-minded people; not to argue and get into fights.
Well the simple reason is you can get stuck in certain world views or ideas which are wrong and hurt others.
In most cases you’re fine, like talking about your favourite TV shows or whatever. But it’s also easy to get stuck in a view like visiting your country’s instance and it turns out it’s a bit radicalised against immigrants, or certain places where you end up blaming everything on women and the “woke movement”.
In a lesser way it can get you stuck in toxic ideas (e.g., PC/Playstation/Windows/Xbox/Linux is better than the other one and you are dumb if you disagree!).
Just depends on the community at end of day, but the more echoey chamber it is, the more likely you’ll end up with those sorts of us VS them world views that are a bit blind and horribly biased.
But it’s also easy to get stuck in a view like visiting your country’s instance and it turns out it’s a bit radicalised against immigrants, or certain places where you end up blaming everything on women and the “woke movement”.
Hopefully there would be another community for the same country with other perspectives, and visiting both would allow to avoid the echo chamber effect
It would be nice if lemmy.world mods followed that. I got my posted deleted for “supporting Imperialism” for arguing that focused attacks on Houthi terrorists is ok.
It could also intimidate other groups out.
Yup, diversity offers more point of views and less echo chambery environments
I do admit, it is a bit of an echo chamber on here for some groups :(
I have a really bad habit of never looking at anyone’s names…
Well, Neil, isn’t that a little selfish of you!
Yes, whoever you are.
Same, but it is a trained habit. I purposefully do not want to look at usernames.
You’ll be having a perfectly nice conversation only to look up and see you’re talking to “uwu_yes_daddy” or “aryan_enjoyer88.”
Brother Brother
Same 😅
There are specific users with emoji names that stand out a lot all of the time.
Interesting! I wonder if the Eternity client doesn’t show that? I have never noticed it at least. I am also in the habit of never looking at names though. Maybe it is good to be in the habit of remembering names because it humanizes the people on the other end or so?
For me profile pictures helps a lot. You could go to Settings->interface->comments->show avatar
Oh wow, thanks!
I am on eternity, too, it shows that
Yeah it’s like a village!
Lemmy is basically my own Animal Crossing.
Here, have an apple my neighbour!
Thanks.
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I gotta get back into that and stardew! Thanks for reminding me! My switch has been in storage since I moved
Enjoy it
Same ol’ faces… Almost has the feel of forums of yesteryear…
I don’t know how to knit, but it does seem to be gaining in popularity.
I view knitting as a state of mind. I think people are thrown off by the fideverse when others try to explain it to them, but once they use it they realize, much like the social media of old, they don’t need to fully understand how it works to enjoy it.
needs human momentum. every bit counts.
as a former resident of the infopop forums, i liken the fediverse to bulletin boards in the 90s and early 2000s and it’s nice - the kind that were super hyper localized by topic but everyone was friendly. :)
