Familiar faces resurfacing is nice and only possible on a smaller sized platform. Or clicking someones profile only to see a post I previously saw or commemted on.
Yeah, me too. I may not be comfortable speaking a lot so this is all one directional, but running into Stamets and Picard Maneuver outside of Star Trek subs always makes me go “hey! I know this person!”
Went into your profile hoping to find smth I’d seen before. Sadly nothing I recognize 😔
Nah I don’t comment often, I often write whole essays and then end up deleting them because I feel bad about it hahaha
Please don’t perceive me.
It’s a taste of the real world need we have for second-order relationships, i.e. neighbors. I grew up in a close knit homogeneous small town three hours drive from the nearest proper metro area. It was simultaneously suffocating and comforting to have real neighbors.
I recently became active in precinct-level party politics (im in USA) precisely to meet some IRL neighbors. I stick around lemmy for an online taste of the same thing. It fills a basic social need.
Hi, neighbors!
Yeah I am amazed by the personal interactions and connections that I’ve formed here, they’ve been the most rewarding part of Lemmy for me. There is not a single redditor who would recognize my reddit account after 10+ years on the platform, but I’m sure there’s a good number of Lemmings who already recognize me, and indeed know me, or at least the personality I express online.
Treasure these times, because someday Lemmy will outgrow this phase if we start getting much larger.
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de is everywhere
I’m on the fence.
Back in forums, it was pretty cool to see the usuals.
“Hey Mudbutt69, what’s up ToeFetish, how are you Shoves_sharpies_there…” but then it often came like a extreme echo chamber. Or sometimes you see the same names and immediately upvote/downvote.
I always did like the 4chan approach, but that anonymousness just led to jerk behavior.
I dunno where I lean.
