Hi! Brand new Lemmy user here!
Let me know what you enjoy the most about Lemmy! Let’s share some thoughts and ideas!
Well, it’s in the honeymoon phase right now, so everyone is cheerful, happy, and nice. All the jerks haven’t moved over yet… 😀
It’s only a matter of time, for sure. I doubt that the mass comes over from reddit, because reddit has the bigger network effect (as of right now). However, this could change if Lemmy continues to grow and stays consistent over the years, unlike reddit. Keep these nfts away from here, lol. But certainly there will be many more people who will discover Lemmy in the future. This would be sooo nice!
It feels like I’m exploring the internet again, like I did when I was younger. I’m figuring it out and learning how to use it and that in itself has been really satisfying.
I like how I can post something without getting instantly shadowbanned or automoderated for not having enough karma or an old enough account. When I would try to post on reddit using a VPN (just Mullvad, not even Tor) all my posts were automatically hidden.
It reminds me of the older internet. Not necessarily in form, but I hadn’t realized how the same everything I’d been doing online has been. Like… for the last 15 years.
Lemmy is different and kind of unintuitive and challenging-but-also-easy, if that makes any sense. I made geocities sites and wrote blogs and whatnot in the late-90s. That’s the kind of energy going on here right now. It’ll change, but for now I’m enjoying it a lot.
I like that there can be different fediverse social media, all run independently but connected. I’m new to the topic and learning more about it before I contribute to the github but its a very interesting concept. And the fact that there are other services like PeerTube, makes it seem like more of an open source version of the internet. TLDR: Inter-connectivity
