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1969, Mad Magazine. Still has much relevance today.
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wow thank. Just migrated from reddit and I’ve got to say I’m impressed.
Welcome to Lemmy! Thanks for bringing quality content!
Wild that being able to change titles to be more accurate is a feature instead of the default right?
Welcome! What do you think so far?
I’m very impressed. I’m going to fully migrate here for anything to do with News and Politics. Reddit feels like it’s been taken over by far right bot and troll farms in that regard.
Also privacy-wise, I started to feel really unsafe on reddit. Additionally the community there is really toxic on most subs and can easily get racist, homophobic, ableist etc.
I’m obsessed with things being open source and free and so lemmy just tickles me in the right way in that regard :).
Obviously I see two main cons with Lemmy, but time may solve them:
Here you'll get to experience something that wasn't on Reddit -- far left bots and trolls!
Definitely. Reddit is trending toward a much more privacy-invasive posture as they lean into advertising and prepare for their IPO. I was a regular Lemmy user by the time they started blocking users behind VPNs, but that particular move was shockingly anti-consumer IMO.
Same :) I'd add "distributed" to that list, too-- It's comforting to know that the Lemmy ecosystem isn't one private entity that can make arbitrary decisions, or be bought out by any eccentric billionaires. Reddit has this army of mods and contributors that make it work, but as we saw in the API fiasco last year, the power dynamics there are really lopsided... Lemmy is much more empowering to the people who use it.
Definitely a disadvantage, yeah. Reddit still has that scaled network effect that is hard to replicate. Lemmy is less lurker-friendly, but if you're willing to participate, I find that people actually show up. You can often post in those "dead" communities and find that there are lots of folks to talk to, they just haven't been posting there. It's much more like "if you want a warm fire, you gotta chop wood," here than on Reddit. Less convenient, but more satisfying IMO.
Yeah, that's a big barrier for people :\ Tech companies spend TONS on minimizing sign-up friction, but that "What is an instance? How do I pick one?" thing is a) frictionful, and b) intrinsic to any Fediverse system. I always tell people "don't overthink it, just pick one," but it's still a barrier.