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Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit?
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Ok so let me throw out some old timer wisdom. This is what the social media/forums/the Internet are like when the cream is skimmed off and the 90% of users who only browse, and the 8% who only vote are gone. Enjoy it while you can. The summer always ends.
Absolutely, my first thought was this is what internet was in the 90s and 00s. Slow, good yarns, and lame jokes.
Tbh there's already too many memes here though. Half my front page is 196 and German me_irl sometimes.
You can block those communities if you want.
I guess I want some memes not all memes
Yea but dont be too hard on the kids. We were sticking frogs in virtual blenders and abusing the /blink/ tag at their age, so let them have their fun.
/blink/ ??? (search engine doesn't like me today)
Yes back then we didn't have Facebooks and Mypages. We didn't even have blogs really. If you wanted to post something on the internet you got yourself a Geocities account and made your own homepage using HTML. That usually just meant putting up dozens of animated gifs saying the page was under construction. If you wanted everyone to know you were a really edgy badass who didn't play by the rules you'd have some laughing skulls and a gif of Diablo doing his attack animation. If you actually had something to say on your page you could use the html tag so that everyone would know just how important the message was, and also to give them eye cancer.
The funny thing is on Reddit I was mostly a lurker/content consumer. There was little incentive to actually post because your post or comment was likely to just be drowned out in the absolute torrent of other posts/comments. Here I'm actually able to be heard.
I was a bit late one the social media train, isn't that where the "Eternal September" thing came from?
That's because way back in the past, every September, a bunch of students who'd never had home internet access would have access via university for the first time. It would take some time for them to pick up the culture, so there'd be a month or so of questionable posts.
This is exactly it. I haven't come across a forum where the "summer syndrome" wasn't permanently present in a decade. I'll be lurking around here to see if this is going to finally be it.