A platform like Lemmy wouldn't be possible without everyone that is involved with both running instances/communities and those that post content in those spaces, and I think that's really special because...

Thanks so much for sharing this! I love Lemmy, it's a really positive environment and I like seeing the same users around. It feels more like the old days of message boards which is a good thing. There's less content but its way better quality stuff

Also if you like memes this post in !casualconversation@lemm.ee has some suggestions

I'm with you. I've been a redditor for more than a decade, and I've really been disappointed with it's decline. It's gotten much worse lately. Not only is reddit clamping down on speech, more people there are just assholes now. Yesterday I made a comment on a thread about cops chasing a graduate that had brought a baby on stage. In response to a comment about the cops handcuffing the baby, I suggested that they would probably punch the baby in the face while yelling "stop resisting!" Obviously a joke and clearly not advocating violence, but my comment was deleted and my entire reddit account was suspended for 3 days. Jokes on them, as I'm not interested in going back.

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I didn't word this well. Someone made a joke something like "what were they going to do when they catch her, handcuff the baby?" No babies were actually harmed.

:D NICE!!!! I also love Lemmy.

if i could put you in a time machine, the last place i'd send you would be 2008. but if i was horrible and sent you there, you'd go to reddit and think it was lemmy.

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Been on Reddit since the digg migration, ran a few big subs at various points. It’s unusable now. Automod filters silently remove so much. So many people speaking into a void. Mods are increasingly ban happy. Lifetime bans from the default subs for daring to question Israel with facts, or calling someone thick as fuck. My last account got nuked for making a guillotine joke.

Fake news and conservative misinformation subs are rampant, creating a mainstream pipeline for the general public into all this delusional shite. They are a major contributor to the current algorithmically induced psychosis epidemic tearing apart society.

Lemmy is good now, agreed. Same flawed moderation system however. At least it’s a bit more transparent here usually and communities are a bit more decentralised. Maybe moving away from individual communities to something like combined feeds (ie subscribe to @uk and you see all uk communities) could help mitigate any one community gaining dominance.

Thanks for sharing.

My instance is hosting a popular up and coming community, of which I'm honoured, even if I'm not welcome.

May I ask what happened?

I started being online back when forums, geocities, mIRC, AOL IM were the norm... then MySpace, then Digg, then Facebook, then Reddit... etc etc...

Yeah, at this point, I basically just non religiously pray that Lemmy never becomes super duper popular.

Its the Yogi Berra quote: Nah, that place is too crowded, nobody goes there anymore.

Seen basically every online... social interaction zone of any kind ... be neat initially, then start getting lame, and eventually become an active SCP style cognito hazard that actively destroys the minds of those who use it, yet they become the new default norm standard.

Lemme have my pork and beans and memes in peace, away from the rightwing/russian troll armies, away from the idiot boomers that ruined facebook (I know a good number of non evil ones are on lemmy), away from the dramatubers and streamers and psycopathic tiktokkers...