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Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by AB7ORH7D@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As a long time Reddit user, there's something about Lemmy and the fediverse that feels really refreshing and new. I think it has to do with a few things...

People are more respectful of each other and interested in discussion and being social.
Less trolls (users are probably older?)
Due to it not being absolutely huge, I feel like people will actually see my posts and comments instead of being lost in a sea of content. I suppose once Lemmy grows this will change, however the cool thing about the fediverse are the new servers. So you can stick to the server when you want smaller community discussion and go to "all" when you want more populated threads.
The clean UI feels refreshing and clean, almost like the early internet.

What have you noticed? Do you find it refreshing too?

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[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

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.

[–] Noedel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

/blink/ ??? (search engine doesn't like me today)

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

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.

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