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Title basically. I was here at the very start of it all and really enjoyed it. However I felt it lost its uniqueness within a few months of mass migration and started turning a bit like reddit again so I deleted my old account. However Reddit has only gotten much much worse since, and Lemmy has stayed about the same. So here again.

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[–] Damarus@feddit.org 110 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Diversity has increased by a lot. It's not just circlejerking about Linux anymore. Only positives in my book.

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, I feel like when I first came here every third post was about Linux and every third post was about star trek. A lot of the remaining third was beans. Now only every tenth post is Linux and trek.

[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

That is one interpretation

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Yeah, but what if you enjoy the Trek, Linux, and beans?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I posted about lentils today. Does that count?

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its the linux of food so yes.

[–] harvey656@mastodon.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@Fizz @Diplomjodler3 I've had a .world account for over two years and think its both worse and improving. I love the discussions and diversity, but bad actors are quickly ruining coms.

[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

100% agree.

What really sucks is seeing an interesting thread grow, say like 50 responses and 80% of them are good and legit. Then at some point the bad actors come along and a few hours later it's 300 posts, with 90% of the new content being the bad actors telling off the original responders they are terrible people for what they said or how they are tacitly fascists for not throwing themselves on the spikes to fight facism.

and of course, also reporting the interest and nuanced responses as hate speech trying to get them removed.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] AZX3RIC@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I respect your life choices, even if I don't agree with them.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everyone has their preferences and that's cool. I think we can respect their individual choices. The important thing is that they're not talking about using Arch.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Actually, they kind of are...

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Endeavour. I don't hate you, only pity...

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

It's not just circlejerking about Linux anymore.

Aw, that's sad...

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Lemmy needs more Cat and Guitar forums, but political speech is far more open.

[–] _spiffy@piefed.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I find a lot of the communities can be pretty negative. Lots of people talking about how bad things are. It would be nice to see more positive outlooks. But maybe that's just a sign of the times.