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I’m new to the Fediverse, and so far I’m loving it
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To me, the old internet died in 2007
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Niche communities built around specific interests, from chess variants to linguistics projects like constructed languages. And occasionally something else, like a niche heavy music genre or something along those lines.
But I'm pretty burned out on Reddit, especially the way things are run over there
linguistics projects like constructed languages
Are you making your own? I also have a slight interest in the idea of conlangs.
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Niche communities built around specific interests, from chess variants to linguistics projects like constructed languages. And occasionally something else, like a niche heavy music genre or something along those lines.
But I'm pretty burned out on Reddit, especially the way things are run over there
I remember seeing a toki pona community somewhere, but I'm not sure where it went.
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It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
Welcome, I like your energy!
Try to be an active participant, comment, vote, post if you feel like it around the topics that interest you.
And a word of advice : heavily curate your experience. block people, communities and instances if necessary to cut down on negativity/noise and you'll have a great time here.
Hope you stick around!
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It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
I love it too. I really feel that this will be the future of the internet. Public non-commercial spaces to just interact. That's what i love the internet for.
The incentive structures of the major platforms made me feel awful before i understood what made them so grating. I thought i hated social media but what i really hated was attention media.
I also have a sort of fetish for minimal utilitarian design that lemmy specifically scratches. It just feels and looks so good. The interface exists purely for what it is supposed to do and nothing more.
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what was the cutoff specifically to you? for me it was Facebook being available to the public that kicked off the corporatization of the internet
does 1994 happen to coincide with the invention of the pop-up or something?
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It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
Welcome.
I've been here for four years and I love it. No ads. No AI. Human moderation.
I donate a few bucks to my instances monthly and I'd recommend you do the same. Keeps things nice.
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It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
Great enjoy your time
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It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
Welcome in!
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It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
I had to laugh when you mentioned Linux as if it's a requirement to use the Fediverse. It's funny how everyone here loves Linux (including me).
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It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
Welcome! I love it here too
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Welcome.
I've been here for four years and I love it. No ads. No AI. Human moderation.
I donate a few bucks to my instances monthly and I'd recommend you do the same. Keeps things nice.
Yep, the AI bot farms finally drove me away from reddit! Lot better atmosphere here as well!
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It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
Welcome! Glad you're liking it.
The big complaints that people tend to have are that federation is a bit confusing, and that it's no where near as big as Reddit.
But I think sometimes people overlook the positive aspects of federation and smaller communities. Reddit is damn near unusable these days, and it's full of bots, slop, reposters, ads, and power tripping admins/mods. The Fediverse has been around for quite a few years now and still feels like a place for actual human beings with a lot of freedom to take things in different directions.
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It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
Welcome
Most of us were clueless when we arrived here
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Niche communities built around specific interests, from chess variants to linguistics projects like constructed languages. And occasionally something else, like a niche heavy music genre or something along those lines.
But I'm pretty burned out on Reddit, especially the way things are run over there
There's an entire Mastodon instance devoted to linguistics at Polyglot City, and a PeerTube instance at seka pona la! Lemmy is only partially interoperable with most of the other Fediverse platforms, since their focuses are just so different. However, there's definitely a few ways to interact with them from here I think.
Also right here we've got communities for:
- !shavian@lemmy.world
- !languages@lemmy.world
- !linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
- !esperanto@sopuli.xyz
And actually lots more, this is just a sample.
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I had to laugh when you mentioned Linux as if it's a requirement to use the Fediverse. It's funny how everyone here loves Linux (including me).
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I don't love Linux.
Careful, you could get banned saying stuff like that around here!
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I mean sure, fuck Putin, russia is just an authoritarian dictatorship but also my president literally acts like a damn russian asset so I just find it tiring to listen to all of this alarm over leftwing people being pro-russia when it just kind of misses the point of who has the power, who is hurting people right now, and who we need to be focused on as a group of people that may launch unprovoked, violent acts.
Across the board, all over the world, the political parties that are most aligned with russia/Putin are rightwing, in Europe, in the US, everywhere... so yeah there are leftwing idiots here who support russia but also gestures at the globe again it kinda feels like a distorting narrative to focus on.
With the difference that I haven’t seen many rightwing chuds around here (thank god)
Here is the thing, there are lots of rightwing chuds with extremely toxic beliefs that use fediverse software, some of them have even tried to integrate with the larger fediverse... but invariably these rightwing communities end up being so toxic that nobody wants to connect with them.
Trump's bullshit Truth Social is literally just stolen Mastodon code that doesn't really need to have any federation capability because again nobody wants to connect with them....
My point is that maybe the reason you see more leftwing idiots here than relative to your experience in other mediums/spaces is that while there are dangerous idiots of every type leftism does not largely endorse ideologies of violence and exclusion no matter how much conservative snowflakes accuse leftism of being this way it is just projection... so the instances you are on may not feel the need to censor leftist communities the way they do the equally "extreme" rightwing communities because the leftists don't start attacking the humanity of trans people and harassing them in public, they don't engage in rampant antisemitism or islamophobia, leftism doesn't idolize the capacity for violence or obsess over there being specific ways you have to perform your gender socially, even if you hate leftists there just is way less reason to completely hard cut them off then there are for extremist rightwing communities...
Make no mistake though, there are tons of rightwing extremely toxic communities out there using fediverse software (or stolen fediverse software as is the case with Truth Social being stolen Mastodon code without attribution) and the reason you don't see them is they already caused too much of an issue for everybody in the community you joined that they burned the bridges that would naturally lead you to listen to them.
TL;DR You are more likely to run into a Hasan Piker type here gasp!!!! than a Tucker Carlson type because the Tucker Carlson types tend to say some really scary shit in the process of doing things like criticizing Israel, like genuine antisemitism or other things and they were already blocked by most normal communities that widely federate on the fediverse whereas the Hasan Piker types are just maybe from your perspective focused on the wrong politics but are not advocating directly for violence and exclusionary ideologies. The mainstream media and the billionaires who own corporate social media refuse to hold Tucker Carlson types accountable even when they say really twisted, evil things, the fediverse does not.
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I don't love Linux.
Oh you will.... You will.
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Careful, you could get banned saying stuff like that around here!
Not banned yet, but gotten crazy people DMing me how I should die because of it, yes.
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