Be the change you want to see, post new things, comment on stuff, upvote away.

A big mind shift from reddit is that the contribution doesn't have to be the most interesting, insightful, or novel. When you're in a giant community it can feel like you have to have the most incredible thing to feel like its worth posting. Here you can experiment so much more

11 years on reddit and seeing its long slow decline its just sad. A return to the basics was very necessary. Removing subs from r/all, messing with the voting, "new" reddit, a clamp down on content...it just kept getting worse and worse. As long as I could use RIF and old.reddit it was fine, but the writing is on the wall at this point.

While most of their users are used to the newer layout from other social media, my goal was always to see the most number of posts I could on a single page and have a clean ad-free experience. Lemmy seems to get this

Staying here. Rediscovered what I liked about Reddit in the earlier days - actually engaging. I don't think I've commented, posted, or even upvoted on reddit in like a year. It just seemed pointless and it was just a scroll and read machine. This is much more fun

Imagine having to have a different web browser for every website you visited, that's what 80% of apps feel like. Can't you just make a decent mobile site?

Daily? Because they get trapped in a situation that doesn't give them options. I live near the bus/light rail in my city, but the best job opportunity I got is 20 miles further out towards the exurbs. Its a 30 minute drive vs a 90 min bus/bike trip. Looking for something much nearer as the commute sucks, but when we build our cities like we do it really limits our citizens' options sometimes

Joined Monday, started two communities, subbed to what I like, and making an effort to post way more than I did elsewhere. Joined LW because lemmy.ml had issues Monday and I really didn't understand the difference. Using Jerboa on the phone, its all working way more smoothly than I thought it would

Yep, a majority of the users never saw old.reddit and are used to social media being a single post taking up a whole screen where just tap and move on. A super majority weren't there for the digg exodus where many of the same issues that are happening now came to a head. Its a totally different group of people on reddit

Leading up to the blackout I had seen some alternatives suggested, joined Lemmy on Monday and have been very happy with the feel of this place

I'll take 'passable fascimile' as a compliment! The real niche subs are hard to reproduce. I started a Nebula one, but that subreddit was only ~5k ppl with comment threads maybe 100 long, so probably will be hard to reproduce here

Yes, its even listed on the Wiki page for reddit under 2016 controversies

The Titanic is at like 12,500 ft deep though

Aww, cats gonna explore!

So his explanation was "anyone who is eligible to vote by mail could receive an electronic ballot" which is a terrible reason to veto, and then the article pointed out this was incorrect anyways...

Guy in wheelchair makes it harder for people in wheelchairs to vote should just be a completely losing issue, geez

If you build it they will come

Look up Digg v4. I was mainly a digg user until this point in Aug 2010. They redesigned the website and took away the downvote button. There were also increasing concerns from the frequent posters that the front page was getting more and more monolithic, you'd see like 20 stories from 2-3 websites at the top all the time.

Switching over to Reddit at first was hard. The site wasn't "pretty" like digg and the content was much more unfiltered. It was like moving out to the wild west - rough, a little scary, and had a ton to explore

Yes, if the 10-15% using 3PA or old.reddit leave I think they are prepared to take that it and carry on. If even a fraction of that base moves over here I'd much rather use this

Since this isn't automated and I didn't see one yet, decided to take the initiative!

Spyro Trilogy, since the remaster came out I think I've gone back and 100% all three games twice. Spyro was the first game I got on PS1 and the nostalgia combined with better graphics is amazing

Shut up and take my money any time I see something I'm real excited about for sure

Best thing about Lemmy so far, its avoided the work computer filters so I can post from the desk!

I know that was ~12 years ago, but to go from that to "we will continue to be profit-driven until we are profitable" is one hell of a character arc for a website