I like that its smaller, it feels like the Internet used to back in the day. You get to know posters better which is nice

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    Fewer conservative dickheads with a persecution fetish than reddit

    They’re here, they’re already on the new Digg, but there aren’t as many of them. Yet…

    They really hate it when they’re bigots and someone tells them that they’re a bigot

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        I decided not to block them, but I give them user tags for what type of BS they spread. Like if they’re just negative all the time, what type of propaganda they sling, if they troll.

        It lets me know right away not to interact with them again, but it also lets me make sure I didn’t make a mistake if I catch them on a bad day or with a random bad take, but if they are up to no good, I can see what they’re trying to say to other users, and then I can try to bring things back in a more legit direction by providing a counterpoint. Or to enjoy watching others call them out too. I like seeing when everyone can call out their BS right away. Makes me feel we have a wise community.

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        Me too

        I irritate them for a while, then block them

        They’re so hypocritical

        They talk about everyone else being triggered, when the reality is that I pity them, and see them as victims of a system they celebrate while it hurts them.

        That seems to enrage them even more…

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      I genuinely feel different writing here. On Reddit I constantly analyzed the 18 different ways some random person would take my comment badly. Now I just write stuff and people don’t instantly assume I’m an evil moron.

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    • Self hosting
    • Can’t get banned
    • Feeling of being a part of something larger but not overwhelming large yet still having some control
    • Good range of mobile and web frontends
    • No adverts
    • No tracking
    • Memes, sometimes older memes and not getting ridiculed for them
    • Seeing other users from my instance on my travels

    Some things I tolerate

    • American politics
    • Random porn
    • Bot spam
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    It’s open source, would be hard for an entity to take over, and permits for third party clients.

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    • Third party apps.
    • The subscribed feed doesn’t contain uninvited random junk. I guess irrelevant trash drives engagement among some people, but it’s just driving me mad instead.
    • Lemmy is still wild and untamed, like Reddit used to be.
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      Not THAT wild and untamed, unfortunately. I’d love an eyeblech/NSFW community, but that’s not really welcome here.

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    I like the tone and feel here as of yet. People are more friendly, interactions are more pleasant and it feels easier to participate. A higher proportion of comments are worthwhile to read and/or engage with. It’s still small enough that you’ll have your post or comment seen by people instead of being immediately drowned out by one liners and karma farming injokes.

    It’s also still got that homely feeling where it’s small enough that you start recognising usernames, which makes the community feel a bit more closely knit. Sometimes even perhaps being recognised yourself, which makes you feel more like part of a community rather than a faceless Redditor screaming into the void.

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      Totally agree I love the sense of community. It reminds me of message boards back in the day where you’d feel really close to people

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    No intrusive ads or trackers. Less AI slop and more genuine human interaction. The ability to easily block communities, users, and instances is nice too.

    And it’s safe to say Luigi here

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      All this plus no profile karma. Meaning instead of chasing numbers to inflate our accounts and increase our perceived worth (whether consciously or subconsciously), people just are.

      Or as you put it: more genuine human interaction.

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        To me it’s more like the numbers mean something different. While they still mean mostly nothing, the numbers that display on your profile tell what kind of user you are and how much seniority you have here. Been here close to two years? Maybe you came from the API fiasco. Got 1000+ comments and 50+ post? Somewhat active user you probably seen once or twice before. 0 post and below 50 comments but seemingly active? Potential lurker. Still mostly meaningless because it could be alt and who really cares but NGL when I look at the stats of the really active users I’m like damn they really contributed to the Lemmy content mill.

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    It’s decentralised. Decentralisation just makes sense for something that requires hosting a lot of data and using a lot of bandwidth, less load on the servers and such. Insane how YouTube was able to survive so long before Google bought them.

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    The idea that you can make it your own, the feeling of starting from the scratch to see the potential it has (both good and bad) is refreshing.