In part because it reminds me a bit of the old internet, with stuff being spread around everywhere.

Being “harder”* to understand than reddit, twitter or other big companies’ services is also a good thing, because people should remember that they have a brain and they should use it.

  • “harder” because not everyone understands the fediverse right away, since usability is extremely similar

PS: ^superscript doesn’t work with phrases? at least not on preview^

  • kakes@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I like that the rough edges keep the boomers away. That’s the point where I know to move on from a social media site.

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    1 year ago

    It’s definitely forced me to learn a lot within the past few days. I guess I should thank reddit, because if they hadn’t forced the 3rd party apps out of business I wouldn’t have ever heard of Lemmy or kbin.

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      9 months ago

      If reddit hadn’t banned me on the most ridiculous of charges, I wouldn’t have learned of this place.

      Over the course of a decade reddit became less and less satisfying, yet I still grieved when I got banned. Over twelve years I accumulated a lot of cool stuff I’d written and I had the evidence of it touching thousands of people. That hurt to lose.

      But then I found Lemmy, and it’s like being back in early reddit.

  • TheOtterITGuy@lemmy.world
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    I’m loving the community feel of it, everyone seems to be here because they want to be here rather than just cus it’s where everyone else is