• RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
      23·
      8 months ago

      I comment more again. Used to a lot on reddit 5-7 years ago, less and less the recent years. Now back on Lemmy.

      • NerfHerder@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        I was very active on reddit until around the 3rd meetup year or so. Thats when I noticed a major change in what had been an amalgamation of communities and while I still visited there was no urge to interact.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      1·
      8 months ago

      when you are in a smaller community, read: when you are around a manageable amount of people and even recognize some of them, you are more likely to interact. and your comment wont be buried, and its less likely some random asshole really hates what you said and makes sure you wont bother anymore. oh and less bots and chills whats not to love.

  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
    60·
    8 months ago

    I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.

    Before the APIcalypse, I was already playing with the thought of quitting Reddit. Spez just sped up that process.

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      7 months ago

      The admins made it really easy to quit when they suspended me after RvW for saying that riot police should quit their jobs en masse

      But somehow straight up calling for the end of trans people is totally fine and dandy by them

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      2·
      8 months ago

      I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.

      This.

      But not much has changed, functionally, for me: I still get downvoted when I point out where people can improve their English and surpass my nephew when he was in the third grade. And I still get to debate technical things based on what I know, so that’s really no change. Different pile, is all.

      • mattw3496@kbin.social
        2·
        8 months ago

        Not here to fight you, but this line of thinking might be why people downvote you for being a language/grammar nazi.

        • Ashtear@lemm.ee
          3·
          8 months ago

          Correcting someone’s English also almost never adds anything to the conversation at hand, which is the literal purpose of the downvote.

        • Vilian@lemmy.ca
          0·
          8 months ago

          i downvote because 99% af the time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boring

          • 🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websiteEnglish
            01·
            8 months ago

            i downvote because 99% af the time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boring

            I* of*

            Can I has downvote please?

  • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
    201·
    8 months ago
    • switched to a split ergonomic mechanical keyboard
    • working on a fork of Lemmy geared toward inventory called “Lemventory”
    • moderating multiple Lemmy communities that are basically ghost towns (and I don’t care)
    • got rid of my Instagram (and all centralized forms of social media except YouTube) and replaced it with Pixelfed and others
    • letting my NixOS flag fly much more regularly now
    • hexbear defederation only created a Streisand Effect and piqued my curiosity about Marxism. I’m now much better educated about it and have come to conclude that lemmy.world is basically filled with smug, tech-bro, hive-mind, blue maga, chuds that support censorship of simple ideas and subscribe to blind, disingenuous American exceptionalism that wouldn’t even stand up to the most generous critical analysis.
    • mamotromico@lemmy.ml
      4·
      8 months ago

      I’m both curious and clueless about what “geared towards inventory” could possibly mean

      • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
        71·
        8 months ago

        Here’s the gist of my idea so far:

        stores (or alliances of stores in similar industries) :: instances

        inventory items :: posts

        counts :: votes

        item categories (or entire stores depend on implementation) :: communities

        moderators are only allowed to post items to their own community or instance.

        comments can still exist (perhaps as item reviews with the same upvote/downvote mechanic).

        No actual transactions would be processed over this protocol. It would be solely for inventory broadcast/aggregation (like Shopify in that it houses the inventory of many vendors except without the transaction ability built-in since pub-sub is horrible for that kind of thing).

        Edit: if you have any opinions (even “what a stupid idea!”) I’d be open to them. I haven’t even written a single line of code yet and it’s a fresh idea in my head waiting to be shot down by someone less idealistic than myself.

        • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zone
          2·
          8 months ago

          I don’t really get the idea you’ve explained, but i’m sure its good. I’m generally excited at the prospects of less centralised internet, and so can’t wait to see projects like yours grow.

          Flibboard is a social magazine thats jumping into federation. They’re doing a really uplifting podcast. Their conversations might help you clarify your idea. Or even just pump you up when your feeling less motivated.

          I like it, i always leave it feeling excited and hopeful about the fediverse. Anyway heres a link, https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/mike-masnick-cuZMZfe9

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    15·
    8 months ago

    I want to actively build community and engage with people here; to make this place home. That’s how it changed me. I’m not a lurker or passive. It has made positive improvements to my reading and cooking, along with bending my language more positively. I’ve also further grown in my appreciation of diversity.

      • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        As far as fermentation, I don’t even recall what prompted me now. I mostly watch the All feed so I catch what most of Lemmy is doing. It may have been… in fact… I think it was something I was discussing with my offline AI. That is not a valid primary reference source, but searching online helped. That lead to asking questions here, and resulted in more confidence.

        On my Beehaw account and their food community I asked about how people cook rice back when I was developing my recipe and working on ways of altering cooked grain texture. Someone there mentioned making a sauce for topping fried rice using spicy mayo and teriyaki sauces. That one was a game changer for me and really pushed me into playing with sauces. That got me thinking about fermented sauces because adding Worcestershire sauce to that spicy mayo/teriyaki blend makes it even better. This is what I am exploring now. I want to play with unique flavors by wild exploration.

        That is just how my intuitively driven mind works. I attribute inspiration to a root fork in my thinking, but I don’t really “follow” anything. I haven’t cooked something with a recipe and measuring in 10 years or more. It is the motivation to explore an new space, and just enough reinforcing motivation to help me take action that I value. I didn’t expect a place this small to have many people experienced in fermentation, but I was pleasantly surprised. In other words, my investment into engaging paid off even in a relatively small niche subject.

        I generally post in !cooking@lemmy.world or !foodporn@lemmy.world

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
    12·
    8 months ago

    It’s refreshing to not have so many Trumpers. They’re still around but not as prevalent. Overall this is just so much friendlier.

  • shapis@lemmy.ml
    142·
    8 months ago

    I want to like this place.

    People seem too aggressive here though.

    And apparently everyone’s hobby is using Linux and neurodiverging.

  • ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz
    12·
    8 months ago

    There are a lot of Linux talks, but I can’t stand all the people who keep saying all this place talks about is Linux. They are the ones who are everywhere here.

    By the way, I came back to reddit briefly for a very specific community and ever since the stock sale started getting this:

    whoa there, pardner!

    Your request has been blocked due to a network policy.

    Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing.

    If you’re running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you’re supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block.

    You can read Reddit’s Terms of Service here.

    if you think that we’ve incorrectly blocked you or you would like to discuss easier ways to get the data you want, please file a ticket here.

    when contacting us, please include your ip address which is: and reddit account

    It could just be my VPN since I also see this on my tablet/phone but I gave reddit another chance and they didn’t want it.>

  • RustyShackleford@literature.cafeEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    It’s nice to rarely deal with trolls. I say rarely, as I’ve seen a few users recently argue, just to be assholes.

    Ironically, both appear to be very heavy Lemmy posters, and one seems to be downvoting me, still.

    That said, I’ve actually met users I run into semi regularly in others posts, which is a nice change.

  • halfway_neko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    11·
    8 months ago

    i feel a little more comfortable commenting here.

    being a smaller community, i feel like i’m actually contributing when i post something, instead of just adding to a sea of noise

    it also helps that i’ve come up with this new “persona”. i’m able to be more of the real me than i can with my main account.

    it’s like half way between anonimity and publicity. this account has very little connection to my meatspace existance, so i feel safe to say anything. but at the same time i’m not gonna act like some 4chan user. halfway_neko’s a good girl lol

  • PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    8 months ago

    1. I haven’t gone back to Reddit since the rapture. The only time I use it is for Google results.

    2. I use Lemmy A LOT less than Reddit. This is a good thing imo.

    3. Since it’s a smaller community I find that my posts and comments get a lot more traction.

    4. I miss the smaller niche subs. Yes I know that I should contribute and make it a thing on Lemmy. No I won’t because I’m mostly a lurker and would rather just close the app than do any work.

    5. I like how the platform is full of socialist/communist but it can become a bit of an echo chamber.

    Overall I am happy with the change. Fuck Spez.

  • frank@sopuli.xyz
    10·
    8 months ago

    I stopped using reddit, I’m on my phone a lot less. It makes me less angry and more present, and I really like that. I also comment more, as many of you have said here.

    I really miss Ask Historians. It’d send me down some lovely rabbit holes, get me reading books about niche topics I never knew I wanted to learn more about.

  • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
    111·
    8 months ago

    I deleted my Reddit account and have not gone back. That said, I’m not particularly fond of Lemmy either. I’ve found… maybe? two communities here of interest that may have migrated from Reddit and they aren’t even active; and even as a socialist, the politics are tiresome and pervasive.

    Aside from fascists getting the smacking around that they deserve, the one thing that’s nice is that there are far fewer cringey “yay lemmy is the best isn’t it guys” circlejerk posts now than there were back then. I don’t spend nearly as much time on here as I did on Reddit, so that’s a plus.