The relief when I open up Lemmy or Mastodon. It feels like coming home to an experience I didn’t realise I was missing. Lemmy has grown enough now that I can look at my feed throughout the day and there will be interesting posts, all with engaging comments and conversations. It’s like the internet I grew up on, only better: it’s ran by the people, for the people.
Obviously, that doesn’t mean the fedi isn’t plagued with issues. But it feels fundamentally more culturally healthy than whatever the fuck is going on in big corpo social media.
Fedi is where it is at!
The last remaining bastion of Web 1.0. The forums that had held out got absorbed by Reddit. Its fall seemed to crush all that was left.
What the Fediverse is building is over infrastructure that can last. It’s the first chance at something permanent.
there are still some traditional forums around, relevant, and pretty much the de-facto global community hub, e.g. boardgamegeek.com
To those interested, there’s !Forums@sh.itjust.works too =)
I miss Usenet. This is as close as there is.
Don’t people still use Usenet?
It used to be something every ISP gave you access to. Now it’s all but gone. Google Groups sort of absorbed it, and then killed it.
I never heard of it untill recently, some say it is still around.
To be honest I never really understood what it is.
It was essentially a text-based, decentralized Lemmy/Reddit prior to the web. Different groups you could belong to, with various discussions.
It was more like email threads, in my opinion.
Fediverse is great. Funnily though I’ll point out it hasn’t “survived” per se during the internet, it’s more so a new in the past few years right, which proves to me great things and the right idea can still be conceived and created no matter if the current environment is shit - we can always say no and build something better.
Its cozy. I feel we are still becoming a monoculture, but one built around one very specific type of nerdy person.
I’d say it’s closer to forming clusters instead. Sure some groups may seem more hegemonic for being more incisive, but I can notice some splits in vision.
Groupthink here does sometimes hit reddit narwhal beckons levels sometimes, still much better than the modern internet elsewhere
I like it here. Got permabanned from reddit formoffering general safety advice to protestors in Minnesota in early 2025.
Starting an account with Lemmy has been The closest I’ve come to the glory days of Orange-Red vs Periwinkle, and knowing exactly when the narwhal bacons.
I suspect this site will remain largely unknown for a while, among people that don’t like reading words. I’ll stay a while.
Hell yeah!
Reddit is supposedly worth $17 billion, and yet this place feels more alive by an order of magnitude to me so what does that say about the value of this place?
Not just in magnetude, but it feels more evenly spread out too. Even communities/subforums that by other standards would be absolutely silent, if you post something, you may still get a reaction, like a comment, a thumbs up, a boost or crosspost, etc.
Priceless
Honestly yeah. I do have a Reddit account, but I get way more responses and quality interactions here than I do over there anymore. Every comment over there is just someone trying to make a joke these days.
you and me both! The existence of fediverse has been doing wonders to my mental health.
Lemmy: the Methadone of Reddit addiction!
i’m gonna post this on mastodon and give you credit lol
The only issue is how difficult it is to onboard. If you don’t spend time building a list of subscribed communities/people, your feed will be very stale.
I’d love to see something like Bluesky’s starter packs. One button to follow a bunch of people/communities.
PieFed pretty much does that
I think people could simulate something with Mastodon’s import/export feature too, though then the user would need to accept files from strangers, and I think we all know where that ends.
Preach.
it’s alright. there were a few BBS’s I swore I’d never stop connecting to. a few usenet groups… a few email lists… a few web rings, a few bloggers… a few social media sites … etc. etc etc etc
