For the first few months on the platform, I noticed these trends that I would end up agreeing with later on:
Liking, or straight up adoring Linux
Disliking, or straight up despising cars
Everyone is left-wing and liberal
Israel stinks
Rainbows galore
Big companies are cringe
Independent media is based
Products made by big companies are known to be spyware
The Chromium “open-source” browser, as well as the engine that it uses, is basically the reason why Firefox is dying out
Right-wing politicians are bad
Piracy is basically fighting for freedom of information on the internet, especially when big companies tend to be so overprotective of their intellectual property in situations where they don’t really need to
Free, open source software is basically the future
The European Union is basically where everyone on Lemmy lives in real life, and if not, it’s where everyone wants to live (which is my case given that I’m from Morocco)
Other very notable points that I have when comparing Reddit with Lemmy are the following:
The community is very passionate yet very small, it kinda feels like Animal Crossing
Goddammit, having multiple instances federating with each other is such an amazing thing that literally nobody can wholly own the thing and make crappy decisions that end up ruining the whole thing at once (cough cough Twitter)
API is free, API is free, API is free
Being such an obscure platform, it has helped me tremendously with cutting down on social media usage due to how insanely addicting it can be at times, sometimes in the worst possible scenarios, like when you have an exam tomorrow
I’m pretty grateful that I made the decision to ditch Reddit for good. I really like this place, and I mean a lot. I wouldn’t be called “Resol van Lemmy” if it weren’t for Spez being such an ass.
I wasn’t active in Reddit back then, but I remember hopping in logged off a couple times per month just to see what they were doing, and that’s pretty much I how remember Reddit from those days.
For the first few months on the platform, I noticed these trends that I would end up agreeing with later on:
Liking, or straight up adoring Linux
Disliking, or straight up despising cars
Everyone is left-wing and liberal
Israel stinks
Rainbows galore
Big companies are cringe
Independent media is based
Products made by big companies are known to be spyware
The Chromium “open-source” browser, as well as the engine that it uses, is basically the reason why Firefox is dying out
Right-wing politicians are bad
Piracy is basically fighting for freedom of information on the internet, especially when big companies tend to be so overprotective of their intellectual property in situations where they don’t really need to
Free, open source software is basically the future
The European Union is basically where everyone on Lemmy lives in real life, and if not, it’s where everyone wants to live (which is my case given that I’m from Morocco)
Other very notable points that I have when comparing Reddit with Lemmy are the following:
The community is very passionate yet very small, it kinda feels like Animal Crossing
Goddammit, having multiple instances federating with each other is such an amazing thing that literally nobody can wholly own the thing and make crappy decisions that end up ruining the whole thing at once (cough cough Twitter)
API is free, API is free, API is free
Being such an obscure platform, it has helped me tremendously with cutting down on social media usage due to how insanely addicting it can be at times, sometimes in the worst possible scenarios, like when you have an exam tomorrow
I’m pretty grateful that I made the decision to ditch Reddit for good. I really like this place, and I mean a lot. I wouldn’t be called “Resol van Lemmy” if it weren’t for Spez being such an ass.
A lot of this is very similar to how I remember Reddit in 2010 or so.
I wasn’t active in Reddit back then, but I remember hopping in logged off a couple times per month just to see what they were doing, and that’s pretty much I how remember Reddit from those days.