Lemmy is so good right now because there are no kids here

Conservatives love having corporate masters, so they're all staying on reddit.

A lot of the political discussion I’ve read on here has also been pretty well thought out. I feel like people are taking time to explain their perspective more and even if in general it’s been more left leaning there is definitely more nuance. I was surprised by the quality of some of the discussion around the end of affirmative action.

Fewer conservatives, yes. If it wasn't for the harcore tankies and trolls it would really be perfect. But it's very close, much better than Reddit.

my back hurts

We do a bit of adultery

My knees ='(

Just had my yearly colonoscopy

not speaking for OP but when I think about not wanting "kids" around, I mean immature people. I'm looking to be part of something like the reddit prior to them buying Alien Blue.

As a fellow teenager and a FOSS enthusiast, Linux user and Linux tinkerer and hobbyist, I'm glad to see there are more people my age getting into the FOSS space.

Booyah high five! Glad you're here

Same same, it is mostly the matter of your FOSS knowledge, if you were a FOSS nerd you would most likely to switch from reddit in some way or another... (16 btw)

I am not a teenager, but I think younger people are generally pretty fucking cool.

Yeah, yall are immature, so what, compared to old people when they were your age, y'all are so MUCH COOLER.

Seriously, on every metric, I don't understand how you can shit on young people these days. They are just an improvement on us.

There are dozens of us!

My ublock has been at a constant "0" on this site since I've started. A youtube tab will have over a hundred by the end of a 10 minute video.

And hopefully never will be. It seems like the people hosting instances aren't in it for the money. Particularly the *.world guys have other fediverse projects big enough that they could've done something like, say, add ads to it.

The reasons to develop it also are ideological and not ecological ones.

I think it’s more just because we’re early adopters and the first wave of refugees.

Yes, and because there are some little hurdles in the signup process. Having to select an instance isn't really that big of a deal, but it will actually stop quite a few people.
The people who do make it through care or are invested enough to join and are less likely to shit the place up. It's a self-selection process.

Well put, almost made me feel inspired till I remembered we're just nerds on the internet hahahahaha

I think you‘re onto something. I read a lot of comments of people thinking the fediverse is too complicated to deal with and while I disagree - but also think it has issues - there does seem to be a barrier of entry for a good portion of people in the form of „inconvenience.“ So whoever is here really wants to be here and not just be an anonymous arse. I don‘t think you gotta be particularly smart, you gotta step out of your comfort zone.

It was the worst thing to witness on reddit. A post with tens of thousands of likes and only a handfull of comments

Then same was true of forums and IRC

When IRC was entirely people on command line clients that existed on *nix. But that has changed with the ease of use of clients for Windows, and then eventually web clients.

lack of "funny meme and jokes' posts

This is it for me. The Pavlovian posting and upvoting of shitty jokes in every. single. thread. I haven't bothered with reddit's comment section in years because of it. Here, the comments so far seem chill and appropriate for the posts.

Agreed. On top of this I noticed a pretty hard decline in Reddit once the CCP bought a portion of reddit. Keeping business out of Lemmy will keep it honest for sure.

We can always make funny memes

i'd rather have quality content though.

I think it's cause everyone here has to actually try and make meaningful content here as opposed to being jaded and doom scrolling while posting among hundreds of others - and getting told to use the search function. Every post rn has an impact so the vibes are good!

It's buggy but will get better. Feels hands off here because everyone is just happy to be here and few are pushing an agenda cough OP ageism comments

Forums aren't sliding with lame jokes or immediately have the focus of conversation moved away from the actual content.

Feels like people talking instead of bots arguing and I'll work with buggy apps or browser versions forever if it helps maintain the current lemmy experience

At this point I'm just so burnt out on the constant advertisements. It's literally shoved in your face at all times and not only does it make me actively avoid the products but its also exhausting.

..."Barbie", opening only in theaters July 21st.

It's refreshing.

Yes, I got ground down by the same same discourse and tropes on post after post. I got especially enraged by "Came here to say this", which added literally nothing of value to the debate but would usual, somehow, have loads of upvotes

Reddits culture has become so...tiring. My interaction dropped significantly in recent years and more often than not I delete my comments as I'm typing them because I already know the response.

I wouldn't say it felt adolescent. Adolescence is full of misunderstandings about the world, but usually there's at least some internal logic where you can see how a wrong understanding is logically taken to the wrong conclusion. The start and end are both wrong, but the steps from the start to the end are right. At least that was what I remember from my days of adolescence.

Reddit actually felt more lazy than adolescent. It's like most people just couldn't be bothered to think (or read for that matter). The vast majority of comments just felt low-effort or even no effort (like the case where people just comment "This") and opinions are formed solely on "what's the first feeling I get" than then get defended into absurdity, because changing your opinion with new information is a cardinal sin on Reddit. Sometimes you could get an intelligent discussion but, especially in recent years, you get the equivalent of a thumbs up if someone agrees with you or just straight up hate if someone disagrees.

I'm so happy I haven't read a single pun or lyric/TV show spam thread since coming here. They were becoming unbearable, even worse then the proliferation of video shorts.

The Crow cawed that Lemmy is strong,

Since no kids have yet come along

But the teens disagree

All ages've stupidity

I think you spelled idiots wrong

Oi, who are you calling an idiot? My gram used to tell me, that I'm the most handsome/inteligent boy in the world.

Oh, there are some of us idiots here too.

Maybe the OP refers to the "mentally kids" people, not just ordinary kids. And I'm sure glad to see civilized and mature conversations for once, not just nonsense spewing trolls responding with "nice argument, but ur mum" types

Great post. Lemmy right now reminds me of Reddit 15-16 years ago. Mostly tech workers or tech hobbyists who know far more than an average person and thus aren't put off by something new and different. I don't think Lemmy is very complicated as a concept and it boggles my mind that people are saying "making a new account on Lemmy.world or Kbin.social is too complicated for normal people." Yet I see it written all the time, sometimes here but mostly on reddit. And who knows; maybe the latter is a disinformation campaign since we know reddit pulls sneaky shit like that all the time (and targeting Lemmy, like with the warnings they placed on links at one point).

Lemmy's barriers to entry also somewhat remind me of early Facebook after they expanded to several universities. You needed to have an email address from one of those univerisities in order to create an account. So, not so much self selection in that scenario but another gate to keep people out.

I can respect Tildes' decision to become invite-only (with a very limited number of invites) for that reason. Lemmy, I think, is prioritizing growth at the potential cost of future community. Tildes is doing the opposite. I don't think one is necessarily more correct. And, with Lemmy, there are tons of alternatives waiting in the wings. Hopefully a balance can be struck.

I think the real test comes when the first wave of good third party apps are released. Sync, in particular, seems very promising given the developer's reddit app. Anything that can make it easier for people.

for more information, please re-read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

To add to that: I think it's actually worthwhile to write longer texts here compared to reddit because of two reasons: 1) people here want Lemmy to succeed so they put more time and effort in to get things going, and 2) it's more likely for that text to be seen by others because there aren't 2.000 other commenters but maybe 20.

I have been an avid participant in many programming subreddits, and I can confidently say; This place (Lemmy) feels like the beginning of something I can call home as well. I will gladly start supporting fellow programmers with their questions and problems once I feel settled.

Everyone on the internet is a dog unless proven otherwise.

I mean...woof.

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

Joke's on you, I'm a sandwich

The world as a whole...

Its always weird to me when I realize not everyone online is ~30 years old.

Yeah, or first year college kids who have figured out how the world should work.

anyone that thinks random defederations are good for the users.

Is that considered a kid? Just curious about todays perception. When I was at that age it was considered young adult.

That's very on point. We will have the same discussion in a decade about this platform as we have it now with Reddit. Maybe even sooner? Who knows.

I started redditing about 8 years back. After digg.

Leaving reddit is hard but I have generally enjoyed forums and lemmy is a fun new experience I haven't had in a while.

If anything, in 10 years I can do the whole 'I was here at the start' thing on the younglings.

I only joined Reddit five years ago. Leaving Reddit turned out to be pretty easy because I had other things to occupy my time with. I have a feeling that it's because I was never that attached to reddit to begin with.

Haha I don't know what Digg is, but I came from 9gag to 8yrs of Reddit to now Lemmy.

Some of us are old enough to remember when social media sites that were "too big to die" died. We've been burned before, so we're making plans before that happens.

How do you even make any typos with all the autocorrect nowadays is beyond me.

Ya bro u damn rite finalysumeonre has the guts to say it. I hope dis comunity stay crispy

I think people here might be more conscious of what they post, due to the relatively low quantity of things being posted here. On larger platforms, what you write is more likely to be overlooked, so people care less.

My pet peeve is when people put a space before the full stop or the exclamation mark. Something like this !

I think many of the typos were on purpose. The idea was to get engagement and telling OP that they misspelled something was engagement. It's "algorithm think"

Totally. Yup.

Or passing some sort of turing test looking for adulthood instead of ai.

I'm 32 and indefinitely can relate. Every generation has been worse than the last since time immemorial, apparently.

and tiktok

This is fine.

Let them stay there.

Still?!?

Yeah and typo come from non native speaker too. Lemmy in not a american only thing