What else am I supposed to do? Use fucking Quora????
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2025
204 points (95.9% liked)
Ask Lemmy
35383 readers
1259 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
204
Fellow 'Fediversers,' what keeps you hanging on here despite the "FV" being a work-in-progress, with all its built-in, various bumps & difficulties to experience along the way?
(media.piefed.social)
"Sometimes there's a man... I won't say a "hero," because what's a hero? But sometimes there's a man who... well, he's the man for his time and place!" -- Sam Elliot (the Stranger) from the glorious The Big Lebowski
You know that classic quote about standing on the shoulders of giants (and pioneers)? Honestly, in so many ways, that's how I truly feel about the good ol' Fediverse.
So, to sum up-- who are YOUR heroes here, and what does keep you hanging on here, baby..?
EDIT: For people wondering about what kinds of 'bumps & difficulties' I've personally experienced, here's a tiny sampler:
the memes and posts are much more often related to my interests than other social media
because i am a nerd just like everyone else here lol
My reddit account age was in the double digits before I closed it down to come here during the 3rd party apps/api fiasco.
It was a little difficult at first, but honestly it was really good for me to break away from so much phone usage and doom scrolling especially. My mental health improved a noticable amount. That first year or so here on Lemmy felt a little empty, but I think a lot of the people that migrated from Reddit realized that to have content one must make content. Personally, I'm far far more active here than I ever was on Reddit.
It's a cozy community 90% of the time, and it feels like a good home that's only getting better and richer with time.
Want to see the collapse of mainstream media. I’m thinking globally and acting locally.
That's a really good way of putting it. Facebook is terrifyingly powerful and damaging. Smaller is better IMO
Lack of real alternatives, I guess? This is the alternative to the other site, but I'd love it if there were similar sites with different focus and different people.
load more comments
(1 replies)
No billionaire owners and algorithms.
To be honest, after some initial difficulty in grasping the concept of federation (which I certainly don't claim to fully understand even now) this place feels just as easy to use as Reddit.
I think that's partly because I almost exclusively used Reddit via the Sync app, and I now use Lemmy almost exclusively through Sync as well. The experience is basically the same, except that it's a bit quieter, but as someone else alluded to, that's maybe no bad thing as it means I spend less time here. Instead I just dip in and out, and that's fine.
the heros are all the mods and hosters of instances, period. it takes time and effort so thank you.
what keeps me here is really what keeps me away from centralized social media mediums.
load more comments
(2 replies)
I'm still browsing and participating on reddit once in a while, and let me tell you the atmosphere there is dank and vile. You get attacked for the smallest things, people are cynical and sarcastic and heinous.... this agression will not stand, man. Nothing in common with the reddit from 15 years ago. That would be Lemmy. Lemmy feels essentially like Reddit used to. With less people. I like most interactions here, the smaller scale helps and probably the fact that we're -actually mostly- humans. If and when my instance votes on the move to Piefed, I'll go there. It's still the threadiverse, free and diverse
load more comments
(1 replies)
I self host every fediverse thing I can and when I open it I know its mine and I can glance over at the machine running it all and see where it all is and that feels good enough to deal with whatever comes up. That said, these days its all pretty easy.
Right on!
It's a quiet life.
I ate a ban for "instigating violence"
Posts like this 👌