Fedibridge

Indeed!

Yeah this is good. I was a late comer, ya'll really don't want the kind of people who stayed on reddit after 2023

Things dont need to be popular to be successful. Im loving the small town vibes we got.

100% agree. A lot of my favorite subreddits, were over 9 years old! "The Great Lemmy Migration" (aka Reddit Third-Party App Fiasco) only happened less than 3 years ago. Plus, the internet has so many more places to congregate in since 9 years ago. So Lemmy's numbers are probably going to be lower overall, even with years passed. Which I'm totally fine with. I'd like for it to grow more in good content shared by more people on here, versus low quality content. This should come with time.

I really miss usenet.

Used to hang out on the startrek NG's and had a blast. Met a ton of people and even on soc.men - which was a rock 'em, sock 'em kind of group (flame wars galore!) there were people that I came to admire and though we had differences of opinions, (and how!) we also found a lot that we agreed upon.

It all went away for me, when my ISP (comcast) dropped access because of the threat of prosecution for distributing child porn that then NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo promised, if they didn't.

Part of why I gravitated to Reddit was that when I signed up it was the cascading newsgroup comment style (old.reddit.com) that I could make sense of.

Now I'm here via old.lemmy.zip, and I haven't missed a beat.

I didn't realize how angry the popular posts on Reddit made me feel. If the post isn't about some awful news going on in the world it's about someone's frustration or hot take and it makes you want to add your opinion on the matter or refute someone else's.

It's especially bad when you shit on someone's views and are "rewarded" for it by upvotes, it encourages you to be confrontational for the sake of being confrontational. I guess that's the same here, but maybe it doesn't seem as bad because we don't have as many users — for now.

Anyway. That's my opinion and I'm expecting you all to upvote me.

This community is about making the platform grow so that a few active posters don't have to keep entire communities active by themselves

I made the jump two years ago (on a different instance, not the piefed.ca one) when the reddit API thing went down. The fediverse has grown by leaps and bounds since I first came over. Much more activity now, almost comparable to reddit, at least from my small view of the fediverse anyway.

I think if you’re looking for tons of replies, the fediverse isn’t going to be it - not untll the mainstream sites become so toxic that users bolt in droves.

You'll start to hate Lemmy too if / when the great unwashed masses begin showing up. Those of us who've been around, shout to @kmirl@lemmy.world, have watched this play out over and over again.

When the norms start congregating in a single place you can be assured that place is going to shit.

While that's true, but moving from the current 50k MAUs to say 250k would probably have a radical effect on more niche communities and allow for more posters on mid-sized communities.

To be fair, mastodon does have a problem of discoverability. Your shit isn't automatically publicly federated to other instances, even when someone from said instance is following and interacting with you. IE: your account on mas.to received a comment and was retooted by someone on to.mas. Other accounts on to.mas that check their public timeline won't necessarily see that original mas.to toot.

It's a vibe coders probably. Not a real software engineer