Definitely an upgrade, just moved from Reddit to Lemmy, I already like the community and the UI here, plus the fact that it cannot be bought or owned by billionaires.
Welcome! We’ve got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you’ll have to post before you can leave.
We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably theTankies, but here they’re mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. With a .world instance account you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca helps too
Same, the only thing I’m fighting is the muscle memory of typing in reddit in the url lol. Weening myself off and coming over to Lemmy and it’s like a breath of fresh air.
Ummm, reddit was a blatant knockoff of DIGG, until they sold out and where is DIGG now?
until they sold out and where is DIGG now?
Reddit seemed much more like a Hacker News/Slashdot interface in the early days. They were different from each other in 2005 but slowly started to coalesce into some common features that the other had first. Reddit had robust comments and threading (which I personally consider to be the defining feature), while digg version 2 had categories/tags. Reddit adopted subreddits and Digg adopted comments sometime in 2006 or so.
Digg was the site that originally popularized up-votes and down-votes that are so typical on online posts today. But, despite Digg’s pioneering introduction of this feature to internet culture it was the very up-votes and down-votes that led to its downfall in the first place.
Digg was the site that originally popularized up-votes and down-votes that are so typical on online posts today.
No. Slashdot was doing that, and was popular before Digg launched. Reddit also launched before Digg was popular, about 6 months after Digg did.
Meanwhile, algorithms that ranked content based on user votes were taking over all the web 2.0 darlings, including Flickr’s “interestingness” ranking system, by the mid 2000’s. Even outside of ordering comment threads, silicon valley was enamored with the idea of crowdsourcing indicators of popularity, and building algorithms around star ratings (including offline stuff like Netflix’s DVD by mail, OkCupid’s matching ratings for online dating, etc.)
I see Digg’s use of voting as merely reflective of the overall trends in the mid-2000’s. They certainly didn’t invent it.
I mean. It’s a fun show and all but this meme places us as the murderous megalomaniac, literally one of the worst people on the planet.
Yeah we don’t relate to that asshole.
Maybe Butcher. He has his own issues, of course, but then so do we.
We’re all Hughies that think they’re Butcher and could never land Annie.
I didn’t really notice until now but The Boys have the classic 4-man personality spread.
Lol maybe. Sometimes I’d say we have a lot of Lamplighters.
But the truth is I never put much stock in the which-character-are-you personality quizzes and, statistically-speaking, I’d wager we have every possible personality type covered.
I mean… A lot of Lemmy users blindly clap for dictatorial populists because they claim to be from the left, it’s hard to take this as an upgraded site when the only thing you read about your country is government propaganda.
The tankies aren’t in the majority, though that’s what they’d like people to believe, they’re just very very loud
And the bulk of them can be taken care of by blocking the Tankie Triad of .ml, grad and hex
My instance has defederated those 3, I still see accounts from different instances making comments defending the propaganda, downvoting those who say otherwise and crossposting from ml or hex.
Blocking and defederating is basically useless, it helps, but doesn’t do what it should (completely block posts from those instances).
I think it was called digg?
Edit: I mean this as a glib ignorance of reddit and wanted to look it up for the nostalgia, but holy shit they’re relaunching digg!!!
r$ddit will still exist for at least another 80 years bc there’s always the chance someone will be like: “what was the name of that place I had that conversation on once…? let’s see if it’s still there…”
I would like Reddit to be around forever because of all the good answers from people over the years for different issues, but that’s already been heavily damaged by mods, admins and people using bots to turn all their old comments to gibberish. I hate that actually valuable information is being lost because of ego and greed.
I signed up for the digg relaunch with the hope it can kill Reddit off for good.
I wish lemmy could do it, and the fediverse will always be there for the people who are willing to put in the tiny extra effort. But I think it’ll take something centralized and easy to understand for the average person who doesn’t care about that stuff to really make a dent and start an exodus.
