• Neil@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    My account here is 4 years old. I was so excited to learn about Lemmy back then, but the user base was painfully low. I’m getting that same excitement I had back then.

    Please new people, make this your permanent home and forget Reddit!

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I jumped on a week ago. The change in that time has been totally insane! I went from being able to scroll for an hour maybe for the first few days, to now, it’s developing into a full blown doom-scroll addiction…

    • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      People are just much more supportive and friendlier here. But I guess because we are in a state now before all the assholes join from reddit…

      • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Maybe it’s just me but Mastodon seems still way friendlier than Twitter, I guess partly to do with the people but also the platform structure that seems to have less incentive to attack people. Hope it’s the same for Lemmy.

        • Drew Got No Clue@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          It is a good thing, objectively. But at least on Mlem there is kind of an equivalent of the karma in the profile page (comment score and post score), if you miss that. 😎

          Some may interact less though if there is no karma; gamification works after all. I guess we’ll see.

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    1 year ago

    I joined a year ago and it’s crazy, i remember getting excited over 20 upvotes, that AMA and the whole 3rd party fiasco really brought a lot of people here!

    • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, u/spez being a terrible CEO/person might be the best thing to happen to the fediverse. I tried Mastodon a few months ago but the community wasn’t big enough to get me hooked. I joined Lemmy earlier this week and I really like the community that’s developing here.