I just wanted to tell you how great you all are.

I moved to Lemmy shortly before the mass exodus from Reddit in 2023. I eventually created an instance of my own and to begin with, leaving Reddit felt like a mistake.

I could browse Lemmy’s equivalent of /r/all top-last-24-hours in about 15 minutes, so my doom-scroll time plummeted. I was better for it. However, I still yearned for the meme laughs and thought provoking comment threads of Reddit. Lemmy had them, but they were much fewer.

Fast forward to today. My instance is hosting a popular up and coming community, of which I’m honoured, even if I’m not welcome. The top-24-hour of all posts is now more than enough to satisfy my needs. I laugh at memes, I get to share posts I found on Lemmy with friends and family, I’m exposed to more cultures than just American which is a real refreshing change.

It isn’t mainstream, and I think its better for it. It has its own culture, and we are beginning to get all meta with Lemmy in-jokes which I think is both annoying and awesome at the same time (ie. Hussain memes).

Overall, I am just really happy for Lemmy and am glad to be sharing it with all of you. May the good times continue.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    15·
    19 hours ago

    I started being online back when forums, geocities, mIRC, AOL IM were the norm… then MySpace, then Digg, then Facebook, then Reddit… etc etc…

    Yeah, at this point, I basically just non religiously pray that Lemmy never becomes super duper popular.

    Its the Yogi Berra quote: Nah, that place is too crowded, nobody goes there anymore.

    Seen basically every online… social interaction zone of any kind … be neat initially, then start getting lame, and eventually become an active SCP style cognito hazard that actively destroys the minds of those who use it, yet they become the new default norm standard.

    Lemme have my pork and beans and memes in peace, away from the rightwing/russian troll armies, away from the idiot boomers that ruined facebook (I know a good number of non evil ones are on lemmy), away from the dramatubers and streamers and psycopathic tiktokkers…

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        16 hours ago

        Hah, I was born in the very late 80s… I know the exact generation lines between X and Millenial are somewhat contentious, but I’d probably either be a Millenial or ‘Elder Millenial’.

        … I just picked up tech stuff at a very young age, and also had a number of … not actual uncles, but ‘cool uncle’ type people in my life, guys and gals a bit older than me, but not as old as my parents… so I’ve had more exposure to the music and culture and such more particular to Gen Xers.

        Uh I guess, smell you later, bodacious, r a d i c a l ! ! ! or something rofl.