[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

I found a lot of people who are willing to put effort in posting and commenting.

Well, so far I haven’t had anyone crawl through my history for personally identifiable info to email me with threats to my family. So, aces as far as I’m concerned.

That really did happen, not exactly a Reddit thing specifically though. Still, community so far feels far nicer and mature here than the old place had devolved into. IMHO this feels very much like Reddit did after the digg exodus years ago. I am hopefully optimistic about this place and the fediverse in general but I do fear what may happen if the big players are threatened enough and get some legislation passed in their favor.

The Memmy app is reminiscent of Apollo for Reddit (Fuck you Spez) and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. As far as the Fediverse, it’s slowly becoming more and more alive. There is an increasing number of people who really keep it interesting with new content, and I am extremely grateful for them.

Reddit where I can block people and without /as much/ absurd delusional nonsense.

I like a few of these communities, and I've had some nice conversations on some things I'm passionate about. But it seems like the population outside my small communities is dominated by violent wanna-be political activists competing for who can express the most outrageous sentiment.

Advocating against violence against one's parents in a hypothetical situation where a parent developed the wrong US politics not only got me downvoted, but also replied to by some asshole from Australia who wanted to rub it in that I was clearly in the out-group.

I don't normally reply when I see things like that, but after seeing so much vitriol I felt the need to leave a comment. I won't be doing it again.

Actually, reading these comments, this place is starting to feel like reddit.

There's absolutely nothing more Reddit than people on Reddit complaining about Reddit and how everyone else on Reddit is shitty and unreasonable (without supplying any context).

So yeah, it seems Lemmy is right on track.

I never had a reddit account so I used it's implosion as a push off to set me free from 4chan but also not going to that overly policed place.

I think Lemmy is a nice middle ground.

I like how many of the users don't resort to memes or namecalling (not that there aren't a few here and there) and the replies are straightforward

Windows hate and politics. It's nothing like reddit imo but it's all I've got as I've abandoned reddit.

I like the folk here