I’m loving Lemmy. And I’m loving this instance. Great conversation, no bots, no ads. It seems like there are so many intentional, thoughtful comments here (and Lemmy as a whole) than Reddit.

The way I used reddit was to unsub from all of the defaults and only subscribe to smaller communities I was interested in. That with Apollo, was a decent experience, was enough to remove the thought of ‘internet commodification’ while browsing.

But shit, this is awesome. Thank you for making this space a pleasure to use and scroll through. Feels like the old days a bit, we’re all just figuring out this new(ish) space.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This is what I want out of my social media … just people talking about a topic and giving their opinion and perspective in a sensible, non antagonistic way. All in simple text with no flash or flair … or advertisements … or anyone or anything automatically trying ‘engage’ us or manipulate us.

    No need to know the other person’s personal history or background and just give a bit of trust with everything that is being said in order to drive a conversation.

    It’s what social media should be.

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    1 year ago

    I also like this! At first I was a bit bummed out on why I couldn’t doom scroll like on reddit.

    The fact that the ecosystem was fragmented in multiple little instances made me think that it’s possible I wouldn’t like it in the end.

    But I find myself gravitating more towards my local instances subs then all. (Even though with wafwaf the discoverability factor is severely increased.) The reason is I like the fact that it is a small community.

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    1 year ago

    Agreed! Been here for a week and am way more active with likes, comments, etc. here.

    Feel way less “gross” spending some time on here vs. Reddit, Twitter, etc.

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    1 year ago

    …and thanks to you for being here!

    It’s nice to have a relaxing place to chat and discuss the latest without the air of “social media” companies like Reddit and Twitter are constantly trying to capitalize on.

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    1 year ago

    Also an Apollo user coming to Lemmy. It’s been nice to get through my communities in a relatively short time then over to local for anything Canada related. There are a couple communities I know of on other instances but can’t seem to search them off .ca but not to worried about it.