I’ve had a great time here. The people on the various communities I’ve joined are very nice and actually constructive! I haven’t encountered any rude or sarcastic responses or one word answers.
I’ve had really cool conversations and I haven’t been told anything toxic or given any anatomically impossible suggestions at all! I really see a difference between here and Reddit.
What particularly amazed me is the lack of knock down dragouts on the Politics and News communities on Lemmy.
People bring up their points of view even if they have contrasting arguments siting historical precedents to support their side of the discussion.
I’m excited to see your experience as well?
I’m really glad to be a part of Lemm.ee and thank you very much /u/sunaurus for making this instance! :D
Wow! That is a lot of history on the web to have actually lived through. I started on Facebook of all things, my parents lied about my age to get me an account where I mostly just played games. I was on and off for years, trying to connect with people, share opinions and ideas, and get chased off the site by the mobs of angry people would would harass me whenever I posted something.
I messed with Twitter, and Snapchat (both were as brain dead as Facebook) nothing really connected with me, until I found Reddit. I found the site in my early teens after watching channels like EmKay and I subscribed to all of babies first Reddit subs. I used the site for many years but it was frustrating. I would ask questions or share my opinion on something, and basically just get ignored, or attacked by deranged users who wouldn’t even answer my question but insult me for being a n00b or just debase my character based on an opinion (stupid stuff like if you like Darth Vader you’re a n@zi) or there were so many rules, SO many rules! There were certain subs I frequented that had over one hundred rules, and I would try to post over and over and over again but there would be some rule that I broke, like having the tags on the other side from the title, or misspelling tags, or not using the official mandatory start word like aita, or my favorite, referring to the group as the ‘hivemind’. Whatever!
It just felt geeky and tyrannical more so than Facebook even. I got tired of getting downvoted into oblivion post posting basically anything so I left, only coming back a few days ago to find the crap show going on. I had heard people say that the Fediverse is a nicer place than Reddit so I went here and I’m not regretting it in the slightest.
I never experienced the internet during the old king of the hill days, with AOL and IRCs (though I wish I did) but this place has a nice, retro feel to it that is just delicious. My parents used to talk about their time on AOL and how everyone was nice in those days. They’d get random people wishing them a happy birthday, just because, imagine that! I missed those days even though I never lived them (try to figure that out) and I think this is my equivalent.