In part because it reminds me a bit of the old internet, with stuff being spread around everywhere.

Being “harder”* to understand than reddit, twitter or other big companies’ services is also a good thing, because people should remember that they have a brain and they should use it.

  • “harder” because not everyone understands the fediverse right away, since usability is extremely similar

PS: ^superscript doesn’t work with phrases? at least not on preview^

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    I’ve come to like it more than Reddit at this point. The community feel here you can’t buy and can only make it with actual factual care.

    The only complaint I have is a minor one, and that’s speed and sometimes things don’t load. Though I know that’s a symptom of growing pains. That will likely be a non-issue in the future as the tech grows with the popularity of the community

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      Reminds me of Reddit in 2008 when I joined. Legitimate communities forming and finding their way. Wasn’t super intuitive how to use or what to do, but something special.

      Reddit has since just transformed into something almost unrecognizable, but its tough to beat the size and reach it’s built.

      On thing Lemmy is going to have to worry about is bots. I’m hoping the decentralization is a good solution to both monetization and bots. We shall see.

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      Hey, the speed issue is solely because the instance you’re on, Lemmy.world, is way overcrowded. You can resolve this issue by joining a smaller instance or even hosting your own. The best part of Lemmy is you aren’t tied to any one server. You can create an account on a different instance/site and never miss a Lemmy post. I’m on my own private instance and have zero issues with loading speed

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        That sounds very doable. I’ll have to look for a tutorial and work on that next chance that I get.

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        How do I transfer my subscriptions to another server, though? Do you really just have to re-sub to everything all over again?

        Because I have so many subs now…

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            I made an account on a separate server just to test and it does indeed perform tons better. Just sucks there isn’t some way to “own” your user and download like a fingerprint of it on demand from a server, so you could easily transfer yourself somewhere else.

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      Unpopular opinion: it should stay a little bit slow. Every other commercialized platform trains us for immediate gratification.