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I've gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

... and I can't access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

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[–] nibblebit 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Man, this place definately has the vibe of an old timey BB forum. You recognise people in your replies like you used to. I find that I'm gawking at stats way less and I'm able to just talk to people. Engagement is way less, but maybe that's a good thing.

It's so refreshing. It feels like the old internet

[–] erlingur 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really does feel like the old web again to a certain extent. I hope this "age of enshittification" leads to a throwback to the old web but I'm not convinced it will happen. I feel like Lemmy (and other federation platforms) are definitely our best shot at it :)

Anyway, happy to be here :)

[–] etler 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would much rather have fewer more engaging conversations than the circus Reddit was. Sure it had more conversation but sometimes that felt more isolating since every comment became transactional noise. Really hoping I can find the sweet spot on Lemmy!

[–] Eddie 4 points 1 year ago

I certainly don't miss every thread turning into bots arguing with each other about politics

[–] grinde 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a Lemmy frontend that fully emulates a phpBB board. It's kind of amazing.

[–] Nubbify 6 points 1 year ago

Seeing this just felt like unlocking a bunch of core memories.

[–] ruffsl 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You recognise people in your replies like you used to.

This is pretty cool. I'm still active on some older traditional forums, but I love this style of threaded discussions in comment trees here. So much easier to reply to an individual in wall-of-text discussions. I think we'll also start recognizing each other by account birthdays, with a wave of folks all having similar ones in June and July. 📅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah, I wish I didn't listen to those people saying that signing up to the fediverse was going to be complicated, then I would have synced my account creation date with my birthday.

[–] JackbyDev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

old timey BB forum

That's why I have the Netscape profile pic lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait you can use gifs as the avatar? Oh yeah!

[–] JackbyDev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no idea, this is technically a webp file I had on my computer from God knows where. I'm always nervous bringing attention to it because I don't want the Lemmy UI devs to find out and think it is a bug lol.

[–] ruffsl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I came across this community, which it reminded me of your choice of avatar, and figured you'd be interested:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]