It’s not the kids, not the lurkers, not the mods… y’all just nice people. Lemmy’s got a good vibe going… or at least enough windows that we can close if the vibe gets shit.

  • hmancuso@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Not for any particular reason, but for a variety of reasons that work together to make it even better. I have listed just a few of them. Feel free to add to the list as you see fit.

    • No king of the hill.
    • No hidden corporate interests.
    • No karma system.
    • Rejection of toxicity. The flow of conversation is civil and has a good vibe.
    • The Federation functions as an engine of accountability.
    • A bunch of people who actively contribute to making this a good place.
    • A vocal community that actually determines what content is important.
    • The initial difficulty to make sense of it all (call it a “barrier to entry” if you will) acts as a natural deterrent to those who are less engaged.
    • Lurkers who sign up quickly feel comfortable posting.
    • The ability to sign up for a particular instance and leave if for some reason you find it’s going in a direction you do not agree with. Lemmy’s decentralized nature saves the day.
    • The influx of refugees includes experienced people with a lot of knowledge to make this an even better place.
    • The prospect of a quick release of reputable third-party apps. Since these developers bring solid knowledge from previous developments, their new Lemmy apps will immediately translate into a smoother user experience.

    I am looking forward to great days ahead.

    • czarrie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Don’t forget the free ice cream when you signed up this week.

      …you guys did get the free ice cream, right? It was on the sign up page and everything?

      • Piers@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Personally I’m against that as it can allow controversial content to look the same as universally supported content.

        • bxyrk@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          MORE reasons to enjoy the federated aspect. I am ALL for each instance having their own rules and protocol. I’m not a fan of removing the down voting but the fact that it is something that can be chosen by a group feels really good to me.

          • magicmuggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            It isn’t for no reason other than that. Granted, that is a reason. However, without a clear ratio of upvotes to downvotes, there’s no differentiating between good vs bad. YouTube removed their dislike button, but you can still see how many views a video has. If a video has 1m views but like 3k likes, you can see a ratio there. On here, there’s no ‘views’ per comment. So a use case would be that, say I posted something objectively false that supported a narrative. If others come along and support the same narrative and upvoted it, that post would look relatively credible. Downvotes allows for democratic running of social media. Which is what Reddit once was, and what lemmy is trying to be.

            I know it’s a shit thing to say, but if your posts always get downvoted to oblivion, it’s probably moreso you that’s got a skewed outlook vs everyone else. (Not you as in you but you as in the general person)

    • starclaude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      do you have any youtube video that can explain fediverse, lemmy, etc so far the explanation video i have found is already old and not that clear for me