I have a friend that complains constantly about Twitter, how its going downhill and he doesn’t agree with what their doing and all that. Yet, he insists on using it everyday. I’ve suggested Mastodon and he said that “everyone is on Twitter” and then complains about it. Couldn’t believe that I deleted my Twitter account without a second thought.
People are strange.
I’ve noticed smaller groups work really well. Once they get too large they start to devolve into in-fighting causing smaller sub-groups within the main. It’s almost as if we’re just not designed as a species to communicate with this many people all at once…
Honestly the issue isn’t Reddit, it’s just people. Most people are decent to great, with a smaller group of bad to horrible. With more people on Reddit the pool of bad to horrible is bigger, and they tend to be the loudest of the bunch.
Not at all. Honestly getting rid of Twitter and Reddit has given me more free time that I didn’t realize I was wasting constantly scrolling. There’s less to see on Mastodon and Lemmy so I usually just run through it in the morning on my way to work and a bit at night if I’m bored (like right now.) I’ve gotten back into reading books a lot more and getting off the computer for a lot longer.
Honestly getting rid of Twitter and Reddit has improved my life if anything.
I feel a lot of the times you get better answers here if only for the community being a bit better in quality. However, way more questions have been asked and answered on Reddit.
I believe ORACLE feels they’re the good guys, and they’d like us all to think so too
Just Reddit. You can request you data from them. For whatever reason it takes a few days (up to 30 from what they say) so I had to wait for it to come in.
I deleted my account the other day actually, once the backup was complete. I’m sure most will stay on Reddit but honest Lemmy is better off. Sure, there isn’t as much content but most of the content on Reddit isn’t really worth any one’s time anyway.
New communities are popping up all the time here and it’s great to see.
I started out in the 90’s calling them directories and still do for the most part. However, if I’m speaking to the average person I get a strange look when I say directory.
It’s amazing how fast Reddit went from my favorite place to be online to a trash heap
I would say yes. For me it’s nice not having to buy random games for my kids on the Xbox that they may or may not keep playing. There’s such a large library on Game Pass for them to mess around with. For me, being able to stream games to my phone/tablet and PC has been a game changer. I usually don’t play faster paced game so the occasional signal dip (only on my phone and tablet) doesn’t bother me and I can play the same save across all devices. And if I’m being honest if I’m on a decent connection the gameplay is perfectly fine mobile.
N.O.M.A.D. This is such a great DOS game that I invested so much time in back in off and all all through the 90’s. Open world, space exploration, trading, combat, different alien races, great humor. Was such a great game that I never heard anyone talking about then or mention now. The game is abandonware now if anyone wants to give it a go.
I’ve actually read the first three books and really enjoyed it. Somewhere down the line I forgot about the series somehow. I’ll add that to the list for sure.
Lemmy seems to be working out fine for me. Reminds me of the old days of Reddit.
I agree 100%. I tried Lemmy and Mastodon not very long ago out of curiosity and now I’m in the process of deleting my other social accounts. I didn’t realize how little I actually engaged with Reddit and Twitter until I started doing so here.
More and more of these communities are going to see the grass is actually greener on the other side once they’ve had enough of Reddits nonsense.
This is pretty interesting. Might have to get my old Xbox out of the closet.
I like it for two reasons. 1) I love that game and it gives me nostalgic memories. 2) It’s ironically funny since a Lemming is the exact opposite of what we are just by being here.
Like a lot of people here have already said, I think a different space is being created for those that are more in the know. The average person just isn’t as invested or versed in what’s going on to move to a different platform when the current is working fine for them.
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