people posting here are going out of their way to post – and it feels like every thought has more weight or sanctity or meaning when it’s being posted here, at the dawn of a new era and the fall of an old.
i’m spending more time actually reading and engaging with every comment, parsing the details and thinking about it, conceptually. versus just looking at garbage all day, garbage with a little bit of fentanyl in to keep you hooked
As much as there are, very valid, concerns about friction and effort of entry I believe that negative is part of what’s making this era so positive.
Those who have made it this far have taken a bit of an extra effort to get here. When we get here and find it clean and shiny we’re more inspired to “keep the house clean”.
As much legitimate value Reddit has its also, in many ways, a cesspool. It’s very easy for even those with the best intents to get caught up in it. I know I succumbed to behaviors I’m not proud of. Thus far I haven’t had to fight that temptation here, as I haven’t encountered any behavior that has tempted me towards that darker side.
We’re doing a good job. Keep up the good work and let’s do our best to set a good example for those who follow.
I would say that’s not far from what the old internet had going for it. Heck, even old Reddit. There are tons of posts about how good Reddit once was, but isn’t anymore because it got big. I think there’s just something about a huge section of the populous being in the same place all at once that makes people bitter towards each other.
100% agree. I’ve been around long enough to witness the rise and fall of many social services, even “pre-internet” such as Compuserve and QuanumLink. As they grow, civility has a bad habit of declining. It’s a pipe dream to believe that Lemmy will forever remain pristine but I want to believe federated services have a better shot as mods and admins don’t have to be nearly as tolerant of bad behavior as on the major services. There’s no business pressure to allow toxic communities to live on simply because they generate clicks and, as a result, revenue.