It’s nice having a place where people can (fake) argue about beans and insignificant things, post fire memes, and do some classic old Internet banter.

It feels like I’m at an early 2000’s Lan party, and the worst person you’d come across is helpful, but kind of a dick about it.

Hopefully it stays that way, the relative lack of structure is pretty magical since almost everyone seems to be genuine about using this place to be hilarious.

Every time there is a dig>reddit>lemmy progression, the beginning phase is generally the same (awesome) tone and atmosphere.

It’s the same community people who made the original sites popular who ready to move after the old place gets overrun by special interest nonsense/monetization/engagement algorithms, and users who don’t actually care about dialog /engagement in favor of blasting loaded opinions.

It’s barely been a week and the spirit of message boards that everyone loved about reddit has already rooted in Lemmy. Real people trying to make each other laugh, or sharing something because it’s neat and brings others joy - I’d happily pay for a subscription to keep this place in its current culture.

Reddit has been past it’s prime for several years now for a lot of people who were missing exactly what is happening here.