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From way back when: https://lemmy.ml/post/31071

(Yes, this is also a repeat of when I celebrated this historic meme about a year ago) (EDIT: Found and linked the old post on my old account)

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  • Okay I fully admit I am a reddit-fugee from the API announcement. I didn't wait for the changes, I just Lore Ipsum/copy pasted dictionary definitions until my account was scrubbed, and deleted the account.

    Even so, when I first showed up here, there were maybe 50 up votes on a post, max. That was the front page for the first weeks as people came from reddit, and eventually most left because it's not as active here and 95% of people are lurkers who don't even comment. Those 50 up votes were all it would get.

    Now this post alone has 260 in its first 3 hours. And I'm sure it will continue to get views and votes all day.

    I'm not sure how the tone has changed around here since 2020, but I like the vibes for the most part and if I don't like a server, I can hop to another one, which I have done several times already.

    Quality beats quantity any day of the week

    Fediverse numba one!

    • I’m not sure how the tone has changed around here since 2020, but I like the vibes for the most part and if I don’t like a server, I can hop to another one, which I have done several times already.

      I was only active back then for a very short time on my old account. It was basically only after the first Reddit API announcement exodus, that Lemmy started to have the critical mass of users that makes it feel very similar to old Reddit like nowadays, which is when I started to truly become active.

      In 2020, it felt much more like old forums, with just a handful of active users at a time, even more concentrated around the devs and hardcore Libre/FOSS people. It was nice in its own way from what I saw, but I, personally, couldn't really get into it (I prefer the content-focused nature of Lemmy, where you can get "lost in the crowd" to some degree, but without the trappings of total anonymity like with the *chans for example).

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