Despite the lack of an inbuilt spell-check to cover up my sausage fingers, this seems like a cool space to be in. Open source social media, wow. I came here from r/nz, and I gotta say, I’ve become pretty apathetic towards the corporate greed and data harvesting that has become the staple of most sites. It wasn’t until I saw a bunch of buzz about this place on reddit that I even knew about it.
I guess I’d always assumed that the future of social media, and the internet in general, would be something closely resembling Orwell or P.K Dick’s dystopias. Maybe this open source thing is a nice branch of the path, and even if it isn’t, its nice to be here at, what seems to me, to be a pivotal point in history. Kia kaha everyone, hope you’re all doing well.
I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing, having heard of Lemmy (this Lemmy) for the first time only 10 minutes ago, but I confess to a childlike excitement and a quiet enthusiasm for this and what it represents. Off to a midwinter bbq/birthday now, but I will look forward to working out how this all works and how to contribute over the coming days. Thanks for hosting/setting this all up!
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I’m not the person you replied to, but yes, it’s winter here. For some reason, in New Zealand we tell the seasons they have to start on the first of the month. They don’t often oblige, but we like to think they do.
Lemmy is certainly more “wild west” than current day reddit, but that can depend on which server you join, as for example beehaw.org are really pushing to be a “nice” server, and have blocked federating with some other servers - so users from beehaw won’t see some posts that you’ll see.
Reddit used to be a lot more “wild west” in it’s younger days, but they have been pushing to be more “radio friendly” in anticipation of turning into a publicly traded company. Many people are commenting that Lemmy feels more like reddit 10+ years ago, when it was small and unknown and sort of an in-club for people who knew about it (we used to say “the first rule of reddit is you don’t talk about reddit”).
Feel free to ask questions! Yes, you will have questions :). As the platform matures the technical stuff will be tidied up and hidden, but until then you’ll definitely find an exposed wire from time to time!