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Fediverse

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A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

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My experience with the Fediverse has only been through Mastodon, through which I struggled to find a community I really gelled with. Either it was supper overwhelming with meme posts or NSFW, or it was too chill to the point of nothing. Or, it was hyperfocused like FOSS/Linux and became uninteresting after awhile. May try again, but I think I will explore the other fedisites like Plemora or Calckey to see if I like it better.

I love the pace of a forum. I grew up primarily with GameFAQS and some lucid dreaming forum, and honestly it was very formative in teaching me how to write and use critical thinking skills, as well as how to respond to a variety of temperaments. I stopped participating in online forums awhile ago, and while I loved Reddit as a resource, I never felt inspired to participate. In the same way, there are an incredible number of forums dedicated to a certain topic, and are extremely valuable, it would be annoying to make an account for all the things I am interested in.

I like what lemmy is becoming. Glad to find system that makes interacting with people enjoyable.

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[–] simple@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I never really liked Twitter as a concept. It feels like it's built on an "old man yells at cloud" concept where people just shout their thoughts and nobody gains anything from it.

By comparison forums are there to foster discussions and communities. I thought Mastodon would be better but I spent 5 minutes and it's exactly the same nonsense.

[–] XLRV@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah, and I don't like Twitter threads with their character limit and using multiple post to make 1 message. It looks stupid imo.

The real discussions are really limited by this concept, and it makes reading those a chore.

[–] anna@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They removed the character limit recently, I think.

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Only if you pay up, of course

[–] XLRV@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Better late than never i guess.

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