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Very recently I have noticed some extra misogyny that I hasn't noticed before I wonder if it is due to a new exodus

I just came here cause my preferred reddit mobile app wanted money to work with the api or whatever. I've enjoyed being at Lemmy ever since. Granted my feed does seem to have its off days with not much going on. But that's ok.

I haven't really looked at reddit to tell what it's current state is. Nor do I care that much because Lemmy "works for me".

Just use whatever you like.

It hasn't changed too much. It was wild for a hot minute and then mellowed out. Some people feared it failed but it just stayed steady year after year.

I left reddit the day the api shit went down and came here. Same Lemmy as its always been but noticeably more people now. My feed is more curated. It reminds me of my reddit experience in maybe 2011 or so. As with anything on the internet, the experience is only as good or as bad as you allow it to be. If you see a community or instance you dont like, just block them and move on. Do I like Lemmy as much as I did early reddit? Id say no, but not by much. Maybe its my rose colored nostalgia glasses for early Reddit that keeps me wishing for things to be the way they used to be but its totally possible that reddit was never as great as I thought it was. Idk. Im here now and I dig it. Its not the same but I like watching it grow and it keeps me entertained when I need it to. Overall, its better than the invasive nature of what reddit is now. Thats just my own opinion tho.

It's not just circlejerking about ~~Linux~~ communism anymore.

It has changed a bunch, but I don't mind it. It has gotten larger, and with that comes a greater number of trolls and spammers. I don't see as much tankie discourse nowadays. There seems to be more political content, but that's likely a reflection of the world.

Communities have become more concentrated — after the Reddit APi debacle, it was common to find the same community across many instances, and these were often inactive or sparsely used. Now many of these have been consolidated into fewer, more active communities.

Some communities are niche enough that you can easily read over a week's worth of posts in one small burst, but remain active due to the dedication of moderators who do things like weekly threads.

There are frequently recurring big names who post frequently. These people aren't necessarily the same as at the beginning, because there are still a few individuals who make up a majority of posts. I worry for these people sometimes, because it must be a lot of pressure to know that if you stopped posting, the community may wither away. Some of these communities are just silly little meme comms, but I imagine people still feel a sense of ethical duty towards these things.

The rules pages for communities are much better now. It's easier to know where you stand in different communities, especially in areas where there may be overlap between the communities' scopes — there has been gradual iteration that has helped people to understand how things relate to each other

When I first got here, I was struck by how much it reminded me of my early time with Reddit. It was much easier to have productive conversations with people. I felt sad because it highlighted how bad Reddit had become. It has always been a bit of a toxic cesspit of a site, in some ways (when people ask me what pseudonymous social media site I used most as a teenager, I am often embarrassed to admit that it was Reddit), it had a lot of good going for it — people engaging in genuine conversation despite everything. I can get that a lot more reliably here.

Things have changed, but Lemmy is still capable of fulfilling my desire for genuine conversations with random internet people. I often write long comments, and I often feel that my time was well spent. Sometimes I non-judgmentally call out people for being unpleasant in their comments, and it leads to productive conversations. I honestly live for that shit, and Lemmy reliably helps me to scratch it. I am better able to navigate the site to find what I am craving.

I wish there were more posts and comments sometimes, but I recognise that this is a bit of a monkeys paw wish, in that a greater userbase will degrade the experience further. Nothing lasts forever though. When Lemmy dies, whenever that ends up being, I will have been glad for my time here

I'm new. On piefed not Lemmy. Feels like back when the internet was for nerds.

One thing I've noticed recently was a massive uptick of adolescent sex jokes. It's really annoying.

Amounts of political propaganda are wild in some comunities and instances. But, I guess that this thing will eventually occur in any social media.

It’s a lot busier and there are more communities, which I’m thankful for. When I first joined I was pretty much always a handful of posts away from being “caught up”.

A lot less beans nowadays

Not really. Same tiny echo chamber.

Less beans

It was too much like reddit so you went back to reddit which is "the same" but without api access and third party apps?

Can we discuss the bots? Lemmy's communities are being over automated and I see bots reposting threads from Reddit and other junk usually from xitter

Lemmy used to be too "left wing" for me. I felt like my opinions were not a great match for the group here, so I tended to not comment much.

Then simultaneously Lemmy's opinions seemed to make more sense (eg, billionaires should not exist, which is proving true in the current political climate), and also, more "right wing" people have arrived. And they are aggressive and vocal (eg DEMOCRAT cities will be hell to live in and hurt you and arrest you if you fart in public or something).

So actually I think maybe just bots have started to arrive.

This is how I know I'm old. I consider the "Reddit API debacle" recent history.

Less star trekking these days

A bunch more assholes who take any and every opportunity to be an asshole, and tripping mods who can't be bothered and apply blanket bans because you said a thing they didn't agree with. What's new.

I haven't read all the comments in here, and probably won't. But based on what I've seen so far, I'll be the contrarian.

I first started actively participating on Lemmy maybe a few months before the API debacle, but I'd also been checking the place out a bit for a few months before even signing up.

This place was A LOT kinder then. Users were more apt to stand up for each other and call out bad behavior. Someone called another person a "fucking idiot" over an inconsequential difference of opinion and multiple people would be on top of that.

The API debacle itself meant a lot more users arriving at a faster pace, and they were mostly a good mix of all the different Reddit archetypes -- the good and the bad. To me, it seems like it's the in between Lemmy picks up the, shall I say, less appealing Rexitors. The ones that were permabanned for no reason at all they simply said they LOVE KITTENS -- and then you see their toxicity here and that internal conflict strikes where you're like "permabans shouldn't be a thing, but in this case, I can kind of understand why it might've happened".

Anyway, all this to say, back in the before times, the Fediverse felt a bit more distinct, like it had truly had its own generally amicable vibe and culture. Now, it feels like this is probably "Reddit-vibes" but from six months ago.

Not that I'm hating on Lemmy, obviously I'm still here, and it's still currently the lesser of two evils.

kbin imploded and piefed came on the scene.

I haven't really noticed any change whatsoever.