Alright but imagine how fucking funny it'd be for an A-list actor to just unabashedly join lemmy as themselves and just act like a normal person but be entirely open with who they are
It would be absurdly funny because of how out of place she would look here, which is analogous to something like, what if a sentient plastic doll from a parallel universe somehow ended up in the real world, right?
Woah there. Did you say a man in Florida wearing high heels? Kinda sounds like drag to me. Better stop that man before he starts grooming children to be Satan's minions!!!
I lurk with a burner account it because lots of niche reddit communities (modded API 3rd party client of course) still don't have Lemmy groups and....it's all rage bait, horny bait, and whOleSomE bait.
I was on Reddit for about 15 years, pre-dating when Digg shit the bed, and to be honest there are some similarities between this place and old Reddit.
That's not to say that we'll see a flood of people from Reddit, but that this place has a nice, quaint charm that wasn't too dissimilar to before. With that being said, the Linux bros are as unbearable as they used to be on Reddit, and there are some extremely wild opinions on politics that don't align with reality - that's not much of an improvement.
I started on Reddit in 2012, realized quickly that I was getting too invested in karma, so decided to never have an account for more than one calendar year.
That worked very well, but by the end I was still spending an inordinate amount of time dicking around. I spend maybe an hour a week on sync for Lemmy. perfect!
Same but with Boost for reddit. Now on Boost for Lemmy!
I remember being on Reddit back when it was pretty new. Also got a Gmail account back when it was beta and invite only. Everything seemed possible back then. My world view sure has changed since then. Not quite doomer pilled but damned if I'm not on the edge.
I’m not sure Lemmy will be able to grow too big. As soon as an instance starts to get thousands of viewers moderation/hosting costs become too high for hobbyists.
I do the same with local events, I can find the same memes on here without having to scroll past a half dozen posts shilling Taco Bell or fucking Christianity
Interesting. Always used RIF, so never saw any. Now I only use reddit for like 2 subs, and I did think it was greasy how they made the ads look like posts. Just greasy.
I'm very similar. I still go back and check in from time to time, but I see Reddit as a ghost of its former self. It seems that all the good content posters have moved on.
For me it was bacon reader, but mostly the same. I lurk there maybe once a month, but the only active communities seem to be centered around helping people. I would suspect that those who don't regularly use Reddit, may not have been completely in the know about the changes, or maybe they didn't care, and they just used Reddit when they wanted to know about a thing; so those users still return to Reddit when they need help. Everywhere else seems to be very inactive... At least compared to what Reddit was just a year ago.
I joined back on the iPhone 4 using blue alien or whatever that app was called. Then been on reddit sync until the purge. I pretty much exclusively used reddit via a third party app. It hurt to delete all my content and delete my reddit account, but the sync author said he's moving to lemmy so I just went along. Now I'm on lemmy with sync. The community is obviously much smaller, and there's quite a specific kind of person here (looking at you Linux and star trek instances) but I can actually interact here. I never deleted my comments before, and still wouldn't, but I don't see myself instantly down voted into oblivion for not sharing a hive mind idea. I get to see more kinds of interaction here instead of having to sort by controversial. It's nice.
Same. Cold turkey and the only time I’m on there is when I get there from a DDG search. When that happens, I get my info, open Modmail to make sure my dark subs aren’t stolen away, and then fuck right off.