Using this new Lemmy platform kinda reminds me if using Reddit almost 10years ago. Platform was fairly new to me. I could somewhat explore new content. There were still some kinks that needed work. People talking about digg…, etc.
I joined reddit in 2007 but I’d been surfing it for a year or so already. Early reddit was amazing. There were no subreddits yet, which was fine, there weren’t that many users. The concept of subreddits was innovative when they introduced them, but once you could create your own it was pretty mind blowing.
I always felt like reddit was “hiding” from the common folk. It had a plain white background with default blue & purple links and it looked like someone’s personal project. Digg had lots of gradients and borders and glitz but reddit had a real “function over form” quality that really appealed to me as an engineer.
It makes me sad to think about how many terrible things it’s been put through by its dumb ding dong owners over the years.
Let’s take bets on how long until reposts are a thing
They are already, at least regarding memes.
It’s fun to just see it start from this level. All good things come to an end. Reddit has reached that point for me. Happy to be a Mlem user and see it evolve.
Happy Jerboa user, reddit is basically dead for me as well, i just do some archive work still.
I also joined Reddit in 2012. I was a teen and hardly understood anything that was happening. All the drama and context flew right over my head. I never knew what Digg was, I never knew what Jailbait was or anything like that, but I had fun sharing dumb memes.
Would be awesome if the fediverse could be that for many people who will look back to it fondly in the future.
I’m hopeful and confidently believe that it will.
I feel exactly the same way. It’s incredibly refreshing, and really brings into perspective how far reddit has fallen in the past few years.
Fortunately without the rage comics
