Joined up yesterday and have been pretty happy so far. Have been looking for an alternative so i could ditch reddit since the API changes and had no idea this place existed until i saw a random thread yesterday
If you’re new, I definitely recommend checking out https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding new communities to subscribe to, rather than just browsing “all”. There are a lot of weird communities out there when you just browse “all”…
The old internet never went away, not on a technical level for sure. What changed is that big corporations had dominant positions from control over user bases and then they squeezed us for profits so hard that it’s no longer worth it to use them. This process seems to have accelerated since the end of the era of easy money in 2022 which is why we’re seeing things pop off more than it used to.
Joined up yesterday and have been pretty happy so far. Have been looking for an alternative so i could ditch reddit since the API changes and had no idea this place existed until i saw a random thread yesterday
Welcome!
If you’re new, I definitely recommend checking out https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding new communities to subscribe to, rather than just browsing “all”. There are a lot of weird communities out there when you just browse “all”…
https://sub.rehab/ is also good.
Sub.rehab is super outdated and https://fediverser.network/ is easier and crowdsourced.
Thanks, hadn’t seen that one before
Block the weird communities if you dislike them so much.
Welcome! It’s a great, homely place that still feels a little bit like the old internet.
In addition to the already mentioned Lemmyverse, two other great ways of finding active communities are !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
The old internet never went away, not on a technical level for sure. What changed is that big corporations had dominant positions from control over user bases and then they squeezed us for profits so hard that it’s no longer worth it to use them. This process seems to have accelerated since the end of the era of easy money in 2022 which is why we’re seeing things pop off more than it used to.
Yes! I miss it.
Welcome!
Welcome!
There’s a ton of good apps that use the API.