I’m afraid as an American that voted for Kamala that eventually the government will block us from communicating with other countries.
Ive never lived outside of America but sometimes I feel my values more closely align with most countries except the USA. The biggest one is a strong united working class. Instead of the arrogant “get mine, fuck everyone else” attitude here.
It makes me so sad. The more I learn about my country the more I realize how evil we are and what we’ve done to this world. To their own citizens, depriving them of education, healthy food, good Healthcare, strong worker protections.
What a cesspool of greed we’ve grown up in.
I really appreciate the influx of new users. My feed has been way more lively lately and the amounts of upvotes some posts get is quite amazing.
yeah we can start making new communities and be admins ourselves because there is going be a hella lot clients
I didn’t even know upvotes could have four digits before.
Hopefully we’ll see PeerTube grow as well
I joined the fediverse during the reddit API disaster and so far I’ve been enjoying it more than most of Reddit
There’s no substitute for my local subreddit, or some of my hobby ones. But my favorite mod got usurped during the protest and it all went to shit after, so I miss it but I don’t feel the need to go back.
Making and sharing start trek memes here has gotten me through some shit.
Lemmy feels like old Reddit, with actual useful information and conversation. I’m definitely enjoying it more so far, but I do miss the sheer volume of Reddit, and also some of the silliness
Honestly I think the worst part about Lemmy right now is that it’s still wayy too loud about hating Reddit. It kinda feels like it exists just for the sake of not being Reddit instead of actually being its own platform
Welcome to lemmy!
I agree, I think because there are fewer people the community vibes are stronger.
There are plenty of silly communities if you can find them. I like tenforward and dullsters (formerly dull men’s club). The historic memes subs are surprisingly popular, programming humour gets a lot of engagement too. There are trek and LoTR memes, and a lot of webcomics get posted (but don’t have the creator community of reddit).
As long as the silliness is in good taste, I say be the change you want to see and people will follow.
Hopefully we don’t get an Eternal September sort of effect though
“I really hope people with interests or skills thst diverge from my own don’t show up”
I’m okay to deal with a small Eternal September if we reach 75-100k monthly active users
I think there’s still a little bit of a barrier to entry for probably 7/10 people. Most people don’t really understand the Fediverse concept. They just register on the first instance they come across and think of it as all of Lemmy. We need to do a better job explaining it.
Feel free to have a look at !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com. The pinned posts discuss that topic
