2 years on lemmy - sparking joy
Today is my second cake day on lemmy!
There are exciting things on the horizon the rapid innovation of piefed, the addition of lemvotes, the amazing tesseract, the useful lemmy-federate, the comfort of voyager... lemmy has lots of promise.
Over these two years I've found some recurring characters here that I enjoy seeing, kinda a small town vibe - I like that.
This is a great place to be!
What do you like about lemmy?
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Recognising recurring characters is part of the charm for me, too. And also:
While your typical lemming's behaviour is not perfect, it's still leagues above your typical redditor's. For a start I used to dread the orange mail icon... as I saw it I immediately thought, "oh great here comes a dumb fuck distorting what I say". The bell icon is still a positive for me.
My own behaviour has been positively affected. [cat analogy] I didn't declaw myself, but I don't feel as much of a need to extend my claws as before. [/cat analogy] In Reddit I used to pick fights all the time, I simply don't see the need to do so here, even when exposed to the same annoyances as before.
Once your feed is curated, it's mostly fun stuff? I do see some politics, but not as much to feel like it's only political discussion here.
I actually trust the admin of my current instance to do what's the best for the users, within his capabilities. I couldn't trust the Reddit admins to die properly. And when the worst came to pass (disagreeing with how the admins of my older instance handle users), I know I don't need to either ditch everything or suck it up.
Once your feed is curated, it’s mostly fun stuff?
Absolutely : Setting block keywords, blocking communities you don't like is critical for having a good lemmy experience. Drinking from the firehose of everyones interest can both be overwhelming and monotonous sometimes.
I've removed all politics, all memes, all internet drama from my feed and I don't think I could go back.
From that, I guess you're browsing by "All"?
My approach was different: I browse by "Subscribed", and I'm subbed to ~200 comms. It takes a bit more effort but it allows me to have finer control over what I see, for example I subbed to one or two political and memes comms - it's just enough to get myself informed, but not enough to flood my feed.
Before lemmy-federate you couldn't get a community to your instance unless someone subscribed to it, so I was subscribing to everything... and my subscriptions wasn't curating my experience.
My community block list is MASSIVE, heh.
Ah, got it - I didn't realise you're running a personal instance. Now it makes sense what you're doing.