Title basically. I was here at the very start of it all and really enjoyed it. However I felt it lost its uniqueness within a few months of mass migration and started turning a bit like reddit again so I deleted my old account. However Reddit has only gotten much much worse since, and Lemmy has stayed about the same. So here again.

  • Damarus@feddit.org
    178·
    2 days ago

    Diversity has increased by a lot. It’s not just circlejerking about Linux anymore. Only positives in my book.

    • ChexMax@lemmy.world
      98·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, I feel like when I first came here every third post was about Linux and every third post was about star trek. A lot of the remaining third was beans. Now only every tenth post is Linux and trek.

            • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              100% agree.

              What really sucks is seeing an interesting thread grow, say like 50 responses and 80% of them are good and legit. Then at some point the bad actors come along and a few hours later it’s 300 posts, with 90% of the new content being the bad actors telling off the original responders they are terrible people for what they said or how they are tacitly fascists for not throwing themselves on the spikes to fight facism.

              and of course, also reporting the interest and nuanced responses as hate speech trying to get them removed.

    • _spiffy@piefed.caEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I find a lot of the communities can be pretty negative. Lots of people talking about how bad things are. It would be nice to see more positive outlooks. But maybe that’s just a sign of the times.

      • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        if you try to talk about positive things they downvote you into oblivion, and/or comment about how stupid and wrong you are or you’re an ignorant boomer or you’re a rich privileged jerk.

        you’re not allowed to be happy or enjoy anything if they are miserable. miserable people want everyone to be miserable with them.

        • EvenOdds@lemmy.zip
          1·
          1 day ago

          Be the change you want to see! Stick with the positivity and don’t worry what other people say, you can do it! Don’t look at down votes, or better still move to an instance that doesn’t accept down votes if it bothers you.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 days ago

      true and the lunatic leftist fantasists have been put back in their box, but the population is less than 5% of what it peaked at in the early days