Can we all stop the in-fighting for a minute and realise how awesome the platform we are on is?

We are forming communities on the realized image of the internet that we were told we would have back in the 80s and 90s.

You can make your own home on the web and have your own niche community, not owned by any corporation, while still being connected to the wider internet.

This feels like something out of a sci-fi movie.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    Not sure where you’re hanging out that you’re seeing infighting.

    Also, I’ve been living in the Internet you describe since 1990. All it takes is intentionally saying no to the corporate offerings; there have been self-hosted and crowd-hosted communities the entire time.

    Every once in a while I miss Fidonet though.

    • TrontheTechie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Fidonet was dope. Something magical about dialing (mostly) local and being able to see stuff so far flung it would cost you hundreds in long distance premiums normally.

      Even if you weren’t a hacker in the modern sense, it was such a good hack in the old school sense that you couldn’t help but feel 1337.

  • nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devEnglish
    121·
    1 year ago

    The software is a little clunky but this is everything I dreamed of when I got half way through making a peer-to-peer reddit clone in 2015 and gave up lol

  • sauna7843@lemmy.ml
    8·
    1 year ago

    It has been quite emotional to see this community grow! I was a lurker here when Lemmy only had hundreds of users and to see such a vibrant and diverse set of instances form has been wonderful! I hope to see this platform returning some of the nostalgia from the Golden Age of the Internet. An internet for fun!

  • IWriteDaCode@programming.dev
    8·
    1 year ago

    Fediverse is old-school internet! With some twists of course, but having new school social media in a decentralized way is great. The good & bad thing is there’s a higher filter for getting on, so people here are nerdy and techy, but most ‘normals’ might not take the time.

  • mindfultameprism@lemmy.one
    6·
    1 year ago

    This place is fantastic. I’m still working on convincing my husband that it’s going to take the place of Reddit but I’ll wear him down. He thinks because a lot of the posts only have a few comments and 20 or so up votes, it’s not a valid community. I think it’s just getting started and it’s exciting to be here early.

    • Thurgo@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’m really enjoying the relative lack of content and what feels like an absence of astroturfing or bot content and votes. Way less dillholes and the interactions I see are generally meaningful and kind. I’m slowly building my subscription list of communities and can check in on top posts for the day in the morning and evening. I really felt a compulsion to read most of the posts for the day on my few favorite subreddits (mostly picture based so lots of cool shit to look at and get inspired by). I have those communities set up in an RSS feed for when I’m looking to scroll through stuff.

    • rmspc@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Any community is a valid community, if there’s 20 upvotes that’s still 20 people who saw, enjoyed, and gave it some time, and that matters on the modern internet where there’s a bit more gatekeeping than usual!

    • coldv@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      It is not as resourceful for asking a specific technicial question, but other than that, I am actually enjoying the smaller communities. It feels a lot more civil.

      • Kalabasa@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I remember when they switched the formatting of vote numbers, e.g., from 5,238 to 5.2k, and realized it’s getting mainstream (which is not bad in itself, but… there’s something with a small community).

  • Ramin Honary@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    We are forming communities on the realized image of the internet that we were told we would have back in the 80s and 90s.

    Exactly! Back in the 80s, tech enthusiasts would run their own dial-up message boards in their homes. The Fediverse is like that, but with all the benefits of modern technology. Anyone can run their own instance if they have a decent internet connection (usually fiber). But it is more than just message boards: they can run Lemmy, Mastodon, Wordpress, and even things like Tor and NextCloud, and instantly contribute their computing resources to the larger Fediverse community.

  • Xer0@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    That’s why I like this place. Feels very old school somehow. And it’s an actual protocol, like back before everything was the same handful of companies running everything with their own BS software.

    • sauna7843@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      The freedom of expression is relieving and oddly something I forgot existed. There has been so much censorship and polticial correctness that it has ruined what made the old internet fun.

      I would love to see Youtube be next in federation migration!

  • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    I keep telling my wife how awesome the Fediverse is. She doesn’t share the same sentiment I do, but she also doesn’t care about Reddit. I’ll win her over one day.

    • 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 year ago

      we just need to find her brand of community and have you show her a few posts a day. Whats she into - succulents? scary stories? funny videos? CATS?

      we can do this