The relief when I open up Lemmy or Mastodon. It feels like coming home to an experience I didn’t realise I was missing. Lemmy has grown enough now that I can look at my feed throughout the day and there will be interesting posts, all with engaging comments and conversations. It’s like the internet I grew up on, only better: it’s ran by the people, for the people.
Obviously, that doesn’t mean the fedi isn’t plagued with issues. But it feels fundamentally more culturally healthy than whatever the fuck is going on in big corpo social media.
Lemmy specifically feels like reddit circa 2017 to 2019 and I like it a lot. Its just people posting stuff that’s interesting. While reddit had a like, social hierarchy thing, especially with the reddit gold stuff, Lemmy is a lot better at feeling more community focused.
I think this is what I love. Whenever I open up Lemmy, it’s like a portal to 7 or 8+ years in the past. To when not everything was engagement driven slop (even tho it was well under way to becoming that back then).