Looking for an alternative to reddit

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Cake day: July 28th, 2023

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  • If it doesn’t work out, it’s fine. Soooo many first dates don’t work out. It’s painful to date and it’s normal.

    I would have the attitude that you are just going to meet this person and it’s not a huge deal if it doesn’t work out. Don’t put pressure on yourself that this is going to be some magical moment. It’s just a person on the other side, with lots of flaws and insecurities and may even not be a nice person.

    Try to chill and see if you are a good fit together. If not, it’s fine.

    It’s all about if you are a good fit together. Maybe you go there and she is annoying and awful. It’s possible. So just relax.




  • I think its been interesting to watch. What has happened is that there is now a super large instance in Lemmy.world, and a handful of smaller ones with above a thousand users.

    The promise of proper decentralization didn’t really happen. There are hundreds of small instances but they are not self contained and completely depend on the larger ones to get content.

    Defederation seems to be common since admins don’t want to deal with moderating hostile conversations, which makes a lot of sense. But it also makes it a echo chamber to some degree. We see mostly memes and jokes instead of meaningful discussions. So it’s great for a fun time but not so much more than that.

    Still, I’m happy it’s an alternative to reddit and those shitty services. I love that it’s run by ordinary people and not tech companies. And no ads or tracking. All good stuff.








  • The average old person perhaps. Young people are not afraid of change in most cases. They don’t have that barrier of thinking learning something new is difficult. It just happens as they click around. And they have friends, and they ask their friends. Just like we did when we were young. I don’t think you asked your dad how to use windows… :)

    I honestly think that if you would have Linux on laptops and you gave it to young people, they would have no problems finding out how to install programs and use the web browser. And that’s the start of the learning experience.