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I've been exploring the fediverse and subbing and posting all over the damn place. Realizing lemmy can federate with kbin blew my mind. Not to mention the possibility of turning my old laptop into a personal server to host my own instance. Is this what it felt like to discover how the internet worked in the 90s?
I think this is the thing that made me stay on Lemmy and don't look back on Reddit. I'd imagine that the federation is not a totally new concept, but since i discovered it i'm feeling just like when i discovered the internet when i was 5 years old, i posted more here in the last 5 days than what i used to post on reddit in a year.
Could you talkmore about how your experience with Lemmy has brought back those feelings? I remember the sense of wonder I felt when browsing the web in the early '00s, when every personal website, PHP board and IRC community was unique and discovering a new website/community was really exciting. I still feel this sense of wonder when I visit content-rich websites from that era, such as amasci.com, https://atlas.limsi.fr/ and https://sciencemadness.org/talk/.
What I've seen from Lemmy brings me back to the early years of Reddit, but I'm yet to find anything that really brings back the way I felt when I started browsing the web. But maybe I just haven't explored enough?
I think for me Lemmy is providing a portal to those places because the content posted here tends to be more 'high effort digital garden' type links than low effort attention grabbers.
I dont think lemmy is necessarily doing anything to make this true, its just that its new and the people participating are more likely to be motivated by altruistic reasons, or just everyday human behavioral reasons, than the profit-making or attention-seeking we might see on 'popular' sites like reddit.
edit: however maybe the 'federated' nature will keep influence spread enough that the big system-gamers won't try to setup shop? we will see. Either way I like it here for now
Also, to be fair, there's much less of a system to game in the first place, because you don't have an overall karma score, so there's not really any incentive to karma farm.
I didn't realize that. Thats nice, no one liked karma farming.