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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • i like the new layout, it feels more in line with what youtube is like on a phone. seems like it’ll be easier to scroll through comments while watching a video, as well as easier to ignore suggested videos until the content your watching is done. Then once the video is over, it’ll be easier to see a lot of videos at once, increasing the speed at which you’ll find something else you’re interested in. I’m not seeing any real downsides here, can someone help me understand ways this is worse? feels weird seeing all this hate and not getting it.


  • (I’m making this post so that people who love Lemmy can help me understand, not to hate. I want to love Lemmy)

    I’ve been on Lemmy since the reddit migration and every day I dislike it more.

    I never understand what people are talking about when they say they like Lemmy for the “closer community”, most posts I see barely have any comments, and the ones that are there mostly look no different to what I used to see on Reddit.

    the smaller community results in less posts about less topics, so it’s difficult for me to find anything I’m interested in. on Reddit I could join dozens of videogame-specific or niche hobby subs and they’d all be at least a little active, here it seems the only posts I can get to show in my feed are environmental and big tech doomerism and occasionally some Linux discussion, with very few memes or otherwise just funny/easy posts. I like talking about Linux, sure, but I don’t want a sinking feeling in my gut every time I wanna scroll idly.

    there just seems to be a lot of toxicity here on top of everything. I’m constantly seeing people arguing or being rude about Linux opinions, big tech/privacy topics, etc. I worry it’s a bit more of an echo chamber than reddit ever was for me as well. I feel there are just a lot of perspectives I’m not getting here.

    I left reddit because I hate the business decisions they’re making, but every day I get closer to going back. I don’t want to support such a shitty company that treats users more like cattle than customers, but I’m struggling to adjust to Lemmy even all these months later.