I keep seeing the same names popping up. I think it’s rather cute!
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Somebody has to fill this place with content…
TL:DR; I agree and I love it here!
Yeah it certainly feels that way to me too. I can’t speak for the rest of the Fediverse platforms (Friendica, Misskey, Mastodon, etc.) but Lemmy is certainly a tight-knit, active and generally friendly group…
You should have seen how it was like here before May this year, when there were only a few dozen users that posted or commented anything at all across all servers, call that tight knit.
Still, I’m so proud of everyone for help in keeping a friendly vibe for the most part, and for user reporting and mod actions keeping trolls at bay. There was quite a bit of concern that when people migrated from Reddit en masse that it Lemmy would be taken over by the same uninspired drivel or become a Reddit repost site. What we got are very healthy meme and shitpost communities with shitposters who engage with commentors, tech news, politics, environment news with active discussions where people have disagreed with each other without getting in a complete rage about it, and cute animal pics like !aww@lemmy.world and !superbowl@lemmy.world.
There’s still progress to be made on parts of the technical, moderation and community sides. For my part, I’m trying to post more and my goal this year is to share a lot pictures of the cityscape to Lemmy.
Same ol’ faces… Almost has the feel of forums of yesteryear…
I wonder if others have some favourite posters that you they quite often?
For me, it’s @Stamets and ThePicardManuever but I’ve noticed a couple other prominent posters lately although their names haven’t stuck for me just yet.
Yup, it’s fun. And im happily blocking all the tankies in between the great people. Account name like StalinSomethingSomething… nope.
Yeah it’s like a village!
There’s two reasons for that:
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Lemmy is still small (compared to centralized social media).
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We all chose to be here instead of mainstream social media for a reason, so we’ve all got something in common.
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Yeh it does feel rather close. It’s quite nice honestly
According to one of the latest kurzgesagt videos we all should be in smaller communities like this and large ones like Facebook and Reddit are generally bad for our mental health.
It’s like back in the day of Internet forums. I don’t mind it at all.
Sometimes I feel like @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website literally keeps my feed (and all my subscriptions) alive. Thank you for your service 🫡
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That’s generally not a good thing…
That means it’s more likely to be an echo chamber or just bots auto posting…
You want a lot of diversity - within specific groups sure, the same names are fine but across groups that’s a bad sign.
why are “echo chambers” considered bad? i come to communities to chill and chat with like-minded people; not to argue and get into fights.
Well the simple reason is you can get stuck in certain world views or ideas which are wrong and hurt others.
In most cases you’re fine, like talking about your favourite TV shows or whatever. But it’s also easy to get stuck in a view like visiting your country’s instance and it turns out it’s a bit radicalised against immigrants, or certain places where you end up blaming everything on women and the “woke movement”.
In a lesser way it can get you stuck in toxic ideas (e.g., PC/Playstation/Windows/Xbox/Linux is better than the other one and you are dumb if you disagree!).
Just depends on the community at end of day, but the more echoey chamber it is, the more likely you’ll end up with those sorts of us VS them world views that are a bit blind and horribly biased.
It would be nice if lemmy.world mods followed that. I got my posted deleted for “supporting Imperialism” for arguing that focused attacks on Houthi terrorists is ok.
It could also intimidate other groups out.
I do admit, it is a bit of an echo chamber on here for some groups :(
