12 years on Reddit - joined in the big Digg meltdown. Deleted both my Reddit accounts this morning. Feel better already. Lets hope the Fediverse really is the fix for big corp owning the online “common space” . .
It’s been really lovely here. This is honestly the first time in recent memory that I haven’t had to carefully curate everything to filter out the absolute shite. I’ve enjoyed having a slower paced place to keep up with news and just have a chat
Not wanting to start a rivalry or anything (really, choice is the great thing about the fediverse!) but while we’re small wouldn’t it be best to back !ukcasual since it’s much more established?
The possibility for multiple communities is definitely not a drawback especially as the platform grows, but for now it’s good to have everyone aware of the communities that are out there.
I’m definitely staying subscribed to both (and the one on kbin as well).
Potentially, yeah. I guess we’re all still trying to figure out how we want Lemmy to work. Probably a lot of people are loooking for a drop in replacement for Reddit and want it to work as close to that as possible.
Personally, I’m quite against centralisation, quite enjoying the smaller communities and slower pace, and love that we have a UK instance, with UK content by people from the UK, and I wish the other UK communities and users were all here with us. I’m not massive fan of how I feel American culture is eroding British culture, but thats a different essay 😂.
So cannibalising smaller communities and encouraging people towards the bigger ones on Lemmy.world isn’t my ideal. If the price to pay is some people are double-posting content across both (or all 3 or 4 Casual UKs) for maximum upvotes or something, and I have to scroll past that, that’s fine by me.
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