I’ve gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

… and I can’t access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

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    Man, this place definately has the vibe of an old timey BB forum. You recognise people in your replies like you used to. I find that I’m gawking at stats way less and I’m able to just talk to people. Engagement is way less, but maybe that’s a good thing.

    It’s so refreshing. It feels like the old internet

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      It really does feel like the old web again to a certain extent. I hope this “age of enshittification” leads to a throwback to the old web but I’m not convinced it will happen. I feel like Lemmy (and other federation platforms) are definitely our best shot at it :)

      Anyway, happy to be here :)

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        I would much rather have fewer more engaging conversations than the circus Reddit was. Sure it had more conversation but sometimes that felt more isolating since every comment became transactional noise. Really hoping I can find the sweet spot on Lemmy!

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          I certainly don’t miss every thread turning into bots arguing with each other about politics

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        Seeing this just felt like unlocking a bunch of core memories.

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      You recognise people in your replies like you used to.

      This is pretty cool. I’m still active on some older traditional forums, but I love this style of threaded discussions in comment trees here. So much easier to reply to an individual in wall-of-text discussions. I think we’ll also start recognizing each other by account birthdays, with a wave of folks all having similar ones in June and July. 📅

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        Ah, I wish I didn’t listen to those people saying that signing up to the fediverse was going to be complicated, then I would have synced my account creation date with my birthday.

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      old timey BB forum

      That’s why I have the Netscape profile pic lol