In part because it reminds me a bit of the old internet, with stuff being spread around everywhere.
Being “harder”* to understand than reddit, twitter or other big companies’ services is also a good thing, because people should remember that they have a brain and they should use it.
- “harder” because not everyone understands the fediverse right away, since usability is extremely similar
PS: ^superscript doesn’t work with phrases? at least not on preview^
I used the old site for more than a decade, and I remember when the highest upvoted posts on the frontpage had only 2K upvotes. Lemmy is at that point now and its future is full of potential.
When I first joined the old site, the top post all time was the one about the guy trying different things with rice (either that or the guy posing with asscracks at an MTG grand prix)
Reddit 0/10
Lemmy with rice 10/10
Oh man I remember the asscracks guy, that’s gotta be like ten years ago now?
It’s a bit of a shame the no-poop guy is no longer the top post on Lemmy.
Grand Prix Richmond Crackstyle