maybe they tried the fediverse when it was bad or didn’t have apps, I think before lemmy my experience was mastodon many years ago and I was confused because I thought it was supposed to be like discord the way ppl talked about instances not twitter, and even when I joined I didnt realize they interconnected til I joined lemmy years later lol, thought it was so weird having mini worse twitter that doesnt connect.

And in lemmy’s case I weirdly associated it with voat and lag, then I joined and was suprised at the left leaning (significantly lol) userbase that actually provided helpful suggestions instead of telling me to google and actually getting replies for most posts/comments instead of them being lost in to the void.

(reactor used to be free and would extend it a lot only works on studio now) btw I pirated it, its very easy to do on linux just one reddit post where you copy and paste 3 commands into the terminal after downloading the official studio version from their site, eventually I might buy some hardware from them for around 300 since you get free studio with it.

Davinic is paid but its a one time fee and pretty solid on linux, no issues transitioning for the modst part, some reactor plugins are incompatible like shaderotoys

New cascadeur update just killed inbetweenjng jobs if its as good as the trailer, but uh I think this is a case where ai good, like yeah jobs lost but the time saved is wild for indie animators

But obv the smartest most helpful ppl on any given topic have old reddit accounts with a lot of karma so they can post? That prob killed amas too, celebs prob didnt have enough karma to make a post

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I got a note on my phone saying delete reddit its not the same 4 months before my ban, but I def had no intention of actually leaving til I was banned, I always hoped it could change for the better and theyd reverse the negative shit not double down

I was already swapping preban but the ban forced me to swap, I dont lurk on reddit anymore or view posts like i did the first month or so (its uninstalled and only used on google rarely, since forums and even quoro are somehow better for useful info again), so I think I like lemmy more lol

The userbase is better, top comments opinion matches mine here, I go into a thread and I never feel the need to argue here, very different experience to modern reddit, close to reddit like 12 years ago.

to bad vrs got a hold and vrchats so much worse than the internet chatrooms we grew up with

no one does that mentioning tho, I dont want to flood communities with only my posts

But its actually usable, pixelfed sucks, prob way more actual engagement and conversation here, pixelfed is hella ppl posting with no likes or views

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