Daily Discussion Thread: Thu 27 Jul 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Thu 27 Jul 2023
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lol'd at the old-man rant on r/melbourne - wiener.
So I get the yelling at clouds thing and there’s nothing more classic than redditor complaining about reddit on reddit.
There’s no way you could know this but that’s exactly the kind of user I target when I champion Lemmy and our awesome community here.
Here you have a person who may or may not post often but took the time to write about the degradation (real or perceived) of r/Melbourne. They seem to care about some semblance of quality for an online community. Which we have here.
prime candidate to drop a line to.
Now. If and when they come poking around the DT here, what comments might they see.?
I like you and you ad value here so please don’t take as a personal attack just an observation.
Oh oh! I know! ✋ They'll see me having a giggle about it! He seems like a cool dude from the comments they made on the post, and he does have a point. But really, there is a lot going on in Melbs but not every Melbournian is on reddit, nor will they post about the events. So yeah, r/melbourne is going to be full of "what was that bang", "helicopter above my house", "look at this weird bug/amphibian I saw", which yeah, isn't really melbourne but it also kind of is iconically melbourne
I hope more users come over, and I will try my best to be a welcoming user. 🤗
Personally, I miss the grade school humour and larrikin shitposting. There’s none of that in this instance and it feels weird without it.
@useless_modern_god @StudChud I was one of those who only ever popped into r/melbourne when there was a specific local reason to. A bit like Whirlpool forums but not for tech, just for local Melbourne-specific stuff.
I like the integration of these more general conversations about general Life Stuff here, and feel like there's a lot more that I am likely to comment on if a question is one I can answer / have some experience with.
I like the !Melbourne vibe and because it's in my main Fediverse feed, I see content that I just wouldn't have gone to r/melbourne for.
Yeah same. I’ve only been on the DT for a couple of years now and love the fact many people moved to Lemmy. Contributing content doesn’t feel as daunting here.
Do you mainly post on mastodon?
@useless_modern_god yup... I used to be very active on Reddit between 2017-2019, experimented briefly with Mastodon in 2018, but moved here pretty permanently when Space Karen bought Twitter last year. it's been fascinating watching the new waves each time he does a new idiotic thing, and the #Rexxit wave was even more exciting as it brought a different crowd and boosted the #Threadiverse, which is really good for the Fediverse ecosystem. I'm now experimenting with #firefish but am not sold yet, though the UI is very slick.
The twitter type platforms must be receiving heaps of new people lately. I’m not really seeing that first hand because mainly post here and Kbin. Also just got an invite to Tildes recently so that keeps me busy.
What does firefish do that Mastodon doesn’t?
@useless_modern_god yup, it's such a bizarre period on social media right now.
Firefish is based on a fork of Misskey, a popular Fediverse microblog platform in Asia, especially Japan.
It's graphically quite pretty, and I've been told it allows Quote Boosts though I haven't worked quite how on the instance I created an account on...
Oh true? I lurked on Misskey for a bit. Might check it out thank you.
In "his day". What, 2018? her her her. Old man yells at cloud.
Remember the good old days when reddit was full of misogynists and incels?
...wait
I used to love commenting, "found the incel." They love that too apparently.
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!!