So basically I’ve pretty much stopped using reddit as I’ve noticed it getting worse and worse over the past few years, and probably even longer. The main thing that kept me on there was the subreddit for my favorite sports team, but I’ve since found a pretty active online forum that sort of re-creates the enjoyment I got out of discussing them on reddit. I’d like to find something like to simulate the rest of reddit too. I used to love posting on certain forums back in the day, but I don’t even know where to start looking. Something like a general use forum, preferably populated by millenials, with discussions about whatever. Movies, music, pop culture, sports, politics, random internet bullshit, whatever. I think it would be great to kind of re-create the sense of seeing new stuff like on reddit, but with a much smaller community.

EDIT: I understand that Lemmy can be viewed as an answer to this question, but it’s not for me. I’m looking for an actual forum, with a sense of community. The whole decentralization aspect of the Feidverse seems great to prevent enshittification, or to prevent a billionaire from buying and tanking the place, but I don’t really see it ever appealing to normal, non tech savvy people.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    8·
    5 days ago

    The whole decentralization aspect of the Feidverse seems great to prevent enshittification, or to prevent a billionaire from buying and tanking the place, but I don’t really see it ever appealing to normal, non tech savvy people.

    There’s nothing “tech savvy” about lemmy. It’s like picking email: pick a website, signup, …, that’s it.

    • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      I totally get the tech savvy feeling. There’s usually too much information and options. With email it is easier to say “pick one at random, they are all the same”. Lemmy seems very different at first, you see a big list of instances, each one with it’s descriptions, some of them stating ideals and visions, it feels like a more important choice than what it is.

      All this even before reading anything about defederation!

      Most people needs that first choice made for them and figure thing out once inside.

      • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        What is Lemmy in one sentence?

        Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit, you can visit https://phtn.app/ to have a look at the content, and install an app using https://vger.app/settings/install.

        The more detailed explanation

        That was the very easy version. No need to understand federation, servers, or any technical jargon.

        If you are still reading, it means that you want to know more about how things are running.

        https://old.reddit.com/r/BoycottUnitedStates/comments/1jrcrh6/lemmy_as_an_nonus_alternative_to_red_dit_using/

        !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com for people interested in that topic

      • atro_city@fedia.io
        11·
        4 days ago

        It’s a community choice. Has nothing to do with “tech savvy”. There are generalist communities, language orientated communities, activity orientated communities, and many more. Presenting it as a “technological choice” is just a meme at this point. It’s like saying “I want to live Paris because they speak French and love the night life” vs “you know what, I like beaches more and the island life where people are more about easy living, so I’ll go to Zanzibar”. But people frame it as if they had to choose the city because of the altitude, soil composition, which hemisphere it is on, the greenhouse ppms, and the wetbulb temperature. And then it’s repeated ad nauseam to keep the meme alive.

        Stop helping Facebook and Reddit by framing it as a technological choice. It’s a cultural one. “idgaf” --> take a generalist website. “I’m queer and it’s important” --> LGBTQIA+ website. “bits and bytes for me please” --> technological website. “I just can’t stop cumming” --> NSFW website.