• zaphod@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I wonder how long it’ll take before we finally collectively reject the SV ethos that size is the only metric that matters and success is only achieved via monopoly…

    There was a time when Usenet and BBBses and IRC was tiny and yet people still found value through community in those places.

    Maybe, and I know this is a wild idea, platforms don’t have to include every human on the planet to be meaningful, relevant, or valuable.

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      7 months ago

      I was an avid Reddit user but dropped it like a stone in the kerfuffle - it took a while but Lemmy has now replaced that 90%

      I’d love to see a content propagation analysis.

      My sense is that a ton of new memes are first shared on Lemmy then shared across to other social media.

      …Ok, so the niche forums don’t have critical mass yet, and you’d have to post to some general thread to get any response - but all the cool and thoughtful people are here, so the level of general discourse is higher, I love it.

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      7 months ago

      Lately I’ve been seriously thinking about resurrecting my FidoNet node. It looks like FidoNet still exists!

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      7 months ago

      I hear this one loud and clear. I was on the internet in 95, and worked in SV for 20 years, and when I saw the small number for Lemmy in this graphic it made me happy.