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[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Bluesky is just a knock-off version of Mastodon that is for profit. It claims to be decentralized yet the only instance running on their AT Protocol is Bluesky. Plus I've heard they plan on having an algorithm based feed, which just sounds like exactly what I'm trying to avoid.

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Just wait until lemmy gold drops

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I think 50% of reddit comments are bots lol. It feels like a time loop sometimes seeing the same posts, memes, jokes, etc all the time. It doesn't feel very authentic

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But what if the mods on a community go rogue? If the politics community in one instance goes to shit because of a corrupt mod, you can join one from another instance rather than have no option.

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Question as a new user: what would be the point or purpose in creating an account elsewhere if lemmy.ml has the c/ communities which are basically like subreddits that you can subscribe to? If I'm interested in specific topics, why not discuss those topics under their communities here rather than join a whole different instance for it?

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I think the very tiny barrier of entry to the fediverse helps keep it feeling mature. It's not flooded with teenagers who got their first phone like Reddit is

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah it exists, but it had only 10 members and one total post when I joined an hour ago. I just created a New York Giants community and I'm going to be posting to the NFL one throughout the season to help it grow!

An NBA community also exists at a similar size. I'll go ahead and create a Nets community for my team there.

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a Kobo owner, yes.

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (11 children)

SPORTS! The sports subreddits for specific leagues or teams were some of my most visited. I always hated r/NFL though because the mods only really allowed twitter links rather than legit discussion. I'm going to try and be as active as I can in the NFL and NBA communities here, and I might open some for my favorite teams.

This is actually a great opportunity to organically develop communities like r/NBAdiscussion but for other leagues. I always found reddit to be lacking a real football discussion subreddit, and r/NFL had such strict rules you couldn't even talk about relevant topics, such as EA and the NFL exclusive license (any Madden-related post would be auto-removed and told to post on r/Madden), and you also couldn't advertise an NFL discussion based sub anywhere either.

There's got to be an overlap between Lemmy users and sports fans! I can't be the only tech nerd who is interested in the fediverse and also loves American sports!

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I like visiting this library called Genesis

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

Honestly the meme page here might be really good. I've noticed over the years that meme subreddits always start out great until they become popular, and then they become really unfunny.

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