I think an even more accurate analogy, but one that very few people these days will understand, is that Lemmy is like the connected BBS's of the late 80s and early 90s where each BBS had message boards, and users could communicate between each other. It was quite slow, being modem based, and usually only a nightly schedule for connecting, but it did work quite well.
bjwest
joined 2 years ago
Very little moderation and yet people behaved themselves, though of course the number of non-tech people on the net were far lesser as well so that certainly had something to do with it.
I remember the pre-AOL Internet, and what happened when AOL opened the gates to the masses. That was the day the civil internet died, and soon after the commercial internet devoured it, forever changing the way people can scam, deceive and show hate towards each other.
If some company or the government wants to charge me 3% to 10% or more to electronically pay, I'm writing them a check.
I moved to Reddit when Digg destroyed itself. It wasn't too hard to make the switch, although it did take a bit of getting used to. I imagine it'll be the same this time, or maybe a bit easier, as the format of lemmy.ml is not too different in appearance from Reddit.
Just searched for the original, and it no longer comes with a funnel or filter holder, and the number of filters seems to have been dropped to 100 as well. It seems to be a darker version of the clear now, but less than $40.
Greed ruins everything.