I imagine most of you stick to local but for the brave few who do browse all…
I’m new to Lemmy and fediverse and just wondering what it was like before? Has the “reddit exodus” caused a major shift in discourse or was it always more or less the way it is now?
Idk i wasn’t on lemmy b4 the redditors arrived.
yes. I mostly posted at hexbear the past 3 years which I’m not really counting as we were unfederated, but for a long time I’d check in on lemmy.ml occasionally and it was mostly a ghost town. For better and worse the reddit migration turbocharged lemmy’s growth.
It moved the political center of gravity to the right, as before lemmy was primarily a space filled with leftish open source communities and outright socialist/communist communities, while the new communities are much more likely to be standard US or EU liberals, and occasional conservatives.
but it’s still for the best, I still appreciate discourse moving to an open decentralized platform and away from corporate bullshit, even if it means I once again have to see a lot more dumb political takes
hexbear federated after the migration. but i imagine there are a lot more libs not used to being challenged by genuine leftists, as they are coming from the liberal walled garden of
I came from reddit to fmhy early in the exodus, then moved to blahaj when that shut down, and finally to here with the defed. Over those weeks, the amount of libs gradually increased to ever more obnoxious levels.
By the end of my time at blahaj I had people doing homophobia at me for suggesting bike riding
