It’s so weird, I don’t even notice the lack of ads most of the time (pihole, never leave home, so it’s roughly the same experience I'm used to)

But when I go out? Oh man fediverse is the only site I’ll use because I know it’s safe from ads. The other privacy/user-focus stuff is just a bonus.

(I don’t have any friends around here, so just sort of go out to be out, and usually for food)

I’m doing my part too!

I have many, many sovereign citizens to keep us alive.

It's what we all loved about the internet I think, before the web become... "that" (looking at the pile of shit the web has become).

But actually it's not the web, not really. It's the big tech platforms that most people seem to think is the internet now. It's sad to watch how people log on to "Facebook" and not the general web anymore. And then Google in front of everything, like a big cancer growth.

Lemmy is not the new internet either I believe. But it's here to show people that something else can exist. As soon as we let advertising in here though, it's over.

I enjoyed reading this. I came over from reddit when they started banning people for protesting. That showed me that reddit was not what I thought it is.

I‘m a techy person. I run servers for friends and customers, partly with fediverse services on them. Lemmy being one of them. I donate both time and money to lemmy and other services I enjoy and use.

The fediverse is a great thing imo. I hope it succeeds.

Gonna be honest, a lot of times I feel like I don't belong here, I'm still figuring things out.

I left reddit when they fucked over Joey (my preferred reddit app)

Are you me? I thought I was relatively tech-savvy, and then I moved to Lemmy. Also, Joey was the best.

It's easy to feel that way even if you are a techy. It seems like being minimally neurodivergent is the abnormal here.

That being said, I've been introduced to many different ways of thinking that I wouldn't have gained otherwise. Think of it like you're different, but that's ok because everyone here is different - and that makes them (and you) all the more beautiful for it (especially in the context of idea exchange). In fact, being the different one here will give you the perspective that many of the people who use Lemmy experience simply by existing which, in and of itself, is a valuable thing.

Too busy abusing their mod powers to enforce their political views in most communities.

This is what Lemmy is all about, right here. Just a good, honest nutsack taking a simple shit.

Same

I'm in my 20s, is that considered youth?

I'm OP and I'm 50 and female.

Teamwork makes the dream work.

Im just here for the memes

Hey, shitposts are like manure that helps other posts grow.

Yeah, but we've been on this stressful ride before, and we know where it ends.

There were lots of attempts at a closed source proprietary Internet protocol. They have all resoundly failed, after looking unbeatable. Some folks still fondly remember the closed Internet protocols like OLE COM, ActiveX, Flash, Cold Fusion, and SilverLight, but few of us miss them. Okay, I do miss Flash games.

Good touchscreen phone operating systems were a "will this ever be matched?" trade secret at Blackberry and Apple. Now the vast majority of phones run open source Android.

Much earlier, most good-enough C compilers were expensive proprietary closed source products. Now I see very little being compiled on anything other than the free and open source GCC. Even most other programming languages and tools are now FOSS, as well. I can't think of much for development that cracks the top 20 that isn't FOSS. JetBrains IDEs stand out as a lone closed source hold-out.

Open standards always win, in the end.

The desktop computing default is honestly way overdue to switch to FOSS. That's why it's the year of the Linux desktop.

The Fediverse is here to stay, and is all that'll be left in a couple decades. But in the meantime, it's cozy!