Well go tell them that!

Welcome! Honestly Lemmy is so chill and you don’t feel sucked into it the way you do on Reddit.

Welcome! We’re really nice here. Stay a while.

So was mine. I mostly hung out in a largely gay men talker, and despite me being neither I made friends I still have today.

I predate IRC and even web pages. I used telnet talkers!

I’m OP and I’m 50 and female.

That’s it! I post a lot (you’re welcome all) and I feel like I have friends I talk to in the comments every day.

Firefish is gone, but Catodon has taken Its place.

I like it.

No you smell like communism.

Try Catodon instead. It’s a much better UI and federated.

Oh it’s no biggie if you use it to deremovedtify Google. It is there, after all. Just treat it like ghetto Wikipedia and don’t hang around. Haha.

I use Boost and it has ads. But they’re ignorable as a banner here and there, not constantly. I can live with that.

I started to think of Reddit as just an occasional Google search result necessary evil and have successfully ignored it ever since. Log off DKC, there’s a better world out there.

In all seriousness I think eventually conventional social media will start to feel very siloed like AOL did as more people join the fediverse. I can’t imagine using a site that I couldn’t look at everything from anymore, save for stupid ass Facebook which I do solely for sovcit material. Why would I want to look at crap ads and AI when I can be here?

Nah I’d post videos of them if that was the case.

I truly believe the fediverse is the future. People will tire of the AI and all that nonsense and fade away from all the big sites.

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

Really like being able to block the porn instances too. I don’t care if people want porn but I don’t like randomly running across it, I personally don’t care for it.

Ok! Amazing.