It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
I am still interested in explaining it too just because I think it’s cool. The best luck I’ve had was to to point out a username belonging to a different server and then opening up that server in a browser and explaining that “so when they go on lemmy they visit lemmy.world, and here’s their home feed, but I visit lemmy.ca, with this home feed. though we can still see [mostly] the same posts in the all feed, and talk to eachother like {insert email example}.”
Something about pointing out the server’s url helps. Like if there was only lemmy.world in the whole world it would still function, but the all feed would be the same as the home feed.