Today is my third year anniversary of joining lemmy. Time flies, feels like yesterday.
It’s been a good use of time - on the whole. Lemmy requires heavy curation to make the feed suitable, but once that is done its fairly breezy.
In year 1 I quickly gave up on any reasonable political discussion here. That helped alot.
I’ve grabbed coffee/lunch with three lemmies, all great people. the crazies don’t outnumber the normal people, but it feels like it sometimes. Joel noticed the same thing in hiring - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/
I’m hopeful for the future of lemmy, with the 1.0 software making some much needed community tools widely available.
Lemmy is a much smaller place then it was 3 years ago, it does give me a sense of community (even if i am neighbors with the crazies).
What happened 3 years ago? Why is it smaller now?
It was when reddit killed (or tried to kill) 3rd party apps.
Lots of folks, me included, couldn’t be bothered with the official reddit app which was pretty poorly done compared to other mature apps.
Edit: As to why it’s smaller now - I have no real evidence but I’d guess he is saying people migrated back to reddit.
Ahh. That makes sense. I forgot about that. That’s when I basically stopped using Reddit but I wasn’t aware of this alternative at the time.