A lot of questions on here are aimed at the reddit users experiences, but I’ve been wondering what the older users thought of his move. Are there any reddit cultures you are hoping do not come with the users? Are you confident or fearful of the growth coming from the reddit community? I’m curious how the reddit influx is changing these communities either for better or for worse.
My lemmy-age is 1 day (newborn). Serious question… just how old are the lemmy ancients?
Seen some accounts that are 2 years old, and topics 3 years old.
Must have been lonely…
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I’m also on a 4 year old account. Made it way back when this was still only dev.lemmy.ml and there was no federation.
I have mostly been sitting on the account, lurking occasionally, waiting for something like this to happen. Glad people are finally moving away from reddit
Yeah what the hell were those guys doing for years
I think the question you should be asking is what were you doing.
fair
Mine is 3 years old. Back then, I signed up but never really posted, just lurked for a while and went to explore Tildes instead. So yeah, didn’t really do anything. I remember there being a few enthusiastic users about open-source software but also a few tankies, which kinda turned me off it. But I’m glad Lemmy’s exploding with activity right now, as we got a more diverse userbase.
Honest question. What are tankies?
Originally, like someone said, it was a derogatory term for supporters of Khrushchev military intervention against a revolt in Hungary in 1956.
It is also used to pejoratively refer to a supporter of some leftist regimes, such as that of Stalin’s USSR, China, and North Korea (also Pol Pot’s Cambodia, probably). Are also a supporter of Putin’s Russia and its invasion of Ukraine.
Take of it what you will.
EDIT: One could even argue how leftist they even were/are. Or if it was only when it suited them.
t’s a derogatory term for far-left Marxist-Leninists (MLs). Some MLs proudly wear the label (see r/InformedTankie on reddit) since the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness. Basically, any sympathies with or presenting info contradicting mainstream propaganda about socialist states (USSR, PRC, DPRK) will have you branded “tankie”, i even just read a post from r/rust saying they dont want to move to any Lemmy instance because we’re a buncha tankies
Thank you comrade.
It’s a term originally used for anyone who supported Khrushchev’s intervention in Hungary. Now it’s a thought terminating term for anyone I don’t like that’s also to the left of me.
Lurked for a week and left, userbase was way too low. More new topics this past week than an entire month last time I logged on 2 years ago! I love it here now
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Damn man, that’s wild. I mean it makes perfect tsens but it always boggles my mind that there are these whole internet communities out there engaging with each other every day and I have no idea they even exist! I’ve barely used my reddit app (Boost, soon to RIP I assume) the last few days and it’s been refreshing. I miss the UI, but it’s nice seeing posts that aren’t just reposts of last week or a whatever ad in disguise is being forced down my throat. People feel real here and that’s been gond from reddit for years.
Close to 6 months for me. I came to the fediverse just over a year ago when Musk first made moves to take over Twitter, and then found lemmy around 6 months ago. This account is slightly younger than that though, because I started on lemmy.ml before we started this instance
Hardly ancient, but not new either.