SlayersFan

og internet rocked, forums and IRC, I was a loser with no friends at school, but online I found my people, nowdays everyone is online and this is kinda gone (at least in mainstream social media apps)

But it might be a matter of organizing people into different "servers", my only worry is this being a thing that could be hard, so it's kinda better to only invite "selected people", meaning online friends you feel would be a good fit for the community.

I actively use reddit as Lemmy is small and lacks a bunch of the communities I like, but I'm making it a point to use a bit of Lemmy every day, even if it is to put one comment or one upvote in

I feel that if people are committed to staying active on this platform it will remain at a steady number of people and slowly grow, and as it grows more, it becomes more and more enticing to post as you know they'll be more interaction due to having more users, snowballing so to speak into being a bigger platform.

That sounds awful, I really hope it's not a "forever thing", Idk where I stand when it comes to politics, but I feel it would be stupid to dismiss an ENTIRE ideology and say "nothing inside of this box labeled capitalism/communism will ever be useful".

I'd like for people to be civil and discuss the virtues of X or Y policies inside an ideology, kinda hate that if you are a leftie you can't be anti abortion.

Like who decided that? I don't like the idea of happy-meal-ideologies where if you subscribe to a particular ideology you are opted in to all that's inside it and its frowned upon for you to deviate from it.

We were on a queue with 100+ other people, nothing crazy was gonna happen, I understand how a guy might be into someone younger and cuter, but one thing is that, and another way different is to act on such an impulse, ignoring all common sense.

Not defending pedos cause they are creepy as fuck, met my fair share on IRC back in the day, but you have to be a special kind of person not only to be into kids, but to openly put your hands on someone in a completely public space where everyone is actively seeing what you are doing.

If I could get on a upvote loan to upvote it twice I would, this is sick haha

Agree 100%, but when I mean normies I'm not only referring to people that like football over retro DOS game crt plugins discussion forums.

I mean like people who don't really engage in that much critical thinking in general and just want to hang out without much thought, like yk, reddit people (ofc not all reddit users are like this, but if you ever tried to have any type of argument you know what I'm talking about, if you even need a refresher on your logical falacies for a class, reddit's always got your back)

I was around 15 years old, in an anime convention, while waiting on queue and nervous, I started talking to the guy next to me, he was around 30-35. I don't remember the details but we ended up on the topic of the anime Kuroshitsuji for some reason, and while explaining something about that show or another anime (can't remember as it's been a long time) he grabbed my tshirt and pulled me close to him, like super close to his face.

It was ever so slightly awkward to be hit on by a guy with 20 years up on me, while not even giving him any indication that I wanted anything other than a normal small talk conversation, even if we were to ignore the age gap.

If you hand made this one rn you are a pretty cool guy, but if you had it saved up and ready to use you're based.

With a user base so small as Lemmy has right now you kind of have to bunch up together to try and get some interaction going, as you grow, you can afford to spread out more.

No use in being in a cool super niche Lemmy instance/community if it has like 50 monthtly users and one post every 2 months (you can argue it MIGHT be worth it, but what I'm trying to say is that it's better for a community to be big enough, as for it to have daily if not hourly posts and MORE interactivity than the other way around)

I mean I was waiting to see how shitty the apple tv neuromancer adaptation would be next year, but at this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if we end up pushing random Timmys into becoming techies and netrunners. Life imitates art I guess.

Not sure if that info is available or even possible to filter out, but i think this happens in every social media site

According to FediDB there has been a 1.7% growth this month. Meaning 244,051 new accounts have been created on fediverse on the past 30days. Almost 250thousand people in a month. I'm sure this is completely coincidental