• throbbingpens@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I ended up getting a tildes.net invite too. The UI is a lot more polished over there. But the devs are being really cautious with managing user load, so it’s not public/open yet.

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      1 year ago

      They’re also dynamically adding communities (the idea is that people will post to, say, sports.gunners and then once that gets popular enough it would get split off into its own community), which is a good idea, but it’s nice to be able to make your own from the get-go.

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        I think it’s a smart way to manage scaling your site but I think what made Reddit unique (and what Lemmy is replicating) is the ability to create your own little bubble in the world no matter how niche. I was aware of Tildes and still chose Lemmy instead for that reason.

        Honestly, I’m starting to prefer the smaller community here on /c/gunners even compared to /r/gunners. Feels a little more personal.

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          I signed up for Tildes, Kbin, and Lemmy but that’s just because I wanted to be on the trains early. I don’t mind Tildes for general discussion (i.e. what video games are you playing or what’s your opinion about this world event) but I don’t think I’d enjoy talking about something that only affects us (Pepe being sold) on Tildes. I’m glad we have some semblance of options post-exodus.

          As to your last point, I’m liking it a lot too, perhaps because there’s a smaller percentage of lurkers? There’s such a small population we all have to pitch in to get anywhere near what r/gunners was like. At least that’s my theory.

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      1 year ago

      From what I’ve read invited users can invite newer users themselves. Would you mind passing me an invite? I don’t know if there’s messaging here on Lemmy yet; guess you can DM on Reddit (same username)

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        Oh for sure, I can invite you! I deleted my accounts on Reddit (in protest, I only used Reddit because of Apollo). I think I just sent you a message through Lemmy. If that didn’t work, I can send it to you another way if you can think of another way.