Title basically. I was here at the very start of it all and really enjoyed it. However I felt it lost its uniqueness within a few months of mass migration and started turning a bit like reddit again so I deleted my old account. However Reddit has only gotten much much worse since, and Lemmy has stayed about the same. So here again.
Lemmy feels about the same, but Reddit seems much worse.
Now to be fair I don’t know if Reddit is actually worse, because when I browse Reddit now it’s while I’m logged out and via a browser (force old.reddit.com and OldLander extensions). So the site is A) harder to navigate than it used to be and B) my experience is less curated and I see more crap and C) because my experience is less curated I’ve lost access to many of the niche communities.
As an example if I want to read some discussion about the recent Game of Thrones prequel series “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” I can find a small community here on Lemmy. Nice people, but too few of us.
So I go to Reddit. If I search I find r/AKOTSKTV which is fine, and I find r/GameOfThrones which is fine. But I have to know, as a previous Reddit user, that maybe r/ASOIAF is also a great choice. Or if I want some real shit r/freefolk is where the glory lives.
So for that universe I know where to go. But for a new series? For a new niche? For a new community? I don’t know shit. I’ve found some of the more niche communities by luck. That’s what I would have been subscribed to in the past. I would have been in the community and in the comments and discovery was natural.
But nowadays I just get the front page of Reddit, and the front page kinda sucks.
But Lemmy? Yeah it sucks sometimes too, but at least there is a community.
I didn’t even know that Lemmy was having any discussions about A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
While I no longer even have a Reddit account, I read hot takes after each episode on /r/asoiaf because I didn’t know where else to look for episode-by-episode discussions.
I guess shout-out to [email protected]
And since TV/film discussion is like 75% of the reason I use any of these sites shout-out to,
*(I mod these, so Liz Lemon high five.)
Consider me subscribed to [email protected] going forward! Cheers
Nowhere on the threadiverse is large enough to support that level of interaction, unfortunately.
You can help by using [email protected] though.
Knight of the seven kingdoms sucked ass. They put unnecessary random fart jokes everywhere and totally flubbed the mood of the original already very compelling story.
The acting and casting was solid but I wish they just would have told the story straight.