Something changed culturally between Usenet and the things that came after.

Me, who only started into online communities in the early 2000s:

But the extent to which the fediverse seems to like to do this stuff just seems really extreme to me, and a lot of times what it’s based on is just weird petty bullying nonsense.

Not saying that it isn’t a problem, but as someone who’s been Around™ online, this is pretty par-for-the-course stuff.

Ah, to remember the glory days of Livejournal and Tumblr… and don’t get me started back in the days when every fandom had a dozen sites which all hated each other for vague and extremely personal reasons.

Nice feature!

Artists require an audience if they’re going to share their work - otherwise we might as well just hang our works up on our fridge and be done with it.

Lemmy is a very small audience at present.