When I was on Reddit I felt like my opinion didn’t matter. But here it just feels more open and free.

  • meyotch@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m making myself be active here. I’m learning to build my own lemmy instance on a VPS.

    I want there to be a sea change in social media. I want an authentic intellectual conversation. I was in college during the usenet era and found it easy to find mind expanding stuff there with a minimum of toxicity.

    My hope is the community and software mature steadily together until it is ready to handle a significant influx.

    Let’s not reward toxicity. We need to steer the conversation and the software development to reward quality engagement over quantity.

    • John@lemmy.sbs
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about hosting your own instance. I’m by no means an expert, but it would appear that I have successfully deployed my own.