And to those that have been here for a while, how has your experience changed over the year(s)?

What has worked for you?
What do you see needs improvement in your chosen platform?

  • PM_me_your_doggo@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I joined two years ago after the Reddit API thing, full of hope and with bright eyes. I even got a couple of doggos in my PMs, which was nice. It got even better after I finally blocked enough weird porn communities so I stopped bumping into them all the time.

    Now I only open Lemmy when I’m having trouble sleeping at night. I browse All/Active, and 90% of what I see are bot news reposts about Trump doing something stupid or scary, or some “are .ml tankies” shitstorms.

    Also, I got banned on the Linux community at .ml and I have no idea why or even when it happened, which I actually find kind of funny.

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      9 hours ago

      after I finally blocked enough weird porn communities so I stopped bumping into them all the time.

      That does take awhile. We might need to start adding that to our “Welcome” pages.

      Welcome user. Due to the federated nature of Lemmy, there’s going to be a great deal of weird porn. You can block it. Let’s practice now…