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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • (I’m making this post so that people who love Lemmy can help me understand, not to hate. I want to love Lemmy)

    I’ve been on Lemmy since the reddit migration and every day I dislike it more.

    I never understand what people are talking about when they say they like Lemmy for the “closer community”, most posts I see barely have any comments, and the ones that are there mostly look no different to what I used to see on Reddit.

    the smaller community results in less posts about less topics, so it’s difficult for me to find anything I’m interested in. on Reddit I could join dozens of videogame-specific or niche hobby subs and they’d all be at least a little active, here it seems the only posts I can get to show in my feed are environmental and big tech doomerism and occasionally some Linux discussion, with very few memes or otherwise just funny/easy posts. I like talking about Linux, sure, but I don’t want a sinking feeling in my gut every time I wanna scroll idly.

    there just seems to be a lot of toxicity here on top of everything. I’m constantly seeing people arguing or being rude about Linux opinions, big tech/privacy topics, etc. I worry it’s a bit more of an echo chamber than reddit ever was for me as well. I feel there are just a lot of perspectives I’m not getting here.

    I left reddit because I hate the business decisions they’re making, but every day I get closer to going back. I don’t want to support such a shitty company that treats users more like cattle than customers, but I’m struggling to adjust to Lemmy even all these months later.


  • i found their site and in confused by this part of their intro page:

    “That was how the idea started to grow in my head. After that, I began to find existing solutions in the self-hosting space with similar backup functionality and the performance level of the App-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named. I found that the current solutions mainly focus on the gallery-type application. However, I want a simple-to-use backup tool with a native mobile app that can view photos and videos efficiently.”

    what is the main thing that separates immich from other “gallery-type applications”? wouldnt all comparable apps have some kind of gallery?