Honestly, I also try to be more active as a user in Lemmy, and it feels way more rewarding because it feels like a more tight-knitly community here. Like it a lot!
It checks all the boxes for me. No bots, no spam, mostly coherent adults, feels just like using reddit.
I hate to sound all hipster, but a super big community does typically end up ruining themselves. It’s nothing against the fandom itself or even the majority of people in it, it’s just that eventually more toxic people will be included as popularity increases.
That was my biggest gripe nearing the end of reddit and how all subs past 250k subs felt like they either became /r/pics, /r/videos, or /r/funny
i really like it without the bots. what worries me is that with influx of users eventually bots will arrive. but hopefully without karma system atleast karmafarming bots won’t materialise
Let’s hope
The breadth and depth of comments is what I’ve missed most from the past. Really happy to see these posts in the 1000s of upvotes with 100s of comments. I’ll try to do my part.
I also find it refreshing to see, what I assume is, the actual amount of votes on posts and comments again. Makes it more human maybe instead of an arbitrary number
Same here.
Keep in mind, dear folks, simply coming ain’t enough. Be sure to stay and visit often, otherwise the rich assholes win ;)
And vote! And comment!
And post
Smash that like button and subscribe!
And ring that notification bell!
“Stay awhile and listen!”
“Why are you scrolling gonewild again?” “freedom depends on it” “oh. Carry on, I guess”
I wanna shitpost more but why can’t I upload pictures? Is the server at it’s limit or something?
Lemmy doesn’t like jpegs for some ungodly reason
Do you think Lemmy knows what a “JPEG” is? It just wants a picture of a god dang hotdog.
What about png? Or, ugh, webp?
I have uploaded PNG‘s before, and I’ve seen webps. So those two should be fine.
I’m here every day!
I mean, if Reddit blocks 3rd party apps, I ain’t staying. I’ll just come here which appears to basically be a better version of Reddit.
If?
Mate, they’ve already done it.
This is pretty awesome. I’ve tried mastodon when Twitter shit the bed a few months back and it never really launched the way I’d hoped.
Lemmy seems pretty lively. At first I was a bit disillusioned with the fact that it’s not as active as reddit, but I feel the caliber of user that’s come over is better than who we’ve all been dealing with the past 3-5 years over there. I’m happy to be here and there’s palpable excitement
Does Mastodon even have a filter so I can view all tweets from every instance like Lemmy does for posts? Because, if it does, I haven’t found it.
Your client should have All and Local feeds, All being for everything your instance is federated with
I’ll have to give Mastodon another shot. Maybe that’s what I was messing up.
That said, I was always a bigger reddit user than tweeter
I’ve found the same thing. Twitter was great for very specific, topic-based communities with everything else filtered out. The only reason I used it heavily was because of a couple of small, insulated scenes.
My Mastadon instance is just an insufferably banal stream of tweeters who are united in their fear of posting anything interesting enough to be offensive. It’s basically “nice twitter”, which still sucks balls anyway if you don’t have a scene to keep in touch with.
Lemmy is very much “nice reddit” for now and I’m finding it far more enjoyable to use.
Where can I find that? I’m using the Mastodon app available on Google Play.
Unsure there sorry, I use Tusky
I mean, yeah, that is the whole point.
You need to search for key words or alternative just press a hashtag you see on a post, hashtags is how all instances communicate since there isn’t a proper text only searcher across instances.
Hashtags are extremely important if you want people from outside your own instance to find your posts and they are heavily used by everyone for that reason.
Of course you can manually search for users, or go to other instances and follow people from those, that way yohr own timeline will be filled with people outside your own instance.
You know I did the same thing made an account for mastodon and never really used it. But since coming over here after leaving reddit and seeing how enjoyable it was I went back to the mastodon app and I have to say now that I’m familiar with lemmy mastodon made more sense to me.
Yeah I’m hoping Lemmy doesn’t get big too quickly, quality over quantity
I think a good majority of those of us migrating here from reddit are content creators and/or productive users (engaging in relevant discussion, reporting spam/trolls, downvoting/reporting irrelevant content, etc.).
I think there are most definitely going to be social loafers, lurkers, and harmful users coming over from reddit too. But I firmly believe that the proportion of healthy users greatly outweighs the unhealthy users in this influx of users from reddit.
It’s the trolls, mindless idiots, hateful, anti-intellectual, unproductive and unhealthy community members who are content staying on reddit, and are glad to see us leave.
I think Lemmy being new and unpolished will also help sift out unproductive/unhealthy users. They’ll arrive and see that Lemmy/the fediverse is still in its infancy, and they’ll likely rather just stick with reddit because it’s more convenient.
I think the proportion of unproductive/unhealthy users here will grow as the site grows and becomes more stable and streamlined. But I think we’ve got some time to foster a great site/communities before they come en masse.
We all be going to Reddit and letting people know about the migration to Lemmy… And make sure to promote one of the 3rd party apps to the redditors. The best one I’ve tried so far is Connect for Lemmy on the Google play store.
Wefwef is really good too…feels like Apollo
Yo thanks for recommending wefwef. I think its the best way to view lemmy and now I’ve stopped using Connect for Lemmy. Still waiting on Sync for Lemmy though.
it’s not available on ios. i tried :(
Go to wefwef.app in safari
Ooo this does work. I’m really digging wefwef. This is great. Thanks for the link!
Yay! I’m glad you like it too 😄 if you go into settings > install app you will also see instructions on how to add an app icon to your homepage 😉
Yes it’s awesome! Glad you got it working!
is a web app, and a really good one. Im using it with hermit on android
I’m using it on my iPhone right now
It’s a web app so you can just use Safari and add it to home screen. It’ll be more or less like using an app but through your web browser.
i’ve never heard of a web app, til.
Using it right now. It’s awesome. Loving the community as well.
It is available. It’s a trick because it’s not in the app store. Go to https://wefwef.app and follow the instructions
I’m using Connect right now and I’m quite happy with it. Though when Sync launches I’ll be switching to that. I used Sync pro for reddit for years and would be happy to pay for that again.
Ayy another Syncer in the wild. Can’t wait till it releases.
Try out Liftoff. I like it quite a bit. Jerboa kept crashing on me, and Liftoff had a certain feature that Connect doesn’t have (yet?)
I’ll keep bouncing around and checking them all out over the next few months
Have tried most and Liftoff is easily the best I’ve found so far. Former Sync Pro user.
I’m sure you’re aware that LJDawson, the sync dev is porting sync over for lemmy too
I had never heard of Lemmy till I saw that announcement. Probably not the only one, but now here I am.
Yep! Can’t wait.
I’m still using Jerboa for now, but I’m switching to Boost for Lemmy as soon as it’s out.
My addiction have new management. A lot more community driven than the last one 😁
Shame about World’s stability issues. Probably brought on by its popularity.
Better to be broken and full than stable and empty.
Better to be broken and full than stable and empty.
You all might not be aware, but I think Rudd started this server only at the beginning of June for funsies, probably only expecting a couple of hundred users.
Then, of course, came Reddit API-calypse. Now, here we are barely 4 weeks later, almost 80k users on the instance. From nothing, to a respectable chuck of the fediverse, just that fast. Pretty amazing.
True, I opened my account June 1st on Beehaw, lemmy.world didn’t exist yet. But I had to open an account on LW when BH defederated them…
I’m happy to see .world growing for this reason. There has to be a neutral ground for everyone. The gatekeeping of communities like Beehaw are fine for them, but in order for the lemmy to grow, it has to be shapeable by the community. Moderation screening, content rigidity, and walled gardens are antithetical to the type of social network that people are looking for as a replacement to Reddit. The community has to be allowed to make the place its own.
Edit: For the record, I’m perfectly aware they plan to refederate once they get their “moderation” tools. I just question what tools they deem sufficient to permit refederation. Moderation tools on Lemmy will be extremely powerful thanks to votes being public, and I don’t trust admins of some of these instances to be responsible or fair with them, or to only use them on the most toxic elements. Petty, groundless shadowbanning and admin “curation” is going to plague Lemmy going forward, mark my words. That’s why we need some neutral ground.
I made an account on sh.itjust.works because world was having some issues registering new users. Because of this small issue I ended up taking a deep dive into learning about the Fediverse. It’s such a cool concept and really easy to use once you familiarize yourself with it.
It’s also awesome that instances can federate with one another, so communities can continue to grow! I was apprehensive of making the switch initially due to the presumption that it would require a steep learning curve, but I learned how to access, browse, and interact on lemmy in 15 minutes or less lol.
I keep mentioning it, but the fediverse reminds me of my early days of browsing reddit back in the mid-late 2000s. Lemmy feels like home and I can’t wait to see it grow :)
And it’s real good to see you here, if this is the original PK.
Yep, it’s really me! I made my first sourced comment the other day about Twitter and Elon Musk.
Okay I was a chronic lurker on Reddit but seeing you here gives me hope for the Soccer community on this site, which has thus far been a huge gaping hole. I honestly haven’t used anything other than r/Soccer to keep up with football news in many years so I hope Lemmy can shoulder that burden sooner rather than later. It’s probably the one part of Reddit that I’m really struggling to replace and/or live without.
Hey o/
Yea truth be told I still visit r/soccer and r/reddevils to catch up on football related news every morning/evening. The communities on Lemmy are still growing and while the more popular communities are very active, niche communities like sports will take some time.
Check out the football community on Lemmy, it’s starting to get active. I’ve recently started posting too.
I’m not sure how to link directly to a community, so here’s a link to one of my posts. You can click on the community and subscribe https://sh.itjust.works/post/701657
Can you (or anyone else) explain the circumstances around them defederating? More specifically, why would they do that, and what exactly is their benefit?
.world doesn’t require as stringent verification and beehaw mods claimed that a lot of spam was coming from .world. I don’t know if that’s true, but that’s what they claimed.
Someone dug into the mod logs and found four or five instances of lemmy.world accounts being moderated on Beehaw. That’s all it took for them to defederate
Migrated here from RIF (RIP), lemmy.world being suggested on top of the how to join guide definitely played a part in choosing this instance along with all the recommendations from other users.
Definitely feel much more inclined to comment here than on Reddit as of late, all the regurgitated meme shitposts and karma farming bot comments were getting really old. If it takes donating / paying a sub to keep Lemmy human discussion focused, that’s what I will do.
Lemmy perfectly represents the adage “building the plane as you fly it” and it’s been so much fun seeing it take shape.
It’s great. In weeks people has packed their bags and badabing badaboom new community. The party continues as reddit never happened (besides the gloating ofc)
Heck yeah, hello everyone fleeing reddit!
Glad to see Refugees like myself finding a new home. I’d be interested in sporting some merchandise it some of the proceeds go back into covering costs etc…
Understand the sentiment, but hey, in the meantime you could go old school and make some promo stuff yourself to sport if you’re crafty. It’d be even more in the spirit of this space than merch tbh!
Reddit refugee here. F spez.
Hi new person from reddit here! Can’t wait for this place to grow
Love the decentralized model. I’m so over corporate run sites looking to make a profit
