I decided to give this a try. I joined Mastodon a few months ago due to Twitter's fiascos, and I'm having déjà vu. Let's see if Lemmy can reach critical mass!

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[–] Naja_Kaouthia@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Ahoy, fellow Reddit refugee. I was super sad to see that Apollo is shutting down on 30 June. It’s the end of an internet era. Feels bad, man.

[–] hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

It's fun here.

[–] Garrathian@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm on Beehaw but welcome to the party!

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems good that, even if there's a little bit of "competition" about "best" community, as long as they're using the same software network, there's plenty of opportunity for cross-posting. Could be that one will win out, but might not.

[–] Garrathian@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's what I really like about it. I also like that if a community on a particular instance becomes problematic somebody else can make the equivalent community on another instance no problem. Makes it easier I feel to not be held hostage by hostile, power trippy mods

[–] LaughingFox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also joined Mastodon due to Twitter not being good anymore. I also have dèjá vu.

[–] lynny@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact, both lemmy and mastodon users can interact with one another.

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's pretty neat, how does that work?

[–] lynny@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It seems you can use your mastodon account to interact with lemmy but you have to do it from a mastodon server.

Lemmy communities are represented as users when interacting from a mastodon server. For example, to access the tchnology community on beehaw.orh you would:

Go to your mastodon instance of choice
Search for a user called @technology@beehaw.org
View their feed, subscribe, reply, like, whatever.

Any replys you make to a post on mastodon will also show up as comments on Lemmy servers.

I copied most of this post verbatium from /u/WonderfulEstimate176 on Reddit. I didn't want to link back to Reddit as it's better for others if you can see the post here instead.-----

[–] samick1@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

or example, to access the tchnology community on beehaw.orh you would

FYI this didn't work for me, but if I searched instead for [!technology@beehaw.org](/c/technology@beehaw.org), that worked. In fact typing it just now gave me an autocorrect dropdown so that must be the right syntax.

I saw the post on reddit too... when I searched lemmy.ml for @technology@beehaw.org this post came up instead. 😂

[–] Leer10@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I hope that there will be less exclusive vibes here than mastodon. I want everyone to find their communities here as long as they're nice

[–] philfix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I agree. It's déjà vu all over again.

[–] TwilightGirl1992@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hey and welcome! Using Mlem for iOS cuz I detest browsers. Trying to convince my friends on Reddit to join. This place is much better!

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hullo. Just joined and checking out Jerboa since Sync is going down on June 30th

[–] calhoon2005@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boo... Sync has been my go-to for ten years...

[–] Devgard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

same, just not as long (at least 2-3 years!)

[–] Gullevek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same here, same here.

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