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I'm very happy there was an alternative.
Everything is new and confusing and some things a bit janky, but its also like dawn of new age.
I really REALLY hope lemmy and fediverse in general will be resilient against corporate corruption that will eventually try creeping in as popularity grows.
I feel like the way lemmy is structured and the core values of the devs will go a long way to prevent that, but should one instance go corporate we can always defederate. I think we'll be OK!
It's strange. I feel lost.
It's like navigating the world for the first time. Things are not as they seem or where I expect them to be.
It's ugly, not intuitive, feels way more complicated than necessary for a social site and the name is kind of dumb.
I'm 100% on board because screw Reddit and fuck u/spez.
I hope I can learn the ropes and help this place grow into something better.
I like that the mobile version of the website is already more functional than Reddit's.
Always cool to see the people of the internet come together and make their own thing :)
I like it, but I'm still a lil confused about all the fediverse thing. For example, if while browsing this instance I open a link to a thread in another instance I can't comment as I'm not logged there. Any way around this? But overall excited to try this out and hopefully moving permanently here!
Itβs great to have new spaces, especially ones not controlled by corporate interests or venture capitalists. I will admit that (while itβs a function of time + engagement) I do miss the breadth and depth of Reddit, particularly for the niche hobby communities. There was/is so much good information on there that will take many years to replicate elsewhere.
So far Iβm enjoying it! I like the stripped down design and Iβm slowly figuring out the federation thing. Hopefully we can get more people from Reddit to get more content in the communities.
Edit: I've created a Tampa community for people from Tampa FL.
I just learned about this site 5 minutes ago. Iβll be done with Reddit soon.
π need to find (or make) an RES equivalent because i cannot live without the hotkeys
Reddit was reddit because of the people. Those people are now here.
Reminds me of what reddit used to be, what UBB boards used to be before that, and small irc rooms before that. Freedom, the never constant, always moving community of individuals. Some of the same people I knew on Reddit, I knew in my old Dreamcast irc and AOL days.
Shit changes, we move but we never go away. Now we're here. Thanks for having us.
I'm liking it. I'm sure it'll take some getting used to, but I'm off Reddit for the next 3 days so I'm sure I'll figure it out!
I don't fully understand it, but I'll try to get used to it.
Thanks for setting up this instance and allowing all of us to come and join.
I really need an eli5 for this fediverse thing. I'm here using Jerboa, logged in to lemmy.world. when I try and comment or vote on content on other instances, like lemmy.ml, I'm told I have to log in. Is that a Jerboa bug? Or do I really need an account on each instance to interact?
Have been browsing this thing for a few hours now and haven't seen one NSFW post. Kinda weird.
Reddit ran me off with a permaban 2 months ago because I wrote about the 3 boxes of liberty metaphor in a comment. 2 million+ imaginary Internet points down the drain. Glad to see the site shoot itself in the foot and looking forward to finding an alternative.
And the obligatory: fuck Spez.
Just deleted all past activity from my reddit account, deactivated it and joined you marry bunch. Glad to be here.
I am still trying to wrap my head around how it all works, but I feel like I am slowly getting the hang of it. One thing I was wondering, and forgive me if I get the terminologies wrong, since instances are their own little ecosystems, wouldn't there be multiple versions of the identical communities i.e. gaming, videos etc., or is that the beauty of it all?
Another minor concern I have is that since instances are run by individuals, wouldn't there be a risk of losing massive amounts of content if said owner no longer wishes to maintain their instance or "goes rogue" for a lack of a better word and shuts down access to all communities located on that particular instance/server.
I'm in for this. Sign-up through lemmy.world was a snap and now logged in and posting via Jerboa. Only just getting my toes wet, but digging it
got into reddit fully just a few years ago. it was my go-to for silly frog pictures to cheer me up. any other instances (i hope i'm saying that right, something similar to a subreddit) that are frog related? i'd love to contribute some :)
This is a very different experience! I'm currently posting from a Mastodon server to a Lemmy server. I'm excited to see how a federated web can serve creators and users alike.
I'm loving the wild west of it so far and how quickly it all seems to be growing. One big thing I've noticed though: How will communities combat the fracture? For example, take 'photography' when I searched around yesterday I found and subscribed to one com. Now there's one on most of the larger instances, each individually only has a couple of subscribers. We will need to find a way to let our communities stay informed of the other communities as they pop up around the Lemmy verse so that we can unify, otherwise all the communities will remain trapped in their own individual bubbles. This isnt a problem if there was an easy way to group communities into supercommunities.
Maybe Lemmy needs a method of putting your community in a list and allowing people to join the list as a community in of itself thus syncing all like minded groups together into a single feed.
Is very comfortable here, I will not go back on reddit for sure!
I find this website extremely confusing. A beginners guide would be good.
I'm a big fan of it. The website is great and I'm thankful that I can interact with posts and comments on other servers. I think for most people's adoption the picking of a server to join is intimidating because there are so many options.
To draw more users it needs to be made abundantly clear that you can interact across servers.
Honestly struggling a bit. Finding the communities for my interests was very easy on Reddit, kinda having a hard time here.