Maybe I'll become more active now π€
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2023
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Messaging from the Jerboa app I just downloaded from the play store.
A few nights ago I discovered Lemmy as I needed to find a Reddit alternative fast knowing I will longer be able to use Reddit is Fun.
I've been a Redditor for almost 12 years now, I remember when it was a wild community where there was freedom of speech, few bots, it was the best source of memes next to cheezeburger, which was how I discovered Reddit.
I used it nearly everyday, and watched it's decline, I remember when Elena Pao or whatever the fuck her name bought into the company, since then it's become snipped more and more to the point I don't recognize it anymore.
It transformed into some sort of money hungry beast, that is destroying its self from the inside out, trying to get people to use their shitty ad riddled app with a shitty interface.
I am so happy I found you guys, I really want to see Reddit's blackouts go on indefinitely, infact I just wanna watch it burn. It's dead to me, the owners suck, it's just as bad as Facebook and the other main social media platforms now.
Any person I know who uses Reddit, I will point them here.
This site's like a breath of fresh air, small communities and the excitement of not quite know what you're doing lol, no muscle memory open close and open again
I did that with reddit at least 3 times a day
Let's hope Lemmy becomes a real alternative for reddit. The infrastructure looks good, now we just need the communities.
Exactly my thinking. Very impressive so far, and my only complaint has been finding the communities and the conversations I want to be in. But it will get there! (I hope)
Its so nice to see decentralized social media becoming more mainstream hopefully everyone will be off the big platforms soon
I hope Lemmy does well whether reddit implodes or not. Great concept!
Lemmy and the fediverse are such unique and cool concepts. I hope to see Lemmy grow even more in the future!
The Reddit exodus has begun! My only regret is not learning about lemmy and the fediverse before things blew up over there.
As one of the emigredditors, hell yeah! Personally though, I'm still testing the waters and making myself more comfortable here; it's eerily quiet here as compared to reddit, but I hope it's just a matter of time :)
Really enjoying my time here.
a few years ago it was literally a handful of ppl posting 90% of links and talking to each other, witnessing firsthand how complicated it is to get over that initial user retention bump, but iβm convinced weβre over it now :)
I like it here so far.
I'm done with Reddit once July 1st hits...it'll be a change but once Lemmy takes off I can totally see it being a great replacement...already feels like home!
even if reddit backtracks, I like it here so much I plan to stay. Just feels so homey despite being here >week
Yeah, I much prefer Lemmy now that I'm actually here. Gives those "web 1.0" / IRC vibes when communities were smaller
reddit refugee here! So far so good except thereβs not a native app for lemmy on iOS so Iβm using a safari βadd to Home Screenβ webapp for lemmy.ml , works pretty good!
Try mlem. I think youβll need to install TestFlight to get it working.
I canβt comment or vote. Is that feature not available yet?
Arenβt you commenting right now?
Not from the app.
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I just joined today and first impression is great. Seems like a lot of nice people ended up under the same ceiling. :)
it's absolutely awesome here! :β -β D
I feel like being part of the internet of my youth again.
It's kind of awesome :) A question to others here. I mostly see stuff from beehaw and lemmy.ml on All. Are these the most active servers?
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i cant help but worry its going to go south as everything does once a critical mass is hit
One of the benefits of the federated model is that instances can fragment into smaller islands if things get too awful being part of the main continent. Though that's also a downside, IMO.
Here's the thing about federated content from a reddit perspective (as I get it currently, please correct)
Your favorite subreddits will be splintered across servers. Mods for those subreddits will be controlled by the server admins. This is the same system. Except that when a sever decides to enact a bad policy in those subreddits at the admin level, it does not infect other subreddits outside that server.
And your criticism has always been true of reddit btw. People ditch one subreddit for another. Or avoid r/all at all costs. So this shouldn't be much different I wouldn't think.
Indeed, Reddit can do the "fragmentation" thing as well. But the big difference is that you can never escape the admins, all subreddits are ultimately under the same top bosses. And you can't "defederate" with, say, /r/conservative to effectively cause everyone over there to cease to exist as far as your own subreddit is concerned.
Whether this is better or worse is going to be interesting to see play out.
I'd say better. Only one thing could very easily break the system in my opinion and that would be everyone sticking to just one server anyways. Because then it allows the server to be targeted by say, movie studios, for people sharing clips of their movie. And then changes might happen in response to affect too many users. Or if monetization becomes a problem. Even then though, I don't see a huge problem if everyone learns their lesson. Because again, if you don't like a specific subreddit about Lord of the Rings and you don't want to join their Tolkienite cult, you can block it out. Or block the whole server its on. And yet if a specific server is hostile to LoTR, you'd still be able to find their content elsewhere.
One of my concerns is about a real de-centralised system not being implemented, as i learned. Migration of users and communities is not possible (edit: though c7ies/comms -letsabbreviate- are already being mirrored). Therefoe partial meltdowns are still possible.
Yeah but thatβll be like 10 years from now or something
i tried lemmy a few months ago but i didn't find enough content. I'm happy to see popularity is going up, and the new android app is a real game changer
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