The fediverse isn’t going anywhere, and just getting started!

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      Definitely has felt like a more welcoming community. Each comment on Reddit I made I had to mentally brace for the inevitable bot and troll replies. Constant fights.

      Here I haven’t seen much of it. Some people honestly trying to understand my points of view! Very refreshing

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        Hi former redditor here. I shall now insult your mother to help you feel at home.

        Here it comes.

        Are you ready?

        I hope you are ready.

        Your mother is slightly overweight.

        I hope this helps in the transition process .

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        Glad you’re here! I was a Reddit 1%’r and left when the3rd party apps were killed off. Wasn’t sure where I was going to go but I knew it wasn’t there.

        Ram across a post on arstechnica about this app and the feddiverse, and here I am.

        I can tell the paint isn’t even dry yet but damn, I’m happy to be here, too.

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          I ran across a couple of comments on Ars Technica that mentioned moving to Lemmy. I’d never heard of it before.

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      I’m posting a lot more here than on Reddit. There was less motivation to post there, for one a post can get buried in minutes so it can be like talking to a wall. Then there’s the hostility if a post does get play.

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      .world’s 40% growth on July 1 blew me away. Really convinced me this place will be the next Reddit in time, in the way we used to know Reddit.

      The fact the user experience has gotten smoother and more responsive on top of that is just insane. Huge props to the .world team.

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      Agreed! And less buggy. 2 weeks ago the servers were constantly crashing or the apps were glitching out. You can see the progress day by day.

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        Yeah this latest version of Lemmy seems to be humming along well oiled. It’s working really good for me.

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    What I really like is the fact that the comments are not just the same jokes or the stupid puns over and over again trying to harvest that sweet sweet karma.

    It is refreshing to see comments that bring a different perspective or information to the subject.

    The community feels way more welcoming and Lemmy and related apps are developing fast.

    Let’s hope it stays that way as the user base continues to grow 🤞

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    Yah, huge difference in just a couple weeks. I think it’s hit the tipping point and we got here just as it happened.

    We did it, Reddit… wait

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    As soon as Boost is released, Lemmy will be even more active.

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          It’s mainly what I’m waiting for. Im using connect, but it’s still not what I wish it to be, granted I doubt theyve had enough time to develop the app just yet.

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            Have you checked out Thunder? It’s also missing features, but it’s the horse I’m betting on, to the point that I’m submitting fixes and features on the github.

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      I’ve actually picked up app development just to help out with Thunder. There’s several of us working on it now and it is REALLY starting to come together. Next release is gonna have so much stuff, and I’ve got even more ready for the one after that.

      By far the slickest looking lemmy app yet (aside from Memmy maybe which is only iOS atm). Not yet feature complete, and only on github right now, but already my favorite to actually use.

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        Always great to have alternative. Thanks to you and all other foss devs who make the internet bearable

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          I know right? The main dev really put together a sensible start! I’ve added community and user banners, as well as reworked the post view. There a bunch of other tiny tweaks I’ve made to add further polish to the app.

          One of my PRs right now adds community icons to search. And the other devs are making changes I’m a big fan of, too, like the collapsed comment count badge.

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      I do hope those apps share at least a small part of their revenue by donating to the Lemmy devs (will be tricky to decide which instances to also donate to though). The app devs should realize that the success of their app business depends on Lemmy still being alive.

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        Yeah, it’s a little weird to me that there’s so much focus on third party app development when the platform itself is so new.

        The old Reddit apps bringing their userbase over is great. Having several brand new third party apps is awkward.

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          It makes sense since a lot of people are moving because of Reddit dropping TPAs. I’d say the migrants are 90% here because they want a phone app that isn’t a complete pile of ad-laden, spyware donkey shit.

          I’m also absolutely certain Reddit’s stats that only 3% of users were on TPAs was another pile of steaming donkey shit. I’d place it as vastly larger than Reddit’s mobile app. Probably Apollo alone had more users than that.

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    I’m LOVING it suddenly. A week ago it felt like not enough, today I’m saving more memes and commenting way more than I did on reddit.

    I’m looking forward to more niche communities picking up on this speed, but the Frontpage is definitely scratching my quick burst attention span itch now. Tip: Sort by hot, top 6hrs, or new if you need the more rapid change of pace reddit had.

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      Saving memes? Son, memes don’t need to be saved. They self-perpetuate.

      I remember when memes were just text, and it was just something stupid like posting “the best” over and over again.

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    Once the quality of the porn and the memes went up I knew I had found a replacement

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      just make sure to post some too! getting porn and/or meme communities off the ground ain’t easy without a lil help

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        lemmy.world has some but there are also two porn focused instances, lemmynsfw.com and pornlemmy.com. Both federate with lemmy.world, you can use this tool to find communities and sub and interact with both instances from lemmy.world or sign up to each one/either one since they both interact with one another.

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    I was here early June when there was very little activity. I didn’t really understand the fediverse, and how instances worked. I remember thinking “this has so much potential!” The average instance had about 4000 users. And now it’s exploding. I know many people are going to continue to use Reddit, there’s still more users on Reddit then there are on here, there probably always will.

    I feel the users that end up on here are smart, informed, fed up, we see past the lies, we are mature and chill as fuck.

    The fact Lemmy takes time to learn is a good thing.

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    And the apps! So many aloha builds in active development rapidly became available.

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    The experience has gotten a lot smoother for sure! We are also getting better at using Lemmy to begin with.

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      I give credit to the admins of Lemmy.world. Because their instance blew up in popularity, they went through and did some optimizations to DB and other queries. What’s even better is they’ve submitted the PRs so all instances can scale as smoothly going forward.

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    Yeah this is wild … every instance seems a lot smoother, and there is massivh more and better content. It’s feeling awesome

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    I think this is because sudden growth and the apps improving day by day (or sometimes even in less amount of time).

    I’m so happy with Lemmy as what it is right now, and the forecast looks even better.

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    I have been pleasantly surprised the last several days. I was a little disappointed with the content at first (though I did enjoy how it felt like the “old” internet), but now that the apps have rapidly improved (connect is great!), and I’ve started subscribing to some interesting communities I really love it. It’s like a kinder gentler reddit.

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    After giving Reddit the punt I became active about a month ago, but I had browsed Lemmy initially quite some time ago. Back then I was like, “Oh this is neat, but all I hear are crickets.” Can’t say that now, it’s getting busy. There’s more content than I can review in a day now, and that’s just from the front page in Subscribed view.