Just joined, and well, I’m thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you’ve done quite some good work here.
I really hope lemmy is the one, the biggest plus is that it isnt one company, so no investors to fuck it up
Very much agreed. UI friendly, both on desktop and on mobile–even mobile browser. Instances are kinda confusing but I think im starting to understand it
Agreed. It seems promising and has that magic feeling of when I first encountered reddit for the first time post-Digg. That said, the federated aspects is neat but confusing… Still trying to work out how to view communities on different instances.
EDIT: Ok so apparently this post is actually on a different instance. Not entirely sure how I managed to get here. Now I need to figure out how to subscribe to remote communities?
For now your best bet is to do the community search in the section at the top of the web ui. for example, choose “All” in the filter and search for “gaming” and it will find all gaming communities on all the intances.
The sub you’re on right now also displays on the right hand side of the post, you can also press subscribe there.
Thanks, now we’re cooking with fire! I originally was trying to do it on the Android app, seems like the search isn’t functioning as expected. Web UI works as expected, not a big deal anyways since I can just “app-ify” it with a home screen shortcut.
Here since yesterday, but I like everything I’ve seen. The communities are welcoming, and users’ profiles lack the useless vanity metrics but allow enough customization to feel personal. Jerboa works well on Android, and everything looks well thought out generally. I hope Lemmy is going up to a great future!
It’s really weird. There’s so few people here, but the conversations are really good. Everyone is friendly and the place is growing. That’s a really great vibe.
That is how it was at reddit during/before/relatively after the digg exodus.
Yup. I mentioned this on Reddit as well. OG Reddit vibes.
Sadly i checked in on the Apollo sub and there’s a lot of hate on there for Lemmy. Not sure if people fully understand it or they are just fighting the inevitable change that is coming lol. But it def. reminds me of the digg meltdown and how people were hellbent that reddit sucked and wouldn’t last and was too difficult to use… lol change is hard sometimes but it’s life.
Yes I’ve noticed this as well. I think there’s some denial mixed in there. Right now the 3rd-party apps still work. They can still use old.reddit. Adult content hasn’t been banned on site and official app yet. The IPO and likely cash-out/sell-out that will follow is still some months away. A lot of the people are in the “this is fine” stage at the moment, similar to the situation over at Twitter. Most of them will see the light eventually. That said, there does seem to be a growing interest in Lemmy already.
I agree things are just now starting to intensify on Reddit. If and when they go through with those changes will be when some people start to wake up. The ones that don’t see it then probably never will lol.
Yeah, I’ll admit until a few days ago I had never heard about lemmy. Wasn’t until I was seriously seeking something other than Reddit did I come across this site. It reminds me some of the twitter exodus after musk bought it. Lots of new interest in mastodon like almost overnight. I’m sure some of it died down due to mastodon not being *exactly * like twitter and it does have a bit of a learning curve but surprisingly mastodon continues to grow at a pretty decent pace. I imagine a bit of a similar situation here.
It was the same with Firefox for me. As soon as Chrome announced The adpocalypse, everyone wanted to jump ship from Chrome. Forget what happened that made me switch about 6 months before that but I tend to catch on to stuff like this earlier than most.
My only hope and worry is that the devs and admins are aware and prepared for the big wave of new users. Especially this instance and those featured as recommended in joinlemmy. Mastodon also went through the same thing but for some reason I think they had some more time to mature before that.
Ive already been experiencing some stability issues and this volume is nothing compared to what could possibly be coming as early as next month.
im on the discord for beehaw and they admins are aware of whats going to happen and are currently trying to best prepare for it
What are their complaints about lemmy?
The complaints are all over the place so likely coming from people that either A.) haven’t actually used Lemmy. B.) Used it for .5 seconds got confused and gave up. C.) Are just afraid of change and just wanna stick their heads in the sand…
But most of them center around how difficult lemmy is to use and how “communities are way too overbearing with the rules.” , that it uses the new.reddit UI, and that it’s run by a bunch of “tankies”
I do wish there was an old reddit option but tbh most pf the ui is pretty old reddit-esque.
Also I fell for the tankie bs pretty fast then realized that’s a bullshit reason to not join and I am trying my best to spread the word for Lemmy. Especially since tankie has become yet another buzzword who knows what it really means these days. I took it to mean pro-hong kong censorship, because that’s all I see.
What’s a tankie? My biggest concern is the fragmentation of communities due to multiple servers, so the numbers in any one server will always be smaller.
they’re complaining about us lemmygrad users, but we aren’t even the biggest instance anymore + the 2 recommended instances block us anyways so it’s a worthless complaint now
I’m on kbin and really liking it. I feel right at home and I actually love that I can see Mastodon content in a threaded, Reddit-like format. It’s great to be able to see Lemmy content too - it feels like there’s enough activity here with all that that I want to stick around and participate in the community.
I tried it out a while back but didn’t stay long, just rejoined a few days ago myself, it’s always on my radar because it’s on the fediverse though. I’m not very attached to Reddit, but I like the amount of content on it.
I really like Lemmy overall, but I like having niche content, hope there’s enough growth with the migration that we get more.
spoiler
not enough hentai catboys or catgirls yet either, how am I supposed to disappoint my parents properly under these conditions
Hrm, that name looks familiar ;)
Seems I’ve been spotted, time to run!
It’s pretty neat how intertwined fedi stuff is, I’ve never ran into someone I know on Reddit in years of using it, but within
23 days on here I haveI had the same experience when I joined the Fediverse, I kept coming across people who I recognised and had no idea were also on there.
My thoughts:
404: FetchError: request to http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site
I think the server may be struggling a bit under everyone checking it out.
I like it here. Its small but growing. I just wish the UI was bit better. Selecting text is weird :S
Just trying the jerboa android app and finding it 100% usable. Does all I need and easily replaced my RiF reddit app.
I’m still trying to figure out how to find things, but yep liking it here so far.
I’ll keep my reddit account and will still search there for help as there are a lot of guides and information there…
I’m surprised. I like it. Can’t wait to see where it will go. Apps and communities.
It does seem promising!
It’s my opinion that nsfw content is what will make or break Lemmy, Beehaw, Kbin, or any other fediverse community.
Every single social media giant has some degree of nsfw content, it’s a big draw that gets non-techies to join.
Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook; all of them have/had some amount of pornographic material. Of course it’s incredibly difficult to moderate porn though, and in no way am I saying that it should be unmoderated, but I also think that 100% excluding it would be a huge factor in determining long-term success. There’s even a song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eFNRKEROwIs NSFW banned all together or just on this instance? Couldn’t someone spin up a lemmy instance just for NSFW?
To paraphrase an oldie: if NSFW was not allowed, there’d be just one [lemmy] community called
c/bringbacktheporn
It’s still a bit confusing to me, but I’m already starting to like it here. Especially with the Jerboa app.
If you find a way to collapse/expand comment threads with Jerboa, let me know! It’s the main thing I’m struggling with right now, but should be a easy fix.
You can hold the space between the username and the upvote / comment age, in the middle top of the comment.
Thank you so much! Not knowing about this had been been making reading larger threads like this one fairly cumbersome.
No problem 😁
I thought the same thing when Voat started as a mirror to Reddit. It was similar for a while but every time a troll or Nazi was ejected from Reddit they migrated to Voat. Eventually I was one of the last liberals there. Is there anyone maintaining order here or will it be the wild west ?
I think the lemmy structure really annoys trolls and right-wingers. They could register on a server, but they would have to play by the rules (be nice, don’t be a nazi etc), which they really don’t want. So they want their own server, but quickly realize that they’ll be alone there with their miserable peers, which they also don’t like.
I’m new to this federated thing, what prevents the nazi from hosting his own Lemmy instance where being a nazi is ok, and the content from the nazi instance showing up in “all”?
Nothing. This server existed, it was called wolfballs.com. lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, feddit.de and many others had this server blocked. So nothing was showing up from them.
