I think the barrier to entry also helps a bit. The folks willing to put up with the rough edges that Lemmy has are also likely willing to participate with the intent of making Lemmy a success rather than just "hangers on" as it were. With a 1600% growth in "active" user population, there are definitely a ton of lurkers, yet. Once it becomes more approachable, we'll see if the community feeling that Lemmy has begins to tarnish and fade as the volume of interaction and content rises.

I’m excited about the fact that people who are anti-corporate usually are the same people that will moderate and build community for free just because they want to be a part of something bigger than themselves. If all content creators and moderators find their home here Reddit will only have takers and lurkers left!

I know I’m being naive but I’m enjoying my little dream of utopia 😄

I'm just here because of Reddit dick move, not that I hate all companies, the transition was quite nice that is to projects like https://wefwef.appand the upcoming Sync for Lemmy!

Same. Goodness I love this. It's so peaceful.

Me too!

I'm going to leave mine up as a sort of testament to eleven years of my life. My last comment is, and will continue to be unless something drastic changes, some argument I was having with somebody about how to fix housing shortages, like the one in California.

17 days ago as of now. Weird feeling.

Deleted my 9-year account yesterday and never looked back. Reddit has become so toxic these past few weeks and Lemmy has been such a breath of fresh air.

Yep me too also deleted all posts & comments. Lets hope thry don't restore them though

Same, I used redact to delete my post and comment history and then deleted my 12 year old account.

Same, I used redact to delete my post and comment history and then deleted my 12 year old account.

Yep, exactly. The people that want a better Internet, my kinda people.

Every time you drive down Reddit's market value, an angel gets its wings

I think you’re spot on. Loving this new home. Here’s to a bright future in the Fediverse.

Don't forget the free ice cream when you signed up this week.

...you guys did get the free ice cream, right? It was on the sign up page and everything?

do you have any youtube video that can explain fediverse, lemmy, etc so far the explanation video i have found is already old and not that clear for me

What's wrong with Hank and the gang, I tell ya hwhat?

It’s nice to be somewhere that isn’t full of bots and doesn’t coddle nazis

Depends on instance...

My last one wouldn't defederate from a shitshow instance full of transphobia, threats of violence, and basically anything else you'd see on 4chan.

Apparently all that was just a "difference of opinions" so my old instance said it was fine.

The problematic instance also had a lot of posts shitting on this one for defederating them, so I just signed up a new account here.

I think that's the best part of Lemmy, it's easy to just drop an instance and find another that aligns more with what you want out of it.

A decade from now if the biggest instance pulls a spez, everyone would just move to a new instance

“Lemmy. For those who read good.”

toxic hog lagoon

bandnames@lemmy.world

If people complain about the stability they were clearly not around for the early days of Reddit. It was flakey as hell.

My friend use 3 or 4 apps at the same time. It's been working for me

One time, when runescape did a supermassive bot ban, people began complaining that once crowded areas of the game felt eerily empty now that only real people were there.

Not to say reddit is all bots, but my experience with Lemmy so far has been that it’s less crowded but the people here feel very sincere. Not a terrible thing. Still have more scrolling and reading to do than I have time to do it, and the quality seems even better.

There's a happy medium... where, new people coming in will start to post too much content, but engagement will happen quite often. Where most of the trolls and angry people will still be on reddit and places yonder.

and we'll pass right by it and become the 800lb gorilla.

This moment, right now, is the golden era. Savor it. A Million monkeys hammering out Shakespeare are eyeing the gates, the only thing holding them back is the fear of the word federation.

There is an advantage to that though, on Reddit by the time a post reached my front page it was several hours old and had so many comments it wasn’t worth me commenting on. On here people are much more likely to actually see my comments

On this platform I'm much more likely to actually type out a comment, even when there are a just a couple (or none!). I feel like people will actually read it.

I asked the people there some stuff and I got downvoted for everything I said and then I said something and they said unironically: whats wrong with being selfish? That made me a bit angry

There's plenty of shit fringe lunatics here already also.

Heavily weilding that hammer and sickle mentality that they keep telling themselves is mainstream.

It also feels faster when loading, though slower when you enter a post or save a comment.

Realistically, this is one of the reasons Lemmy is so good right now. The masses generally don't put up with alpha software. Honestly, I like it this way. Improvements are good, but there's something about seeing something grow and develop

The real trick is getting BACK to the baseball post

Now how to get back to the basball post...

Realistically, this is one of the reasons Lemmy is so good right now. The masses generally don't put up with alpha software. Honestly, I like it this way. Improvements are good, but there's something about seeing something grow and develop

I just discovered you can just refresh on those and it'll sort out the thread. Up until now, I'd thought I was just misclicking every time haha

Agreed. I felt like I lurked reddit a lot because I felt like my thought was already found wherever I went unless I was the first one to comment. It's nice to see a comment section that is growing but not thousands of other thoughts already in it within an hour or so.

Do upvotes and downvotes work the same way here? If so, I fear that communities may become echo chambers too, in time.

Agreed. On reddit each community has one way it thinks and screw you if you don't have the same opinion on something. People here are more civil and willing to have a discussion over disagreements.

I just hope the alt right doesn’t latch on - but w/ this being the Fediverse we can at least use reason & spin them off in their own little corner.. for better or worse. (Better for us & worse for them)

I don’t know what else is the answer though - they either drag us down w/ them or we rise above it & leave them to wallow in their messed up world views.

If this turns into an Odysee then this will be a very sad place built w/ good intentions.

So instances choose which instances to federate with? Does this mean that if my account is on lemmy.world that I’m seeing a selection of what that instance’s owners choose?

So we got 10 years for the cycle to repeat if lucky?

I'm fine with that lol

Banning fascists is always a good thing however and fringe elements that promote fascists. You cannot tolerate the intolerable.

It feels somehow nostalgic and exciting. Makes it lot easier to forget Reddit.

absolutely!

This thread has the right vibe, I appreciate everyone here. I hope you are all moderators that can maintain your communities as we see in here.

Please come with me at BestOf@kbin.social too. I want all of you there! We need some wholesome contributors, even if it's just a downvote.

100%

Lol ngl, it's a little like that. I haven't been excited about a new social thing on the internet in a long while.

this

Browsing forums as a 12 year old and finding the piracy forums was quite an eye opening experience. Such friendly fellows also.

Yeah, the absence of a slew of editorialized content, obviously being pushed by larger groups, is kinda nice. Like I think I've interacted with more people on here in the past 24 than I would in a week over there

What would the incentive to repost something be? There is no karma to be earned.

Although it's a completely different thing, I am seeing a lot of repeated comments. But yeah, the lack of reposts so far is nice.

Absolutely, I'd go to comment on a post, notice there's 5000 comments, and find someone else posted exactly what I was going to comment. I just gave up. I'll have to remind myself to actually participate here.

I really think you hit it on the head with the last paragraph. Lemmy users are basically self-selected for wanting to invest time and effort in replacing Reddit.

running on some office PC I find for cheap on Ebay

If you do this, highly suggest VMs so you can host more stuff. There's soooo many options and it's a lot of fun. Home Assistant (/c/homeassistant) in particular has been pretty life-changing for me, but that's a whole thing lol

The grasp I’m trying to get ahold of is where to locate where everyone jumped ship to? Is there a master list or do you just gotta hunt and hope for the best?

I tried to feed my info need without Reddit; rss feed readers, tech blogs with comments.

It felt empty as I realised the discourse was tipping the balance on what I was seeking out.

Multiple Lemmy instances with the iOS Memmy app feels like I’ve benefited from getting off Reddit.

I’m an info addict and I want to see twenty posts on a page, briefly scan through them and keep scrolling down, just droves and droves of headlines that I can react to and completely skip past reading the article and go straight into commenting on it like I’m an expert on this thing I didn’t even know about 5 minutes ago.

lol are you me?

I think a lot of us have been chasing the high of what Reddit was a decade ago

There were some really great years before the quality just took an absolute nose dive

Here is hoping Lemmy can catch the same magic in a bottle

I'm just happy I'm doing my part in giving the middle finger to Reddit. Fuck u/spez.

Yup. I've been telling my friends whose rif apps stopped working last night that lemmy is like how Reddit used to be. Friendlier smaller community but also feels like people trying to build up something new.

or more...

I've been on the internet long enough to say it won't. It will last a long time depending on the design of the system that creates the communities (mods, upvotes/downvotes, rules, algorithms, etc), but even that is limited because eventually every community reaches the size it needs to to encourage toxicity, echo chambers, circlejerks, and attracting even more toxic people from outside the communities.

It took reddit many years to start reaching that point though, I hope it takes these federated sites longer. And hopefully due to their design, they can keep most of the toxic people isolated.

I hope

sorry to spoil it for u but paradoxically growth could in fact ruin the peaceful vibe of lemmy, maybe to a certain user count.. and then it will start to get worse..user count should be capped at some point and with regular bad user swept, to leave place for contributive people. as much as the content here is cured, userbase need to be cured too..its like harmful weeds that grow in ur garden and that needs to be weeded out periodically

Especially the growth part would be nice at this point of time

Oh, there's plenty of toxicity on Lemmy, but it's been fairly successfully isolated to the offending Instances due to active admins. Hopefully that keeps up.

The admins/mods/community have been pretty united in rejecting toxicity. Any maga/racist posters are usually downvoted to hell such that the only positively ranked posts in their communities are antithetical to maga/trump/racism.

Feels like there's less contrarianism, and people are less interested in being negative for no reason.

There's still some negativity, but it seems much chiller overall.

I tried a few apps and they didn't work for me at all (Jerboa and Thunder). Just downloaded connect for lemmy and that seems to be working. HAHAHAHA as I was typing this out I got an error lmao

Edit: after getting the error, I assumed it didn't go through and tried to re-send the comment. Connect gave me no confirmation that it had actually gone through and proceeded to give me another error. So now I'm seeing I put the comment twice on wefwef.app. It's wild trying out like 5 apps in one day. Can't wait for Sync to come!

Had a lot of issues trying to use the mobile webpage. Trying the Connect app now and pretty happy. People have mentioned Jerboa and I'll be trying that tomorrow to see which app I prefer. I can honestly say both work better than the official Reddit app. And I have actually given the reddit app a try before this whole mess and found it totally unusable. Honestly as far as app options Lemmy is already winning. Just needs the content and I'm happy.

Are you doing one account or many accounts

Agreed, the memes are good and the conversations are civil. I love it here

Yeah it’s got some growing pains. Anything worth it’s salt will have growing pains.

Even Reddit did back in the day. Ya know back when Aaron Schwartz was running the show.

I get better performance from the colorful pills at the gas station

Yeah, I'm hoping the overall speed of the site improves rapidly. I can't seem to upvote comments and my first comment appeared to get stuck posting until I refreshed the page and it did in fact post.

Try lemm.ee instance and Liftoff (wefwef.app) apps. Awesome speed.

Can we say we "made it" when megacorps start making their own instances and communities?

Yeah, votes are slow for me now (5 seconds until a vote "registers" in the UI), but somehow loading entire posts with their comment chains is fast.

Is that how we're gonna do this? Roll back all our jokes to 2015 reddit memes? Are we gonna start posting rage comics and complain about 9gag again? I'm not complaining, just trying to understand what's coming up.

I suspect (/hope lol) a lot of them will just use the reddit official app.

Instances can get ruined, sure, but the decentralized nature means ruination has to focus on the Fediverse. It remains to be seen how it will get ruined. Like the Reddit honeymoon after Digg's collapse, we get to watch this be the hero until it becomes the villain.

Yeah, nice vibes

Reminds me just a little bit of USENET before Eternal September and all the spam that essentially ruined it. Same for the days of BBSes.

Android: Liftoff, Connect, Summit, Jerboa. (In this order for me.

PWA: wefwef.app

Edit: the android ones are all on Play Store.

i’ve been using memmy on ios

you have to use it through testflight and it’s still a bit buggy but otherwise feels like a slightly less polished and less customisable version of Apollo, which is already high praise.

Same! Hopefully it won't be much longer.

i’ve been using memmy on ios

you have to use it through testflight and it’s still a bit buggy but otherwise feels like a slightly less polished and less customisable version of Apollo, which is already high praise.

I've only been on the fediverse just under a year, but generally speaking that's the vibe here in general. Twitter migrants said the same thing after they showed up to Mastodon/Calckey.

I remember when people made the effort to be nice on Reddit as well. Opinions were valued and courtesy was extended with a benefit of the doubt, before it turned into a "not up for discussion" shithole. It was like watching someone get wealthy with their fuck you money, and then the community went to shit as mods got tired of trolls, opinions were no longer valued, and the echo chamber effect became amplified.

And to build off lemons post, all activity is transparent. If curious you can see who down voted you/your post/comment. Makes trolls easier to block.

And the nice thing is if you do see trolls, don't feed them, just block them and move on. This place is so much less stressful when you remove the bad actors.

I've had people mass downvote all my comments. IDGAF about that though

Promotion so more people join

Try promoting the place, I promoted and I think some people joined because of that

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I think this is the closest one!

Beep boop, we are all bots.

fediverse connecting two types of apps like this is awesome, I'm posting from lemmy

Me too

I'm curious if the decentralized nature of Lemmy will mean it never gets to be "too big" since users will be more spread out. I know we can all see each other's posts... but still

haha, politics in general are just annoying to talk about cause neither side wants to listen to what the other has to say. But I'm pretty sure there's a politics community you can criticize the president in.

Lemmy has historically been pretty far left so I'm not sure where you're getting that from. People have been criticizing Biden here forever, but maybe just not from the perspective that you're used to.

@FlashMobOfOne I skimmed your comment history and my god you're obnoxious