I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.

Hello Lemmy

  • @[email protected]
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    112 years ago

    I still use Reddit. Lemmy still doesn’t have a lot of the communities I know and love on Reddit.

    Never used Twitter.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 years ago

      yea i use both, there’s many communites on reddit that just straight up dont exist here yet, not to mention that lemmy still has things to improve UX wise

      i do hope lemmy grows though, i interact on here way more than on reddit especially after the protests

      • @[email protected]
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        62 years ago

        Time will tell. Lemmy needs more users and more content. Feels like Reddit from the late 2000s right now. The demographic is mostly male/tech-literate and the only threads that get responses are tech and gaming subjects.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 years ago

      Check out the website sub.rehab It shows Lemmyverse communities which are replacements for subreddits. Not all subreddits exist over here but a lot of the bigger ones do

      • @[email protected]
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        102 years ago

        Some of the local subs I read have presences on Lemmy but no content. Most normies are still using Reddit.

        • ijeff
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          72 years ago

          This is how it was in the earlier days of Reddit, with folks mixing in their use alongside Digg until eventually fully committing.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      Same, a lot of people acting like you have to use one or the other its just silly. Clearly lemmy isn’t big enough to contain all of the niche news and updates from various communities yet and that’s fine. As lemmy hopefully grows then I’ll shift over here but in the meantime reddit is still better for content, anyone saying otherwise is lying to themselves lol.

  • XillyM
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    402 years ago

    Welcome!! We are glad to have you here!

  • @[email protected]
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    92 years ago

    Same here! I’ve moved from Reddit/Twitter to Lemmy and BlueSky, both of which have been an upgrade.

  • @[email protected]
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    162 years ago

    Welcome mate, I still have Twitter but I hope one day I’ll be able to cut it off for good!

  • Morethanevil
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    382 years ago

    Welcome to the Fediverse 🌞 I switched to Mastodon after Musk announced to buy the Twitter. It is already over a year ago 🤔

    I am new to Lemmy myself, but it looks good

  • Sylaran
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    112 years ago

    Did the same thing a few days ago and honestly feels pretty great

  • @[email protected]
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    252 years ago

    Same.

    I had deleted my main reddit account that I had for 13/14 years a few months ago. I created a new alt so I could check in and talk about some of more niche interests, but I deleted that 3 weeks ago, just couldn’t be dealing with the increasing enshittification.

    I’ve had a Twitter a/c since 2009, have a lot of mutual followers and a lot of people I know only for there, but decided today that it’s definitely not going to get any better. I had a Mastodon account since last year, but it was very slow and quiet, and again, not a lot of niche interests I have over there yet. But this weekend’s bullshit (and obvious lies from Musk) makes it clear twitter isn’t going to get better. Even if the stupid rates thing improves in the next while, it will just be something else Musk decides which will be making twitter worse.

    So I’m just going to enjoy the chill vibes and explore all the different communities here.

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    82 years ago

    I’m really struggling in getting used to Mastodon. Already created two accounts in two different instances but couldn’t follow any interesting accounts or whatever.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    Welcome, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it, Those corpo media sites are now a fading memory for me.

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    602 years ago

    Twitter has seriously turned into a right wing cess pool. :( 😞

    Can’t even watch porn on there anymore. LOL

    I was watching one of my favorite gay porn stars and swiped up foe the next video and it was this couple that had like 45 guns strapped to them out shooting printed out faces of Democrat politicians.

    Talk about a damn boner killer.

    Also, the only comments that show up are right wing nut jobs as well. Idk what the hell is going on there.

    • @[email protected]
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      172 years ago

      What is really terrible is that, Twitter is considered mainstream social media alongside Instagram here in Japan. So even the normies ends up stepping into that right wing cesspool. I was really shocked to see my normie ex friend retweeting transphobic shit😿😿

      While I really really hate Twitter, and tend to be more on Instagram, Losing Twitter means losing the single biggest information source for the majority that can’t read English. Even I sometimes have to open Twitter to see wtf is going on in the society (also it’s useful to get the most up to date information during emergency situations, like earthquake)

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        2 years ago

        I saw the impact of them siloing their user base yesterday when a trade was made for one of my sports teams. The news broke on Twitter and I heard about it on a local radio show. I tried to find it in the news but I couldn’t. I don’t use Twitter so I wasn’t able to see any info on the trade for another 2 hours until local news and other services started to confirm and replicate the Twitter post.

        It’s incredibly short sighted of them to do this.

    • Cryptic Fawn
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      2 years ago

      I learned the best way to avoid all the lunatics is to block anyone with a Blue Checkmark. There are block list’s for that to I think, though I was doing it manually.

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    2 years ago

    First time poster. I’m on lemmy.world but found not many of my channels like I have on Reddit. How you all find your niche subs that are bigger than 30 people?

    • AFK BRB Chocolate
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      92 years ago

      The two things that worked for me are:

      • Start with Lemmy Explorer (https://lemmyverse.net/) and look for communities you’re interested in, and subscribe to them (it helps if you hit the little house icon and tell it what your home instance is)
      • Sort posts by “all” and look for ones that seem interesting, then look at the community those are posted in and subscribe.

      Do that for a bit, then you can sort by “subscribed.”

      Seems to be a workable strategy.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 years ago

      Gotta post content and engage with the small communities to help them grow I guess. Since I’ve started a few weeks ago I’ve seen new communities spring up everywhere. Hopefully in time whatever you are missing will come to Lemmy.