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
I still use Reddit. Lemmy still doesn’t have a lot of the communities I know and love on Reddit.
Never used Twitter.
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
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.
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
Some of the local subs I read have presences on Lemmy but no content. Most normies are still using Reddit.
For sure. It’s super young. It’ll continue to grow most likely.
This is how it was in the earlier days of Reddit, with folks mixing in their use alongside Digg until eventually fully committing.
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.
I visited Reddit exclusively with Apollo. Even so, my last visit was on June 11.
Welcome!! We are glad to have you here!
Same here! I’ve moved from Reddit/Twitter to Lemmy and BlueSky, both of which have been an upgrade.
Welcome to the club, there are quite a few of us in the same situation
Welcome mate, I still have Twitter but I hope one day I’ll be able to cut it off for good!
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
Any advice on mastodon?
I use Mastoot it’s pretty cool
You can tell who the Memmy users are by the repeat posting when the JSON error happens 😅
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I love Moshidon as mobil app
I just started using Ice Cubes and it’s pretty solid
Beyond the general app recommendations, here’s some more advice
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Take a moment to read fedi.tips
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Hashtags are your friend. Follow them. Use them. Capitalize each word in them
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You will miss things. That is the point
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For accounts you don’t want to miss, click the bell in the profile or make a list
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Boost the toots!
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Be here to make connections
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No algorithm means post what you want
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Add alt-text to images
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Did the same thing a few days ago and honestly feels pretty great
Me too
I put them in my DNS blacklist together with Ticktock and Facebook
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.
Have not touched my Reddit account since June 30th 0:00
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.
What are you struggling with?
I can’t find a good instance + people to follow.
You should have a go at following hashtags instead of users. You’ll find it much more interactive and interesting.
Check out and follow @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services they promote a lot of interesting or notable accounts, most of the time theme based. They also have a directory at sorted by topics. https://fedi.directory/
Edit to add: also follow @feditips@mstdn.social for tips to making the most out of the Fediverse
Welcome, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it, Those corpo media sites are now a fading memory for me.
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.
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)
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.
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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.
Audience capture is a bitch
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?
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.
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.
