It’s not the kids, not the lurkers, not the mods… y’all just nice people. Lemmy’s got a good vibe going… or at least enough windows that we can close if the vibe gets shit.
Amen! It’s a little slow but I’m perfectly fine with that! Everyone here is vibing for sure!
I sort of had an intuition that the people I want to talk to, the people I enjoyed talking to over there, would also be the ones who made the choice to come here.
Personally, and I am bias, I think everyone here is nice and chill because everyone who actually dropped Reddit are principled enough to not just say they hate a change and then do nothing about it.
I think you’re spot on. Loving this new home. Here’s to a bright future in the Fediverse.
Yep, exactly. The people that want a better Internet, my kinda people.
I love it. All I want is an app
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.
Someone told me about wefwef for iOS and its awesome so far!
Someone told me about wefwef for iOS and its awesome so far!
Android: Liftoff, Connect, Summit, Jerboa. (In this order for me.
PWA: wefwef.app
Edit: the android ones are all on Play Store.
Reddit is too popular and has too much group think, too many of the same types of comments that will get a lot karma, and too many comments that will just be ignored.
NEW is a garbage dump or a pile of duplicates. So why comment on a new post? It will never go anywhere. HOT is already full of comments, so your comment will just be lost.
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.
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.
I haven’t really looked at Odysee. I feel like I’ve seen some Linux Youtubers mention that they post videos there too. What’s bad about it?
Do upvotes and downvotes work the same way here? If so, I fear that communities may become echo chambers too, in time.
I’m already noticing tons of comments getting down voted for seemingly just because people disagree so human nature makes a proper discussion difficult
In a post and comment, yes. However your up vote vs down vote counts are not stored on your profile. It reduces the game-ification of the interactions.
It also depends where you’re reading from. Mastodon doesn’t sort at all, Kbin sorts differently from Lemmy, and one Lemmy instance might differ from the next. Even vote counts might differ between servers.
In the end, the user experience here will be much more individual than on Reddit. What is the top post for you might not be the top post for me. :)
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, for one, will not be missing the Reddit ads.
I guess you could say the particular reason Lemmy is so good right now is the friends we made along the way
100%
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 [email protected] too. I want all of you there! We need some wholesome contributors, even if it’s just a downvote.
I think it’s early tech adopters are just excited about something nice and will play nice to try to hero it grow. I remember the early internet being a really nice place.
It’ll get ruined soon enough.
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.
I agree, it feels like something good is starting to rev up.
It feels fresh… idk how to describe it
It feels rough around the edges still, kind of like the early internet. Like your part of something that’s still a work in progress. It also feels a little smaller, like if you say something you’re more likely to be heard, instead of your voice being drowned in a sea of comments.
I think you just did.
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Word. This is fun. Tons of jank but it doesn’t detract from the experience, but merely an interesting part of it (least right now).
I can’t speak for everyone. I’ve been lurking for the past couple weeks and just signed up yesterday. The prevailing attitude I’ve noticed is that people realize just how much of a toxic hog lagoon reddit has become, and are glad to participate in a community that isn’t. It’s nice to be somewhere that isn’t full of bots and doesn’t coddle nazis.
I also think it helps that most of the onboarding literature is frontloaded with “this is how federation works” instead of jumping right in to “here’s how you sign up and use lemmy.” Effectively scares off the reading-averse.
If considering that to be a plus makes me an elitist, I’m ok with that.
“Lemmy. For those who read good.”
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
Depends on instance…
Fair enough. And like you said, if an instance becomes toxic enough, no one will want to federate with them, and users will switch from instances that do to instances that don’t.
This is really such a great example for why Fediverse and FOSS in general are the superior and much healthier way for society’s social media interactions to go. Hopefully, some day in the near future, unprofitable social media monoliths like Meta, Twitter and Reddit will be so blatantly exploiting of their user base that even normies migrate to free software alternatives and the era of ultra-capitalist mega-corporations in social media encouraging hate and toxicity will finally be over.
toxic hog lagoon
All I can picture for lemmy users right now is an excited dog at a dog park that is just loving life and wants to say high to every other dog and is wagging his tail so hard that his whole ass is wagging.
I agree. Haven’t seen any trolls at all.
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.
