Hey! I'm keeping this as it's targeted at new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.
Ngl, us r/efugees are not happy with things over there.
As much as I'm coming to enjoy this, it still isn't what reddit was, nor is the app experience anything close to as feature rich. But, I'm finding other benefits here that are, and never were, possible at reddit, so it's still a good thing :)
Reddit is proof that no publicly traded company, nor any that intends to be, can be trusted with anything. Not use that was ever in doubt, but reddit has shown it in such a glaring, grotesque way that it's the poster child for how shitty corporate thought is.
I dunno. I was enjoying things. I had started moderating two subs I deeply cared about, with one having a strong sense of community building. There's an emotional response to the loss of that. But I'll be damned if I'm going to put in the work, put in the passion, when it's shit on by the very company that profits from my free labor. fuck spez, fuck reddit
God dam right friend.
The best parts of reddit were the communities of people dedicated to the topics under each sub.
Reddit CEOs didn't create that. It was and has always been regular users and hardworking Mods that brought us what we loved about reddit. If reddit isn't going to protect those people, fuck em.
I'm signing off of reddit with the black out. There will probably be a long time before something replaces it. But I'm a long for the ride.
I mean it seems so obvious in retrospect I suppose. I hope we're looking a the start of a real renascence for the internet, away from corporate overlords.
Seems sluggish, rough, and low population, but fuck spez so I'll give this an honest chance.
The whole lemmy concept mixed with the current situation feels far more like you are part of a real community. Kinda like in old internet days. I will even break out of my reddit lurker days and try to contribute here.
Yeah it feels a lot more like an old school forum.
Happy to be here, also sad to be here.
I'm a little confused, but cautiously optimistic. It took a while to sign up and log in, but I got that far, so I guess I can work out the rest too! As a bit of a Reddit lurker, I'm out of my comfort zone, but committed to upvoting and commenting to help build the community!
It's ugly, not intuitive, feels way more complicated than necessary for a social site and the name is kind of dumb.
I'm 100% on board because screw Reddit and fuck u/spez.
I hope I can learn the ropes and help this place grow into something better.
Honestly when i started with reddit it was very confusing. Specially the concept of karma. Now it is time to learn something fresh and new!
If you're on Android get Jerboa for Lemmy. It's still in alpha but its still much better than browsing with the website imo, at least in terms of ugliness
Just joined a bit, too. Looks great so far. It reminds me of that wild west frontier feeling like when a bunch of us migrated from Digg to Reddit. We're building another new community.
... With blackjack! And hookers!
Are you Decoy Bender or just Bender?
Just a decoy, I'm afraid. Shut up baby, I know it!
We've had to go backwards to go forward and I'm all for it.
It's like we've just escaped an abusive partner and now starting from zero!
I am here on mobile using Mlem. Mlem has an interface superficially like Apollo, but it doesn't have nearly the polish and features, like swiping posts to the side to up/downvote. I didn't realize (until I lost it) how much that single capability improved QoL. Until an app comes along with better UX and QoL, I probably won't stay. (I don't doomscroll on my computer either).
I just tried out mobile browser. It works great on iOS Firefox. It’s good enough as a stopgap until someone makes a better mobile app.
Loving it - federation is great, hardly ever even know which instance I'm interacting with from kbin, which is a good thing as it means the federation is working and mostly seamless. Can't wait for some apps to come out and streamline the experience, hopefully some more people will start coming here to populate a lot of the communities that I'd like to participate or lurk in. Right now there's a lot of... uh... shouting into the void trying to fill the space. I'm posting way more than I ever did on reddit just because like... somebody has to do it, right?
Thanks, where's the coffee machine, please?
Excited about the possibilities of the fediverse!
I just spent a little time today creating my Lemmy.world account and trying to find equivalents of my favorite subs from Reddit. I really question whether Reddit will survive the uprising that has spawned. I think the IPO is going to go very poorly, then Reddit will turn into some commercial mess. This is my first Lemmy post, BTW!
This is my first comment here, hope I'm doing it right!
looking good, already feels better
It's good so far; a few UX/UI issues need polishing, some more display options would be nice too.
The whole issue of community@instance is going to take some getting used to for people, and it's not clear how that's going to shake out in the long run. I'm not yet certain whether this will become my default space, but I'm willing to give it a go.
There should be a way to make meta-communities. I.e. I could group FOO@lemmy.world and FOO@lemmy.ml and so forth so it shows as one large community when reading it.
I’ve lamented the loss of what I called “old internet energy” — the feeling of a largely-nerdy community forming around something new. I felt it on early Digg and on Reddit for a good while, until the last 7-10 years or so after mainstream users started pouring in. I feel that here again. ‘Tis nice.
I'm quite enjoying it so far! mlem is surprisingly great
So glad to leave that dumpster fire of a website
So far it’s been good. There is a bit of a learning curve, setting up on mobile devices was a little challenging. Seems to be working well now. This thread has been really helpful for me.
Hoping it's a success but I find it hard to see it becoming one. Purely due to the confusion with how it actually works with different instances. Many casual users are going to be confused and not bother
It seems intuitive coming from Reddit. I’m excited to explore all the communities and see what’s going on
I don't fully understand it, but I'll try to get used to it.
digg déjà vu
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