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Refugee Redditors as they make the move. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Garvos@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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[-] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Image Transcription: Meme

['Let me in' - a two panel image of a man in a suit standing outside a closed metal gate, and shaking it vigorously in the second panel with his head tilted back and his mouth open screaming. The second panel also has small amount of motion blur. There is text at the bottom of both images.]

LEMMY IN.

LEMMY IIIIIIIN!

^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I appreciate the work you're doing to aid in accessibility. I'm not sure using "unkempt hair" is quite right. I would have thought this is natural afro hair. I don't think the hair description adds to the transcription so is probably better to remove.

[-] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be safe, I removed the hair description altogether. Initially added it because I thought it might've been part of the character's appearance in the skit. Given the rest of the character's appearance, I wasn't sure if it was textured hair or just curly/frizzy hair blowing in the wind with poor image quality, and whether it was an intentional choice for the source material or just his natural hair type.

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[-] clementineholic@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You're great for transcribing! To avoid the word unkempt, as that can be offensive, I would transcribe the hair as 'clumpy afro-textured hair'.

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[-] primaryuser@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Me, who's already been here for a few weeks, trying to just load a post or make a comment right now with the influx of traffic:

[-] shawnj2@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

Use a non Lemmy.world account and you’ll have more success

[-] Squiglet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

how does that work

[-] beneeney@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

So each lemmy site is an instance with its own servers. Even though they all connect to one another, they run on their on load and data. So you're on lemmy.world, which is being very overloaded with the influx of reddit folks. I'm on lem.ee which is buttery smooth, yet still able to see posts and comments from world, since it's all federated

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You just make an account on a smaller instance (easiest way to find them is at the bottom of the page here), and subscribe to all the communities you want from lemmy.world and others to start pulling them in.

Then proceed to shitpost as normal.

EDIT: Alternatively, go here, switch the "Software" option to Lemmy at the top, and look for a server geographically close to you.

[-] clementineholic@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

EDIT: Alternatively, go here, switch the “Software” option to Lemmy at the top, and look for a server geographically close to you.

Oh, great tip! Thanks! It's interesting to see which servers are hosted in my state.

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[-] jcb2016@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So true!

[-] hmcd@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I had my wife sign up yesterday as a daily reddit user and average tech skills. Based on that experience, I really don't think lemmy is going to go mainstream in its current form.

[-] reddwarf@vlemmy.net 10 points 1 year ago

I agree. Had the same thought. Right now I think the influx will be tech savvy users fleeing reddit and have no big problems understanding Lemmy.

However, there will be (I hope!) a larger influx of 'normal' users wanting to check Lemmy out (my theory is that all the content creators are ending up here and the lurkers will start to follow content in the end) will have a hard time. Why bother them with instances or how you pick communities, how the fediverse works? Just allow people to sign-up, no forcing to choose server, one account only, deal with that login/create account when you end up on different servers, etc. Just make the initial access a smooth pane of glass. Later they can deep-dive in the tech if the so choose to. Just stop throwing tech into peoples faces, it really is as simple as that. Like someone else stated, if I drive a car I should not have knowledge about my engine, model/type of crankshaft, timing of the belt, etc. I have a garage for that sort of thing and I will not be bothered with details (unless I ask the mechanic of course).

I said this before and it seems that the 'core' or 'old skool' Lemmy users have issues with that, you should have to know the tech if you want to join.
I hope this will not be a typical open source/low level attitude of admins and tech savvy people where people are just lost in that tech maze. Whatever you need to run in the background, do whatever, just give me an alternative to reddit. This is not me speaking but I fear the average emigrating reddit user will want this simpleness. And why not give it to them, why force people to understand fediverse?

[-] Nath@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

When I first joined Reddit, it was like this. Much smaller and a very tech-savvy crowd. Loads of technology articles.

This place has the potential to replace Reddit for the masses, and if it does, I think it'll grow quicker than Reddit did. The turning point will be when/if Lemmy starts having better content and daily links start appearing on Reddit to Lemmy. People will just naturally start going to Lemmy instead of Reddit first.

It will also need apps as good as the Reddit apps. I am downloading my first Lemmy app as I type this. I laughed when I saw that Reddit had paid to appear in the list when someone searches for Lemmy.

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[-] nerdblood@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

It's basically the same premise. Link aggregator with a forum attached, where upvoted content rises to the top. She doesn't need to know how instances work in order to use it in the same way that she doesn't need to be a mechanic in order to drive her car.

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[-] ScaNtuRd@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

New from Reddit today. This is my first comment. Hello Lemmy!

[-] Desso@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

[-] habaneroanalbeads@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I don't speak on behalf of everyone, but we prefer the term r/efugees

[-] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 9 points 1 year ago

Me, who didn't join one of the huge instances, instead hosting his own instance: "Why is everyone complaining? Lol."

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[-] Buntilda@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I FINALLY managed to make an account after 4 days of lurking limbo! Hi guys!

[-] ProximaChad@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Me cuz I suck with computers and couldn’t figure out how to make an account. It kept failing and one wanted me to write an essay on why I should be considered. Im a casual reddit users I didn’t want to write an essay. Finally signed up with lemmy.world and I know its slow cuz a lot of people are on it but at least it worked lol.

[-] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

That's me before the blackout, now settled on sh.itjust.works because shit just work

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[-] The_Mike_Drop@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

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[-] herbh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

After 16+ years on Reddit, I deleted my comments and posts and then my account. Did the same with Twitter. A little sad but also liberating.

[-] Raphael@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Now we need lemmy.in

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[-] Deelala0516@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm in this picture and I'm actually ok with it.

[-] SwallowsDick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Me too

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[-] lolreconlol@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Enjoying Lemmy so far! Hoping the communities fill out a bit. Need my communities for IASIP and Walking Dead 🥺

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[-] randomwither@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Me trying to figure out which damn app I can use that won't crash.

[-] DrSanta@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Love how varied and even a little contradictory all the responses are.

Probably isn't very helpful.

I use Connect and Liftoff. Connect feels a bit more refined but prefer Liftoff's comment styling.

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[-] Chonk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Me trying to login in to every instance except the one where I signed up.

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[-] TechGoat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh god I finally was able to log in, 2 days after I thought I failed to make an account because none of the emails went through.

I wish there was some sort of way that I could send CPU power or bandwidth, tor style, to these new decentralized platforms. I totally get that they're having growing pains, and I also get that part of the tradeoff of decentralization is "well, who pays the hosting bills then?"

I'd love to put a percentage of my bandwidth and home server (or even AWS instance) CPU resources towards running an encrypted Lemmy.world instance. I don't want to just run my own barren, empty server like what the Federated system would let me do; I don't feel like that would actually have any benefit to making a reddit-replacement since why would anyone use my instance? No, I specifically want to dedicate resources to helping the popular instances, be able to run.

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[-] lemmein@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmein!!

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