how are yall feeling about the website?
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.
Fuck /u/spez, innit?
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.
remember corporations did not create the internet, universities and the public sector created the internet. but then private interests infected it and made the experience worse for everyone. We the people created the internet and we the people can take it back!
We’ve had to go backwards to go forward and I’m all for it.
I feel kinda dumb… I truly did not get the whole fediverse thing and panicked trying to guess where most of us refugees would go, I made an account on mastadon, kbin.social, karab.in, lemmy.world and maybe a few more I now cannot recall, all same username as my Reddit account… I assume now that was overkill? I hope there is a way I can merge them all together at some point… and Oddly enough, this was my last instance(? That’s what lemmy.world is right?) that feels less confusing than all the previous ones I tried…
Growing pains but in time I think this whole fediverse thing will grow on me!
I think creating too many accounts as you try to find a home and figure out what instances are is a normal thing. I certainly did it as well 😂
You can think of each instance as a separate reddit website. The magic of the fediverse is all these separate full on websites are still the same thing and can interact with each other!
I have 4 Mastodon accounts now lol
Having multiple accounts isn’t necessarily redundant. When I joined Mastodon I picked a friendly instance at random, the owner is very strict about what will be visible in their instance’s federated feed so a lot of instances are banned. Personally I’m fine with their choices since I don’t want to see hate speech in my feed, but there could be scenarios where you disagree with your preferred instance’s owner on what you want to see.
I did the same thing! I imagine many of us are in the same position :)
I didn’t even KNOW we could reuse our Mastodon accounts here
I have been on Mastodon for a few months now, and just joined here. I have been wanting FOSS and community-based alternatives to social media for a long time, and now it seems the impetus is present based on the actions of large companies selling their user-bases out for larger migrations of people to these more community-centric platforms.
What is striking me now is that these once-revolutionary internet platforms and companies are all reaching an inflection point. Imploding one-by-one at the hands of their own hubris and exploitation of their users.
What I realized after switching to and primarily using these platforms over Twitter, reddit, etc, is that I had become so desensitized to the commercialization of the internet. I didn’t know what it was like to browse and connect with people without constant advertisements and clickbait. The algorithms of commercial social media incite conflict because it drives engagement and benefits the bottom line.
I’ve never been on social media without feeling a sense of anxiety. Even when I pared down my consumption to my own interests, it was there. I really had no idea it was possible to have a space on the internet without that.
The fediverse so far has been an enlightening experience. Genuine conversation, no mysterious algorithms dictating what reaches your attention, and an unfamiliar sense of calm while browsing social media; traditionally stressful on commercial sites, but addictive as well.
I know places like this and Mastodon are unfamiliar to most and will not draw the same numbers as the larger, more established commercial sites. But spaces like this are worth investing time in, as opposed to selling your data to the lowest bidder. I say welcome everyone who has taken that step in to the fediverse and I look forward to chatting with you all!
I like it this way much more. I never felt comfortable commenting on Reddit, but something about this basic, forum style makes me feel actually comfortable contributing to the conversation. It’s a new feeling but really nice! I’m thinking this will help me quit Reddit and spend less time on screens as well. I’m having a hard time figuring out instances etc and how to connect to them, I’m mostly just using this instance and its communities for now. I’m sure I’ll figure it out eventually
Mostly, I just enjoy the lack of enshitification and hyper-paranoia sponsored by algorithms seeking quick cash. Its nice :)
Hopefully stays that way. I still am giving the side-eye/stink eye to certain developers of reddit who are self described ‘communists’ and are, well… Russian sympathizers
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
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!
I feel like I’m back in the best part of the early-mid 00s, when the entire internet was running on phpbb or some random local social networks with 500 users. I missed those, glad to be back in the new, hopefully better, interpretation of those times. Overall, it’s quite nostalgic here. ❤️
Honestly I am feeling pretty optimistic about using Lemmy. It is definitely a learning curve in hoping the federated community but I really enjoy the idea of it. I’m hoping it can gain some more traction and get bigger in the near future.
It’s got late 2000s Reddit vibes, which I like. I had to remove the Reddit browser bookmark because I suddenly realized I was browsing it again and must have opened it subconsciously. I’m trying to stay here dammit lol.
Happy to be here, also sad to be here.
I like it so far but it’s strange and feels like I’m exploring the web with no experience.
That’s the fun part. I haven’t felt like this exploring a new website since I was a kid.
I really want this to gain traction if reddit goes with the api changes, thing is it needs to be more user friendly to be popular, the easier the transition, the better. Also, Fuck u/spez
I kinda like it actually. A cross between discord and reddit or smth. I’m only 1 hr old so I’m gonna withhold judgment for when I get more accustomed to the ui.
