As usual, a few pointers
Learned lemmy exsisted recently. How I’m doing? I’m getting through the days well enough to keep going with an even pace. Trying to focus on my family and my health, rather than the burning world around me. I check my news sites and scroll through the fediverse, hoping looking for good news. I get some of that, but a lot of it is bad news. But going through the fediverse has shown be like minded people, and people who feel just as frustrated and helpless as I do.
Knowing I’m not crazy Seeing that there are people trying to do good It gives me hope.
Same here my friend. The news are making money from our attention and fear do wonders for that, there is a chance that things may not be as bad as they look in the news. I had anxiety for weeks until I dropped watching news and now I feel better. I believe that life would go on anyway, bad days come, good days will arrive. Only thing we can do is to focus on what we have control, and when we do not have it, stay strong and wait for the storm to pass, nothing is permanent.
I feel like this is the right time to move to Lemmy… I lost faith in Reddit and it is starting to feel like everything is either an ad or a bot… I feel like the community heee is more genuine and real (we can only hope). And if more people feel like the big tech sites (Facebook/google/reddit) is now in the US Gov’s pocket then maybe it’s time to find alternatives. Blue sky is rocketing on that front but men I prefer the Reddit style discourse. Lemmy checks all those boxes. I’m hoping in time more communities pop up and more users follow.
Heres some websites to help you find the lemmy communities that best fit as replacements for the subreddits you used to frequent:
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I like it here, unfortunately a lot of the more niche communities that I’m in haven’t, and probably won’t migrate here.
Trying to gt used to it - slowly. I like it so far! Still super pissed that Reddit can just arbitrarily ban accounts, basically without recourse, and shut you out from any community you were in. Lots of niche queer ones I was in… just can’t participate anymore.
What happened last week?
Trying to make a doc for migrants. Just the overview. Got the cold shoulder from one of the small web guys equating Lemmy to heroine. Essentially ‘either do it like me or you are wrong’
Same as it ever was online.
As for me? Missing a few communities. Kinda head scratching at things over all, but it could be worse.
Both want to make a few instances and have no energy to babysit them.
There’s a few communities I’m missing still, mostly shitpost and fan fiction subs. I’d like to start them but I’m still not sure of my own footing yet.
There is [email protected]
Yeah I had initially checked it out but seeing that there were so few posts and all over a year old was a little disheartening.
Go post!
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An instance is not the same as a community/sub.
Working on it. Little lonely since most of communities from reddit don’t seem to be here but still searching so we’ll see.
Definitely feeling like I need to install linux on my mac though, perhaps as some sort of initiation?
Ah, the good old hackintosh routine!
When I joined I felt like I moved to a village after living in a metropolis. There’s positives and negatives to that, but in the end Lemmy satisfies my doomscrolling needs so I’m never coming back to reddit.
When you need to doomscroll.
Why not scroll wikipedia?Oh wow I love that!
The peer pressure (and stupid broken updates from MS) finally got me to install linux about 8mos into using lemmy. It’s pretty great, though - wish I’d done it sooner.
Went with mint right after the announcement of tpm 2.0 since I’m running an off lease decade old office box.
What’re you running?
Wouldn’t recommend linux on a mac unless it’s an old model (like ~2012)
M1 not old enough? I can already feel Apple trying to kill it.
There’s Asahi linux for M1 but the dev that runs it is a bit of a nutter. Also apple software just works best with its hardware (until the planned obsolesence of your hardware happens and suddenly nothing works).
Well that saves me a bit of work for now then. I’ve got all my old phones/ipads though so perhaps it’s time to try tinkering with things there
There are a few tools like lima that let you play around with Ubuntu from macOS if you are still curious. Also an official one from Canonical (company behind Ubuntu linux) whose name I forget now that does a similar thing. Essentially you get a user friendly linux VM to play around with.
Edit: Canonical VM is called Multipass
I encourage you to create them and foster them.
Let me get through the welcome newcomers stuff first! :)
[email protected] can help!
Definitely better at navigating this week than last
Good to hear!
Enjoying it. I’m loving the filters I can use to limit some of the political spam.
Pro: there is a Lemmy app (Voyager) based on the amazing Apollo for Reddit app.
Cons: Like 5 people total were chatting about the Super Bowl in the most populous NFL community.
There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.
Still going to give it a try, but my excitement waned pretty quickly.
What sub are you still looking for? I might no equivalent of some.
Sorry the whole fediverse was way too busy talking about the Superb Owl (#superbowl on the twittoverse and [email protected] for the threadiverse).
Indeed, Lemmy tends to have fewer but more engaged users. Which is weird at first. Can’t wait for the moment we’ll stop seeing known faces
There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.
One adjustment I had to make when I moved over to Lemmy is posting/commenting more. On Reddit most of the time your comment was buried. On Lemmy, a bunch of people are going to see it.
Not saying you need to be the only poster, but sometimes everyone just posting a bit more will reveal a community.
I genuinely miss the F1 and CFB communities for the commentary, but I’m glad I left reddit when they killed 3rd party apps. It’s nice to have a media feed that isn’t cluttered with ads.
There is [email protected]. I’ll probably create a post later this week for sports communities on [email protected]
I’m already subbed. I’ve been trying to be more active about commenting
Im shocked that the two biggest CFB communities have fewer than 1000 members.
A lot of it has to do with the type of folks who were in the initial Lemmy wave; generally a crowd that is more familiar with linux distros than the tuck rule. Not necessarily a bad thing, just a comment on the interests of the type of folks who were more apt to leave Reddit for another platform. Mainstream sports attract a mainstream audience, whom (on the whole) are more likely to stick to a mainstream website. Lemmy will grow but it took years before some of those communities grew to the size they are on Reddit, and it happened then without a comparable mainstream competitor.
Not only the initial wave. The hurdle to sign up and understand what an instance is is so big that 90% of Lemmy users will be programmers.
The sign up page should obfuscate all the noise about “instances” away.
And there really isn’t much posting in any of them. It’s hard, because I am a fan of smaller NFL and CFB teams, and it’s just me posting stuff with no discussion. So it gets to a point you feel like you’re being annoying about it. I do Supercross discussion threads for people if they wanna join in, in an admittedly small community (even the Reddit one was like…maybe 200 active users, 30k total subs). I have been the only commenter there for over a year lol.
Have you tried promoting it on [email protected] and other NFL communities?
I haven’t, but I’m not too worried about it. The football ones are a bigger worry; the game threads were easily the biggest thing I was on Reddit for, and the magic isn’t here yet. Part of the issue though is now that I don’t get on Reddit or here as much, I’m watching IRL with friends and don’t sit on my phone to interact like that lol.
I personally like Jerboa, but I also used to use RIF is fun for Reddit which had a similar UI. I’m probably in the minority on preferences which is nothing new
I should have been in there, but my eyes were just too glued on the belting I was witnessing. It’s definitely a bummer that a lot of non-tech or news communities aren’t there yet in terms of participation, but at least we’re not making some Rich assholes even more rich on here!
The eagles are my wife’s favorite team and it was a fun watch for us. Ass. Whoopin.
Pro: There are lots of apps other than Voyager for people to find what works for them.
yeah we’re here not because it’s the next new reddit, but because we were tired of reddit and spez. never said this place wasn’t a fixer upper! it’ll take some time to build up communities. but this place is doing better and better and only seems to be growing.
keep lemmy in your pocket. crosspost some memes. it’ll be here for you, and even more so if you’re here for us!
go birds 😜
yeah ! long live [email protected] (^_-)
Sorry, I used to post a lot more on sports communities when I was on Reddit but haven’t really felt the urge to sense moving to Lemmy. It didn’t help that the game wasn’t very good last night either. We are here. I’m pretty active on the fantasy football community. But there is just a handful of us playing there. Feel free to join us at [email protected]. I’m going to start our offseason mega thread now that the superbowl is done
Like 5 people total were chatting about the Super Bowl in the most populous NFL community.
Seems like you guys still posted 120 comments, that’s not so bad!
There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.
Feel free to have a look at [email protected] for some recommendations, especially this post: https://lemm.ee/post/54763669
Still going to give it a try, but my excitement waned pretty quickly.
Sorry to hear, hopefully we can make your experience a bit nicer
Yeah, the mood is a bit different here. We do owls, raccoons, blahaj and Linux. Extra raccoons on weekends, though. I love this place.
Don’t forget Star Trek!
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And beans.
mlem is pretty great. arctic too. I’m planning on switching back to Android this year though, anyone know any equivalent quality Android clients?
good thanks I’ve sucked 4 dicks already
Don’t forget to get your card punched!
The fifth is free!You guys are getting paid?
You’re gonna need to get those numbers up.
Four?? But I’m literally right here
Rookie Numbers
Not wasting any time? One more dick and you get custom flair on all your posts. Welcome.
Hell yeah, brother.
I have to confess. I still scroll Reddit from time to time (no longer use my account), and the front page just has a lot more variety. There’s still a lot of bot content from the occasional AITA that’s purely clickbait to the reposts.
I do like that comments and conversations are better here. I’m seeing familiar names and I like it.
It’s going okay! Still trying to decide which instance to call home. I still find myself on reddit probably equal amount to Lemmy though, unfortunately
The particular instance doesn’t matter too much as long as it hasn’t defederated from other instances you care about & vice versa - since you can still see, post, & interact with content from other instances. I made accounts on .ml and .dbzer0.
It matters significantly. Depending on the users the all feed is totally different. US politics are almost non existent on szmer.info
Defederation is a secondary point.
You mean local feed. Right?
No. All feed.
Local on szmer is in polish. All feed exluded for a while [email protected] as no one was subscribed.
I see. It’s a big advantage for peace of mind but a disadvantage for discoverability.
For discoverability I use http://lemmyverse.net/ and an alt on different instance with different all feed.
All is dependent on what instances your home instance is federated with. Federation/defederation by your home instance determines what you see in All.
Szmer.info is federated with lemmy.world, so you would be able to see [email protected], which has US politics. Unless you’ve filtered things out of your feed, but that’s different.
A year ago [email protected] wasn’t federated as no one subscribed to it on szmer. Sadly there are now 4 subs to it.
I made an account on .ml as well but noticed a bunch of comments weren’t showing up when I was viewing posts on .ml which is unfortunate
ml is better to be avoided unless you’re an extremist or want to become one. Well, Lemmy as a whole is very extremist, which is my biggest issue with it, so… still here.
Huh. Comments shouldn’t be affected, as I understand it, just posts from defederated instances won’t show up. For instance, .ml is defederated from any and all porn instances - so porn doesn’t show up in my feed. I wonder if it could be a delay in the comments showing up, not actually an absence of those comments?
Either way, plenty of good instances to join that are less defederated than .ml
Yea, I thought the same thing. But take a look at this comment I made to see what I have been seeing. Not sure what the explanation could be
Whoa that’s really odd. You might submit an issue on github, if you want: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
The Voyager app is really what made me investigate because on every post i see there are replies that cannot be expanded. I’ll submit an issue
