to start: after some consideration, we’ve altered our entry question a little bit so that entry is not guaranteed. during the daytime you can basically expect waits of 30 minutes or less when it comes to approval/disapproval, but overnight it’ll be anywhere from 6-12 hours. just FYI
if you’d like to introduce yourself without it getting lost in all the posts already made, i just made a thread for that over here
our sidebar should give you most of the information you’re looking for about us, but to reiterate some: we are pretty relaxed here, but we have a well carved out understanding of what we want to be. if you would like more elaboration on that, you can find elaboration on that at length in the following two posts:
for some less lengthy and more relaxed elaboration, see the discussion in the comments of this post.
as for funding: we are 100% user-funded. if you would like to contribute to our ability to keep the website up, you can donate on OpenCollective, which supports both one-time donations or monthly donations.
a few other questions occasionally pop up like “why do we have the set of communities we do?” and “why can’t people make their own?” (the latter is a feature of lemmy). for elaboration on that, you can see the following post and the discussions here. we are open to suggestions and creating communities as demand sees fit; see also discussion here.
downvotes are disabled on this instance and that’s a thing we’re not liable to change. if you’d like elaboration for why that is, see this comment. this may be a point of friction for some coming from reddit, but i hope you’ll understand why we’re doing it even if you don’t necessarily agree with it.
if you’re interested in our governance to this point and a brief idea of our long term goals, see the comment here.
feel free to sound off on other questions you have; i’ll try to update the OP with those and our ability to answer them as time goes on.
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Glad to have another excuse to drop a walled-garden platform. After a few months my mastodon feed has become more engaging than my twitter ever was, and I’m looking forward to joining some communities of excellent people here!
This place is way more alive than when I signed up, I’m getting excited!
I’ve hated walled gardens for a long time and I’m glad to see a lot of users are heading for federated alternatives. It strips away all of the weird tracking and algorithms and just lets us interact normally.
It really shows how much the engagement algorithms favor rage-bait, doesn’t it?
Yeah it’s so freaking weird. Any reasonable person building a reasonable social network would promote interconnectedness and positive social behavior. Yet all the major social networks seem to promote angry behavior and angry people. I’m so glad that more and more people are choosing to “leave the matrix”. I would love to see if future where everything social media is federated and algorithms are optional at most.
my guess is its that way because it drives more attention to the site sure drama can be harmful to the person but for the site its a goldmine of people going to see whats happening and seeing ads and driving up usage metrics
Yes. It’s surprising how different it is when it’s just a generic algorithm.
Most platforms got progressively worse over the last decade and being here makes me realise how far we fell.
For what it’s worth I was going to join Beehaw but I like downvotes. I’m still sore that YouTube removed them. So I’d like to vote for downvotes lol.
Sorry, this is not something we’re willing to budge on. You’re still, of course, welcome to participate on our instance so long as you’re nice 😊
Howdy! Left Digg when it started south, was a Redditor since May 2007, and now I’m here instead. :)
I never used digg (i was a drifter who bounced around on random sports message boards, gametrailers, neogaf boards and the like) before hopping on reddit around 2010 or so. So this is my first real migration like this haha
I listened to Diggnation more than I used the website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggnation. Ah the good young days… (back when we were young and less jaded by social networks growing, thriving, and then being sold.
I’m a reddit refugee too. It’s so interesting to see that almost all the comments are 1) from actual people, and 2) conversing in way actual humans might if they weren’t on the internet.
Thank you for having me, Another reddit refugee.
Glad to be here, there’s so much room for activities
It would be interesting to see the Lemmy registration numbers due to the upcoming reddit implosion
that is possible through this page, FYI
51,661 users as of this comment! Yay!
If you look at the charts they don’t really add up. Like the users per node. And the users over time chart doesn’t really reflect reports of “tripled user base overnight”. I’m not sure these numbers are correct at this time.
I think the per-instance views are reasonably correct, but the per-platform overviews are lagging. Perhaps they only update those infrequently.
per-instance definitely lags by several hours at least
Well, this is my first time here, just got approved! Hello everyone! I’m another small part of the Reddit migration I guess!
Excited to be a part of it!
Hoping to see it improve as time goes on but so far I’m really enjoying it!
Any idea how you’re going to handle a larger influx? Manually approving a few hundred people is one thing, but what about tens of thousands?
if it ever got that bad we’d probably just turn off applications, tbh lol. anyone that interested in us can wait, and we’re not super interested in permagrowth or anything
I’m glad there’s a free, open source, federated version of the thing I’ve been using for years. 4 years on digg I believe, and 13 on reddit. The more I think about the history of discussion forums like this. It probably should have been federated in the first place rather than trying to be a centralized thing.
anyway, glad to be here.
Here’s to the Digg 4.0 > reddit API $$$ > Lemmy crew!
Represent! Love being a part of history. I’ll tell my kids about this some day.
Somehow “the first rule of reddit” got forgotten, and suddenly everyone knew about it. That’s about when it went downhill.
Thanks - I saw your reply about Beehaw having been up for a year and a half; if I’d of just dug a bit m0re before asking… :P This post, and links, answer all my questions - I’m st0ked to be here, l33t speak and all. :P Thanks for all the great Beehaw informationz here, seems very transparent… for now. :P I’m glad to be here, and to dig around this Lemmy softwarez and federations… maybe I’ll lurk beyond Beehaw… in a bit.
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This is exciting. Thank you for taking in another reddit refuge
I am really glad to be here , loving beehaw so far . Thank you guys for taking another refuge in 🫂
Glad to bee here, sad seeing reddit go out like twitter. But I guess that’s what happens when you put profit over users.
