👋 to all the newcomers, let me know if you need any help getting settled in!

    • jackoneill@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I came over when the blackout started and it already feels more like home than Reddit has in years. Reddit slowly got more and more toxic/up its own ass as time went on…… like do you remember the episode of South Park where Kyle’s family moves to San Francisco? It was the Prius episode…. All the folks in San Fran sat around all day getting high and sniffing their own farts. That’s how Reddit has felt recently.

      This change has been a long time coming I think, fuckin spez just threw some gas on a fire to try and make a quick buck.

      Welcome!

    • ShrimpGlizzy@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Guess I’ll piggy-back; This is my first post/comment here as well. I came from Apollo (long time subscriber & beta tester). I think the grass will be greener… bring on the refugees and Boost for Lemmy (Maybe one day Apollo? One can dream)!

  • BLT2002@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    I joined a few weeks ago but after RIF died just over an hour ago it looks like I’ve found my new home.

    • glarf@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I’m so sad about RIF, I also haven’t heard anything about the dev coming here either :(

      • tatertime@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        the RIF dev said he was coming to lemmy.world. I just saw the post on my RIF app before i got a 429 error. RIP RIF

  • Shambles404@aussie.zone
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    2 years ago

    This whole fediverse thing is a bit strange after 10 years of rif. But Reddit was going downhill for quite a while. Hope this takes off!

    • schnitzelbub@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      And reddit still has a long way down. Look at Facebook, it never died, it just lost most young users and it grew stale with conspiracy theories, blind hatred and fake news.

      • Data's Cat Spot@startrek.website
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        2 years ago

        It’s the walmart-ification of social media. They’re self sustaining because of their size, but that’s not enough to make them an enjoyable experience. Just corporate, sterile, and lots of bored people.

        • schnitzelbub@lemm.ee
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          2 years ago

          It’s like buying from a supermarket and getting pretty much everything in one stop (most of it being mediocre) VS getting local, yummy, Bio, more expensive products from 5 local small shops.

      • Troy@lemmy.ca
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        2 years ago

        I think I’ve figured everything out, except how to link to posts across servers. That still drives me mad. Some of the apps (like Connect for Lemmy) are doing URL rewriting, but I can’t assume that’s happening for everyone.

        • Shambles404@aussie.zone
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          2 years ago

          It’s pretty strange coming from Reddit. Each instance has its own communities but you can access all of them from the instance you signed up in? Like the equivalent of subreddits within subreddits. Or maybe I’m just unused to it.

          • MikeHfuhruhurr@lemm.ee
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            2 years ago

            I’ve been trying to think of a good metaphor, but I haven’t landed on one yet. The best thing I’ve thought of is the old saying:

            Whereever you are, you’re here.

            Federation (for lemmy) is the concept of the different instances sharing sublemmys, posts, and comments with each other. So you can be on any instance and interact or subscribe with things from another.

            The strong caveat is: some instances turn off federation with others. For example, Beehaw has stronger moderation, and they had problems with users and spam from a specific other instance (lemmy.world was one, I think). So in that case, Beehaw turned off federation with lemmy.world. That means that if you were logged in to Beehaw, you would not see any new content from lemmy.world until they turned federation back on.

            edit: I thought of one more thing. For communities that are run by their developers, like Minecraft, Lemmy is a great solution. They could host their own Lemmy instance (lemmy.minecraft) and lock down so that only their sublemmy - /c/Minecraft - is created. But when they federate, they get all the other content from other Lemmy instances.

            • As a user, you could sign up with lemmy.minecraft or lemm.ee, etc., and still see everything you want and sub to the /c/Minecraft.

            • As mods/admins, they only need to focus on their Minecraft thing. And they have complete control over that, because they can literally shut down the entire instance.

          • steltek@lemm.ee
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            2 years ago

            I’m thinking of it like pre-Reddit phpBB forums on multiple sites except I only have to create one login and everything funnels into one convenient place.

          • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
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            2 years ago

            It’s just different sites (instances) running the Lemmy software, that all work together and share their data to create “Lemmy” the overall platform.

            The concept is simple enough but the implementation can be a bit weird and especially right now when everyone’s trying out different mobile apps that are in different stages of development and have support for different features. Some of them make it a bit awkward to do things new users need to do like search and sub to communities, etc.

            If there’s anything in particular you’re stuck on, feel free to ask!

            • ThenThereWasLemmy@lemm.ee
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              2 years ago

              I’m just confused about communities. Like if I wanted to follow a community about movies, is there a way to tell which community is the “main” one? Is there even such a thing as a “main” community on Lemmy? If not then how do people know where to be?? I love the federated concept but it also feels non user friendly, which I’m sure at least in part is because I’m confused.

              • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
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                2 years ago

                So the idealistic idea is that there shouldn’t be a “main” community, there should be multiple that are all slightly different in terms of their approach to the topic and you can choose which one(s) best align with what you want.

                In reality, at least until the userbase is significantly larger, it actually does make sense to huddle a bit for now and split up topics as needed later. So in this case what I’d do is head to Lemmy Explorer and search for your topic ie https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=movies

                This is quite a broad topic obviously so with a vague keyword search you’re gonna turn up some irrelevant things but there should be some that fit what you need. Then you can change the sort order to whatever you care about most, subscribers, active users, posts etc to decide which is the one you’re most interested in.

                Personally I’ve just been subbing to all related communities on a topic, and crossposting my posts to see which one gets the most traction. The little “two squares” icon below the post info is crosspost, works pretty well. Ymmv with that tactic 🙂

  • Fais@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    I joined 2 weeks ago, I technically am a migrant lol but I feel like a veteran already .

    WELCOME REDDITORS!

      • Fais@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        We used to struggle without our beloved pre built subreddits!

        We had to pray to our instance develop lords with praise for giving us space!

        Fr fr tho this experience is historical and I’m learning just as much as you! I learn if there’s a community missing that you used to frequent, make it yourself!

        I ended up making !onepiece@lemm.ee to fill my GOAT manga needs

  • SleyK@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    I straight up don’t know how to use Lemmy. I feel like I need to relearn how to ride a bike.

    • Kitten@startrek.website
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      2 years ago

      I’ve been here for a bit more than a week now and my biggest advice and is to take it as it is. Take a deep breath, accept that this is Lemmy and not something else, and that you’re feeling it out. This is not relearning a bike, this is getting in a peddle boat for the first time. Similar, yes, but also it’s own thing.

    • Hedup@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      Set feed to All. Scroll. See interesting topic you want to see more, subscribe to community. Interested in specific topic? Search for community in communities page. Once you gather enough subscriptions, set feed to subscribed. Scroll.

    • IronDonkey@reddthat.com
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, used reddit through Rif for ages. The lemmy connect app thing is just familiar enough for all the unfamiliar bits to stick out. Looking forward to learning though.

    • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      Yeah it’s different, you’ll burn in pretty quick though, just have to get used stuff being spread across a bunch of instances. It feels pretty natural after using it a while. The designers try to make it easy. It’s kind of like email where each community has two parts to its name.

    • Bigocciput@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      I am in the same boat. Took me about two days to find a group to sign up with. I guess things have been getting busy here with all of us refugees.

    • Wahots@pawb.social
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      2 years ago

      Basically think of discord servers that host subreddits. Instead of r/, the new r/ includes the domain name, kinda like a discord server. The new r/ is !subredditName@ServerName

      So if you wanted to search for say, r/furry, you’d type !furry@pawb.social.

      Furry is the subreddit, pawb.social is where it is hosted. Over time lemmy will improve and servers will coalesce subreddits like planets around newly formed stars.

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    that is cool. there is no such thing as too many graphs, so don’t be shy in the future 😆

  • manuel@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    Second ever comment here. I watched Apollo shut down live, went to sleep and then immediately tried opening it up again after waking up, out of habit - girlfriends still asleep and I got so used to browsing Reddit for a bit before we get up on weekends, it has become muscle memory.

    Using Wefwef currently and it’s nice, awesome work especially for a web app.

    • Invalid@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I believe certain apps that specialize in accessibility options are except in some way. No clue how that is determined though.

  • zidanerick@aussie.zone
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    2 years ago

    You have my axe! Ex digg/reddit here so this just feels like dejavu. Just trying to find an iOS/Mac app I’m happy with, so far mlem does pretty good!