Fediverse

Hello to the Fediverse! Hopefully you can also enjoy the rest of the sites such as Kbin, Pixelfed, Peertube, Owncast and Misskey - there's plenty to choose from!

Leaving Twitter for Mastodon barely had an impact. I was just about done with that whole place, with or without Musk in charge.

Reddit is different... I still loved using it. I had my subscriptions honed, all my interests represented. I suffered none of the toxicity that others saw. Not sure if that was just because I mostly used smaller, niche-interest subs or because I mostly lurked and seldom posted? It was all friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining, a stream of consciousness that I could dip in to whenever I wanted to.

So I'm not leaving Reddit because of the experience, but more on principal (both the API kerfuffle and a general aversion to ad-revenue models, which are clearly harmful to society). Principals sadly don't give me something to read over breakfast...

I hope Lemmy can become that stream of consciousness in time. I'm trying to do my bit by being an active contributor rather than a lurking grazer.

I deleted my Twitter account when Elon reinstated Donald Trump's account - it was clear there was no saving that platform.

It's a Nazi bar now because the owner is a Nazi.

I still have my Reddit account, but it's becoming quickly like my Facebook account - I barely use it. In Facebook, it's to catch up with friends and family, and in Reddit, it's the more esoteric subs. But I feel dirty & gross every time I load up a page from those sites, so I don't unless I have to.

Same. It was nice to break up from Reddit after 10 years

It's strange, but the 3 day poop challenge meme that swept through lemmy the other day reminded me of what Reddit used to be. It felt like an actual community where people were actually interacting, and sometimes bizarre posts turned into legends. I hadn't noticed the slow transition to just endless bot reposts. With all the spez drama, i decided Reddit was dead to me, and that was sad to acknowledge the sudden end of an era like that. But lemmy showed me that the things that made me love Reddit have been gone for a long time, and I feel more at home here.

I hope that this is the start of something special on the internet. I hope that this is the beginning of us users taking the power back from big tech companies.

Twitter has seriously turned into a right wing cess pool. :( 😞

Can't even watch porn on there anymore. LOL

I was watching one of my favorite gay porn stars and swiped up foe the next video and it was this couple that had like 45 guns strapped to them out shooting printed out faces of Democrat politicians.

Talk about a damn boner killer.

Also, the only comments that show up are right wing nut jobs as well. Idk what the hell is going on there.

Same; I've been trying to disengage from anything big tech related recently, not just social media, even Amazon etc. Can't take it anymore. It's all so blatantly exploitative and fucked up. Cancelling subscriptions feels good; hope I stick to it. Can't shake YouTube yet though, need my Rossmann fix. Hopefully we can figure out a viable FOSS alternative; tried PeerTube but it doesn't quite do it just yet.

The Internet can still be a beautiful positive thing.

BezoSpez Zuck-Musk can fuck off.

Welcome!! We are glad to have you here!

The only thing I still need reddit for is the sports communities. I hope some start getting bigger over here.

Gave up Twitter the day of Musk mocked that disabled employee/partner. Didn't delete the account though. I'm still on Reddit. Hope Lemmy would go a long way!!

PS: I still automatically ignore some image posts on Lemmy thinking it's an Ad cause I'm so used to it on Reddit App 😂

I dropped Twitter as soon as Musky took over since I rarely used it anyway. Reddit has been significantly more difficult to let go of, so I haven’t deleted my account yet. I’ve tried to open Apollo at least 50 times since the 30th.

I think this is going to be a trend. Centralized social media just isn't financially viable and it's worse for the users in so many ways. We already have alternatives for youtube, reddit, and twitter popping up. I think youtube might be the hardest to replace though because so many people view youtube as a job rather than a place to share content just for the sake of it. Hopefully with all this we can return to the good old days of the internet where a few corporations didn't control the majority of traffic.

Welcome to the Fediverse 🌞 I switched to Mastodon after Musk announced to buy the Twitter. It is already over a year ago 🤔

I am new to Lemmy myself, but it looks good

Just moved to lemmy right now, liking it so far. Will see if I can remove reddit from my diet (lol). Now looking at Bluesky instead of twitter.

I'm waiting for my GDPR data to nuke all my reddits posts and delete my account.

I put them in my DNS blacklist together with Ticktock and Facebook

Joined Lemmy last week and Mastodon today, feels good to be free, all looking good so far

I just went (logged out) to the onesSubreddit I care about at this point (only because they post an event schedule every Monday) and Reddit is super slow. That's not going to help them. I mean, Lemmy can be super slow too, but Lemmy also hasn't been around since the '00s.

I'm trying to make the change too. So here we are at Lemmy. I'm done with Reddit.

People still using Twitter? Never had one and I am glad. I stopped using Reddit. Lemmy been a blast!

I'm definitely using reddit less after they got rid of RiF. If they ever kill old.reddit.com I think I will be permanently done with them. Loving Lemmy so far though!

I removed my Twitter account around the time Elon took over. I knew it was gonna be bad when he took over. Reddit, I closed my account on the 1st. I hated the official app and saw it was going to die as well.

Same. The new influx of people has made my experience a little shaky, but I’m still very happy to have this non-spezed reddit to enjoy without the guilt. Fuck reddit, I’m glad I left and I hope they get fucked

500 upvotes in 2 hours?! Fuck yes bois. Fuck that jailbait mod spez, and his shit website full of toxic spakkers.

Long live the fed!

Welcome to the platform! Unfortunately, Reddit isn't what it used to be, but we definitely can reignite the community that we all so fondly remember. Already loving it here and how friendly everyone has been :)

Everything I use Twitter for stayed on Twitter. I can't leave it entirely... Same with Reddit.