Maybe I'll become more active now π€
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2023
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Its so nice to see decentralized social media becoming more mainstream hopefully everyone will be off the big platforms soon
Let's hope Lemmy becomes a real alternative for reddit. The infrastructure looks good, now we just need the communities.
Exactly my thinking. Very impressive so far, and my only complaint has been finding the communities and the conversations I want to be in. But it will get there! (I hope)
This site's like a breath of fresh air, small communities and the excitement of not quite know what you're doing lol, no muscle memory open close and open again
I did that with reddit at least 3 times a day
The Reddit exodus has begun! My only regret is not learning about lemmy and the fediverse before things blew up over there.
As one of the emigredditors, hell yeah! Personally though, I'm still testing the waters and making myself more comfortable here; it's eerily quiet here as compared to reddit, but I hope it's just a matter of time :)
Iβve been using redfugees but I think emigredditors is better
Man I knew there had to be a more witty word for this. I'd happily trade the word with redfugees XD
Messaging from the Jerboa app I just downloaded from the play store.
A few nights ago I discovered Lemmy as I needed to find a Reddit alternative fast knowing I will longer be able to use Reddit is Fun.
I've been a Redditor for almost 12 years now, I remember when it was a wild community where there was freedom of speech, few bots, it was the best source of memes next to cheezeburger, which was how I discovered Reddit.
I used it nearly everyday, and watched it's decline, I remember when Elena Pao or whatever the fuck her name bought into the company, since then it's become snipped more and more to the point I don't recognize it anymore.
It transformed into some sort of money hungry beast, that is destroying its self from the inside out, trying to get people to use their shitty ad riddled app with a shitty interface.
I am so happy I found you guys, I really want to see Reddit's blackouts go on indefinitely, infact I just wanna watch it burn. It's dead to me, the owners suck, it's just as bad as Facebook and the other main social media platforms now.
Any person I know who uses Reddit, I will point them here.
it's absolutely awesome here! :β -β D
I feel like being part of the internet of my youth again.
Lemmy and the fediverse are such unique and cool concepts. I hope to see Lemmy grow even more in the future!
I hope Lemmy does well whether reddit implodes or not. Great concept!
reddit refugee here! So far so good except thereβs not a native app for lemmy on iOS so Iβm using a safari βadd to Home Screenβ webapp for lemmy.ml , works pretty good!
Try mlem. I think youβll need to install TestFlight to get it working.
Never installed TestFlight but it said I had to opt in or something. Does TestFlight mean beta apps that arenβt approved to be in the AppStore?
Yes. An update was released today for mlem and it seems much more stable to me. Itβs a good time to get in and try it out.
Well alright then Iβll give it a shot!
i tried lemmy a few months ago but i didn't find enough content. I'm happy to see popularity is going up, and the new android app is a real game changer
What's the new Android app if you don't mind me asking?
i use jerboa ( available on fdroid)
i use jerboa too (from fdroid) and it's my first post ever with it :)
boom !
I'm done with Reddit once July 1st hits...it'll be a change but once Lemmy takes off I can totally see it being a great replacement...already feels like home!
even if reddit backtracks, I like it here so much I plan to stay. Just feels so homey despite being here >week
Yeah, I much prefer Lemmy now that I'm actually here. Gives those "web 1.0" / IRC vibes when communities were smaller
It's kind of awesome :) A question to others here. I mostly see stuff from beehaw and lemmy.ml on All. Are these the most active servers?
Except for lemmygrad, yes.
That seemed like a very strange place :|
Strange is a rather euphemistic word for it.
Well I knew many people who were in a similar place in real life. Most of them were unhappy and struggling in real life and got sucked into an ideology that seemed attractive. Eventually after understanding how it doesn't actually solve the problems they struggle with, most of them end up with non-extreme political learnings.
Many of the people I knew struggled a lot during this period and were exploited by others wanting to take advantage of their lack of exposure and experience.
Tldr; I try to be sympathetic to the people there as I've seen many people suffer a lot in real life going through the same. YMMV.
They are not cultists. There are more people from outside the anglosphere there so you might find them strange but try talking to them, they are normal people.
It feels like you've basically not read anything I've written. You'd be glad to know that I'm not in anglosphere and I don't think people who believe in communism are cultists either.
I've lived in one of the few places in the world where a communist leaning government has been elected on and off for many years and they haven't gone down the authoritarian route but participated in democracy.
None of that make the points I made invalid though.