Digging it so far. The only thing that I have noticed, and this may just be due to the large influx of people coming to the site, it's been taking literal minutes for me to submit a post or edit my profile

I used Apollo, now I'm here

I like it, but I'm still a lil confused about all the fediverse thing. For example, if while browsing this instance I open a link to a thread in another instance I can't comment as I'm not logged there. Any way around this? But overall excited to try this out and hopefully moving permanently here!

Always cool to see the people of the internet come together and make their own thing :)

Reddit was reddit because of the people. Those people are now here.

It’s great to have new spaces, especially ones not controlled by corporate interests or venture capitalists. I will admit that (while it’s a function of time + engagement) I do miss the breadth and depth of Reddit, particularly for the niche hobby communities. There was/is so much good information on there that will take many years to replicate elsewhere.

I really need an eli5 for this fediverse thing. I'm here using Jerboa, logged in to lemmy.world. when I try and comment or vote on content on other instances, like lemmy.ml, I'm told I have to log in. Is that a Jerboa bug? Or do I really need an account on each instance to interact?

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I like that the mobile version of the website is already more functional than Reddit's.

Just deleted all past activity from my reddit account, deactivated it and joined you marry bunch. Glad to be here.

So far I’m enjoying it! I like the stripped down design and I’m slowly figuring out the federation thing. Hopefully we can get more people from Reddit to get more content in the communities.

Edit: I've created a Tampa community for people from Tampa FL.

👋 need to find (or make) an RES equivalent because i cannot live without the hotkeys

I am still trying to wrap my head around how it all works, but I feel like I am slowly getting the hang of it. One thing I was wondering, and forgive me if I get the terminologies wrong, since instances are their own little ecosystems, wouldn't there be multiple versions of the identical communities i.e. gaming, videos etc., or is that the beauty of it all?

Another minor concern I have is that since instances are run by individuals, wouldn't there be a risk of losing massive amounts of content if said owner no longer wishes to maintain their instance or "goes rogue" for a lack of a better word and shuts down access to all communities located on that particular instance/server.

Reminds me of what reddit used to be, what UBB boards used to be before that, and small irc rooms before that. Freedom, the never constant, always moving community of individuals. Some of the same people I knew on Reddit, I knew in my old Dreamcast irc and AOL days.

Shit changes, we move but we never go away. Now we're here. Thanks for having us.

It's ugly, not intuitive, feels way more complicated than necessary for a social site and the name is kind of dumb.

I'm 100% on board because screw Reddit and fuck u/spez.

I hope I can learn the ropes and help this place grow into something better.

This place feels like it could be a good alternative. Once I learn more about how to use it. Looking forward to a new start!

got into reddit fully just a few years ago. it was my go-to for silly frog pictures to cheer me up. any other instances (i hope i'm saying that right, something similar to a subreddit) that are frog related? i'd love to contribute some :)

Thanks for setting up this instance and allowing all of us to come and join.

I'm in for this. Sign-up through lemmy.world was a snap and now logged in and posting via Jerboa. Only just getting my toes wet, but digging it

I'm really liking it so far. The UI feels really clean.

Reddit ran me off with a permaban 2 months ago because I wrote about the 3 boxes of liberty metaphor in a comment. 2 million+ imaginary Internet points down the drain. Glad to see the site shoot itself in the foot and looking forward to finding an alternative.

And the obligatory: fuck Spez.

Hey all, still getting my head around this place, but f reddit.

I'm liking it. I'm sure it'll take some getting used to, but I'm off Reddit for the next 3 days so I'm sure I'll figure it out!

I'm loving the wild west of it so far and how quickly it all seems to be growing. One big thing I've noticed though: How will communities combat the fracture? For example, take 'photography' when I searched around yesterday I found and subscribed to one com. Now there's one on most of the larger instances, each individually only has a couple of subscribers. We will need to find a way to let our communities stay informed of the other communities as they pop up around the Lemmy verse so that we can unify, otherwise all the communities will remain trapped in their own individual bubbles. This isnt a problem if there was an easy way to group communities into supercommunities.

Maybe Lemmy needs a method of putting your community in a list and allowing people to join the list as a community in of itself thus syncing all like minded groups together into a single feed.

Is very comfortable here, I will not go back on reddit for sure!

Have been browsing this thing for a few hours now and haven't seen one NSFW post. Kinda weird.

I’m excited for a new experience. I only commented about 5 times my entire time on Reddit and I hoping to interact more here.

I'm a big fan of it. The website is great and I'm thankful that I can interact with posts and comments on other servers. I think for most people's adoption the picking of a server to join is intimidating because there are so many options.

To draw more users it needs to be made abundantly clear that you can interact across servers.

It looks like the original internet. Love it

Digging it so far. Some technical issues but I think they may just be due to the mobile app I am using (sometimes when I open a post, the comments displayed are the ones from the last post I looked at). But it feels much more.. Democratic? Than reddit did.

Just found out about this site and happy to be here. Time to delete reddit off my phone!

Finding my feet, but it all seems pretty straightforward. It will be good to see how these communities develop and mature...