Lemmy is booming
I have never before received so many reactions and comments on my Lemmy posts before, so it’s obvious to see, that there are many new members here.
Welcome to all the new! And I’m looking forward to see more of you here.
Cheers!
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.
I hope Lemmy does well whether reddit implodes or not. Great concept!
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 :)
I’m calling it the Reddit APIocolypse.
I prefer Cory Doctorow’s “enshittification.”
Problem is, reddit has been undergoing an enshittification for nearly a decade. This is just the culmination.
Yes it’s been declining for quite some time. There’s new good things in smaller subs too, but the “all” feed and most popular ones have become unbearable.
The problem with reddit comes from the top. The APIocolypse is just the latest symptom of core degradation. There’s also the rampant abuse of power by mods on some of the most popular subs, the far right/fascists and homophobic/transphobic rhetoric going unpunished by a lot of mods but then coming down on the people who push back against it, the massive influx of bot activity etc etc etc.
Reddit, while being more popular than ever, is now a rotten husk of the beautiful dream it used to be…
I’ve 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
I kinda like the idea of a mass lemmygration.
Yes there’s definitely a need for more users to really make things take off, but I believe that’s a matter of time, assuming reddit doesn’t take a fairly large change of course in the near future. Got to say, it feels a lot more friendly than reddit has lately.
Definitely, especially as someone who always felt a little reserved while writing comments in large subs, talking in a smaller community feels a little more welcoming (・ω<) I’m not too hopeful about reddit’s decision making either, even though I see a lot of subs planning a strike in protest to their latest policy
Emigredditors is great lol, I’m stealing that as a fellow emigredditor :)
Have people been clearing out their reddit comment and post history on the way out the door?
I used power delete suite on my 10 year old account. Figuring that when API access gets shut off old.reddit and the ability to edit and delete old comments will go too.
I haven’t gotten rid of my content and don’t plan to. I had a good six years signed up with Reddit. Some of my comments include tech support and advice. Sure, I’ve had heated arguments and swore at times but I’m happy to keep what I have so that people don’t get confused looking at old historical threads.
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
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)
I just joined today and first impression is great. Seems like a lot of nice people ended up under the same ceiling. :)
a few years ago it was literally a handful of ppl posting 90% of links and talking to each other, witnessing firsthand how complicated it is to get over that initial user retention bump, but i’m convinced we’re over it now :)
I come back after a couple of weeks and we’ve quadrupled at least. It comes in waves, and now I’m thinking it may not stop (until some reddit staff make their own BlueSky equivalent, of course)
Welcome to Lemmy’s Eternal September!
Though, as I am also a Redfugee, I apologise for the disruption we’re about to cause. Hopefully the Fediverse can withstand the “Reddit Hug of Death.”
Hah, this is the second “September” I’ve been through, and it’s huge, but I think the eternal one will be the next one. At least a lot of people are learning that lemmy.ml isn’t a neutral flagship instance; the hug of death may have been a blessing in disguise, encouraging people to spread to the other instances a little bit more.
Most people who have come over have been pretty good about the thing and tried to learn about the local culture instead of just inventing “reddit, but here” again, honestly, but it’s just that the few troublemakers tend to be louder and argumentative.
So I’m part of both Septembers for you then!
My deepest apologies…
I’m really liking lemmy/fediverse, and I feel like I’m being quite respectful, trying to be part of the community that’s already here not force it to be Reddit 2.0. I have, sadly, seen a few people being, for lack of a better word, dickheads. They seem to be new, and carrying on with the Reddit toxicity.
Part of why I didn’t just buckle down and use the Reddit app when the APIocolypse hits is because I was sick of the toxic nature of so much of the interaction on Reddit. I know there’ll be trolls coming, just hope the fediverse can avoid what Reddit became.
Not sure if this is the right place to ask sorry, but how do I tell which comments are new on a thread I’ve already visited? Like on the frontpage it says “x new comments”, but when I go into the thread I can’t tell which ones are new. I’m accessing Lemmy using a browser.
iiuc easiest way to tell is to just sort comments by new, also very new comments are temporarily highlighted by a lighter grey background, but that’s about it i think 🤷♀️
So there’s no way to easily see which child comments are new since you’ve last visited the thread?
Even if not, it should be fairly simple to make an extension or userscript that does it. All the necessary data is already on the page. If Lemmy really does blow up I’m sure we’ll get something like RES that gives us more frontend customization options.
Thanks for the welcome! I’m still a bit confused by how this all works, but not gonna lie I think it’s pretty cool and I wish I knew about this earlier.
@CheshireSnake
You’re welcome! Feel free to ask whatever questions you might have :)
I did not even know lemmy was a thing till people on reddit started talking about it
Same here. r/Privacy was where I first heard of it.
For me, I first heard of it in r/piracy a few months ago, but I actually started understanding what Lemmy is all about all throughout Reddit during the APIpocalypse a few days ago.
Lemmy and the fediverse are such unique and cool concepts. I hope to see Lemmy grow even more in the future!
reddit refugee here! So far so good except there’s not a native app for lemmy on iOS so I’m using a safari “add to Home Screen” webapp for lemmy.ml , works pretty good!
Try mlem. I think you’ll need to install TestFlight to get it working.
I can’t comment or vote. Is that feature not available yet?
Aren’t you commenting right now?
Not from the app.
Never installed TestFlight but it said I had to opt in or something. Does TestFlight mean beta apps that aren’t approved to be in the AppStore?
Yes. An update was released today for mlem and it seems much more stable to me. It’s a good time to get in and try it out.
Well alright then I’ll give it a shot!
Its so nice to see decentralized social media becoming more mainstream hopefully everyone will be off the big platforms soon
I like it here so far.
Really enjoying my time here.
