1y ago

To all the new(er) Reddit refugees!

Welcome to the fediverse!

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First time posting after 9 solid years on Reddit. Thanks for the welcome
- 12 years for me and i'm kicking myself for letting myself get so entrenched after i had experienced the same thing before; fediverse, here i come! lol
  
  Now time to do the same thing here hahaha! Reddit 2:.the quest for more money. Seriously when is that movie coming out?
- First time I've seen a comment so good that not only does it get upvotes, it has a negative number of downvotes,
  Anyone know how that is even possible?
  
  Science and fuckery
  
  It's been very common in my 3 weeks on Lemmy, it's probably more common to see 100% upvotes.
  
  Which app is that?
  
  I havent looked at code, so i can only guess. Just before you looked at it, i clicked downvote. I realise my mistake and unclick/click it again. The local server we're browsing on (Server A) sends the downvote to the server the post was made on(Server B), but it also temporarily adjusts it local figure for a while until it can refresh from the server the post was made on. Last it knew server B had a tally at 0 downvotes, so it goes negative. (If Server A had a downvote figure of 4, the same process would have shown 3 to you)
  
  I guess they show upvotes and downvotes instead of net upvotes/downvotes.
  
  I downvoted you. No one else had any downvotes; please let me know if it registered. I don't want vote fuckery like they have on reddit.
- Omg! Take my like!

I am here now. Just signed up. Mod of /r/bicycling, /r/sanfrancisco, and a few other smaller subs. The whole thing is a mess right now, so I wanted to see if there are greener pastures here. Any tips are welcome. I literally have no idea what I'm doing.
- #fediverse is nicer then reddit. Dosen't have that superiority complex!
- It's pretty chill here. I'm using wefwef.app to browse. It's great.
  
  I love wefwef! It’s been incredible!
- If you’re on an iPhone I’ve been using wefwef and liking it.
- I think we are still figuring out sophisticated mod tools, but the community is nice, the admins are awesome, and everyone seems to be pretty much on the same page about an open and cooperative internet.
- It's all about appearances
- Thanks for the work you did on the SF sub; I got the sense it could be a handful on occasion. Nice to recognize some of the cool ex-redditors here. I modded /r/chaosmagick and a half-dozen other tiny subs. It's pleasant to get away from the flustercuck spez has turned reddit into.
  
  It could definitely be a handful
- Welcome! I can point you to !bicycles@lemmy.ca if you're interested.
- lemmy.world/c/bayarea is sort of active. I hope this site doesn't fade out of popularity similar to the migration to voat back in the day. I do think the federation of lemmy will prevent a repeat of what's currently going on with reddit ruining itself and 3rd party apps. Still learning how to use this site myself.

I wasn't thrilled at the idea of leaving Reddit after 14 years but some things cannot be avoided. My first post here on Lemmy. Thank you for the warm welcome!
- @Axxi
  Things seem to be better here anyways. Being able to interact with people across different platforms (I'm replying to your comment through Mastodon because it works and it's cool 😎) really does make it feel like "the world of tomorrow" to me

I've been here a week or two now. It's going better than Voat did for me when I last tried to leave Reddit. That was full of alt-right crazies basically, but so far here, people have been lovely.

My goodness me. This place rocks. Like the way the internet used to be. Fuck corporate greed. Fuck ads. Fuck egocentric dictatorships. And hello to The Future.

When will we get our own persistently-broken video player? That's super important for my quality use experience.

Thanks, so far Lemmy is looking like an interesting place with good vibes all round!

This atmosphere has good vibe. Goodbye RIF, hello Lemmy 👋

Closed Reddit account and embarking on this new adventure with lemmy.

Wait... Where am I? I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. 11 years wandering the Reddit... I'm lost, a little confused, possibly afraid.

Really hope this takes off and remains open and non-commercial.

Redditor here. Feeling a little lost and confused. :)
- Hang in there. Explore. It will become familiar...

Hey, hello community this is my first comment on Lemmy, good to see you all.

Hiii im here from reddit but, when i tried to post the post has been being uploaded for the past 2 hours, also loading communities and upvoting has been EXTREMELY slow ;'D
btw this is a hella cool site

Bathroom's that way.

First post! 🤸

Former reddit user here. I hope that this site grows and prospers and I look forward to discovering replacement communities for subreddits I've used.

Thank you for the welcome.
Bye bye Reddit. Hope they collapse after getting rid of 3rd party apps. Reddit is Fun was my shit. I gotta find a Lemmy equivalent so I can get off my phone's web browser.

I'm going to build my own Reddit, with blackjack and hookers!
- Add in Whiskey and you’ll have the perfect trifecta of vice!
  Welcome! Where do I sign up?
  
  One of our Futurama mods @Alchemy had you covered !whiskey@lemmy.world

I sense a real opportunity for the Fediverse off the back of Reddit and third party apps porting across.
If the UX (user experience) is similar then it'll more than likely pull people across.
So far the communities have been extremely friendly and it is a breath of fresh air

Cautiously optimistic about the migration. Reddit had gotten pretty weird.

Thanks! I mostly lurked on reddit for many years (as a Digg refugee), and I want to try and get out of that rut and actually contribute some content here. Wish me luck!

Nothing better than being greeted with Futurama, for the Fediverse when new episodes of Futurama drop in July! (I'm extremely excited for the new season)
- Wait, new episodes? Really? Awesome!

Lasted one day on the official reddit app. Sadly the readability of it with the massive amounts of ads and sponsored posts makes me rather not use reddit at all.
Glad lemmy seems to genuinely be an upcoming alternative!

Well it was a good ride at Reddit. I was using Reddit since since 2006 as a lurker. Lemmy is now my home. Hi all!
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- Wow. Welcome fellow old ex-Redditor. You will like it here. You'll see that it feels like like the Reddit of old.

Incoming user from reddit! My app got shut down. I was salty about it so I decided that I was going to find an alternative, rather than use the official app, and I found lemmy! I like the community vibe so far. I'm still figuring out how different communities and instances work together with federating. I was always more of a lurker on reddit, but I might try to become a more active commenter (for community engagement!)

im very happy to redditn't

Here we go.

I've only been here for two weeks and already have seen major improvements. Thankful to the admins for their hard work, and glad to see the wonderful people here contributing to this platform's awesome growth. Loving it here and wishing continued success to the fediverse :)

Today was my first day on the Fediverse via Lemmy.world, and I was so happy to see a Futurama Community among the top posts right when I logged in!
I hope it's also okay to say that I just created /c/Disenchantment for my fellow fans of a slightly related show. 😄
Any Futurama fans that also like Disenchantment and our one true Queen Bean please come join!

Hello. Glad to be here. I'm not going back to reddit, they nuked Sync for Reddit and I refuse to use reddit app.

Thanks! 11yr RiF user here and using Jerboa now, it's different but similar feeling:)

I already like the vibe of this place more, at least socially. The site is a bit cumbersome but I'm willing to stick with it to see how it can get better. Plus Sync for Lemmy will be coming and then my life will be fixed.

Here from RiF! First post on Lemmy, here's to a bright future ^^

Rest in peace RIF. I was honestly heartbroken. I know how sad that must sound, but goddamn, I used it daily for 6 years. It made my office hours and daily commute on the subway so much better.
- I've been full-time on a Lemmy for nearly a month already and haven't really missed the other place at all. But damn, seeing that goodbye message on RIF yesterday filled me with emotions that were weird and deeply confusing.
- Yeah man I used RIF as my only reddit access for 12 years. So when reddit was going hard with avatars, rewards and ads, I was immune to it. I think that's partially why 3rd parties were cut out. I did the revanced reddit app, but it still feels gross.

I think registration finally worked this time. Good news, everyone!

Thank you. Just killed my Reddit alter ego so let's vsee what this will bring us. Glad to be here.

Good news everyone!

Cheers! Here's hoping for a bright future!

Rip Rif. Hello Lemmy.
- RIP RIF.

Just migrated from reddit, and I’m really excited to see Lemmy gain popularity and grow! This is about to be my next addiction.

Goodbye RIF, hello lemmy!

What Apps are people using? Wefwef?
- Running Connect for Lemmy here on Android. It seems nice and minimalist. I was a little dissuaded from trying Jerboa with some of the negative reviews.
- Wefwef
- Currently trying out Liftoff on android. Quite liking it so far while I await Boost to be released.
- I've been using Jerboa on Android. As far as I know it's been working great. I've gotten my scroll pages to all, local or subscriptions. So I can toggle between them to see what's happening on the different feeds.

Hi, all! This is my first comment on Lemmy. I’m exited to be here!
It’s sad watching Reddit go the way of the dodo, but I’m happy to see everyone come together to give the big ole fuck you to u/spez in solidarity and migrate over when they effectively broke Apollo and the other 3pd apps

It's nice to be wanted.

This all reminds me of the big Digg migration. Reddit likes to think that people chose it because it was special. For a good majority of us, especially the 10+ year accounts, it was Digg's terrible redesign and very poor product decisions. The nail in the coffin was not understanding its core content producing users willingness to move. History repeats itself.
- I was DiggDuggDone before moving to Reddit. Almost 14 years later I’m now Drunemeton across the webs.
  Really loving the Fediverse so far! I’ve been so much more engaged.
- Another old vet here. Reddit wasn't special back then. It just wasn't Digg and they either didn't know that or forgot that
- Another old vet here. Reddit wasn't special back then. It just wasn't Digg and they either didn't know that or forgot that

We're all refugees here

What's to stop a single Lemmy instance from going "this is taking too much time and money to run, I'm shutting this server down"? I guess that can apply to any service, but monetization sometimes prevents that from happening. But in this case it's all volunteer work and running a server takes resources.
What happens to all the users created under that Lemmy instance?

a new reddit refugees sounds like dream.

Uninstalled the Sync app today.(RIP) Should be fun getting to know Lemmy.

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