2y ago

No matter who you are, thanks for being here.

It really feels like Lemmy is alive because of you.

When I first checked out Lemmy, I wasn't expecting there to be so much content, so much discussion, and so much community. But I've spent the better part of two days glued to my screen, browsing content all day. I've seen so many posts, so many interesting discussions about the fediverse, and of course, plenty of memes. It really feels like the start of something incredible.

I've gotta get back to work soon, but wow. I think this whole fediverse thing really is the next step for social media. If I find some extra time, I'll definitely consider contributing to Lemmy's source code to help this project and the FOSS ecosystem grow.

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Lemmy definitely scratched the Reddit itch for me, and I don't see myself going back. Unfortunately however, it is still a huge container of information that I still find myself relying on if I need to search for something.
- The information contained in past posts and comments on Reddit is immense. Usually, the easiest way for me to find advice is a Google search that includes “Reddit” in the search field. It almost always returns a comment with exactly the information I was looking for
  
  I was looking for support for a network issue and google returned me to several Reddit posts. Everyone of them was deleted or the sub was private. It’s usefulness it’s diminishing real quick.
  
  Heck, Google usually includes Reddit results in general searches anyway, conveniently grouped together near the top of the results. We can only hope they start doing the same for Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general).
  
  on duckduckgo I use site:reddit.com and the results will only include links to reddit, I find it better than Reddit's search (duh)

I was there for the great Digg to Reddit migration and now the great Reddit to Lemmy migration.
They can destroy our aggregators but they’ll never be able to destroy our community. 🤌
- Fuckin well put, man. 🫘
- Lemmy could be the solution we needed all along. No company can take it away - if the community remains the platform does too.
  
  I mean, nothing is forever.
  As cheesy as that sounds, it’s especially true in tech.
  Someone can/will come along and fuck up Lemmy too eventually, probably.
  Gonna take like 15 years though so for now, it is the place to be.

Just a reminder that Lemmy is intended to not be addictive. Go out and enjoy your life. Lemmy will be here when you're pooping or when you have downtime, you don't need to be glued to it
- Messaging from the pooper.
  I feel so included. :)
  
  But I'm about to travel and will not poop for 3 days at least /s
- I read your comment while eating freezie instead of pooping

- Not sure "Starship Troopers" is the best inspirational message for Fediverse users. I mean, the entire franchise is really about the effects of fascism and indoctrination, the humans-versus-aliens combat is just a delightful bonus.

Whether it's Lemmy, Kbin, or something that's yet to be made - I feel the fediverse is here to stay. Genuinely revolutionary step away from centralized services like reddit.
- The paradigm of having a home base instance and being able to venture out into the fediverse is just incredible. There's a sense of community and comraderie that was never present on reddit. And yet there's a breadth of users and perspectives that you could never find on smaller internet forums or platforms.
  Couldn't agree more, I really believe that federated self hosted sites have the potential to supercede the centralized internet. The fundamental experience is superior, and people will eventually begin to realize that.
  Imagine an internet where nobody is trying to sell you something. Or worse, sell you (to advertisers). What a concept.

All I've been seeing is beans 😞
- bean the change you wanna see
  
  a revolution starts with a single bean
- Can someone explain the bean trend, sorry getting old bit of a has bean you could say …
  
  Essentially someone posted a photo of some beans and said Lemmy will upvote anything, even just beans.
  ...we did.
- Yup. Beans and poop. Quite frankly I'm not interested in either of those topics!
  
  You should expand your horizons! Beans just come in so many variants. You got baked beans, half baked beans, twice baked beans (and so on), Lima beans, string beans, chili beans, things that look like beans but aren't (looking at you, peanuts are a legume), and the list goes on!

Don't look at me, I'm just here to promote "Barbie".
- Lol yeah but at least I see you on almost every post I look at commenting.
  
  No, you're breathtaking!
- I feel like I am in the presence of greatness. Can't wait for the movie.
  
  Thanks, but I'm probably going to need some new material after "Barbie" comes out.

Am I doing something wrong, I just see the same posts over and over even when sorting differently?
- Try sorting by Top: 6 Hours, that keeps things a little fresher. Also you could sort by New, but that can get overwhelming depending on the level of activity.
- Hot and Active sorting kind of suck right now tbh. Try top>day or something.
  Edit to elaborate: I believe active heavily weighs recent comments and it sort of creates a feedback loop where someone comments, putting the post to top of active, then others see it there and comment on it perpetuating the cycle.
  The website now let's you sort top 12h, 6h, and 1h too but no apps seem to have that implemented yet.
  Oh and sort by All not Local to see communities from other instances that users on your instance have subscribed to.
  Check lemmyverse.net too to look for communities no ones subscribed to where you are yet.
  
  the liftoff app on android has sort by top 12/6/1hr, as of the latest update from yesterday or so. works really well!
- Try to do top 12hours instead, it's where the middle ground is.
- I remember when I first joined Reddit it was much the same, but as it got more crowded my front page started becoming fresh more frequently.
- I actually prefer this way, it means that there are less bots and more genuine content.
- Just checking in on your 12h old post. Did you get it sorted?
  
  Thanks for checking in, have been sorting by top 6/12 hours and have been seeing some more variety in posts :)

It seems like with no algorithms, and a set of common sense guidelines that Federated instances have, we can all learn to understand and respect each other better. Breaking free of billionaire, fossil fuel mafia and hostile anti-democracy government controlled manipulation is what freedom is all about. I love it.

I honestly doubted I'd be able to stay away from reddit. I've tried many times before. I've deleted 5 major accounts since 2012.
But Lemmy seems to have been the nicotine patch I've needed. Haven't been on Reddit outside google searching for info, which isn't going away for me personally.
Only thing I actually miss is baseball and my team sub.
- You should create a community for your team so when people come here looking they’ll find a community ready to welcome them
  
  I've tried to do this but can't seem to find a clear and concise guide. From what I read, only admins can create communities?
- Wow this is me exactly. Finding Lemmy to be a breath of fresh air, but the main thing I'm fiending for is my Mariners community. Really hoping mariners@fanaticus.social gets some traction. I was a Sync for Android user and the developer is shifting to Lemmy and that is exciting. I still have not caved and downloaded the Reddit app, so that's a win.
- Who's your team? Check out the sidebar on !baseball@fanaticus.social Fanaticus is a sports-only instance which helps keep us insulated from any defederation drama. We've got all the communities set up just waiting for our fellow fans to join us! We also have game bots and are actively developing new features.
  If you're interesting in modding your team's community, just post in there asking. The community may seem bare right now but why a little TLC you can make it a home for your favorite team.

I joined here on June 12th and there were practically no posts or communities. Now I can't keep track of it all. I'm so glad to be here and finally be part of this social movement - I've been tracking the Fediverse/Mastodon/Friendica/GNU Social/Diaspora/etc for a VERY long time, but the format of those networks has never been interesting to me. I want to talk about topics, not people.

I'm only here because of you. This goes both ways.

Lemmy feels like how reddit felt in 2010
That's a rare thing these days
- 💯❤️

I'm new here, from Reddit, and can honestly say thank you so much and it's been a warm welcome. I'm getting the hang of Lemmy slowly but surely. The community has been helpful to new members and chill as hell. I'm glad to be here as Lemmy grows!
- Welcome! ❤️

Except the fascists. Fuck the fascists, they can go back to the holes they crawled out of.
- I'd rather not fuck the fascists. Might inadvertently breed more future fascists.
- good morning
- Fuck the fascists? For sure. I fucking hate all those motherfuckers.
  Except that, just about the worst thing of all about fascism is the way that it goes out of its way to dehumanize other people, just so as to make it easier to hate them.
  So how about, "Fuck fascism" then? I could get behind that. But maybe still try to save some small modicum of love, as well, for all the poor souls who've been weak or gullible enough to have fallen for it?
  Maybe give them one more chance to come out of their holes, if they're brave enough? When I can, I always try give them one more chance to do that. In any small way whatsoever.
  I don't mean to purposefully give them "one more chance" to troll, or spew their rhetoric, or stoke hate -- even though we all know that's what they'll do again, 99 times out of 100.
  I don't mean supporting some reddit echo chamber I am ideologically opposed to just to feed my own ego and provide them all fodder for more echo-chamber bullying and false validation. I mean using a forum for good-faith communication among honest strangers. The way forums have always been intended to be used (but never always have) since the beginning of the internet 30 years ago.
  I just mean that, when thinking of another person instead of another person's ideology, I always want to give them just one more chance to listen to me, and one more chance to talk to me, as a fellow person
  One more chance to hear another point of view, one more chance to come to understand and communicate and cooperate from a place of their own standing, as opposed to just snapping back defensively from the place that their fascism has conditioned them to react from.
  One more one-in-a-hundred chance that my purposeful efforts to humanize my adversary may somehow lead him to humanize me as well.
  Fuck fascism, for sure. But I try not to hate a person for their good intentions. It's said the road to hell is paved with them, but they're still usually a whole lot more respectable than bad intentions.
  
  Inspire radical empathy

Thank you for this post, it’s really inspirational. I think we can create an awesome community here. This is the start of something special.
- I'm so surprised at how it's taken off. I thought it was going to be a ghost town. Super exciting.
  
  I’ve found I’m interacting more, rather than just lurking.
  
  Edit: whoops not sure that my image embedding worked, oh well.

Thanks mom.

I'm extremely glad such an awesome alternative existed when we needed somewhere to go.
I also have to say this feels more like a true community than redddit as a whole ever did.
- It's amusing if you see some of the older posts over the past couple of weeks where administrators and devs are in absolute panic mode trying to fix all the most important bugs because I think deep down they knew this was a huge opportunity that might not come around again.

As someone of the early adopters of Lemmy (check my account) I really like how Lemmy is growing. First it was a far-left place with some pro-russian trolls, and know with the migrants from reddit it feels more and more like a reddit competitor. Thx for joining us. Let's make this a better place than all monopolized greedy networks.
- Oh wow that’s really early. Nice to meet you mate.
  
  Nice to meet you, too. Unbelievable but I found my lemmy advices as a reddit alternative in my old reddit comments:
  
  Nice to meet you, too. Unbelievable but I found my lemmy advices as a reddit alternative in my old reddit comments:

I'm still waiting for the tech communities to migrate here. I mean - tech unrelated to web and this platform. There are lots of very busy people who just don't follow everything that is happening around. I've seen a post on Reddit that just linked here, and since I really, really do hate Reddit owners, I created an account here to see if it can replace Reddit with my work included.
I'm glad there's some traffic here. But well, I haven't even found a way to search for a specific community. That makes more serious use a little tricky. I hope the features will appear here soon.
I tried the tildes, but same thing. It's like "general purpose", it's hard or impossible to find a specific community.
And that's exactly the things Reddit killed - specific community forums. And well, most of what's left of them remains still on Evil Corp.
- But well, I haven't even found a way to search for a specific community.
  From what I understand, you kinda just search for stuff in the description. For example, if I search for cs@kbin.social, I won't find it, I have to search "counter strike" and then it pops up.
  
  I head that they are working on fixing the search functionally but in the mean time there is this git hub https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search that your server admin can add to their lemmy instance
- I was thinking about this last night. Reddit is set up by community. If I feel like only going to my game community for a question or to just read people's posts and tips, I can. Here, everything you've subscribed to scrolls past in order of post date. Perhaps an app can at least display by a hashtag or a set of tags for your topic
- We need to make this a community people want to come to. If we can foster a kind and helpful and entertaining and informative community, more people will come and we will grow. We got this!

I was a lurker in Reddit and didn’t have an account there. Randomly came across Lemmy when browsing memes. Stayed here and didn’t know I would make an account, let alone I would speak anything lol.
I’m still learning about the whole fediverse thing. But if I could play a role in keeping Lemmy alive I would be happy to contribute.
- I'm still learning as well. I decided to try Mastodon out recently and it's been great as well. I have tried Twitter multiple times and I never liked it. It just seemed like a bunch of idiots. Mastodon is a breath of fresh air with good conversation and community.

This is my first comment since joining. While I was always fine being mostly a lurker on Reddit for 12 years or so, I feel more invested in the smaller conversations going on here. Yeah, I like a long drawn out thread but the fact that there isn't much jockeying for karma or making jokes just to kind of "meme along" makes it feel more authentic. Forums and discussion boards are always going to be filled with inanity and jokesters, it's been that way since BBSes and usenet in the 90s but the federated nature of Lenny and others feels more natural and reflective of actual social groups, rather than ones forced into boxes or walled gardens like so much of the internet these days. Thanks everyone.
- Thank you for joining and your sharing your thoughts. They are important!
- I miss the BBS days. We had a local one in South Florida where we would have in person meet ups on the weekend. It was a blast.

I never expected Lemmy to feel this great. Sure, it's not as big as the endless sea of Reddit, but I like that. It's feels more close knit, and like an actual community.

- I prefer the term lemmtard
  
  I prefer the term “delemmerates”.

Dumb furry doing their part. :3
- high paw?

never commented on reddit mostly bc the bots and i liked to lurk but i hope i can change that and interact more with all of you
- Heck yeah fam! We’ve bean waiting for you, so we’re glad you’re here.

You too. I am done with corporate social media. I'm in the process of deleting accounts from FaceBook and Instagram.
I absolutely prefer Lemmy and Mastodon to their corporate counterparts 🤮...

Shoutout to the developers building apps for Lemmy. Testing a couple right now, and have honestly been surprised at how polished and smooth they are, even in these early stages.
Makes moving from Reddit a lot easier.

Came here July 1st, just created account, can't lurk forever I suppose
- So you were born (a lemming) on the Fourth of July?

Humans long for connection. Our global, online community is becoming fragmented these days. It might be a good thing if we can build a more resilient and free community out of that.
So I'm just saying 'hey!' I'm among community and so are you. Let's get back to contributing and not just mindlessly consuming content.
- Yup, I agree. Once a community gets too big, it becomes too enticing for corporations to monetize. I hope that Lemmy's fragmentation keeps our community shielded from corpos (at least, for as long as possible).

And it feels fresh
- so fresh and so clean
  
  so fresh and so clean-clean

I think the focus for devs/the community going forward has to be focusing on how easy it is to get on this platform so it can eventually hit a critical mass of users for regular new content/more active discussions.
I’m using the memmy beta, it was really easy making an account on lemmy.world and logging in on memmy with that but the initial search I did made me think getting set up was a much longer process
- I think a system that recommends an instance to create an account on would be a good start. Like a a load balancer of sorts to keep the main instances from getting overloaded.

Started using lemmy during the beginning of the protests. Went back to RIF about a week later. Now back to Lemmy after apps were killed. It's definitely helping to full the hole left by RIF, but it's not quite the same.
Some of my favorite discussion topics on reddit were the comments on subreddits like AITH and MaliciousCompliance, and while they are here, they don't quite feel the same.
Still adjusting, and in a way, grieving the loss of the social media platform I used for over 10 years. But I've also been spending less time scrolling and more time with my other hobbies. So that's a net positive I guess.

Still getting my head around it. Hoping more interesting content comes about and we can put the memes/discussion of Reddit to bed!

Even given the circumstances of us being brought here (overt, stubborn, and shameless corporate greed), also glad folks are here. My hopes for lemmy is to be the community center of the internet. Let us not merely be lemmings, let us be lemminites.

Glad to be with you guys. I was worried that the Internet would be boring after I’ve left Reddit. Well it’s not and it is because of you

Many thanks to my son who told me about Lemmy last night. Reddit tab closed. Lemmy tab open.

I'm just trying to find the snack bar.

Using lemmy is part of the never ending quest of recreating the internet interactions of my youth. When real friends were made on message boards. When things felt like a real group of people, and not so hyperfocused on individual topics so as to ignore the people behind the words.
Lemmy feels good so far
- It is reminiscent of my days when I would call up the local BBS or get on IRC or telnet talkers and speak to folks all over the world. It has been great.

I concur still feeling my way around, more mole like than a lemming 😂

Been loving seeing how active this place is getting, I didn't post often on Reddit but this just feels better somewhow, and I feel more inclined to comment on contribute!

Thank you for being here with us!

The avid and intelligent discussions I see on Lemmy are heartwarming in itself. Ngl, I never really got that with R*****. Lemmy feels like home. Just wish I would've been apart of it earlier than a few weeks ago

Except Dave. You know what you did.
- Man, fuck Dave.

Even me? Wow

I think Lemmy is really cool, and I'm excited to see where it goes from here!

I was finally able to log in!! My other email address never received the verification email and I couldn't resend it for some reason...

Remember, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

username checks out! 😎

The performance seems to be a lot better than it was a few days ago as well :) I am not sure if it is because it is daytime and everyone is working but either way!
ETA: Thanks for all the hard work!

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