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Do you find that you're on the fed more than you were on r/ just because you're really really excited to watch your favorite communities become more active?

I do, but as more people join I’m also feeling a little republican - i got my spot and this is good; everyone on the outside can go fuck off now. I don’t want it to get so big that it’s what we left. No intended disrespect or lack of acknowledgment to those who were here before.

schwim ,
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I’m on less as there’s less content of interest to me and I’m not a zealot. This is just another social media platform.

kuneho ,
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I think I do, but only because, after using reddit, I know, or at least I have enough knowledge how these kind of forums work and can “work off” my initial excitement productively.

shit, I remember when first saw reddit, and the default frontpage, I had absolutely zero idea what’s going on. it was legit scary… had a bit of lerning curve, so most of the time I was just (trying to) lurk around.

EtzBetz ,

Yeah, I’m also kind of just using it to generate more content to get it to becoming more popular.

Shartacus ,

And I’m here more because the content is actually funny instead of the garbage dump Reddit became.

Fractalfarmer ,
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Me too. I seldom posted on Reddit the last few years as I felt it got lost.

Redonkulation ,

For me its a definitely the excitement of messing with a new toy while also making me think “how the hell does this work” and “the general population has no chance with this”.

I’ve only been trying out Lemmy/Mastodon for the past few days, slowly building up the communities I subscribe to. I was mostly a lurker on reddit and rarely made my own posts, so the smaller userbase is both good and bad. Good because I spend less time scrolling and I feel like I can contribute more. Bad because there is just less traffic.

Smaller communities tend to be more polite overall and are more welcoming to longer form writing and discussion which I am very down with. I am both intrigued and slightly bewildered how up front the platform is about blocking out content you don’t want to see. Again, good and bad.

Anyway, those are my thoughts on being a new user this week.

solstice ,

Honestly not really. I just want to shitpost and chew the cud about current events and silly stuff. Really don’t care which platform I use for this, and it’s annoying having to jump around when one goes to shit as they inevitably do. Reddit had a good run. Maybe Lenny will too before it goes to the great server in the sky like all the rest. Maybe I’m getting old but it doesn’t feel new and exciting, it’s just like, great here we go again…

seperis ,
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Yes very very much; there’s so much new stuff and this is a good opportunity to expand my interests and not end up having half my subs be drama subs and read AITA until I lose my soul. But also because I’m trying to make a determined effort to be a responsible community member and post actual sentences and engage with others so it becomes a habit. Will any of those sentences make sense? No, and stop pressuring me. Being coherent is an entirely separate goal and many steps from here so back the hell off, okay?

Hello fellow humans, I am normal, friendly, and sane!

grysbok ,
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Hello, fellow normal human-type person. It is pleasant to engage in average human behavior with other humans. Imagine that I am petting a dog because I have a dog in my lap and am petting him.

seperis ,
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Do you have shoes? I do. They are for when I walk outside on floor but it’s outdoors? grass pavement. Then I touch pavement grass. With my feet hands. It is very nice and the lights sunshine is warm. Being a normal human is a lot of fun!

grysbok ,
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I do have shoes! How did you know? I wear them sometimes when I am inside and my feet hands are cold. They are fluffy and maroon. I got them from [insert store name here]. I got a good deal! You can get a good deal, too, if you use my offer code [insert offer code here] to get up to 15% off. Try it today!

seperis ,
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I love when we normal humans have normal conversations in public areas with other humans! [insert store name here] is one of my favorite stores! Their deals are so good that they have to give your money back give your money to the One Above and Below somethingiswrongheiscomingwemusthurryforgiveme have good deals and I like them a lot.

I hope your hands are warm!

heisheresaveyourself

grysbok ,
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Thank you for contact Grysbok. I hope this message finds you in good health. I am currently out of the office pursuing other normal human pursuits. Please leave a message after the beep. Beep, dial tone

OgreDrew ,

Hello fellow humans, I am normal, friendly, and sane! Well, 1 out of 3 ain’t bad. (<3 you Sep)

S_204 ,

Ya, but I don’t know if I’m figuring this place out or just holding water here… Like, I don’t think the app i’m using (liftoff) and the site i’m using (lemm.ee) sync or have replies from one show up in the other? Also, what’s this about adding instances? Do I need to add so I can interact with others?

Today OP ,

On liftoff, you’ll have a bar at the top that probably says subscribed. If you click that, you can choose local or all. In your subscribed communities, you will automatically see posts and replies from all federated instances. If you click local, you can sort by active, hot, new, etc. You will see posts from your instance. If you click all, you will see posts from all instances. I usually scroll my subscribed by new. Then I hit subscribed by active. Then I hit all by new and scroll forever.

S_204 ,

Thanks for the feedback. When you say ‘instance’ are those independent community’s then? I’m a football fan… if I follow the NFL community, is it possible that there’s another community in an alternate universe (or instance) that might be more active or have better engagement? If so, is there a way to couple them together or am I looking at this from an incorrect viewpoint?

Today OP ,

If you buy something on Amazon, sometimes it comes directly from Amazon and sometimes it comes from other sellers, but you access it all through Amazon. If you don’t look, you often don’t even realize that your product came from someone else. It’s kinda like that. Your server (instance) is like Amazon. All of the other instances are like other vendors who ship through Amazon, but you open the app and it’s all there. Each of those Amazon vendors might make similar versions of an item you want, so you buy one from each and return the ones you don’t want. Each instance might have a community that you’re interested in. You can subscribe to all of them and then you might later decide to unsubscribe from ones that are dead or angry. I’ve only been here since the Reddit blackout, so i could be off, but that’s the way i understand it.

Today OP ,

Regarding the NFL, yes. If you search nfl, you’ll see that there are about 5 different communities. One appears to have more people than the others, but you can subscribe to all of them. Then when you choose SUBSCRIBED at the top bar on liftoff, posts from all of them will show up. You can just think of them like different people created different subs. It only really matters when you search for something - then you want to make sure your searching ALL, rather than LOCAL or SUBSCRIBED if you really want to see all your options for communities.

solstice ,

I too still don’t understand this whole lemmiverse thing but I got more comfortable over time. I subscribed a few channels and have enough content to keep busy so I guess it’s good enough. Overall my opinion is that if you need a phd in this federation stuff then you’re just not going to attract and keep many users.

Severopol ,
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Yep, way more. Much to the detriment of my work.

Xylinna ,
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I’m using Lemmy about the same as I did Reddit but the difference is my level of interaction.

Ab_intra ,
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I’ve noticed that I use Lemmy much more than I use reddit. I think there is loads of things to improve but i like it.

Thcgrasscity ,
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I like it because my posts and comments dont get downvoted to nothing here and i feel i can actually contribute.

Hyacathusarullistad ,
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I've found that I'm checking Kbin a lot less than I checked the other place, but I'm participating more because there's a lot less toxicity and hostility here (at least for the time being).

Chasm ,

Aww, I can be toxic for you if you want 😊 that way you’ll have to leave social media, exercise, see the world and be healthier. 😎

skullone ,

Your mom is toxic! Oooooooh!

Chasm ,

NO! U!!1!!!

CorruptBuddha ,

Definitely not haha! But that’s not a bad thing. Lemmy feels less addicting.

Chasm ,

I procrastinated work for 2 straight weeks when lemmy came out. Deadline is now past and I’m still deep into the task and being threatened with retaliation for not finishing on time. 🤔 That had never happened to me with reddit at all, not even close.

bizzle ,
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I understand of course that Lemmy was around for a long time before me, but I still feel like an OG for some reason.

Chasm ,

Lemmy had 1-2k people. Now it has 240k monthly active users. In a sense, you are exactly that. Most lemmy instances were created in the last few weeks.

copylefty ,
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Where are you getting the monthly active stats by the way?

Chasm ,

FediDB threadiverse stats. The link is out there. I’m not home. I don’t have it with me right now. You’ll have to look it up.

copylefty ,
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Ah I’ve been using Lemmy stats which shows 68k:

fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Threadiverse shows 130k

Chasm ,

My sleepy ass added a 1 ☺️☺️☺️

KSPAtlas ,
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What about me?

bizzle ,
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You’re an OG for sure lmfao that’s nuts

possum ,

Pff, get off my lawn

iRyu ,

I really enjoy the content on lemmy compared to r/. I think the loss of moderation tools over there has made a bunch of crap float to the top. Here it feels more authentic, I guess?

Chasm ,

Lemmy had much fewer moderation tools. It’s not the lack of mod tools. In fact, mod tools are still alive because reddit delayed their death for a week or so. The problem, more than mod tools, is behavior and demographic changes.

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