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beefstu ,

Give it time… Once something gets enough attention people will look to make money off it. Enjoy it now

FarLine99 ,

💯❤️

fidodo , (edited )

I think it’s because these are actual communities. The admins are just regular people you can talk to like normally. You choose your community. They’re not faceless corporations and I think when a network is a corporation the platform gets less respectful conversation for understandable reasons.

CharlesDarwin ,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

Reminds me just a little bit of USENET before Eternal September and all the spam that essentially ruined it. Same for the days of BBSes.

S_204 ,

Lemmy kinda sucks for me right now. Laggy, buggy, awkward.... I love it. Looking forward to being part of its growth and development.

Treebeard189 ,

Had a lot of issues trying to use the mobile webpage. Trying the Connect app now and pretty happy. People have mentioned Jerboa and I'll be trying that tomorrow to see which app I prefer. I can honestly say both work better than the official Reddit app. And I have actually given the reddit app a try before this whole mess and found it totally unusable. Honestly as far as app options Lemmy is already winning. Just needs the content and I'm happy.

Nutbiggums ,

Connect has been a great replacement for Boost

Uncle_Iroh ,

Boost has an app coming up for Lemmy

idealotus ,

And you can register to download it right now in the play store.

Uncle_Iroh ,

Yup. It was my go-to for years. Can’t wait untill I can use it for Lemmy.

Uncle_Iroh ,

Yup. It was my go-to for years. Can’t wait untill I can use it for Lemmy.

Freesoftwareenjoyer ,

You can also try https://wefwef.app

BackStabbath ,

I tried a few apps and they didn't work for me at all (Jerboa and Thunder). Just downloaded connect for lemmy and that seems to be working. HAHAHAHA as I was typing this out I got an error lmao

bxyrk ,

Jerboa hasn’t given me any issues, admittedly I only downloaded it this morning. I like wefwef, especially the gestures. I couldn’t figure out how to change connect from all to local or subscribed, but that super simple in jerboa.

As I understand jerboa doesn’t support the instance specific emotes though currently.

ABSOLUTELY looking forward to sync!!!

metalsonic00 ,

Yes ! Cannot wait for sync!

BackStabbath ,

Jerboa wasn’t letting me sign in lol. I also found it to not be super smooth compared to wefwef and the clients I’m used to on Reddit. Sync could not get here fast enough.

illbit ,

Pretty awesome to be part of something new and growing.

Laete ,

It feels somehow nostalgic and exciting. Makes it lot easier to forget Reddit.

NippleFarts ,

Wassup lemmy gang

czardestructo ,
@czardestructo@lemmy.world avatar

All I can picture for lemmy users right now is an excited dog at a dog park that is just loving life and wants to say high to every other dog and is wagging his tail so hard that his whole ass is wagging.

AtHeartEngineer ,
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Lol ngl, it's a little like that. I haven't been excited about a new social thing on the internet in a long while.

Tired8281 ,

I sort of had an intuition that the people I want to talk to, the people I enjoyed talking to over there, would also be the ones who made the choice to come here.

Quercus001 ,
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I understand where you are coming from! Plus it is interesting to be here a bit early before the whole platform gets really popular.

GatoB ,

Try promoting the place, I promoted and I think some people joined because of that

epique ,

mostly a lurker here so far but it seems the comunity is developing well.

mrfriki ,

For me is the (for now) lack of repost. Those fuckers plagued my home page for years.

czarrie ,
@czarrie@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, the absence of a slew of editorialized content, obviously being pushed by larger groups, is kinda nice. Like I think I've interacted with more people on here in the past 24 than I would in a week over there

BackStabbath ,

Although it’s a completely different thing, I am seeing a lot of repeated comments. But yeah, the lack of reposts so far is nice.

Hikermick ,

It's new. It's exciting. It's like Reddit was ten years ago

teencrime ,

I think a lot of us have been chasing the high of what Reddit was a decade ago

There were some really great years before the quality just took an absolute nose dive

Here is hoping Lemmy can catch the same magic in a bottle

Swisside ,

I think it will. There is no reason it doesn’t because there was nothing technological exceptionnal with Reddit.

Robocopsicle ,

I think so, too. The comment sections remind me a lot of Reddit’s when I first joined in early 2013 — more thoughtful comments and less shitposting to get the most upvotes.

It seems like the biggest hurdle is going to be getting the more niche communities going on Lemmy.

m477m ,

I agree with both of those sentiments! And as for niche communities, the challenge I’ve seen has been that they need a kind of critical mass in one place to take off…but at least on Reddit, that has sometimes led to homogeneity of thought and shouting down of any opinion that doesn’t 100% fall in line with the hivemind.

For example, I’m a big fan of the video game Life Is Strange, and there’s a major decision in that game that completely recontextualizes the story depending on which choice you make. On Reddit, /r/lifeisstrange as a metaphorical single organism has made one specific choice its accepted orthodoxy - any speaking about the other choice is downvoted and seen as blasphemy.

It’s especially frustrating to me since I have nuanced opinions about both sides, seeing various arguments for each. I don’t come down firmly in favor of either. But the almost-religious polarization means that my viewpoint is seen as sacriligeous because it’s nonconformist, but not bold enough against the orthodoxy to be supported by the blasphemers.

bxyrk ,

There were ups and downs along the way, once I’d figured out the subreddits I was actually interested in and filtering out the stuff I didn’t want to see I have mostly had a decent time on Reddit. Spent one year on Apollo and bacon reader then purchased sync 9 years ago… Most of the complaints of the official app flew right over my head and I was pretty happy about it. I’m still absolutely enjoying this new little bit of the Internet for sure.

Corey1031d ,

It really is nice here. I love the break from the constant shitposting that is on reddit.

PixelPlumber ,

I think it’s partly a selection effect of who bothered to come here. On the positive end, scrolling All is more likely to show things relevant to me I wouldn’t have found.

On the negative end there are few comments to interact wjth

Carnelian ,

One time, when runescape did a supermassive bot ban, people began complaining that once crowded areas of the game felt eerily empty now that only real people were there.

Not to say reddit is all bots, but my experience with Lemmy so far has been that it’s less crowded but the people here feel very sincere. Not a terrible thing. Still have more scrolling and reading to do than I have time to do it, and the quality seems even better.

Oswald ,
@Oswald@lemmy.world avatar

supermassive bot ban

The Muse cover that no-one expected

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

There's a happy medium... where, new people coming in will start to post too much content, but engagement will happen quite often. Where most of the trolls and angry people will still be on reddit and places yonder.

and we'll pass right by it and become the 800lb gorilla.

This moment, right now, is the golden era. Savor it. A Million monkeys hammering out Shakespeare are eyeing the gates, the only thing holding them back is the fear of the word federation.

WoodenBleachers ,
@WoodenBleachers@lemmy.world avatar

Wow… I think this monkey hammered out some Shakespeare.

scutiger ,

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.

Infernal_pizza ,
@Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world avatar

There is an advantage to that though, on Reddit by the time a post reached my front page it was several hours old and had so many comments it wasn’t worth me commenting on. On here people are much more likely to actually see my comments

DarthYodaX ,
@DarthYodaX@lemmy.world avatar

Really hoping this will take off!

Been trying to convince family and friends to switch; it isn’t necessarily the easiest switch, especially for non-technical people, but I hope it’s worth it for them.

Lunar ,
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The reason is federation. People actually happen to be pretty good at holding each other accountable and self-regulating when there isn't a central authority deciding what is and isn't acceptable. Bad actors naturally gravitate toward the instances that welcome them, and then the rest of us defederate from those instances to maintain the peace. Those bad instances then stagnate or fizzle out from the inactivity.

On centralized social media, what stays and goes isn't dictated by the community but a handful of people at the top, and troublemakers are often given a bigger platform than they would have had otherwise.

Mastadon is a lot bigger and older than Lemmy is, and yet it still has the same vibe as this place.

scarabic ,

So instances choose which instances to federate with? Does this mean that if my account is on lemmy.world that I’m seeing a selection of what that instance’s owners choose?

RicardoDev ,

Other way around most of the time. Instances choose who to defederate with. If you view all posts instead of local You’ll see posts across the fediverse so long as the instance owner hasn’t defederated. Defederation is also a pretty nuclear option so it’s generally not taken lightly.

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