General Discussion

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.

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. 🤌

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

Don't look at me, I'm just here to promote "Barbie".

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.

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

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.

Except the fascists. Fuck the fascists, they can go back to the holes they crawled out of.

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.

Thanks mom.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lemmy feels like how reddit felt in 2010

That's a rare thing these days

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.

Am I doing something wrong, I just see the same posts over and over even when sorting differently?

I'm extremely glad such an awesome alternative exists.

Have to say this feels more like a true community than redddit as a whole ever did.

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.

Dumb furry doing their part. :3

All I've been seeing is beans 😞

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

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 🤮...

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.

And it feels fresh

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

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

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

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!

I'm just trying to find the snack bar.