Keep in mind, dear folks, simply coming ain't enough. Be sure to stay and visit often, otherwise the rich assholes win ;)
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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"Why are you scrolling gonewild again?" "freedom depends on it" "oh. Carry on, I guess"
You all might not be aware, but I think Rudd started this server only at the beginning of June for funsies, probably only expecting a couple of hundred users.
Then, of course, came Reddit API-calypse. Now, here we are barely 4 weeks later, almost 80k users on the instance. From nothing, to a respectable chuck of the fediverse, just that fast. Pretty amazing.
True, I opened my account June 1st on Beehaw, lemmy.world didn't exist yet. But I had to open an account on LW when BH defederated them...
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Honestly, I also try to be more active as a user in Lemmy, and it feels way more rewarding because it feels like a more tight-knitly community here. Like it a lot!
The breadth and depth of comments is what I've missed most from the past. Really happy to see these posts in the 1000s of upvotes with 100s of comments. I'll try to do my part.
I also find it refreshing to see, what I assume is, the actual amount of votes on posts and comments again. Makes it more human maybe instead of an arbitrary number
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Love the decentralized model. Iβm so over corporate run sites looking to make a profit
Migrated here from RIF (RIP), lemmy.world being suggested on top of the how to join guide definitely played a part in choosing this instance along with all the recommendations from other users.
Definitely feel much more inclined to comment here than on Reddit as of late, all the regurgitated meme shitposts and karma farming bot comments were getting really old. If it takes donating / paying a sub to keep Lemmy human discussion focused, that's what I will do.
Lemmy perfectly represents the adage "building the plane as you fly it" and it's been so much fun seeing it take shape.
It's great. In weeks people has packed their bags and badabing badaboom new community. The party continues as reddit never happened (besides the gloating ofc)
This is pretty awesome. I've tried mastodon when Twitter shit the bed a few months back and it never really launched the way I'd hoped.
Lemmy seems pretty lively. At first I was a bit disillusioned with the fact that it's not as active as reddit, but I feel the caliber of user that's come over is better than who we've all been dealing with the past 3-5 years over there. I'm happy to be here and there's palpable excitement
You know I did the same thing made an account for mastodon and never really used it. But since coming over here after leaving reddit and seeing how enjoyable it was I went back to the mastodon app and I have to say now that I'm familiar with lemmy mastodon made more sense to me.
Does Mastodon even have a filter so I can view all tweets from every instance like Lemmy does for posts? Because, if it does, I haven't found it.
I mean, yeah, that is the whole point.
You need to search for key words or alternative just press a hashtag you see on a post, hashtags is how all instances communicate since there isn't a proper text only searcher across instances.
Hashtags are extremely important if you want people from outside your own instance to find your posts and they are heavily used by everyone for that reason.
Of course you can manually search for users, or go to other instances and follow people from those, that way yohr own timeline will be filled with people outside your own instance.
Lastly you have the all feed where it pulls posts from every instance federated with yours. It is pretty much useless, a lot of what you will se there will be on other languages and you won't really see interesting contwnt like you do on local or your own feed since it has no theme or anything, it is just random tweets.
Your client should have All and Local feeds, All being for everything your instance is federated with
I'll have to give Mastodon another shot. Maybe that's what I was messing up.
That said, I was always a bigger reddit user than tweeter
I've found the same thing. Twitter was great for very specific, topic-based communities with everything else filtered out. The only reason I used it heavily was because of a couple of small, insulated scenes.
My Mastadon instance is just an insufferably banal stream of tweeters who are united in their fear of posting anything interesting enough to be offensive. It's basically "nice twitter", which still sucks balls anyway if you don't have a scene to keep in touch with.
Lemmy is very much "nice reddit" for now and I'm finding it far more enjoyable to use.
Where can I find that? I'm using the Mastodon app available on Google Play.
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It's nice seeing how much Lemmy is growing. I knew there would be an influx of new users from the 30th, but it's honestly nice seeing more comments overall and posts getting upvoted.
Yeah, I was expecting a small bump of new people when the 3PAs shut down, but the absolute deluge we've been getting is a pleasant surprise. RIF sending its users here has a lot to do with it, I think.
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congrats from .ca!
while im here: does anybody actually know why lemmy.world grew the fastest out of all of the instances? its not the "main" instance like .ml, not a safe space like beehaw, and a normal general instance like itjust.works. im curious why out of all places, .world got the main influx
.world is biggest because it's the biggest. Also RIF.
oh damn a rif redirect happened?
I think it was the instance referenced in the RIF goodbye message. That's what got me here, anyway.
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This is not a good thing. Part of the problem is third-party apps like Sync and other Fediverse advocates that direct Reddit users to sign up on only one instance, lemmy.world. This is understandable to keep things simple for the Redditors but it hurts lemmy.world (cost and performance-wise) and the Fediverse as a whole (centralization) to have a lot of accounts on one instance. I hope lemmy.world can make an announcement or guide to encourage users to spread out to more instances.
I think another reason too is that .world is run by Ruud who is a trusted actor in the space (he already runs Mastodon.world, a large mastodon instance), and so many (including me) probably felt it would be a safe harbor and not likely to get shut down or run poorly.
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My addiction have new management. A lot more community driven than the last one π
Heck yeah, hello everyone fleeing reddit!
Thank you for having us.
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