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.
If the sub is private, you can add "cache:" to the very beginning of the URL. Before the https. That will grab a cached version of before it went private, very helpful. Not sure if it works for deleted stuff tho.
That's a game changer. I had no idea about that.
That’s great to know.. Ty.
As someone who works in IT, this is very unfortunate. While I don't agree with what Reddit is doing, I don't think we should scorch the site. Its an immense archive of information that can be referenced.
It a dilemma isn't it. If you had a business partner that decided to change the terms of the relationship so that you felt you had to leave would you let them keep the intellectual property to allow them still to make money from whilst you had nothing?
I thought about it long and hard and decided that I would take all my information as an archive and remove it from reddit. Once we have an alternative I will be more than happy to upload it to another resource.
as a software dev this also make me sad, but I hope chatgpt can fill that gap left by reddit
ChatGPT was probably trained on that data. ChatGPT remembers... like an elephant.
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.comand 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.
I’m a simple man. I see beans; I upvote.
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!
I guess I have a semi related question. It seems that canned baked beans are a staple for people in the UK. They even have it on toast of all things. Do canned baked beans taste different in the UK than they do in the US or are they the same? I'm in the US and I think they taste disgusting, but I wonder if they have a different flavor in the UK.
Basically yes they're very different. I saw a discussion earlier about which brands in the US are comparable, but god knows which of today's 7000 bean-related threads it was in!
This is interesting and something I had always suspected. Now I want to know what UK baked beans taste like and if they don't taste like shit lol.
I, for one, welcome our beany overlords
Don't look at me, I'm just here to promote "Barbie".
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.
Lol yeah but at least I see you on almost every post I look at commenting.
No, you're breathtaking!
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!
Wefwef also has it
Oh great, that's one of my preferred apps. Thanks for letting me know.
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?
It varies from instance to instance. Some restrict community creation to admins, others don't. I also believe you can only create communities on your home instance.
This kind of confusion is why Lemmy will not be even a minor successor to Reddit IMHO. It's fun though, and I'm glad it exists.
It's unlikely to topple Reddit regardless, but so long as the scalability proves functional enough to support recommending lemmy.world to non tech-savvy newbies I don't see this particular issue becoming problematic. Most of the larger recommended instances have open community creation anyway. I guess BeeHaw doesn't but people aren't really recommending it to newbies either.
Check out our baseball community's sidebar for your favorite team. Try searching ![email protected] (and give it a minute if someone on your instance hasn't already found us).
Fanaticus is a sports-only instance. We've ported over a game bot and have created communities for all the major sports teams. If you're interested in moderating one of the communities, just ask!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: ![email protected]
Ah I didn’t realise you had to be an admin. Maybe reply to the below thread with a proposal for your community
https://lemmy.one/post/41
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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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:
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.
From what I understand, you kinda just search for stuff in the description. For example, if I search for [email protected], 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 🤮...
I hope people who are already on Threads should join a smaller instance instead.
I want threads to fail as bad as the metaverse.
Came here July 1st, just created account, can't lurk forever I suppose
So you were born (a lemming) on the Fourth of July?
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.
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).
Why did you get so many downvotes
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
Thank you for being here with us!
And it feels fresh
so fresh and so clean
so fresh and so clean-clean
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.
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!
Many thanks to my son who told me about Lemmy last night. Reddit tab closed. Lemmy tab open.
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.
Except Dave. You know what you did.
Man, fuck Dave.
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
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.
I concur still feeling my way around, more mole like than a lemming 😂
And thanks to all the people developing! Either Lemmy itself or all the apps to read it.
Shoutout to aeharding for wefwef. Not sure if I’d be sticking around if not for the Apollo-like experience they’re bringing to Lemmy!
Thanks so much!
Shoutout to aeharding for wefwef. Not sure if I’d be sticking around if not for the Apollo-like experience they’re bringing to Lemmy!
Thanks so much!
Shoutout to aeharding for wefwef. Not sure if I’d be sticking around if not for the Apollo-like experience they’re bringing to Lemmy!
Thanks so much!
Shoutout to aeharding for wefwef. Not sure if I’d be sticking around if not for the Apollo-like experience they’re bringing to Lemmy!
Thanks so much!
I think Lemmy is really cool, and I'm excited to see where it goes from here!
Even me? Wow
Remember, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
username checks out! 😎
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...
I've been lurking so far but yes, excited to join in this growing space
where is the porn communities?
https://lemmynsfw.com/
You know a service is getting better when the porn becomes varied! The porn index value is very real
Lemmynsfw.com 😊
I'm doing my part!
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!
Love ya lemmy
Even Phil?
Yes. And also Joe.
No, Phil no.
Thou art Lemmy. I am Lemmy. All that groks is Lemmy.
Maybe my first contribution will be getting this video to work on the mobile/iOS version of this site lol
It's not worth it, man.
Supporting iOS browsers might feel like jumping off a cliff, but I must do it for my Lemming brethren 🫡
Godspeed you absolute mad
ladseal.You're welcome
Thank you for being here as well.
Awww thank you also for being here. Let’s make this fediverse work 💪
Excited to see this kick off. Hopefully the hype sticks!
Everyone is welcome in the fediverse.
Good to be here!
Nice. Definitely agreement with your post
Glad to be here! Thank you too.
What a nice seal of approval
When I joined Lemmy one year and some months ago (the instance I'm talking from), this wasn't a desert, but this wasn't a living place either. Maybe I didn't subscribe to some communities, but I could see two or three new posts per day, with a couple of comments in the best case scenario. I didn't do my part either as much as I'm doing it now.
But now, between holding poop for 3 days, or eating beans, or the abundance of users on every instance, this is a neverending party, and I'm happy. I'm still not doing my part posting, but I comment very often. And I even have one account on two instances each (is that correctly said?).
With correct mods, with wholesome admins and with polite users, even disagreeing, these places will be forever my virtual home.
I feel Lemmy got Great potential! Thank you 👍
You are welcome!
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Hey thank you too, buckaroo.
Yup I feel the same!
Thank you all for being here!
I got ya fam. You do you, and your doing great.
So far I've only used Reddit to look at OSRS updates, because that's where the mods interact with the community and there's the biggest community giving feedback on the updates. Other than that, for general doomscrolling, Lemmy is great. When Lemmy.World has kept up.
Yes I know I can use other instances, no I didn't know that when I created the account and I don't really want to create another don't @ me.
I've been lurking so far but yes, excited to join in this growing space!
I really hope this will stay that way and this isn't just a hype...
What a heartwarming post! Thanks, kind stranger
Happy to be here
Thanks to you also!
Thanks to you also!
And we begin.
You’re welcome
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i'm so happy that lemmy exists you don't know, thank you too
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