I'm here to check things out. I'm terribly sad that 3rd party app Boost for Reddit might become defunct.

Hoping I can learn & like fediverse/Lemmy.

Well, now I’m ready for the inevitable implosion of Reddit. Glad to be here.

Hi y'all! Somehow I never heard of Lemmy or Fediverse before finding out about this instance in r/Suomi.

It all seems awesome, definitely diving deeper into this now.

Kiitos for the sopuli showrunners!

First time on a Lemmy instance, and I though Sopuli looked inviting. I appreciate you taking me, and some of my fellow supporters of the Reddit blackout, in during these dark days. So far, enjoying my time here and learning about Lemmy and federated services! I hope I can learn to do more than lurk.

YesYes! I guess the finnish way suits me more than the beehive way. I have been on Lemmy for two days, following with much sleeplessness this playground -- it's like children unpacking the big christmas packet, with awe.

If there is anyone here who has a little bit of knowledge about github/coding/layout, to help with some changes to make the sign-up process go more smoothly, please go ahead! Here are some suggestions that were made in the temporary server overload thread yesterday:
https://lemmy.ml/comment/457578
https://lemmy.ml/comment/82311 (a more explanatory subheader is already in the works, hope they see that it apparently needs to be done via the translation tool)
https://lemmy.ml/comment/450975

So, let's hope this doesn't go downhill with the expected influx!

Moro kaikille / Hi everyone!

I just created Lemmy's first (as far as I can tell) Black metal community. If you want to join please head over to [email protected] and post something! Let's get the ball rolling on here as well!

@[email protected] laitathan viestii jos voi auttaa. Tiedän, ettet pyytänyt lahjoituksia mutta tää sun yhteisö kasvaa nopeasti. Kaikenlaisesta tuesta voidaan keskustella.

Helouu.

Another reddfugee here. It's a real reddit moment ouy there, internet history in the making. I'm happy to be here, thanks for a quick accept.

Welcome, Tervetuloa!

Signup approval waiting sucks, but we will approve them within 24h!

About Sopuli

Sopuli and other Lemmy servers like beehaw.org offer an alternative to link aggregation social media sites like Reddit (which is no doubt the reason for this influx of new users). All these servers communicate together, so it doesn't actually matter which of them you register at as long as the rules and admins suit you. You can post to beehaw communities from Sopuli and vice versa.

More detailed info will be compiled in the FAQ.

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is the software that powers the websites.

Why Sopuli/Lemmy instead of the other Reddit alternatives?

With Lemmy, you can choose your administrator or choose to administrate yourself, and still be connected to the same overall network. An inherent benefit for this is that no one corporation, entity or person can own the network and you will not be under the whims of one corporate leadership.

Dear ex-friends of creddit

… used riddit only occasionally but I am glad to be here, or anywhere on the fediverse …

Thank you admins for your kind efforts. … like all fish, so was keen to join anything with fins

FIN

Glad to be here.

Did we just blink the lights?

Thanks for welcoming the reddit refugees. I really hope we don't mess up what previous lemmy users enjoyed about lemmy

Hiya! I don't like how the future of reddit looks, what with all the mods leaving because they can't mod properly without 3rd party apps. Hoping the fediverse turns out better. This seems like a nice friendly instance :)

We are in interesting times, im my opinion. They're interesting because we went from GAFA being suprememe, to the fediverse and threadiverse, to a multiheaded hydra (in the positive sense) where you join instances, that are "local" communities, that can encompass, or block other instances. We go from the monopolies of Meta, Twitter and Reddit, to the threadiverse and Fediverse. I think there is a difference between the two. Social networks are communities, and communities are migratory. Twitter and reddit forget this little detail. They're encouraging their "competition" to thrive. They're sabotaging their own stickiness by over-charging for API use, especially since devoted redittors can already pay 49CHF per year. To pay even more for a third party app is punishing the very people that already "invested" real cash.

I guess I should post in here to express my gratitude!

Thank you for running this thing, and more importantly for having us :')

Also, what is it like living in Finland?

Nice to see folks here. Just joined and have been slowly moving my social internet away from the corporate controlled interests. Mastodon has been a breath of fresh air and am optimistic that Lemmy will be too.

Hope this is ok to post here.

I've created two communities as a replacement for r/collapse and related subs:
Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse - Collapse-related news & discussion
and
Faster Than Expected - Collapse-related memes and other stuff

Please come join and add to the discourse!

Hey everybody, another Reddit refugee here! Thanks for the welcome.

Tai kuten sun mutsi sanoisi veisbuukis suomeksi: "kIiToS RYyHmÄäN pÄsYStÄ"

Thankyou for taking in so many Reddit refugees.

8 year reddit user here looking for a new home. Thank you for letting me join.

Another refugee here, Greetings all!

Hello! Did my part and moved here from Reddit. Interesting to see what the future holds for Reddit.

Migrant from reddit. Hopefully I can doom scroll through this just as easily.

Thank you for approving me! I'm a refugee from reddit is fun.

Hello and thank you for new home! This seems to be a rather nice place without too many zero effort posts/ comments so far, and people are nice to each other. I really look forward to contribute to communities in here.

There is just one thing I wonder while getting to know this platform and were peeking the create communities page: why would someone want to make a community with setting "Only moderators can post to this community"? For announcements? FAQ did not have an answer.

Jos tänne päätyy muita uusia suomalaisia käyttäjiä pyörimään niin oletan, että osaavat sen verran englantia ymmärtääkseen kysymyksen :-D Ajattelin, että jos joku muukin pohtii samaa niin saapi kenties tiedon ja englanti tavoittaa useammat.

Thanks for letting me in! Reddit is going down the drain right now...

Hello everyone! Another Reddit refugee, I don't think I can deal with RiF being gone!

I've already looked into the Fediverse before but Mastodon didn't suit me as a Twitter clone, I hate following people I want to follow topics.

I look forward to dipping my toes and to seeing where this all goes.

I am another reddit refugee, I can't see using it from my phone without redreader. Thanks for running an instance. I will have to see what communities there are on here that might fill what I used reddit for.

Hello world! Thought I'd say hello, and thanks for a great alternative to Reddit. Pleased to see the fedeverse show some promise. Feels like the old internet so far...

Looking forward to seeing what's what here. My only experience with the fediverse has been Mastodon thus far so we'll see what happens.

Thanks for approving me! I'm yet another Reddit refugee. Here's to hoping the community develops further.

Thanks for having me! I've already been on the Fediverse for a bit but I had never tried Lemmy. Good luck staying afloat with the influx!

Yeah decided to join here as well after the shitshow at reddit. Maybe I'll try to lurk less than I did there and actually post some stuff ;)

Hyvin pärähti taas Spezillä vaihteeksi.

Onko täällä jotain erityisesti suomeksi jubailevaa paikkaa?

Miten me voidaan tukea tätä toimintaa täällä?

One question for the admin; I see an instance hasn't been federated with sopuli (it's not blocked either), what should be done to be able to subscribe to the unfederated instance communities? I just get community_not_found error when trying to access the community URL via sopuli.xyz. Search doesn't find it either.

Thank you for this community! I am a long time redditor and quite sad that it all turned the way it did in Reddit. At the same time I am grateful that there is this community. I am looking forward spending my time here.

Anyone else having issues with the sign up page? A friend of mine is trying to sign up to sopuli but after they enter their details and click ‘sign up’ it just spins endlessly. I’m assuming it’s because a lot of people are trying to sign up now?

Thanks for approving my application! I am very happy to be here!

Hello! New around here also 😊

Kiitos pääsystä ryhmään ja muut boomerjutut. Tulin vaan testaamaan miten tämä toimii.

Greetings, all!

Yet another recent Lemmy-grant from Reddit. Thanks for the welcome!

Thanks for the approval! I'm hoping to overcome my lurking ways and make a contribution in this community.

Thanks for providing this place for people. Im hopping this can become my new front page!

Aattelin vaan tulla sanoo Moro!

I'm not a fan of reddit's decision to kill off third party apps (even though I don't use reddit on my phone).

Onko tietoa millaisessa formaatissa yhteisön bannerin ja kuvakkeen pitäisi olla? En onnistu lisäämään luomaani yhteisöön kumpaakaan, enkä löytänyt dokumentaatiostakaan äkkiseltään mitään . :/

Kiitos! Moi kaikille!

What's this flash of genious of theirs?

Very happy to be here.

Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for running the instance. ♥️♥️

Thanks for letting me in. Also wanted to test posting!

Tervehdys!

Kiitos ja kippis!

Thanks for the approval! I'm excited to be a part of lemmy

Coming in from Sync. Sad to see my favorite app die. Hope we can grow this place as big someday.

WTH, why are such posts getting so many upvotes!! Is Mark Zuckerberg himself writing these?!