Yea im kinda excited to transition back to smaller form communities. I remember back in the day when i was on bbforums with like 40 other people, and that was a lot of fun actually
One of the nicer things I'm enjoying seeing after moving to Lemmy from Reddit, is seeing posts about the internet of 10, 15 and even 30 years ago and people having the same experience I had as well!
But also being reminded that the internet of today is definitely not how it used to be and finding like minded people who share the same values is something that's sparked my old interest in "being involved" in online communities again.
Mastodon really helped get people acquainted with the Fediverse after the whole Twitter shitshow. My sincere hope is that the Fediverse continues to take off. Corporate-owned social media is failing at every turn.
I know! I was on Twitter in the early days and it was such a better place than it ended up being. And in the last few months it's become pretty much unusable for me. I've had more interaction on Mastodon than I had on Twitter in years. Hoping the federated nature of Mastodon maintains it as a community. Meta sniffing around makes me think that we're really onto something and I hope Mastodon and the Fediverse can stay what it is now. I know growth may change things, but I hope the general ethos and concept remain the same.
My biggest lack of understanding is still regarding access: So, if I choose to access the Fediverse via Mastodon, can I still subscribe to Kbin and Lemmy “subs”?
I love the federated nature of all of this, I just wish it was slightly easier to put into a metaphor. I’ve seen some graphic charts that try, but it’s still a bit confusing. I’m on KBin and I like it a lot, but I have no way of knowing if I’m missing a ton of content or not!
I agree it’s a bit confusing. I think app developers are really working to try and give people an easier onboarding experience. But I’m old enough to remember when people thought Twitter and Reddit were “way too complicated” for the average person. With technology, people seem to learn over time, and devs find ways to make things easier for average users.
The metaphor that I use is the human body. Its all one thing, containing different cells, that make up different systems, but communicate all the same, even if only for basic function. The whole fediverse is really organic and elegant imo. I am obviously not a tech person lol.
I was active on Reddit for well over a decade. Even helped mod a couple of small communities at various points. I also loved Apollo and was an early beta tester for that app. For me, Apollo was Reddit. It was the only Reddit client I used in recent years and I miss Apollo as much as I miss Reddit itself.
I don’t see myself going back to Reddit. Lemmy has been great and has quickly become very “Reddit-like” for me, but with the vibe of what the internet was back in the early 2000s. I am enjoying the communities that are forming on her.
I’m also very fond of the concept of the Fediverse as a whole. Corporate social media has failed again and again, so I want to move away from it as much as possible.
Sheesh. One thing that always bugged me about Reddit was the arbitrary power that mods had. I had a situation where I was banned from /r/glasses because I posted about Warby Parker (the mail-in glasses service) being a good option for lower-cost glasses in the U.S. Turned out the mod was the owner of an optical shop and he didn't like it when people recommended Warby Parker and other mail-order services for glasses because it was sucking away money from high-end, overpriced optical shops. So he just started banning people who mentioned any of these mail-order services.
One thing I like about Lemmy is that the modlog is public. I think that level of transparency is really important and helpful for avoiding situations like people have experienced on Reddit.
But I agree, Reddit has indeed slowly turned to shit. I love that the general concept behind it is being replicated here and that so many people are starting to recognize the importance of a company being free from a CEO.
I was a long time Redditor--a prolific lurker but infrequent poster. I never used third party apps, but Reddit's CEO behaved like such an asshat that I haven't been back since the blackout began. Dumped Facebook and Twitter for the same reason: their horrid CEOs. Found my way to Kbin and am enjoying it! Hopefully the the good content will keep on flowing.
I keep going to Reddit out of habit but am trying to check Lemmy.world more often. Still trying to wrap my head around the whole architecture--I understand it at a functional level but still getting a hang of how it is to actually interact with various servers and communities. Anyway. I hear only a Sith deals in absolutes and /U-who-shall-not-be-Spez'd sure seems to be dealing in that way. May Reddit go the way of MySpace and the net return to a more decentralized and organic space.
Love it! It feels so comfortable on my cramped 1366x768 laptop at 90% zoom, pretty much like old Reddit. In the weekend when I get home I'll try it on my desktop PC's 21.5 inch 1920x1080 monitor, gotta have the I N F O R M A T I O N D E N S I T Y
Yuuup. I want cards that show me the picture without clicking, I don't want anything suggested, and I want the video player to work. RiF did all that. I'm using jerboa for lemmy and it's close enough
Also from baconreader- 10 years on the app, the only way to enjoy reddit is with third party apps. Forcing people to play 50 bucks a year for no ads is insane.
Someone has already created boost for lemmy community and locked it for future purposes. I hope it's the dev of boost and is considering to create boost for lemmy.
Still trying to figure this out. Need a decent Apollo style app to fully move in. I’m so done with Reddit. I already nuked the content they let me and deleted a few accounts. Definitely phasing out.
Click Communities. Subscribe to a bunch. Click on your name and go to settings. Set Type to Subscribed, this defaults your home screen to show only posts from subscribed communities. Also make sure the Theme is litely or litely-red.
You don't need multiple accounts*. Lemmy.world is a federated instance of Lemmy. That means you can see not just the *local *content that fellow Lemmy.world users post here, but content posted by any other Lemmy federated instance. If you signed up for Lemmy on the instance sh.itjust.works rather than Lemmy.world, because sh.itjust.works is federated as well, any posts you make are visible to me because both of our instances are in the Fediverse. That's to say, they agree to mirror content for the sake of building a large shared network of information.
*The only reason you'd want another Lemmy account is if you were joining an instance that wasn't federated. That's to say, someone or some group decided they were going to make their own Reddit-style site using the Lemmy software and keep all of its content private. You'd create an account with that site, sign in and the only content you'd ever see is local.
Ok. I was trying to join stuff on kbin but it was asking for me to log in. I’ll dig in more on a PC later. Looks like I need to change the url to subscribe. Not easy on mobile.
Yes the url formatting can be a little wonky if you are getting it from a link somebody drops in a comment.
A consistent way is to go up to “communities”, then type in your search parameter in the search field and make sure the search is for “all” (as opposed to subscribed or local).
It will show you kbin (among others) communities related to your search term and you can click on them and subscribe.
Edit: I created an account for kbin and subscribed to some communities (called magazines there). There are communities of the same name unique to Lemmy and kbin. However, you can subscribe to the communities unique to kbin from Lemmy provided the instance you joined is federated. For example, I like the Gaming community/magazine at kbin. I searched for it while signed into Lemmy.world and subscribed to it. Now I don't need to kbin to see that content.
Oh, I see what you mean. I'm not familiar with kbin, I've seen it mentioned but just now bothered to google for it. Man that looks much nicer than Lemmy. ಠ_ಠ
Not really, RIF developer is confirmed making an app for Tildes which federates with Lemmy and others. But it's a small invite-only community. Source.
If you're on Android, there is a current early beta of Jerboa and an early beta of Memmy App (supposed to be available this week on Google. I've been using it on iOS).
I was fine enough with the official app, but Reddit has become Digg, so I am happy to be here and will hope more of the communities I loved there will make a transition.
copped an admin level ban for 'harrassment' (no warning, based on a single comment reply to a cooker who initiated the interaction). oh no, anyway! a few years ago i would have cared, not so much today
I am a RiF defector and I have to admit that Lemmy is looking pretty promising! Screw the corporate scumbags!
And I, a RiF detector, playing in the K bin.
I hear it’s a nice bin
I too have come from Reddit, but wait, still learning how this works. I thought K-bin was separate from Lemmy. How are we in the same forum?
Much to learn about the Fediverse, you have.
Any one know if the dev planing on making a Reddit isn't fun Fediverse app?
Yea im kinda excited to transition back to smaller form communities. I remember back in the day when i was on bbforums with like 40 other people, and that was a lot of fun actually
Agreed! Over the years, I learned that in smaller communities, people engaged more, got to know each other, and had fun chatting on the same topic!
One of the nicer things I'm enjoying seeing after moving to Lemmy from Reddit, is seeing posts about the internet of 10, 15 and even 30 years ago and people having the same experience I had as well!
But also being reminded that the internet of today is definitely not how it used to be and finding like minded people who share the same values is something that's sparked my old interest in "being involved" in online communities again.
Gotta admit, the Fediverse is looking pretty sweet. A surprise, to be sure! But a welcome one.
Mastodon really helped get people acquainted with the Fediverse after the whole Twitter shitshow. My sincere hope is that the Fediverse continues to take off. Corporate-owned social media is failing at every turn.
I'm having more iterations and more interesting ones in Mastodon that I had in twitter during the last few years.
Mastodon reminds me of the early days of twitter, which is amazing.
I know! I was on Twitter in the early days and it was such a better place than it ended up being. And in the last few months it's become pretty much unusable for me. I've had more interaction on Mastodon than I had on Twitter in years. Hoping the federated nature of Mastodon maintains it as a community. Meta sniffing around makes me think that we're really onto something and I hope Mastodon and the Fediverse can stay what it is now. I know growth may change things, but I hope the general ethos and concept remain the same.
My biggest lack of understanding is still regarding access: So, if I choose to access the Fediverse via Mastodon, can I still subscribe to Kbin and Lemmy “subs”?
I love the federated nature of all of this, I just wish it was slightly easier to put into a metaphor. I’ve seen some graphic charts that try, but it’s still a bit confusing. I’m on KBin and I like it a lot, but I have no way of knowing if I’m missing a ton of content or not!
I agree it’s a bit confusing. I think app developers are really working to try and give people an easier onboarding experience. But I’m old enough to remember when people thought Twitter and Reddit were “way too complicated” for the average person. With technology, people seem to learn over time, and devs find ways to make things easier for average users.
The metaphor that I use is the human body. Its all one thing, containing different cells, that make up different systems, but communicate all the same, even if only for basic function. The whole fediverse is really organic and elegant imo. I am obviously not a tech person lol.
Lemmy is only threaded content so no mastadin. Kbin however has threads posts but also microblogging. So kbin can interact with lemmy and Mastadon.
Thank you!!
Happy to help. I've been learning a lot so if there's anything that you want cleared up let me know and I can try.
I'm on Lemmy and don't know how we are talking to each other. I just quickly signed up after being fed up with Reddit Admin / Huffman.
I'm here as a Sync defector and super hype that Sync for Lemmy is happening.
Same here. Can't wait!
They already have a lemmy /c/?
Yep: https://lemmy.world/c/SyncForLemmy
cool thanks!
Syncforlemmy
I was active on Reddit for well over a decade. Even helped mod a couple of small communities at various points. I also loved Apollo and was an early beta tester for that app. For me, Apollo was Reddit. It was the only Reddit client I used in recent years and I miss Apollo as much as I miss Reddit itself.
I don’t see myself going back to Reddit. Lemmy has been great and has quickly become very “Reddit-like” for me, but with the vibe of what the internet was back in the early 2000s. I am enjoying the communities that are forming on her.
I’m also very fond of the concept of the Fediverse as a whole. Corporate social media has failed again and again, so I want to move away from it as much as possible.
I have an 11 year Reddit account, and recently got banned for posting about how Nazi's shouldn't be around anymore.
Reddit has been slowly turning to shit, and Spez befriending Musk is a pretty big indicator that its going to keep going that way.
Sheesh. One thing that always bugged me about Reddit was the arbitrary power that mods had. I had a situation where I was banned from /r/glasses because I posted about Warby Parker (the mail-in glasses service) being a good option for lower-cost glasses in the U.S. Turned out the mod was the owner of an optical shop and he didn't like it when people recommended Warby Parker and other mail-order services for glasses because it was sucking away money from high-end, overpriced optical shops. So he just started banning people who mentioned any of these mail-order services.
One thing I like about Lemmy is that the modlog is public. I think that level of transparency is really important and helpful for avoiding situations like people have experienced on Reddit.
But I agree, Reddit has indeed slowly turned to shit. I love that the general concept behind it is being replicated here and that so many people are starting to recognize the importance of a company being free from a CEO.
I was a long time Redditor--a prolific lurker but infrequent poster. I never used third party apps, but Reddit's CEO behaved like such an asshat that I haven't been back since the blackout began. Dumped Facebook and Twitter for the same reason: their horrid CEOs. Found my way to Kbin and am enjoying it! Hopefully the the good content will keep on flowing.
Hell yeah! I'm having a blast too from Lemmy.
Any recommendations on kbin?
I am still figuring things out, but looks like kbin is federated with lemmy, it is just a different server and they make UI look more like reddit.
Kbin isn't actually lemmy at all.
I said it is a different server. But I was able to see communities (it calls them magazines) from lemmy on kbin server.
I feel a little guilty using Starlink, but it's the only half decent option out here.
Wowza where did 1.6k people suddenly came from. A million more on the way?
Good relations with the memes, we must have. If to succeed as a meme hub, we want.
Also post engagement
I keep going to Reddit out of habit but am trying to check Lemmy.world more often. Still trying to wrap my head around the whole architecture--I understand it at a functional level but still getting a hang of how it is to actually interact with various servers and communities. Anyway. I hear only a Sith deals in absolutes and /U-who-shall-not-be-Spez'd sure seems to be dealing in that way. May Reddit go the way of MySpace and the net return to a more decentralized and organic space.
We will watch your career with great interest
I moved here immediately when I heard Sync was making an app
Sync is so great. Out of all the 3rd party app creators, I'm happy that it was Sync's creator that'll take the first stab!
Still getting my bearings, but this feels closer to old (pre digg migration) reddit than current reddit does.
You might be interested in this: https://userstyles.world/style/10311/old-reddit-ish-lemmy
Love it! It feels so comfortable on my cramped 1366x768 laptop at 90% zoom, pretty much like old Reddit. In the weekend when I get home I'll try it on my desktop PC's 21.5 inch 1920x1080 monitor, gotta have the I N F O R M A T I O N D E N S I T Y
I'm using Stylus, but it doesn't seem to apply the style.
Can you tell me what this is? Looks great. Do I need a new login? I tried to sign in but was told invalid credentials.
EDIT. Found the download button. Nevermind.
I was a RiF user myself. Not interested in a reddit without it.
Yuuup. I want cards that show me the picture without clicking, I don't want anything suggested, and I want the video player to work. RiF did all that. I'm using jerboa for lemmy and it's close enough
I will use RIF as long as it works. If it no longer works, there is no more mobile reddit for me.
I will log in on old reddit to catch up with ukraine war and that's it.
Im gonna miss Baconreader but man reddit has gone to hell
Also from baconreader- 10 years on the app, the only way to enjoy reddit is with third party apps. Forcing people to play 50 bucks a year for no ads is insane.
By the dark side reddit has been seduced.
It's going to take awhile before things go back to normal but it's nice seeing new communitys pop up
Frankly I’d be okay with plenty of reposts since I came to this sub so recently.
Infinity defector here: Post engagement noises
And Boost app users. Was the best interface I used.
Another Boost user! All through this whole saga I heard nothing about Boost at all. Indeed it was the best. I fear having to switch now.
Someone has already created boost for lemmy community and locked it for future purposes. I hope it's the dev of boost and is considering to create boost for lemmy.
This is the way
I feel welcomed.
Death to Reddit.
Still trying to figure this out. Need a decent Apollo style app to fully move in. I’m so done with Reddit. I already nuked the content they let me and deleted a few accounts. Definitely phasing out.
Click Communities. Subscribe to a bunch. Click on your name and go to settings. Set Type to Subscribed, this defaults your home screen to show only posts from subscribed communities. Also make sure the Theme is litely or litely-red.
How do I connect this account to stuff outside lemmy.world? Do I need multiple accounts? Thanks btw.
You don't need multiple accounts*. Lemmy.world is a federated instance of Lemmy. That means you can see not just the *local *content that fellow Lemmy.world users post here, but content posted by any other Lemmy federated instance. If you signed up for Lemmy on the instance sh.itjust.works rather than Lemmy.world, because sh.itjust.works is federated as well, any posts you make are visible to me because both of our instances are in the Fediverse. That's to say, they agree to mirror content for the sake of building a large shared network of information.
*The only reason you'd want another Lemmy account is if you were joining an instance that wasn't federated. That's to say, someone or some group decided they were going to make their own Reddit-style site using the Lemmy software and keep all of its content private. You'd create an account with that site, sign in and the only content you'd ever see is local.
thank you for the explanation. i'm learning this platform as well!
Ok. I was trying to join stuff on kbin but it was asking for me to log in. I’ll dig in more on a PC later. Looks like I need to change the url to subscribe. Not easy on mobile.
Yes the url formatting can be a little wonky if you are getting it from a link somebody drops in a comment.
A consistent way is to go up to “communities”, then type in your search parameter in the search field and make sure the search is for “all” (as opposed to subscribed or local).
It will show you kbin (among others) communities related to your search term and you can click on them and subscribe.
Edit: I created an account for kbin and subscribed to some communities (called magazines there). There are communities of the same name unique to Lemmy and kbin. However, you can subscribe to the communities unique to kbin from Lemmy provided the instance you joined is federated. For example, I like the Gaming community/magazine at kbin. I searched for it while signed into Lemmy.world and subscribed to it. Now I don't need to kbin to see that content.
Oh, I see what you mean. I'm not familiar with kbin, I've seen it mentioned but just now bothered to google for it. Man that looks much nicer than Lemmy. ಠ_ಠ
https://lemmy.world/comment/415872
i really like the Memmy app, it's really quite nice.
I am a sync refuge. Happy to be here!
Sync 2, standing by.
no love for the Relay expats?
Relay was my go-to app too
Relay is/was a gem! People found RiF and never looked back. After finding relay, I just couldn't go back to RiF.
relay represent!
I'm with you. One of the great apps, now trashed thanks to spez
Relay for lemmy would be awesome!
I want my Relay for Lemmy!
I'll miss Apollo more than I'll miss Reddit. God damn it.
Ex-RIF user reporting in. I'm doing my part!
Oh I'm not brave enough for politics
Fuck spez
Farewell rif! Hello Lemmy! Fuck u/Spez!
EX RIF user reporting for duty.
Does anyone know if RIF will be migrated to supporting Lemmy?
That would make me happy.
Not really, RIF developer is confirmed making an app for Tildes
which federates with Lemmy and others.But it's a small invite-only community. Source.If you're on Android, there is a current early beta of Jerboa and an early beta of Memmy App (supposed to be available this week on Google. I've been using it on iOS).
Sync is confirmed coming to Lemmy as well.
Tildes federates with Lemmy??
Oh, no - you're right, thank you. I was mistaken upon a quick Google. I'll edit my post!
That would be great if so
No one ever mentions the Narwhal users:(
Because they only bacon at midnight.
That's something I'd rather not bring back please
@Exusia hello! fuck reddit!
Indeed
FUCK REDDIT
Begun, the migration has. Apollo defector checking in.
Can't dwell on your feelings of the past, the Jedi masters don't like that!
Going to start a whole new sub for sync defectors - signed guy who came here from digg (in a roundabout way)
oooo, I'm interested!
ljdawson is writing a sync for lemmy I believe there's a sub for it
Glad to be here.
Hell no. I want a pre-Disney Star Wars meme experience.
Sup
Hello there.
General Kenobi!
You can post pictures directly in comments
Yeah... this feature gonna be a problem later I'm afraid 😂
You are a bold one!
Another newb checkin in. Reddit since 2007. Fuck spez.
Infinity defector here.
Thank you for the warm welcome
Former RiF poweruser checking in. I hope this is the start of the great migration. (and hope the RiF developer comes with!)
lmaooo
Just joined due to RiF changes. Any good art communities to recommend? I'm still a little lost how to find them haha.
Apollo defector / Reddit desktop user checking in to see what the hubbub is all about. The official Reddit app is trash. Fuck u/Spez
From RiF. Hoping there will be a Lemmy app like RiF soon.
Sync for Lemmy is already confirmed.
Alright, you've sold me.
RIP BaconReader
Don't forget us Infinity defectors.
Hi!
I was fine enough with the official app, but Reddit has become Digg, so I am happy to be here and will hope more of the communities I loved there will make a transition.
Its more a rule than an exception that when the next big thing has been around for a while, it becomes super corporate and it dies.
This is where the fun begins
Redditor for 14 years. Won't be a redditor for 15 years. Just found Lemmy.world and also checking out one or two other alternatives.
same here. I joined reddit about the same time you did, and had been on it ever since until the recent exodus.
Reddit is done, it might linger on for a few more years, but it is clearly on the path to becoming Digg 2.0 .
FUCK SPEZ!!!
Just purged all content I had given Reddit before deleting my account. It took awhile. Happy to be here!
copped an admin level ban for 'harrassment' (no warning, based on a single comment reply to a cooker who initiated the interaction). oh no, anyway! a few years ago i would have cared, not so much today
Hello Lemmy.world!
To infinity!
I am here to serve
o/ Checking in. Fuck /u/spez. Spread the word. Put up "getting started" info everywhere you can.
Is this the dark or light side?
It is up to us to make it the place we want to be!