PSA: Let’s fill Kbin/Lemmy with content to attract and KEEP new users
We’re about to enter another Reddit mass migration phase starting tonight. We’ve already attracted the users most actively engaged with the protests and Reddit’s changes—users who are driven enough to put in the effort to grow the Fediverse.
Now we need to make it feel like home to casual users and lurkers. Not just attract them for a few visits, but keep it interesting enough that they stay here in the coming weeks/months.
Major kudos to all the developers working day and night to bring us familiar-feeling apps and interfaces on insanely short timelines. But what can the rest of us do to make Kbin and Lemmy feel like home to all the new Reddit refugees? Populate Lemmy and Kbin with as much quality content as you can find!
Over the next few weeks, fill your magazines/communities with as much good the content as you can. Post comments and subscribe to things. Click that upvote button on content or comments you like.
Not sure where to find good content? Ironically, check out your favorite subreddits for ideas. Make sure we have the best of the content you can find on Reddit. See a good article or link? Post it here! Don’t be shy about posting to interactive communities like Ask Lemmy- we’re after volume.
For OC Reddit posts, see if there’s a non-Reddit page to post here. I don’t know whether it’s acceptable to copy text posts, but if you do, make sure you at least give credit/copy a link to the original post.
Basically, do everything you can to engage over the next few weeks and avoid lurking. Show off the Fediverse and welcome the next group of Reddit refugees to their new home.
Edit: I completely forgot to call out all the people hosting and upgrading instances to help with the massive influx of users and keep the sites stable. Thank you, hosts!
I think I've made more posts/comments in the last fortnight, than the last year on Reddit.
I've been posting interesting articles to nearly half a dozen communities each per day, even if nobody is responding.
I believe it's worth it to have this activity for those who pass by and see how many people showed up to the party before them.
This is the way
Absolutely, I'm way more actively engaged on Lemmy than I was in the recent past on Reddit. I feel like the community isn't too flooded yet, and conversation can be more easily seen. I'm very excited for the future here.
Thank you. As a recent refugee I like that lemmy can fill a void but it’s going to take community effort to have the engagement and diversity that Reddit did. As a decade long Reddit lurker I’ve decided that my lemmy experience will be better if I upvote the things that contribute, comment instead of just lurking, and rather than expecting to jump into this expecting the traffic and variety of the old place, I and the other refugees have an opportunity to make our little spaces in the fediverse a little brighter and grow with the community. It’s an exciting time after the dread of the deadline began to grow. I’m happy I’m here, and I’m happy you (and everyone) are here! Let’s grow together!
Yep, the perception of business and web traffic is what drives actual traffic
This is my first comment as a reddit refugee ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just made my account today after sync died, and I don't know what else to do so here I am lol
Quality content is one thing. Engagement is another. I see lots of new posts that are good, but little to no comments. What we need is a few good communities with lots of engagement. On reddit I was more of a lurker, here I will start to do my best to comment more in the hopes it helps. (Still, my comments will probably be stupid and uninteresting, so it might do more harm than good, lol)
I am doing my best to avoid lurking. It’s tricky though, I am so used to only commenting on things like once a month. Exhausting work I tell ya.
Same here, I wanna post but can't get a good idea on what to post..
Same boat for sure. In my 11 years or so on reddit, it was definitely a comment a month kind of thing. Maybe even everything 6 months.
All I posted on Reddit was my gamertag in gaming communities.. now it’s time to add words.. i don’t know how to do this lol
But you did it! Just say stupid shit honestly. Go on a picture in memes and just comment something stupid and people will go along with it
I'm in the same boat. This is a good start, right?
Maybe? It feels weird.
I'm actually finding myself more motivated to comment on lemmy because it's less likely to get lost in the churn.
I see ya! and I appreciate you being here Datas \o/
Yea I’m thinking of reposting some of my old posts from Reddit that did well to contribute
Honestly that would be fine. Having that content here would be nice anyhow, we wouldn't have to leave as often.
Yeah it’s kind of amusing. I’ve gotten so used to mindlessly doom scrolling and here it’s like damn can’t just lurk there’s not enough to just lurk over. Lord I have to use that keyboard thingie and form sentences.
Honestly same, like I genuinely want lemmy to succeed but unsure since most of the communities I frequent are still on Reddit (mostly gacha games subs)
I’m still trying to engage more here than I usually do on Reddit
Can confirm, migrated because they took away my Apollo! Now I’m using wefwef as my new Apollo
Thanks for pointing me towards this. Loving wefwef. Works wonderfully!
Is it an iOS app? I can't find it in the Android Google or Samsung store.
Should be platform agnostic, it's a browser app.
It’s a web app instead of native app. I’m using https://wefwef.app/
They said they are adding an android skin as well on the road map. I’m assuming you can simply use it on an android phone now, although I haven’t tested so could be wrong.
https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef
I’m not sure how you do it on android but in iOS you can add it to your Home Screen and it opens up similar to how a native app would.
of all the android apps I've tried, wefwef seems the best for me, especially as a fan of pretty GUI
I would love an Android native app, but this actually looks pretty great. This and Jerboa are the closest I've seen to RIF so far.
Jerboa strikes me as RiF without the features and usability I liked about that app, at least for now, hopefully it gets better
It's definitely got a lot of growing and improvement to do, but I think it has a lot of potential once it works out its kinks and can get through the backlog of enhancement recommendations.
It’s a mobile web app, so iOS users can visit https://wefwef.app using Safari, then click the Share icon, the click ‘Add to Home Screen’.
I don’t use Android so I don’t know if there’s a similar process to turn a link to a website into an icon on the Home Screen. I just did a web search and found this website, which I hope is useful for you https://beebom.com/ways-turn-any-website-android-app/
(Also I’m new to wefwef and this is my first comment using it)
Yeah it's pretty much the same. PWAs are great when developed well and cross platform. Unfortunately they usually are not developed well and push you to go to their mobile apps.
Seems like a good way to not have to mess around with App Store approval and stuff though
Sure is. Things like payment systems don't require giving the stores 40% of their cut too and notifications / background / permission limits on apps. Unfortunately PWAs got the issue of harder for average user to install and thus native apps win.
Is it that hard for people? I just opened in a browser and hit the button to add it to the home page. Easy.
I think there's also an iOS app, but you can just go to https://wefwef.app as well
Nah it’s just a web app that you can save to your Home Screen. Works on pretty much any modern device with a browser that way.
Looks great! Just downloaded the PWA. I've been installing of them, though lol. So far, I've got Jerboa, Connect, Liftoff, the kbin PWA and now this one!
Lemmymon - gotta catch 'em all!
Hermes, mon
Yeah. I also need an iOS app. Using wefwef, but hate the browsers navbars eating like 15% of my screen.
If you install it as an app to the Home Screen it opens in a version of safari that makes it look and feel like a native iOS app. It’s very similar to Apollo in ui/ux.
Wefwef is great, very pretty :)
I come from Android land so I can't compare it to Apollo but it certainly looks very good
It is incredibly similar in look, feel, and ui actions. I’m blown away by its seeming simplicity that hides an amazing amount of complex ui features.
Wow thank you for this, this really is the best app I've tried so far. Love a good webapp.
Just started using this, and I have to say... wefwef is way better than any of the current apps. By a lot.
Hello, I just migrated from Reddit and am slowly figuring things out. I'm really enjoying Lemmy and the Fediverse so far!
Are there any communities I should subscribe to? If anyone has suggestions please list them out below, thanks!
I got started with browsing the most popular communities (if you're on a browser, click Communities in the upper left, then pick All under List of communities) and picking the ones that seemed interesting. Then I started searching for ones that mirrored my subreddits and other interests. One thing to note is that Lemmy is growing so fast that you'll often find more than one community about the same topic, so don't be shy about subscribing to somewhat duplicative communities until one comes out on top.
There are still some subreddits that don't have an equivalent here yet, so I check back for those every few days to see if anyone has gotten around to them (I'm definitely not up for moderating myself)
As @[email protected] posted, you can also use https://browse.feddit.de/ to quickly search for communities and see their subscriber, post and comment count to gauge how active they are.
Welcome!
Edit: I just learned about lemmyverse.net which is an even better website to browse both instances and communities. Check it out!
Thanks for the run down, appreciate the detailed explanation! Great idea about finding mirror communities from Reddit.
This bring back fond memories of browsing early Reddit lol
And this is the first time I see a Lemmy comment quoting another
Note if you find a community somewhere and you don't see it in your instance that means no one has subscribed to it yet. You'll have to paste the whole url on the search bar and wait maybe 30 seconds.
Or just click a link to it if it's mentioned in a comment on lemmy!
With the 0.18 update links like this: ![email protected] should "just work", even if it hasn't been discovered by your instance yet. (You might have to refresh after the first time)
Also you can set your "home instance" on https://lemmyverse.net and browse communities there, and it will automatically link you to it on your instance, which should handle discovery as well
My userscript (Lemmy post) can also help you with this globally on all websites :) It rewrites all links to always point to your home instance.
Oh really? That's great development.
I have a question. I used the website, found https://lemmy.world/c/texas , but I can't figure out how to subscribe to it in Jerboa.
Search for ![email protected] in the app or your home instance. It may take a few tries if your instance has never loaded it before, but once it loads in if you subscribe they will continuously federate afterwards.
Hello! I'm still familiarizing myself with the fediverse and Lemmy, but I look forward to contributing once I'm comfortable.
I hope formatting commands are similar to old reddit, I do love my citations :)
Oh hey I recognize you from way back during the Mueller probe - if you're that same person. Always appreciated your informative comments. I'll probably see how around the politics communities here then!
It's cool seeing someone here that I recognize from Reddit
https://browse.feddit.de/
This is super helpful, thank you!
https://lemmyverse.net/
This is fantastic! Definitely going to be sharing this.
Thanks!
I found this earlier today, I just went through and Re subbed to my favorite sub reddits. https://sub.rehab/
Heey! It's so awesome to see you here!
I think a big part of this is making less of the content on Lemmy, be about Lemmy (and reddit).
How many casual users are going to join, see literally half of their front page being about either Lemmy or reddit, and then just leave?
Edit: Building on this - I just joined, and my homepage currently has 3 posts that aren't directly about either Lemmy or reddit.
I for one propose more robust ways of finding communities. Maybe if communities adopted a policy of using keywords or hashtags so it can be easier to find all the places where specific topics are being discussed...? I don't know, I'm brand spanking new and trying to find my way; the first thing on my mind is: where am I, where is everything in reference to me, and how do I find out?
Check out lemmyverse.net - it’s a great tool to browse the communities and instances out there
And don't forget to set your home instance by clicking the house at the top. Then all the links take you to the appropriate page on your instance so you can subscribe!
Is there a way to see this through Connect?
I’m not sure… what’s Connect?
Same. I try to find alternatives to the subreddits I used to follow, but aside from technology subs, I don't see much of what I remember, even after using the search function in Connect. Not sure how good it is though
I really hope that the existing Lemmy instances can handle all the new users
Good point, I completely forgot to call out all the people hosting and upgrading instances to help with the massive influx and keep the sites stable.
Also don't join ban happy instances like beehaw.
Beehaw is great, actually. Some things should not be tolerated.
I'm tired of basically every other place on the internet tolerating shitty people because of "freedom of speech" or whatever, poisoning the discussion and making it suck to actually participate.
It's good to have a place where people actually operate on good faith, and not just to fight like everywhere else because they appeal to the lowest common denominator. Just look at how often reddit was criticized for being toxic. If you just allow everything, that is what will inevitably happen. You have to work to prevent that.
Yeah miss me with the self-righteous, hateful toxicity of pre-2012 Reddit. I left because Reddit made the user experience horrible by shutting down better apps while their own was still abysmal. Idk anything about how ban-happy specific communities are here, but I understand if heavier moderating is needed at the beginning to prevent this place from turning into Voat
Like I said in another post. Reddit active monthly is 1.6 billion . Beehaw have trouble dealing with few thousand users from 2 biggest instances, lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Lemmy instances needs money, we can get more money by getting more users, which means more money going towards Lemmy and the fediverse. We need to start taking money out of the trillion dollar tech giants and the profits going towards instance owners, mods and devs that make Lemmy great. If beehaw is trying to make a instance to feel safe towards advertisers and give beehaw money, I understand that. However we haven't reach that critical mass yet.
Beehaw's fine, no need to promote one side of Lemmy whilst laying into another.
I appreciate the need for variety but personally value safe spaces for discussion over anons right to troll with porn.
The code base needs work to allow safe spaces to exist and integrate with anons trolling now that there are a few million accounts.
It seems much more likely beehaw defeded due to the accounts here lolzing about posting homophobic content everywhere, as the instance owner is apparently gay, & posting knobs all over the feminist spaces. I suspect your take that beehaw action's are to generate income is complete fiction, it's to limit the ability of fuckwits on the server as the current mod tools are shite.
I don’t think the advertisement model will work for Lemmy. And it shouldn’t, I’m more than happy to donate to cover running costs. With advertising you just invite google and other players in.
¿Por qué no los dos? That's the freedom of the fediverse, freedom of association.
Is there a way to merge accounts so you can see everything in one place without switching? If not, managing multiple accounts is cumbersome.
Lemmy servers are federated with each other, so users can participate in another server's communities without having to create an account.* ActivityPub is the protocol that allows users to interact with compatible platforms including Kbin, Mastodon, and PeerTube.
Paraphrased from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)
*Servers may defederate/block other servers from participating in their communities for reasons including spam, bot activity, trolling, ideology, etc.
You can view and comment in other instances (notice that my account is from programming.dev).
If you're on desktop, you can see the equivalent of /r/all by viewing "all" on your instance. To view a community on another instance, you use the url: {domain of your instance}/c/{community name}@{domain of the instance of that community}
For example, I'm here and commenting with the url: programming.dev/c/[email protected]
is there such a thing as an r/all of all instances?
I feel like that would get way too noisy. Anyone can make one so you’d see a lotta duplicates I’d imagine.
Thank you for spelling this out, the more times I see how people are using this network the better grasp I have of it. I'm glad I've figured out logging in over multiple platforms (Jerboa, Wefwef) and commenting. So far I've found Wefwef better than Jerboa, but was just recommended Connect. I'll try that out next. I digress, again, thank you for contributing to my understanding of the fediverse!
Apps!
So far liftoff has dealt with this very scenario quite seemlessly.
Nice! Hopefully soon one of them can merge my Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon accounts into a single app. Kbin just needs to release some APIs.
Yes some day I want kbin too but at least they're federated. I should note for barbies that multiple accounts is only necessary for such cases as beehaw not connecting with two of the other biggest communities.
I know, but in my view if I want the fediverse to become mainstream, we need a way for 1.660 billion monthly active users to feel free and jump straight into the fediverse. Admins will need to find a way to monetize their instance, like ads or fediverse awards. So the instance owner can be not only cover server costs, it's will be their job, get devs on board for FOSS development, grow the community and make the fediverse 1000% better. We need to start small first, that means we need play nicely to each other— so users that come on this board can consume content from other instances about the confusion of defederation.
Wait what’s happening with Beehaw?
Goodbye Reddit drama, hello Lemmy drama
They already did. Every user wants their specific admin led circlejerk with no disent. Else you're a nazi. You don't like it? Make your own instance.
Lemmy is not it, as it stands. Not whil users di y have cross instance user control and don't depend on admins which are a worse version of power hungry Reddit mods with a more fanatical crowd.
Cross-instance control of your identity would be nice but it's easy enough to just make multiple accounts and manage them easily in your browser and every app under the sun. We are much less beholden to power tripping arseholes here than on a platform like Reddit.
And account migration could be added in the future
No it's not. And for every account you don't have a shared history. You don't build a community.
Also, which are those apps you talk about? Because Jerboa doesn't seem to be great for that. Switching between accounts is needed and quite annoying.
No. You're way more beholden. The adminmod rules it all. What you see, who they federate, etc and it's all defended by rabid users because "if you don't like it leave and build your own instance*". It's not about community but instance owner absolute power.
Doesn't quite work unless you're absolutely in line with whichever narrative is happening. The echo chambers are bigger and the consequential toxicity upon dissent, much bigger.
You can make your own instance if you can't find out that aligns with your values.
I'm a RIF refugee, stuff my content hole ➡️😫
🍆
This and:
I am not sure how confident people are in a) switching from Reddit to Lemmy and b) hearing from it in the news or elsewhere, wanting to join the „fastest growing community“ and have no idea about Reddit so far.
It took me (coming from Reddit) about 2h to overview the alternatives, understand the fediverse structure and its jargon, decide between several instances, find and subscribe to similar communities (not only local ones) and finally write my first comment and post.
I seen a single post recommending Lenny.world and the wefwef iOS app and was up and running two minutes later. Zero clue about the fediverse structure but I can doom scroll and upvote so I’m happy.
I just want to say that you have invested the 2h not only for Lemmy. It took me minutes for this account because I was already familiar with the Fediverse. If you want to switch within the Fediverse in the future, I'm sure it will be easy for you•
But you're here now, and that whole 'understanding the fediverse' part wasn't strictly necessary to get started. Welcome!
And, all of the apps should be becoming more and more user friendly
Yo, welcome aboard!
Ty, you too ;-)
I skipped most of that, just because someone gave me the advice "just sign up for lemmy.world". Might not be perfect for everyone but it is good enough in most cases.
2hr is what most people spend every night scrolling through reddit anyway.
That 2h on Reddit is super passive though for most people. It's not the same as actively trying to absorb information.
Yeah imagine spending two hours on Reddit trying to set up an account lol
That’s leisure time or casual surfing, not setting something up.
Interesting! I was actually surprised how smooth it was. Installed the Connect app I found mentioned on reddit which looks similar to reddit apps. Registered, thoguth "lemmy.world" sounded nice (at this point I knew there are different instances, but that it does not matter too much). And then I started browsing.
Same here. I saw a post on Reddit saying join kbin or lemmy.world and then got on and saw a post mentioning apps being worked on, and a day or two later installed Liftoff, which is already from an established defunct lemmy app, and I was odd to the races.
I figure I will suss out the details of how to subscribe to other magazines and all the bells and whistles as I go. Glad to be here though.
Same here. I saw a post on Reddit saying join kbin or lemmy.world and then got on and saw a post mentioning apps being worked on, and a day or two later installed Liftoff, which is already from an established defunct lemmy app, and I was odd to the races.
I figure I will suss out the details of how to subscribe to other magazines and all the bells and whistles as I go. Glad to be here though.
Thank you for everyone's efforts to make the shift from Reddit as smooth as possible. I am normally a lurker/casual Redditor and will likely continue to be so in the Fediverse, but I want to say how much I greatly appreciate how welcoming people have been. I really hope the transition goes as smoothly for original users, and I will do my best to be as minimally invasive as possible.
I'm finding myself commenting so much more here
Okay, so I've been here for a few days and I'm getting increasingly confused. I used reddit exclusively on mobile and was hoping to do the same thing for lemmy. But it seems like every app has major features missing. I've already tried 4 different apps and every one is missing a feature I'd consider critical. Keeping two accounts separate, adjusting settings for two different accounts, commenting, replying, posting, subscribing, and searching for specific instances are all pretty important, but every app is missing one or more of these features.
Is there a quickstart guide anywhere to get more familiar with this? Does anyone know of an app that can do all of this? I've already tried jerboa, summit, connect, and liftoff
Try WefWef.App, it's pretty great, quite reminiscent of Apollo: https://wefwef.app
Does WefWef have a way to block users? This is the critical feature for me. Way too many hateful people spewing disinformation out there, not interested in seeing it.
Unfortunately this feature seem to be missing for now. The dev has an GitHub issue open on it though so it is on the roadmap.
Is this coming to the Play Store?
Don't know, it's actually a Progressive Web App (PWA) so you just visit in your browser, and can save it to your Home Screen, and from then on the web-app-via-browser works just like an app, seems just like a "regular" app. I'm on iOS but assume it can work similarly on Android.
Yeah works the same on Android
Same for Android, running it as a Chrome App.
Ah I gotcha
It's website that acts like an app. Very mobile friendly while not requiring an install.
Unfortunately none of these apps are made by large teams, most actually being largely done by one person so yeah there's features missing because they've never really had cause to sink a ton of time into their development (and a bunch of them are also just new). Only real solution is you just have to wait until they catch up. Also there's the existing Reddit apps migrating over, but those are probably still weeks away. But I can tell you there's a lot of active development going on, it's just that, with the exception of Jerboa which is maintained by the full time Lemmy Devs (who also have to maintain Lemmy itself) and the Reddit 3PAs maybe, we're not really doing this full time and have regular jobs to go to.
Thanks for the info. Hopefully Lemmy will survive these first weeks where the apps aren't up to standard, and start to thrive like Reddit used to
I hope that my comment didn't read as me complaining. I fully understand that this is different from reddit and I'm grateful to every developer working on lemmy in any capacity.
I just wanted to be sure I tried all of the popular options to find what works best before fully committing to one. Out of the four, liftoff seems to be the best. The main issue it got with it is that both accounts share the same settings. If I change a setting for one account, it changes the settings for the other as well.
I'm in the same boat. I'm using Lemmy on Jerboa, Wefwef, connect and Lemmy.nz itself. Still haven't found a favourite and run into small issues with all.
But there are updates almost every day, sync is coming as well, so I just stick around. It's much better than Reddit in all regards.
Try out liftoff, so far I've found it to be much more reliable and logical than Jerboa, I believe it's based on boost for Reddit, but I have no idea; I came from Reddit if Fun
Speaking of Boost, it's also moving to Lemmy
And sync!
So excited for this one. It was the one I used for the last year on reddit.
Thanks, have seen it mentioned elsewhere, will try!
After searching for suggestions by other users I tried Liftoff and it's really decent.
Honestly there is almost no reason to not just use your web browser instead of an app.
I'm using mobile web but I'm having this issue (maybe intended) that I can never get just a stable list of things to look at, comments or posts, sorted in some sort of static way. When I say I want the hot posts on "all", after a few seconds a post that was posted less than a minute ago will pop up on the top, pushing the content around. This comment section is sorted by hot and the first comment has -1 points so I doubt it's working as intended. Plus comments get pushed in the top too, so my page is always scrolling and I cant keep my place.
Is this my instance? The site? Just how it works?
That's a quirk of Lemmy 0.17.4, which lemmy.world is running. It's fixed in 0.18, but that version removes the captcha which lemmy.world needs to filter out bots. 0.18.1 restores the captcha, and the admins are going to try to upgrade later today.
oh this is great info! glad I asked. thanks!
I had the same issue when I set up the Lemmy web app on my Android. I'm not sure there's a way around it. I'm using Connect for Lemmy now though and it's a good enough substitute.
Unfortunately, until the devs of Boost or Sync finish their apps for Lemmy, we may have to settle with incomplete apps with features that are missing. I suppose pre-registering for those apps might speed things along though as devs see more and more people wanting their app, so you might do that to bide your time.
Try liftoff, as far as I can tell the accounts are kept separate, with the option of having a combined feed (which tells you which instances the post your viewing is being served from) or a separate feed for each instance you're on
https://imgur.com/a/Rofvlwa
A few of the developers of Reddit apps like Sync are now working on Lemmy versions. So I guess give it some time and hopefully your preferred app for Reddit will make it's way over or have a clone with all the features you're looking for.
I don't mean to sound like a dick, but this isn't reddit, it's basically brand new. It hasn't been around for nearly 20 years, and it has had mobile apps for weeks/months, not for over a decade. You gotta be patient, more features,more stability, more ease of use, all of that will come. Reddit didn't even have subreddits for like the first two years or so.
If it helps, the Sync for Reddit dev, a fairly major player in the 3rd party app scene, is making Sync for Lemmy. They're hoping to get something usable out in 6-8 weeks, and long term goal is to bring it up to and hopefully beyond S for R's standards.
Cool well... give it a minute, you know? Some of the reddit apps have been in development for YEARS. So you're not going to get to switch and immediately have every single thing you're asking for in an app because the user base was non existent until basically the last two weeks.
Jerboa wouldn't connect to any instance for me, said server version (0.17.4) below min app version
Same here. I grabbed connect from play store and it's been alright. I'm awaiting the launch of sync for lemmy. There are a ton of reddit apps moving to this so we should see some improvement over time.
The apps are all still very new. The pace of development has been, however, absolutely astonishing. There are almost as many apps for Lemmy as there are for reddit. I am left speechless at the speed of development, truly.
Having said that, some things are not a priority, as you are probably aware.. Support for 2 accounts is one of them. may I ask why you need 2 accounts? I remind you that you don't have to have accounts in every server in order to cross-interact. An account on lemm.ee can give you access to pretty much every lemmy instance. That is the power of federation.
Having two or more accounts is nice when servers still aren't very stable and sometimes being hampered by bots or upgrade issues.
There are many reasons why you might want or need 2 accounts. Maybe you started on beehaw and want access to Lemmy.world content, or vice versa. Maybe you started on an instance and realised they don't do image hosting but you've already built up some activity on that account and don't want to completely give it up, so you create another one. Or maybe, just simply, you create an account on an instance only to find another you prefer the URL of but don't want to give up previous activity. Many reasons!
Look everybody I'm filling the fediverse with content my content is the best never been content this good before
Proud of you
I am content with your content
I don't think I'm understanding. This Lemmy business has been a mess to navigate, I am up to six accounts on Lemmy for different versions. What I am trying to figure out, is why can I sort by 'Top', select 'All' which says it included other communities, but the selection of posts shown with those settings has been different for Kbin, VLemmy, LemmyNSFW, and lemmy.world? If I do this on kbin for example, almost every top post in all is from kbin, same goes for VLemmy, etc etc. Where the heck can I go, and sort by all, to see the top posts of ALL of these Lemmy instances?
I think it's supposed to be like that. The Fediverse is a decentralized platform.
Each instance you login to is considered Local but you can subscribe to communities hosted on other instances too. When you sort by All it shows the local instance posts + your subscribed communities' posts.
Oh ok? I feel like that makes this not a Reddit competitor then, there are far too many instances with the same community names run by different people posting different or the same exact content. I kind of get the federated bit but now if I want to find what equates to a gaming subreddit I have to search on an external website to find probably 10+ communities by the same name that I now need to monitor for a few days to see which has the content I'm looking for... that's a LOT of work to do to find a single community as opposed to using reddit where I look up gaming and then join r/gaming.
I agree completely with what you say. But I also recognise that a lot of people get confused by all this "techno-babble". To be honest, I am (admittedly an old) programmer, and I was hesitant and confused at first. I think the average user shouldn't be concerned with instances. Why do I need to see @ and @. Just drop the "@instance" (put it in a tooltip at least) and just make community-names unique across all instances (you could still have the same communityname in different instances, but give them a fediverse-alias which is unique)
The problem with analogies is that they will break down at some point. Not to be pedantic or semantic, but social media is not the same thing as an email. It's not about understanding email but about signing up to a website and finding things of interest without having to think about how it works. Sadly, most people just want things "to work" without having to go through a learning curve, no matter how small. But I could be wrong.
I'm kinda opposite of that opinion; at the moment it has the tendency to drop the @instance part when local; if I see anything on sh.itjust.works it's just !main or something. I guess I'm a Python programmer, explicit is better than implicit.
As a programmer myself I get what you're saying. But for the average user -I suspect- it is just extra, unimportant, information which could be confusing. (It adds no value nor importance)
I would say keeping consistent behavior so as not to confuse users is of value. Also stuff like "Am I on my local instance? It doesn't actually say anywhere." This is important information because different instances have different codes of conduct, which users should keep in mind.
Which does give me an opportunity to whinge about something: Instances usually post their rules in the sidebar of their homepage, which as far as I can tell cannot be viewed from within an account on another instance. I'm on sh.itjust.works; if I want to look at lemmy.world's home page to read their code of conduct I have to awkwardly go to lemmy.world, it tells me I'm not signed in up in the corner, then I have to go back over to sh.itjust.works to participate in discussions.
Perhaps the instances' home sidebar should be mirrored beneath the community sidebar for easy reference?
If you did that it would get quite dicey quite quickly. How would two instances decide to federate together if they already had a whole ton of common communities (ie "programming" or "memes"), and part of the idea is that you can run an instance without needing to be beholden to the activities of other instances, while still being able to federate with them. Having that strong of a dependency on the other instances would likely make things quite unmanageable.
You are not wrong. But that is not user-centric. I think this fediverse has potential, but it needs to find a way to make it more human-centric rather than technical-centric. If it fails, it will probably be because it fails to be intuitive. (just my gut feeling)
That's a good point. I do have hope that people will come to understand the distributed nature of it not long from now. Mastodon (while confusing at first) seems to have stabilized and most people seem happy with it. That said, if the education isn't there, then it'll never be user-centric, and if that doesn't happen, you're right that'll be a big problem.
I don’t know, lots of subreddits served similar content with slightly different names. Askreddit/ask, bicycling/cycling and countless others. I guess different cultures/values would exist in each much like on reddit, but one would emerge as the “big” one.
All should so you everything your server is federated not just your own subscriptions
Can confirm this. I've signed in to dbzer0 instance since the start, and subscribed to communities on other instances.
I got confused by "ALL", because there are nsfe and political communities that I know I didnt subscribed to.
I was able to figure it out, I'm using the connect for lemmy app now, so I just need to select the "frontpage" tab, to show content from subbed communities.
The process is just inconvenient
Due to the nature of how Lemmy works, it would be rather difficult to make a tool that federates every instance. Also, some instances block others for various reasons. Lemmy works by federating an instance if any interaction with the other instance is made, so if a user on x.com were to read the comments of a post made by y.com (which is already federated with x.com) and upvoted a comment by z.com (which is not federated yet), it will start federating posts from z.com
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
I think it's good to encourage those who still have reddit accounts to migrate their content over here in anyway they can before deleting their account entirely. They may have content that they can post that would be beneficial to keep but starve that content from reddit.
It's the strongest weapon you can unleash against that cesspit of a platform. New content is being made here daily and it's amazing, but we have a way to go to compete with such a goliath content farm.
Damn good idea. I'm a gamedev and posted a hell of a lot of my work on reddit, so I've been hesitant to delete it entirely, because i have an audience, however minor, over there, and a record of progress and contributions to the community. But, as you say, i could just repost it all over here.
Honestly, I was hoping smarter folks would've figured an easy way to port subs, content etc or make it easier for user to bring their selected content to Lemmy.
I'm all for rebuilding, but feels like a missed opportunity.
I'm thinking about doing that. There's no reason one couldn't make a web scraper and just scrape some list of subs and run it through a particular mirror instance of lemmy which other instances would be able to federate with. It just seemed like there wouldn't be interest in such an idea
I think it's a huge opportunity. The three most valuable aspects of Reddit are: The framework - which Lemmy (and others) are hard at work at building out The community - people are fired up and heading over in droves The content - this will take years to rebuild.
If someone can tackle #3- I think it would be super valuable to helping people find one home after Reddit.
As it happens, one already exists, so I'm glad that I messaged folks. You can check out https://lemmit.online/ for exactly this use case, I believe
Let me send some messages to lemmy instance owners and see what they think. I know there's a bit of strain in the federation, but if they like the idea, I don't mind pulling one of my machines into the mix.
I'll try my best to participate. I've always been more of a lurker on Reddit ( due to some social anxieties ) but I'll try my best to participate. I would love for Lemmy/Kbin to keep the momentum going.
I just saw a post about Avatar Ang getting pegged. What more do these people want?
Just signed up yesterday. I had my carefully curated feed from almost ten years and now just trying to find my feet. I've subscribed to 1 community (memes) but do feel kinda lost. I keep hearing about instances and what's allowed and what isn't in each. I'm not sure where to find the stuff I like.
Someone can probably explain the Fediverse far better than I could. Simple explanation though is that any instance you're on you can see things from others as well.
If you're looking for new communities to join check out:
Either link will work if you're on lemmy.world. If not, use the https one. Welcome!
I would search on https://lemmyverse.net/communities because it searches all communities on all instances
Forgot all about that. Thanks! This should probably be pinned everywhere.
Shalom!
lmao I didn't even see the typo until now. I was tempted to leave it.
Is New communities…. New…. ;-)
I know how you feel. Been trying to find communities that kinda mirror my subreddit selection. I'm pretty sure more are going to come. As far as instances go, don't think too much about for now. Find communities via the search function and subscribe.
I'll plug "brandnewsentence" here if you don't mind.
For lemmy.world users: https://lemmy.world/c/brandnewsentence
For others: [email protected]
Are you using any lemmy app right now? I'd recommend trying jerboa, atleast till the sync/boost apps are here in a few weeks. You can try to use the search function to find communities/subreddit.
You can think of an instance as a new reddit. So for eg, you can host a reddit called caboose and I can host one with my name. You can have your rules on what's allowed on your instance. In addition, we can create a "subreddit" called memes on both our instances. You probably want to join the one with the most users. Assuming the meme community on the caboose instance has more users, I'd just join that. Once it reaches critical mass, that'll become the default memes community on the fediverse! The people on my instance of reddit would just use the memes community on your instance since it's all interlinked.
To start, I would suggest browsing via all. Joining communities with high user engagement for now. The niche communities will take time to migrate. In addition, when you search for a community, join the one which has the most users.
Go to the Communities tab, set it to All and then search for topics. You'll likely get a list of relevant communities across the Fediverse. Yes this will likely include several identically named ones like [email protected] and [email protected]. You might find that there are ten of them, and two with more than a single digit number of subscribers. Probably go with the most popular unless it's somewhere you really don't want to interact with. Occasionally check out your Local (communities only on your instance) and All (communities everywhere on the Fediverse) feeds, and you might find some traffic you're interested in. I don't think we have one of those insidious engagement-powered algorithms yet.
New to Lemmy (I've deleted my reddit account today). Some questions for the experienced users (I'm still a little overwhelmed with how Lemmy works): Is enough to join one server? there are benefits/cons joining more than one? For each server I join I'll have a different user?
There’s usually no need to join multiple servers. The only really reason would be if the communities you want to interact with are in instances that aren’t very well federated (ie connected to lots of other instances). Then you may want accounts on the more isolated instances to access that content and an account on a more mainstream instance to give you access to the rest of Lemmy’s content.
Managing multiple accounts can be tricky, but I’ve heard some of the apps are good at aggregating the content across multiple accounts. I only have one Lemmy account though so I don’t have firsthand experience.
Your instance is only blocking the weird tankie one, so you dont need to worry about multiple user accounts.
You can check federated/blocked instances here:
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/instances
Thanks for the clarifications, people! Another note, i was looking for an android app to use access Lemmy on the mobile. The app Litoff was recommended. I agree. It's really nice..
I've started using the app Jerboa on Android, and I'm quite happy with it so far. It is from the same github user Dessalines who created Lemmy. I had to wait until the instance I use updated to version 0.18, though.
I started using wefwef (terrible name though) and it's my favorite ui wise by far. It's a progressive web app so you can save it to the homescreen and it performs even better
https://wefwef.app/
I think you would have to have multiple accounts if you wanted to start/moderate communities on multiple instances. I...think?...you're only allowed to start/mod communities on your home instance.
Ditto
Will do! See what I did there?
commenting to boost the algorithm (does this place have that?)
Actually finding an instance with a working signup seems to be a huge issue.. this whole process is..who knows what instance they want?
I had zero problems with sh.itjust.works sign-up. I got my email verification in seconds! And from what I have read, it doesn't really matter which instance you choose so long as it hasn't been defederated.
Same just signed up! Shit truly just works.
Indeed it does after migrating here for about a month it’s been great
But how does one know this instance will exist in a year? This was my hangup on Lemmy, was as I understand it, you lose your account and posts will be pruned if your instance goes down.
Also I don't want to use an email.
I don't know how to respond to that. I have a kbin account and a Lemmy account because I signed up for kbin first and then was told I would probably need a Lemmy account when Sync for Lemmy comes out. I would have to imagine that you can pick a larger, more active instance and be fairly assured that that server will continue well into the reasonable future.
As for email, you could make an alt/burner account for this purpose. I don't know what else to offer.
I believe Reddit has/had the same drawbacks
Well, everyone just expected them to stay up, and no, emails never were required, you just hit next at the asking screen
You could say... shit just works
Yeah. That's one of the problems with ActivityPub services. You need to know which instance to join, but there's no way to know which one will fit you best.
I made multiple accounts on the different instances. Right now Lemmy.world is down, but this one isn't. Connect for Lemmy (android) has an easy way to switch accounts and instances.
I think a truly great front end well need to obfuscate/intermediate a lot of this stuff away
Lemmy needs to come up with some kind of system to keep people from spamming posts. There's no reason scrolling by new should be half filled with 4 accounts spamming posts in the same community or even across multiple communities. Something like a set amount of time between posts or something idfk.
Edit: It also needs to let me view my profile without having to go back to the top of the feed
That's a fair point, sorting by new is a great way to hunt for good content and help it get traction, but maybe right now it's more effort than it should be.
Having said this, adding a waiting time before posting again might just as easily prove more inconvenient to legit users than those who spam posts, but I'd support it at least for the time being, as discussion right now is spread over several communities so sorting by new on a single community wouldn't help much most of the times.
The algorithm just needs to be tweaked in a way it's not just true new and instead shuffles between users a bit so it's not just a stream from one person posting a bunch in one go
Just moved over and all this place needs is a little more life. Really digging the federated model too.
Getting used to this, but I guess Reddit crossed a line for me lately. (Don't touch my apps!)
Well, it seems there is a bit of a learning curve. I, and most likely you, still haven't figured out the mechanics of Lemmy and the federverse. Give it time,
Just like Digg before Reddit, we will soon adept. The apps will get better and things will make more sense.
It may look and work slightly different, but with a little work, maybe this will be the communities that thrives the longest..
At least until the ads, bots, and CEOs begin infesting our home again. then I guess we just got to torch it and build a new home.
Now go unpack your favourite content. Lets make this place sing!
Welcome home.
I'm pretty happy with the nicer community so far. Waiting on a few subs, but now that my reddit app is dead, eh. Pretty happy, feels like 2010 reddit again before new reddit, the eternal September of new users, and people being randomly mean. I'm seeing regulars from 10 years ago on reddit, now on lemmy.
I know it won't last, but at the moment I'm enjoying seeing the same users in different communities all over lemmy. It feels like an early 00s forum.
True, it'll take a few weeks for the apps to catch up and for the community to settle
Glad to be here! Hoping more communities are made and that our participation doesn’t have to come with commodification.
That's the really great part for me: there's no incentive to keep people engaged on the platform with sleazy manipulation, because they're not selling data and clicks to advertisers. It's a breath of fresh air!
It really feels like we've come full circle back to usenet, and I am loving it.
I'm still massively confused on the setup. Just like Mastodon, this Lemmy thing pushes fragmentation and technology and I just cannot wrap my head around it.
I would love to have a site ala reddit. There, that is it. I am not super interested in the techniques behind Lemmy but I must because there are 'servers', 'communities', etc. You can join one server but you might not see (or be able to search) other servers or whatever. The fragmentation is related to this point, I am going to have to hunt for specific 'groups' or 'subreddits' if you will, and hope it is complete because maybe another group, on another server, will have other content related to your interrest. I cannot even begin about posting items myself because I am already lost on that one, no idea what server to post or how it will be able to be seen by users.
So I can describe what I would like, so that other can gauge if Lemmy can meet that need, but the fragmentation and technique tells me I am in the wrong place to have this experience.
What I would like: Frontpage with generic 'groups' or 'communities' and my subscribed 'groups' or 'communities', all on the front page/one page, that scrolls continuously without bothering me with 'techniques' (choosing servers for example). I can certainly appreciate the techniques behind Lemmy (or Mastodon) but in the end I want to create 1 account, pull in some 'subreddits' in my account and when I go to the front page, I get to see all the articles related to the 'groups' or 'subreddits'
In short: can I arrange Lemmy/Vlemmy in such a way that I get the same experience as I had on/with reddit?
I am looking for a replacement, not a challenge tbh. Again, fair play on the efforts of the devs but I want to keep my effort at a minimum on this one, I just consume and read news.
Soery if I got confused by your question, but isn't it exactly as it already works??? For transparemcy I use the app connect for lemmy in case it has any unique features.
First of all, resdit had the same problem to a degree, there were similarly named communities + hundreds of communities for the same topi (think about pc gaming or something like that, there wasn't only one subreddit, but one got massively bigger than the others and acted as a default)
Lemmy is sort of the same, when looking for communities search for volume, the ones with the most active users are probably going to be the "official" ones in a sense. I recommend using https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active&nsfw=null
And also https://browse.feddit.de/
To search for communities by members, of course you can sinply type the name on a search bar and the communities/magazines will pop up.
On regards to the front page, there already is an equivalent to all in reddit where some communities from different instances pop up. Aside from that you have local, where it is a frontpage but only for those communities hosted in your instance. Finally you have subscribed, that is the equivalent of "hot" ok reddit where it shows you ONLY the communities you are subscribed to. All this frontline options are available on the browser as well as the apps, that is why I am confused by your question, is this not what you are looking for? Or am I misunderstanding something.
Don't doubt to keep asking in case I wasn't clear :)
Forgot to mention, but you aren't supposed to choose a server/instance and stick with it, just use the search function and it will lead you to communities from different servers and sometimes different sites (for example, a beehive community or a kbin magazine instead of something on lemmy) don't worry too much about in which instance something is, just subscribe to the community and it will appear on your frontpage.
You're over thinking it, all you need is one account, then browse, the other comment before me had some good advice as well, but I just wanted to add for others reading this that while I understand it seems so at first, once you're in and subscribed to a few things you do get your infinite scrolling experience, very easy.
Thanks. Guess I need some time to adapt.
I have always been a lurker but trying to be more active. Even posted in a few communities too!
instance admins, mods and the devs are the true heroes of this place. build it and they ll come. hope quality users join in the long run.
I'm gonna shamelessly plug a community I moderate (brandnewsentence):
[email protected]
For lemmy.world users: https://lemmy.world/c/brandnewsentence
I'm a new recruit as of today. I like it here more already.
Just ran PowerDeleteSuite on my account RIGHT now. I initially hated lemmy, but got used to the PC ui, and now the apps are really good. Tired of the bootlickers left at the other place, like....how do you defend a shitty 'company' who doesn't give a shit about you? Crazy.
It's like all the awful people are left there stewing in their own juices, good riddance. I literally can not view that place anymore without Apollo so it's as good as gone. Will still browse the odd time on RES via the PC, or a search engine -reddit for something but casual browsing?............he gone!
Gotta be part of the change right?
wow wefwef.app is nice. been using PC for a few weeks and this looks and feels great on phone.
It’s really great! It feels like Apollo did in terms of scrolling and interacting and commenting - and has multiple account support and honestly looks just like Apollo did. Super impressed with how functional wefwef is for a web app.
Thank you for your help! I feel so stupid, but I can't figure out how to go to an address that isn't just a normal link in this app (Connect). But I will keep trying and I'll figure it out! It's actually kind of fun and they say it's good for your brain.
You're right, it's a pretty novel experience to get to learn a whole new social media app/site in the current year
One simple thing people could do is posting links, to videos they find interesting, on one of the video communities, like "videos" on lemmy.world for example.
I think we should just be ourselves. We will all sort ourselves into groups. No need to impress anyone.
It's not a question of impressing other users, it's about making sure there's something to read and interact with.
I always lurked on Reddit because there were so many posts and comments already. Lemmy doesn't have that yet, so I'm trying to help.
If we all do that, communities will be able to grow organically.
Yeah. Most non-major subreddits, which were always the best on Reddit, have yet to migrate over in any form yet
That's a valid point.
More content is better. Users who don't find enough interesting content will say Lemmy was not good.
I wish someone would move over like the top 20 posts from r/Hobbydrama and create a Lemmy community. I would, but I don't know how to contact the users anymore without my old app.
I'm new here and I'll probably stick around. Reddit hit the skids.
I'm promoting my apps in here 😅💀😄
Flailing new user trying to figure things out. Is there an AITA around here?
There sure is! A few actually, but ![email protected] seems to be the only one with real activity.
If you're on a browser, you can search for communities with the search button in the top right. Make sure you set the Search dropdown to Communities and the Subscribed/Local/All option to All. The search can take a little time and it's not predictive, so you may need to search a few times to see everything. For instance, I searched for both aita and asshole to see all the AITA communities.
https://browse.feddit.de/ provides a more user-friendly experience with real-time searching and filters for the different instances in case you don't want to engage with one or it's defederated from your instance. Plus it shows you how many posts and comments each community has so you don't have to click on each one to see how active it is.
Welcome to Lemmy!
Also check out lemmyverse.net for a comprehensive collection of instances and communities. After you find one you like, copy the link into your home instance search, wait a second or two for the result to appear (or refresh after a sec) and then you can subscribe to new communities.
Oh that looks so much better than browse.feddit.de. More information and better design. Thanks for the suggestion!
sub.rehab too for some direct subreddit comparisons.
Check out https://lemmyverse.net/
If a community doesn't immediately come up in your instances search bar that means no user there has subscribed there yet. You need to search the full url of the community the first time. Ma takex up to thirty secs to appear but then everyone else can find it easily.
Can you explain the different instances, as if I'm a moron? Or direct me to a resource that explains it? If I'm in reddthat.com do I still have access to the whole Lemmy universe? I can't seem to follow the link you gave me and don't understand why ..
Oops, I'm still trying to figure out the formatting for links. Sorry!
The full URL should look something like yourinstancename/c/communityname@articleinstancename. So since you're on reddthat.com, for you to access ![email protected], you'll need to go to reddthat.com/c/[email protected]. If you were visiting a community that's on your own instance, you can drop the @instancename part at the end.
For what instances are, think of it like email. You can have Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, AOL, or any other email client and can send messages to users on any other client since they share the same protocol/language. It's the same idea here. Every community is hosted on a particular instance, such as reddthat or lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works. Since all instances use the same protocol, a user from any instance can see and interact with content on any other instance (with an exception I'll get into in a sec).
Back to the email analogy. If someone using Hotmail gets an email from someone using Gmail, the Hotmail user doesn't actually access Gmail itself to read the message. Instead, Hotmail makes a copy of the message on its own servers for the Hotmail user to read. With the Fediverse, same idea - if you see content originally posted on another instance, you're technically seeing a copy of that content hosted on your instance. And if you interact with it, like making a post or commenting or even upvoting, you're doing that on your copy of the content, which is then synced back with the original copy. From there it's pushed out to all the other copies on all the other instances that are synced to the content. This is what Federation refers to - separate instances hosting different content that all communicate with each other to make a single community out of all its different parts.
The exception to all this direct communication is defederation, which is when two instances don't talk to each other directly (usually one cuts off the other). This means that users on those instances can't see or interact with content on the other instance. Defederation is a pretty extreme measure and its use varies instance-to-instance based on the admins. Some instances are pretty quick to defederate (such as Beehaw) but most see defederation as a last resort.
I hope that made sense!
Great info. Thanks!
Go to your instances search bar and if this doesn't come up then paste this full url and wait half a minish. Then after that initial search you can subscribe easily.
My userscript (Lemmy post) can also help you with this globally on all websites :) It rewrites all links everywhere to always point to your home instance.
At the bottom of each instance you can see what Instances block others by clicking on "Instance", right next to modlog.
Here's reddthat's blocked list.
Go to the bottom of that page to see the blocked ones.
Is kbin broken for anyone else? I tried to sign up a week or so ago, and my account is registered, but I can't use my password, and I can't recover my password, either. After learning kbin tracks all your upvotes, I think I like it better here on Lemmy anyway, though... That sort of information gathering feels like an advertisers wet dream.
I heard somewhere that Lemmy does not fully delete posts
Warhammer 40k, Oldhammer, Tabletop Minis, and Battletech communities are open for business.
And my shitpost!
So do I have to subscribe to what I want to see on my page or is there a dedicated page showing at least the active/good ones.
Half of the time it either devolves into 6 month old posts or AI generated photos and/or porn.
I find the Hot view algorithm kind of glitchy - it always seems to jump to 2-3 year old posts after the first few. I prefer the Top views from the past day or week and the New view. You should be able to set your default view in your settings.
And like salarua said, you can switch between your subscribed communities, local communities (everything on your home instance), and all communities across all instances.
at the top, you'll see three views: Subscribed, Local, and All. Subscribed is your curated view of communities that you subscribed to, Local is a view of all the posts on your instance, and All is a view of all the posts across the entire network
Well thank you, that is quite helpful and I appreciate the welcome. I'm struggling with the new interface but people here seem very friendly
If you're used to Apollo, we're working on a Lemmy client with the same UI at https://wefwef.app. Hopefully that'll help you get adjusted
It’s alright to use but murders my battery. I’ve had better luck with the standalone apps available through test flight
Im digging it. Didn’t have big expectations seeing how it’s not a full app. After using it more I keep forgetting that fact. Really does have the Apollo feel.
YW. I also find the web interface tough to use. There are a bunch of good iOS apps in beta (Memmy, Mlem, Launch, etc) that you can get using TestFlight on iPhone. I've heard good things about some of the Android apps like Jerboa, but I haven't used them. There's also the web app Wefwef that looks like a good interface.
If you want to check out the iOS betas, download TestFlight from the app store, then google the app's name + TestFlight , which should take you to the app's Github page with the TestFlight link.
Liftoff is also great and sync for lemmy is coming
I also want to shout out Connect for Lemmy, which is a really good Android app. A Boost for Lemmy app is also in development and actually has a sign up on Google play for anyone who used that app.
Yeah, I'm doing it.
Sounds cool
I hardly ever commented on Reddit posts but I feel like for this to work we all need to actively try to engage with the platform, so I’ll be trying my best lol
Yes! Don’t lurk! Like the memmy app says on posts with no comments “No comments. Time to do your part 🫡”
Along similar lines, I’d like to offer a relatively easy and “organic” approach for Lemmy-ings that want to help the fediverse grow, but aren’t ready to cold turkey quit Reddit’s admittedly still larger pool of posts and comments:
Suggested approach to switching with minimal pain: ** Read-Only on Reddit, Read-Write on Kbin & Lemmy **
Reddit was made by all/many of us (with special nod to mods). Reddit wants to be a media company instead of a community? Fine: switch to consumption only.
This is a LOT easier an approach to follow than principled “I’m only reading Lemmy even if it really doesn’t have the community/posts that I miss” approaches, and in the long term it should still result in a transition of interesting thoughts, memes, etc moving to Lemmy.
PSA = Public Service Suggestion?
One thousand upvotes!’ Lemmy headed towards an IPO let’s gooo
Can we do "no meta Mondays"
I think that would help a lot with content creation
like the concept a lot here. let's start something
I'd love if you can post polls here, like Reddit.
maybe dont sperg out over politics you can block communities stop defederating cuz thats exactly why im leaving
This is a confusing buggy mess. The only ones really loving it so far are the fat ass sweaty former Reddit overlord mods. There are a lot of friendlier and easier to use alternatives out there. That, and Reddit isn't going anywhere. You sad fucks can have your little unusable space.