Done with Twitter and Reddit
I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.
Hello Lemmy
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Hello to the Fediverse! Hopefully you can also enjoy the rest of the sites such as Kbin, Pixelfed, Peertube, Owncast and Misskey - there's plenty to choose from!
I’ve checked a few instances of federated YouTube alternatives and just… no. Most of the content is right wing guys looking for a place to spread hate they can’t elsewhere. The type of people that watch Andrew Tate and Admin Ross. Lemmy is Great though, mastodon seems a little boring compared to twitter. The fix to that would be Elon fucking up enough that the very change averse average internet user would be willing to try mastodon.
Mastodon gets better when you start following people by hashtag.
Account Settings > Profile > Featured Hashtags
Populate that area with hashtags of what interests you. Pretty soon you have people popping up that share your interests and you follow those that seem interesting.
OMG I love Mastodon and my instance (mas.to). Left Twitter for Mas about 8 months ago - I love following hashtags even more than people. There’s some great gems to follow though. For both Twitter, and now Reddit, I left for Fedi and just never went back. Facebook was another cold turkey quitting, no alternative for that one, that was years ago now.
What I find when I follow tags is that my feed is now totally flooded with hundreds of new toots every time I log in - how do you deal with this? It’s way too much for me to ever go through and get anything meaningful out of it.
Follow a few interesting people based on a tag, perhaps by number of favorites / boosts, and then remove that tag.
You can always add it back in later.
Lists are your friend! Not sure if Mastodon can do it, but on Pleroma/Akkoma you can add users to a list without adding them to your main followed list.
That's because you haven't found The Good Ones ™ such as TILVids
Nick from The Linux Experiment is there, nice surprise! Gonna give it a try, the videos I saw on the front page seem cool.
Really? I can't find his channel
I think the thing that may finally drive people off the platform may be the limitation on viewing posts. Busy days, I'm not likely to hit the limit - big news day? Yeah, going to hit the limit pretty fucking fast.
Yeah- this is my big gripe with all of the alternative video sharing platforms. All of them have a significantly right-wing conspiracy theorist bias. Not really a place I see myself spending a lot of time, personally.
Damn, I've only been to Lemmy and Kbin so far...
Baby steps are ok.
I'd only heard of Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube until now. Pixelfed looks cool, Owncast and Misskey are too but I don't watch streamers or microblog so.
Are there apps for any of those?
what is the advantage to using kbin if i am already using lemmy?
Mastodon/Fed Twitter integration. You can post on a Lemmy community, tag a hashtag and it becomes a microblog (tweet) at the same time. But upvoted and downvotes are public on kbin. So depends what you want.
And in the long run we'll see if kbin can keep up with the Twitter like software on the Twitter side and if it can keep up with Lemmy for reddit features at the same time. Like Lemmy can focus purely on meeting Reddits features then passing them. Kbin has to worry and work on both.
Much to learn it seems
Leaving Twitter for Mastodon barely had an impact. I was just about done with that whole place, with or without Musk in charge.
Reddit is different... I still loved using it. I had my subscriptions honed, all my interests represented. I suffered none of the toxicity that others saw. Not sure if that was just because I mostly used smaller, niche-interest subs or because I mostly lurked and seldom posted? It was all friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining, a stream of consciousness that I could dip in to whenever I wanted to.
So I'm not leaving Reddit because of the experience, but more on principal (both the API kerfuffle and a general aversion to ad-revenue models, which are clearly harmful to society). Principals sadly don't give me something to read over breakfast...
I hope Lemmy can become that stream of consciousness in time. I'm trying to do my bit by being an active contributor rather than a lurking grazer.
We might have to accept we're on the "losing" side, e.g. Lemmy will never have the numbers our subreddits had. We'll have smaller communities and less content, but hopefully better conversation.
Honestly reddit lost too. The quality drop in content and comments is noticeable and unlikely to get better. Meanwhile lemmy/kbin/fediverse in general seems to be thriving with hope and energy.
That sounds like the winning side to me.
I made the transition from Digg to Reddit way back when, and like you didn't see a lot of the toxicity of Reddit likely by having a honed list of subreddits. 99% of my time was spent lurking tho over the last years - so now I'm going to take more initiative and engage more with the platform
Same here. Lemmy is rising quickly though, I have no doubt it will be a sufficient Reddit replacement soon enough. I've been using Apple News as my "read over breakfast" app. I already pay for the sub anyway, and once I set it up with a bunch of sources/topics I was interested in, it became a pretty good reading experience.
I hope you consider an open news alternative, or even a closed one slightly less bad than Apple. Good for you for not using Reddit though.
I fear that sounded too condescending, I seriously want to encourage you to not use Apple without making you sound like an idiot.
I don't think you are an idiot, just the same as the other millions of people who were taken in by Apple's 'privacy' and 'simplicity', while not realising the price gouging, right to repair smashing, closed source, keeping everything ensnared its ecosystem that it really is.
I hope it gets a good following because it is nice it exists at all
I was never big on Twitter myself... I made an account when it first came out and never used it... and then for a high school unit for something we were required to make accounts (I graduated 10+ years ago... so that in and of itself is scary). I've never liked twitter. It always seemed to be screaming into the void.
Mastodon I really appreciate the real conversations with real people, especially when they are interested in what I have to say. I made a post about getting rid of lawns and had people from all angles of the argument discussing with me about it. It felt... healthy?!
Well, as healthy as internettin' is.
Yes, I never got into Twitter but I have an active Mastodon life. I also appreciate smaller communities where you can talk to people like you said. On big platforms I don't even bother commenting, much less making a post. It will just fall into the void.
You're right... it's just not worth it for the most part on larger platforms. I'm not sitting here trying to argue with anyone-- we can have a civilized discussion that ends in a disagreement on smaller platforms. On larger platforms it always turns into fights and pilings-on. It is gross.
Twitter has seriously turned into a right wing cess pool. :( 😞
Can't even watch porn on there anymore. LOL
I was watching one of my favorite gay porn stars and swiped up foe the next video and it was this couple that had like 45 guns strapped to them out shooting printed out faces of Democrat politicians.
Talk about a damn boner killer.
Also, the only comments that show up are right wing nut jobs as well. Idk what the hell is going on there.
What is really terrible is that, Twitter is considered mainstream social media alongside Instagram here in Japan. So even the normies ends up stepping into that right wing cesspool. I was really shocked to see my normie ex friend retweeting transphobic shit😿😿
While I really really hate Twitter, and tend to be more on Instagram, Losing Twitter means losing the single biggest information source for the majority that can’t read English. Even I sometimes have to open Twitter to see wtf is going on in the society (also it’s useful to get the most up to date information during emergency situations, like earthquake)
I saw the impact of them siloing their user base yesterday when a trade was made for one of my sports teams. The news broke on Twitter and I heard about it on a local radio show. I tried to find it in the news but I couldn't. I don't use Twitter so I wasn't able to see any info on the trade for another 2 hours until local news and other services started to confirm and replicate the Twitter post.
It's incredibly short sighted of them to do this.
I learned the best way to avoid all the lunatics is to block anyone with a Blue Checkmark. There are block list's for that to I think, though I was doing it manually.
Audience capture is a bitch
I deleted my Twitter account when Elon reinstated Donald Trump's account - it was clear there was no saving that platform.
It's a Nazi bar now because the owner is a Nazi.
I still have my Reddit account, but it's becoming quickly like my Facebook account - I barely use it. In Facebook, it's to catch up with friends and family, and in Reddit, it's the more esoteric subs. But I feel dirty & gross every time I load up a page from those sites, so I don't unless I have to.
I make one post a month on Facebook. Usually within the first couple days. This month's was about how since the supreme court wanted to rule dumb last week, I was going to play along and disallow certain people from shopping at my etsy shop. Got me a handful of orders, too... which is nice.
Reddit I just use still to check in on if any weird news happened... but that's about it.
How does this comment have nearly 50 up votes?
Welcome to the Fediverse 🌞 I switched to Mastodon after Musk announced to buy the Twitter. It is already over a year ago 🤔
I am new to Lemmy myself, but it looks good
Any advice on mastodon?
You can tell who the Memmy users are by the repeat posting when the JSON error happens 😅
Beyond the general app recommendations, here's some more advice
https://files.urusai.social/cache/media_attachments/files/110/651/350/479/917/003/original/0be5745789121461.png
I just started using Ice Cubes and it’s pretty solid
I love Moshidon as mobil app
Welcome!! We are glad to have you here!
It's strange, but the 3 day poop challenge meme that swept through lemmy the other day reminded me of what Reddit used to be. It felt like an actual community where people were actually interacting, and sometimes bizarre posts turned into legends. I hadn't noticed the slow transition to just endless bot reposts. With all the spez drama, i decided Reddit was dead to me, and that was sad to acknowledge the sudden end of an era like that. But lemmy showed me that the things that made me love Reddit have been gone for a long time, and I feel more at home here.
Lol, what community was this
/c/[email protected] if i recall correctly
Same. It was nice to break up from Reddit after 10 years
16 years here. Hard but that’s life.
16 years too. We've been through these transitions before with Digg!
13 for me, and a few days ago they banned me without even telling me why. I asked and I got no response. Fuck them, I was getting done with them anyway and when I found out that blind mods couldn't moderate their own subreddit, I'm glad I didn't even attempt to appeal.
Been here for a couple weeks, I've enjoyed it so far. Some niche communities are missing but I think Lemmy is a good time and I love the vision
500 upvotes in 2 hours?! Fuck yes bois. Fuck that jailbait mod spez, and his shit website full of toxic spakkers.
Long live the fed!
Vive la Fédération
Same; I've been trying to disengage from anything big tech related recently, not just social media, even Amazon etc. Can't take it anymore. It's all so blatantly exploitative and fucked up. Cancelling subscriptions feels good; hope I stick to it. Can't shake YouTube yet though, need my Rossmann fix. Hopefully we can figure out a viable FOSS alternative; tried PeerTube but it doesn't quite do it just yet.
The Internet can still be a beautiful positive thing.
BezoSpez Zuck-Musk can fuck off.
Have you tried invidious as YouTube alternative?
Thanks very much for recommending this! Tried it and am quite happy. Also just tried NewPipe on my phone and it works really well. Bye bye YouTube
For Browser there are actually two YouTube Frontends: piped and invidious
Oh yes I’ve still not been able to get out of YouTube. :(
Got out of pretty much every other social media platform!
Same.
I had deleted my main reddit account that I had for 13/14 years a few months ago. I created a new alt so I could check in and talk about some of more niche interests, but I deleted that 3 weeks ago, just couldn't be dealing with the increasing enshittification.
I've had a Twitter a/c since 2009, have a lot of mutual followers and a lot of people I know only for there, but decided today that it's definitely not going to get any better. I had a Mastodon account since last year, but it was very slow and quiet, and again, not a lot of niche interests I have over there yet. But this weekend's bullshit (and obvious lies from Musk) makes it clear twitter isn't going to get better. Even if the stupid rates thing improves in the next while, it will just be something else Musk decides which will be making twitter worse.
So I'm just going to enjoy the chill vibes and explore all the different communities here.
Gave up Twitter the day of Musk mocked that disabled employee/partner. Didn't delete the account though. I'm still on Reddit. Hope Lemmy would go a long way!!
PS: I still automatically ignore some image posts on Lemmy thinking it's an Ad cause I'm so used to it on Reddit App 😂
I was on the edge, but this event with Halli showed clearly that Elon is not right person to lead Twitter.
Exactly. I had a very high regard for Musk before he opened his mouth during early lock down. His technological initiatives (Specially SpaceX) has being great drivers. (Though he's not the one doing the innovations) But he as a person have the qualities of worst human beings. If he kept his mouth shut, could have gone a long way, still.
It makes me respect billionaires who aren't insanely juvenile attention whores who try to be the coolest edgy meme lord in the world while pushing shitty politics. Take Spez, basically everyone hates him lately, but at least he doesn't have a front page post on reddit every day like, "look at me, I'm cool right!?!!" All Musk had to do was shut up and he'd have mass respect.
I also had a thought that "All Billionaires are not like that". But recently saw a very decent millionaire giving money advice on Facebook Stories saying "Your low amount of money can't do anything. Try to grow it to higher amount and then we can talk about investing". (Paraphrasing here) It's very common. All these people have lost touch with reality.
PS: Check Spez's AMA. He is just the same edge lord.
Oh sure, wealth seems to make people completely loony and incredibly out of touch. Even having a net worth of $5 million is considered pathetic to some people, and the way they waste their money (and society's resources that could have helped hundreds or thousands of people) is insane... and then they're still obsessed with getting more. This is also what fucked over the economy for everyone else.
Splez sucks for sure, I am familiar with how he is a survival prepper and his statement about how he thinks after an apocalypse he would be a 'leader', plus he was such a douche to the Apollo developer. Also his vision for reddit is apparently to make it steadily worse, certainly a slap in the face to everyone who has enjoyed how the site used to be. If anything though I appreciate that Splez isn't out trying to make himself the center of attention the way Musk does, which is really the most objectionable thing about that dude.
Same here. I'm getting more into abandoning projects and companies with insane leadership as I get older. The older the get the more I realize that we should have been destroying these idols from the start.
The quality of content on reddit has deteriorated at an astounding pace. It feels like everyone is just repeating the same thing to get upvotes... and upvoting people who repeat the same thing. I'm kind of glad it exists now as a containment zone. The people who want higher quality content can move to the fediverse. Those who don't can stay right where they are.
A lot of it seems to be repost bots these days, and it's impossible to know whether the upvotes they get are real or coming from other bots.
I'm largely ignorant to the mechanics of the attention economy in mass social media spaces, but what's the point of having bots post on social media platforms, only to be mass upvoted and interacted with by other bots? Like who benefits from that and how? Why is that a thing?
Karma farming, where you boost up the reputation of an account so you can sell it. Propagandists and marketers will pay more for an account that looks like a real user in good standing. So you keep the account busy and raise its karma by whatever means, including repeating formerly popular posts and using bots to boost them.
Whom do they sell the account to? How does the purchaser benefit from the account? I'm sure these are probably basic questions. I'm just curious
Dodgy organizations who want to pose as regular people and spread propaganda/disinformation/guerrilla advertising. Here's one forum I found which has reddit accounts for sale. There would be more on the "dark web" I imagine:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/forums/social-media.200/
Wow. I've heard about this kind of thing before but haven't actually dug to go and find it
My guess is bots circle jerk other bots and those accounts will (at least appear to) have large audiences, which may be valuable to advertisers or the like.
Welcome to the Fediverse! It is smaller but it is growing! So far I think it feels more civilised than the chaos out there in the corporate internet.
The only thing I still need reddit for is the sports communities. I hope some start getting bigger over here.
r/formula1 and r/soccer for me personally
There's a !Football one that seems tho be getting the content.
There's a Formula 1 community. It's still small, but we can all make it grow. Also, the soccer community managed to grab the football name before the other guys, LOL
be the change you want to see, subscribe to those communities and be active in them
Is there a fantasy football one that's migrated over?
A couple of small ones are starting out here and there: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=fantasy+football
Doesn't seem like big communities hopped over yet.
I think this is going to be a trend. Centralized social media just isn't financially viable and it's worse for the users in so many ways. We already have alternatives for youtube, reddit, and twitter popping up. I think youtube might be the hardest to replace though because so many people view youtube as a job rather than a place to share content just for the sake of it. Hopefully with all this we can return to the good old days of the internet where a few corporations didn't control the majority of traffic.
The problem with YouTube is the sheer amount of historical content that'll never make it to an alternative site. I don't think it can ever be replaced unfortunately.
As soon as everyone realizes Youtube is seriously declining everyone at c/datahoarder is gonna start archiving everything. I'm personally going to try and archive as much of my favorite channels as I can. Regardless of everyone's efforts though there's still gonna be so much lost content.
Another issue with YouTube is that media, especially video is vastly more resource demanding than anything mostly text based.
With something like Twitter or Reddit (as long as you don't directly host all media) the quality and importance of each post relative to it's resources needed don't really matter that much.
Especially with high bitrate video footage on the other hand it does matter. So having a drive for profit somewhere in the chain does in someway help shape the system to be viable financially.
This is the problem with modern social media in general. It's no longer about being "social," and all about trying to make a buck. Every time someone complains on Mastodon about their "engagement," my eyes roll.
Fortunately, corporate social media seems eager to cut its own throat: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-twitter-mark-zuckerberg-changes-facebook-social-media-tech-rcna89766
Centralized social media is as viable as any other digital media, but like many other services there's not a lot of room for growth once you reach the plateau. This is fine for a private company, but doesn't translate well to public or investment platforms who's returns are based on profit growth over consistency.
I'm waiting for my GDPR data to nuke all my reddits posts and delete my account.
I got my data, and nuked everything !
I dropped Twitter as soon as Musky took over since I rarely used it anyway. Reddit has been significantly more difficult to let go of, so I haven’t deleted my account yet. I’ve tried to open Apollo at least 50 times since the 30th.
I was surprised by how much muscle I memory had to click RIF. I opened it almost instinctually all weekend.
I opened sync to a blank page about 6 times before I had to uninstall it and I still find myself opening the folder it used to be in. I pause every time and sigh before I go find something else to do. I'm excited for the upcoming mobile apps for Lemmy and hope this can be a new home / refuge from the sadness that is now Reddit
There are already mobile apps like wefwef.app and I believe that Apollo, RIF, etc are being switched to Lemmy now as well
I'm honestly waiting for sync to be ported. I loved the experience the developer created and want to support their migration to Lemmy. As much as I want a mobile app today, I'm willing to wait for one of my favorite devs to get their app ported over. :)
Rif isnt
Joined Lemmy last week and Mastodon today, feels good to be free, all looking good so far
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Where is this magical cheese land you speak of?
what if we found out that bacteria in cheese had link aggregation social networks and microblogs?
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@toasteranimation @RaspiJedi
They are joined.
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Because Lemmy is on version 0.18.1. That 0 at the beginning is important. Better federation with Mastodon will probably come, but the devs have a lot on their plate right now just making Lemmy work with Lemmy content, so it'll probably take some time.
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Just moved to lemmy right now, liking it so far. Will see if I can remove reddit from my diet (lol). Now looking at Bluesky instead of twitter.
Don't forget to check out Mastodon, which is also similar to Twitter and is part of the Fediverse.
I really don't use twitter that much... maybe 5 times a month if even that..? Reddit however is a daily addiction.
Welcome to the club, there are quite a few of us in the same situation
I'm definitely using reddit less after they got rid of RiF. If they ever kill old.reddit.com I think I will be permanently done with them. Loving Lemmy so far though!
I just went (logged out) to the onesSubreddit I care about at this point (only because they post an event schedule every Monday) and Reddit is super slow. That's not going to help them. I mean, Lemmy can be super slow too, but Lemmy also hasn't been around since the '00s.
Lemmy is still experiencing a lot of growing pains, but I already like it in general more than what Reddit has become.
People still using Twitter? Never had one and I am glad. I stopped using Reddit. Lemmy been a blast!
I set up a Twitter account during the Wagner mutiny to be able to follow a few people I know through podcasts. Journalists and public figures and whatnot.
Although I've used Twitter in the (distant) path I just don't know how these people keep going. About 75% percent of the comments under their Tweets are from completely obsessed and insane people.
Twitter makes /r/politics and /r/worldnews seem a calm and collected bunch.
Twitter is one of the things that shows me how much we all live in bubbles. I have a twitter account and know a few people who have one too but it's not really a huge thing among people I know. But sometimes I stumble upon huge communities that heavily use twitter and absolutely rely upon it.
Same. The new influx of people has made my experience a little shaky, but I’m still very happy to have this non-spezed reddit to enjoy without the guilt. Fuck reddit, I’m glad I left and I hope they get fucked
The servers have been rough today, but ultimately I haven't found it too intolerable. Haven't really been a big fan of the Reddit desktop site, so I'm probably sticking around here for a bit.
Yeah, I've decided to at least give it a good shot, to try and see if I can stick with lemmy and mastodon. My current problem is I'm finding it really hard to find people to follow on mastodon, and to find enough active communities on lemmy to sate my social media appetite.
Agreed, I set up an account on Mastodon when everyone first left Twitter (not that I use Twitter much either) but didn't understand the fediverse back then. I wish there was a way to see if anyone I follow is on Mastodon but I guess that functionality went with the APIs.
FediFinder worked for me, although not too many people I follow on twitter moved to mastodon, which sucks.
Between Lemmy &kbin I have everything I want, Reddit and Twitter can fuck off.
Amen, the only people that provide content are the users.
Does your Lemmy instance federate with Kbin?
I don’t think so? not yet anyway I guess.
Welcome! I moved to lemmy the Sunday before the blackout and haven't looked back. I did go back finally on June 30 and deleted my account. There may not be as much content now but that will come in time as we all hopefully try and contribute. I was mostly a lurker on reddit myself, only started commenting more within the past year so will try to be better here. I am quite enjoying my time here and I hope you do as well.
I'm trying to make the change too. So here we are at Lemmy. I'm done with Reddit.
There's no reason for a community driven site like Reddit to do things that hurt the community. It's like they are trying to kill themselves the same way Musk is trying to kill Twitter.
It's better to get away from those properties now before something worse happens.
I removed my Twitter account around the time Elon took over. I knew it was gonna be bad when he took over. Reddit, I closed my account on the 1st. I hated the official app and saw it was going to die as well.
Same. I feel much better already. I'm very optimistic for Lemmy after it gets these initial technical issues worked out.
Reddit was sucking for a bit. I'm really hopeful that the majority that made the jump are the more "quality" posters (for lack of a better word) and that this place will be a lot more like the reddit that we all look back fondly on
Same, I'm trying to be more active in terms of at least commenting and upvoting than I was on Reddit, a little bit because I hope more comments and activity will help bring in more people, and a little bit because I think each user's voice is more important when there's fewer users
I still use Reddit. Lemmy still doesn't have a lot of the communities I know and love on Reddit.
Never used Twitter.
Check out the website sub.rehab It shows Lemmyverse communities which are replacements for subreddits. Not all subreddits exist over here but a lot of the bigger ones do
Some of the local subs I read have presences on Lemmy but no content. Most normies are still using Reddit.
For sure. It’s super young. It’ll continue to grow most likely.
This is how it was in the earlier days of Reddit, with folks mixing in their use alongside Digg until eventually fully committing.
yea i use both, there's many communites on reddit that just straight up dont exist here yet, not to mention that lemmy still has things to improve UX wise
i do hope lemmy grows though, i interact on here way more than on reddit especially after the protests
Time will tell. Lemmy needs more users and more content. Feels like Reddit from the late 2000s right now. The demographic is mostly male/tech-literate and the only threads that get responses are tech and gaming subjects.
Same, a lot of people acting like you have to use one or the other its just silly. Clearly lemmy isn't big enough to contain all of the niche news and updates from various communities yet and that's fine. As lemmy hopefully grows then I'll shift over here but in the meantime reddit is still better for content, anyone saying otherwise is lying to themselves lol.
I visited Reddit exclusively with Apollo. Even so, my last visit was on June 11.
500 upvotes in 2 hours?! Fuck yes bois. Fuck that jailbait mod spez, and his shit website full of toxic spakkers.
Long live the fed!
Did the same thing a few days ago and honestly feels pretty great
Everything I use Twitter for stayed on Twitter. I can't leave it entirely... Same with Reddit.
Now I'm curious. What things do you get from Twitter and Reddit, that you can't find elsewhere?
I'm part of a gamedev community (godot) that is still mostly on reddit.
Don't use the lemmy.ml community. ![email protected] is the place to be. It's a bit more active. We wanted to promote it in r/godot but the mods didn't answer our request. We should bring it on the godot community site.
Por que no los dos?
I'm already subscribed to both anyway, don't wanna miss anything posted in either
Be the change you want to see in the world. Be active on ![email protected], and more people will hopefully come.
I'm not the OP, but in my case I used Twitter to follow artists. Most of them either already had a presence elsewhere, or created one in the mess following Elon's takeover. However not all of them did.
When I decided to delete my Twitter account, I did loose access to the feed of some artists I enjoyed.
You're not alone, I've been on Reddit for a long time, 12 years on and off since introduced. Honestly never used it much at all until finding Boost 5 or so years ago and have been a daily user ever since spending at least a few hours a day on it just interacting and commenting. I commented more than I viewed posts lol just was always talking. They've done a lot over the years to irritate me as a user, getting all mecha PC and destroying all my favorite communities should've been when I quit but it wasn't. Half the site turning "blue" when I'm not really into politics, sparking constant political discourse for every comment I made that didn't strictly fit the current blue rhetoric was another straw but I dealt with it and tried to keep my comments as bland as I could while still speaking my mind. But now killing the 3pa and this whole shitshow? Nah, I hate their official app and have only ever even used the site thanks to Boost, before boost my account was unused, so shall it be after boost. You know what, it's mainly bc of how much I hate spez now. It was one thing supporting a company with a blank face that fucked me over at every turn, always blaming the mods, the admins, whoever. But spez? I just can't see helping that guy out in any way after all this.
Yeah politics is why I only lurked on Reddit and never contributed. You want an echo chamber? Fine, I'll come here for r/linux troubleshooting, but fuck everything else. Hoping the problematic Lemmy instances root themselves out once I start my instance.
Hey! I was a big Boost user as well and have made my jump as well. It seems like everyone I come across on here is an iOS user and has been recommending a lot of stuff for Apollo replacements, but have you come across anything that would work well for an Android user that might scratch that same Boost itch?
Boost for lemmy isn't available yet, but already listed in the play store.
I appreciate it man. Great news too. Good to know devs are adapting after being dropped like that.
I can't stand chaining comments (with one word in each comment). It's fun to see them once in a while, but they appear as often as spams now.
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I deleted Twitter when Musk took over, but I still have Reddit. Once I get the hang of this, I will probably delete Reddit as well. I have noticed that for most of the Reddits I follow, the post counts are WAY down. Many posts are going unanswered or no replies.
Same here! I’ve moved from Reddit/Twitter to Lemmy and BlueSky, both of which have been an upgrade.
Have not touched my Reddit account since June 30th 0:00
Recently signed up for both Lemmy and Mastodon and it's a breath of fresh air after dealing with BS on Twitter and Reddit over the past few years. Welcome!
Welcome. I deleted all my old social media accounts. I think only LinkedIn is left. Mastodon is a delight to use and with so many apps available, you can have the best experience posible. The same is happening with Lemmy.
Just a couple of months ago it was like 3-4 comments per post. Now is huge.
I would like to do the same. That Reddit app I hate detest, however I'm not exactly seeing anything amazing so far with this ui, but I just started so I don't know much about this yet
for me it's less about Lemmie being a reddit replacement, and way more about getting the fuck off of reddit. I found I was seeing the same crap, same comments... I found myself arguing with people I'd guess were about 14, being insulted by people who didn't actually want to talk, just fling shit.. then hey, another video of a car accident yay... hey another video of someone yelling at a retail employee.. hey a video of someone falling over.. and this is after I muted about 40 subs.
just done with the site, and the api debacle was just the perfect time (it also coincided with a 10 day holiday on the coast, so when I got back I just never went on again. its been great).
I've found that I'm allowing myself to get bored, which means I'm allowing myself to be creative again. on the flip side, I'm not seeing pictures and videos of ignorant and aggressive people harassing and attacking other people
Eternal September
So many teenagers on Reddit. And every time I got in an argument with one and found out, I ended up feeling like a fool for arguing with a child.
I got on here at some point last week and the content has already increased like crazy. The first couple days it was the same five posts talking about Reddit.
Now I'm seeing a lot of content in a lot of different communities.
I just joined Lemmy today for this same reason. Let's see how it goes.
I know the fact that it doesn't have one is kind of a feature, but I do wish Mastodon had some sort of algorithm feed. I liked that after I liked a couple of football/soccer tweets, Twitter started surfacing popular football tweets, even if they didn't have any hashtags.
This is the huge problem with Masrodon imo. Twitter has all kinds of crazy algorithms, often bad and leaning towards hate/fear. Mastodon seems to be on the far other end with very little to drive engagement.
This is why a Reddit-type use (Lemmy) is perfect. The algorithm is mostly human driven with upvotes/downvotes.
This a huge benefit of federated content. I have never been force-fed content from an AlGoRiThYm that was remotely relevant to my interests.
That said, if someone does successfully develop a bot that does take into consideration my eclectic tastes, it can be easily implemented due to the open nature of ActivityPub. It is unlikely be corrupted by commercial interests to manipulate me, and if it does, I have the ability to ignore it.
I mean I've found plenty of cool content, creators, and other accounts that completely align with my interests through algorithms. Right now the only way to find content that matches your interests on something like Mastodon is searching hashtags and hoping that people actually use them.
The problem with algorithms is that they drive you into silos without you even realizing it. They always start out as very helpful but then turn against the user unintentionally. In all honesty the best thing FB, Twitter, etc could do is allow you to completely turn it off. That way you can take a break from the silo to see the normal world. It's why services like Reddit and Lemmy are working so well. You can go to a community and see similar stuff posted or go to the all pages and see shit you didn't even know existed.
I'm really struggling in getting used to Mastodon. Already created two accounts in two different instances but couldn't follow any interesting accounts or whatever.
Check out and follow @[email protected] they promote a lot of interesting or notable accounts, most of the time theme based. They also have a directory at sorted by topics. https://fedi.directory/
Edit to add: also follow @[email protected] for tips to making the most out of the Fediverse
What are you struggling with?
I can't find a good instance + people to follow.
You should have a go at following hashtags instead of users. You'll find it much more interactive and interesting.
Been on Twitter (with Tweetbot) & Reddit (with Apollo) for 10+ years. I kept to my follow list and subreddits and really did not see a lot of the toxicity that everyone talks about. I think that is largely because 1) I was using third party apps and wasn’t getting any adds or suggested posts, and 2) I was mostly lurking and didn’t have a lot of posts or comments. I did find in Reddit that some comments would get harsh responses, but mostly I would get useful answers to questions.
Now using Mastodon and Lemmy/WefWef. Generally, like the experience with some issues with Lemmy in particular. Main issue right now: I hate having to scroll through read posts every time I open Lemmy or an app.
In my instance I see “show read posts”, which I had left unselected. It wasn’t working, and checking it doesn’t seem to hide them either.
For me, I have a nice Twitter feed. Really nice, lots of good people and it makes me happy. Nearly none of them are on Mastodon so I'm having a hard time doing this anew. I expect a lot of those folks will have a hard time moving to Mastodon, but some have left for Instagram. Not the same. I have found a lot of the same forums from Reddit here, and some are empty so I hope to help populate.
I'm guessing Mastodon is a Twitter like thing? I could Google but I'm here to chat about things. It's kinda nice being on what feels like an old internet or fledgling community space
Yes, Mastodon is microblogging like Twitter. Usually has longer character counts, my instance has 5000 which helps because I tend to get long-winded.
I'm guessing Mastodon is a Twitter like thing? I could Google but I'm here to chat about things. It's kinda nice being on what feels like an old internet or fledgling community space
Yep. Federated Twitter is one of the best ways to describe it.
I still use Twitter occasionally, not as much as before, even because I lost interest in many topics I followed before.
I almost cut out Reddit too, since 3th party apps still work at the moment, but when that moment comes I will drop it without any doubts.
Ah, almost forgot, welcome to Lemmy. :)
First time poster. I'm on lemmy.world but found not many of my channels like I have on Reddit. How you all find your niche subs that are bigger than 30 people?
Gotta post content and engage with the small communities to help them grow I guess. Since I've started a few weeks ago I've seen new communities spring up everywhere. Hopefully in time whatever you are missing will come to Lemmy.
The two things that worked for me are:
Do that for a bit, then you can sort by "subscribed."
Seems to be a workable strategy.
I've never used twitter 😎😎
Welcome, I'm sure you'll enjoy it, Those corpo media sites are now a fading memory for me.
Check out Mastodon for the Twitter alternative - it's great. I'm really glad I made the jump.
Twitter has become a toxic cesspit even before musks takeover. He just made things far worse to the point where it's basically just attempted doxing and permanent ad-hominem barrages. It's not worth any time.
Connect for lemmy has been pretty solid for me on this regard
I've been using Connect aswell, i think it's very good
there are a few things I'd change myself. For example to allow to sort by all the Top options (I typically use top 6 hours), and not hold you in a loading screen while waiting for a comment to submit
Oh I didn't actually pay attention. I got it on the app store
Not an app but try wefwef.app as PWA. The UI is same as that of Apollo.
Using "Liftoff" right now, seems to work fine.
I left Twitter like half a year before the whole Elon Musk stuff, and I stopped using Reddit on the day the blackout protests started. I haven't deleted the accounts though.
Same here, I am all in with fediverse. I will soon delete both my reddit and twitter profiles, I hope that more people will follow soon. ps: make sure to send a GDPR claim to both so that they purge all of your contributions to the site ( reddit posts/ comments ect... ), this is the only way that they will be able to see how badly they are running these services.
How do you send the GDPR request?
just send an email to reddit and use chatgpt to write a request for you. mention your account username / email and request deletion of personal data + posts (account in general) from reddit / twitter as perrmited under gdpr.
welcome! enjoy your time on the fediverse! personally i found fedi back in '19 but the latest stuff with reddit re-sparked my interest and got me into using lemmy
I deactivated my 15 year old Twitter account this weekend.
Then I deleted all my Reddit posts.
Then I created a new email account and I'm migrating off of Google.
I guess I should go check out Nebula or something next, and try out PeerTube.
I deleted my Reddit account on July 1st as well. Their distain for the people that provide them free labor was disgusting.
Me too
Deleted my Twitter account a month ago and Reddit just committed suicide. I'm good with it.
I requested to delete the account and got logged out. I didn't get an email confirmation, though. Did you get one when they finally deleted it?
I had a Twitter account since 2009 and pretty much never used it. I got on there and got sick of political posts pretty fast in 2015 and gave up again. But then around 2 years ago I discovered some niche communities i liked a lot, basically the same stuff I participated in on reddit, but I was enjoying the Twitter style where accounts have a bit more personality. There's some good humor too, for instance NY Times Pitchbot is pretty funny. I enjoyed Cory Doctorow's posts.
I like the anonymity of reddit and lemmy but Twitter is more of a place where people have avatars that are actually their photos, maybe use their real names, post photos of themselves (now that I think of it, no clue why people think that's okay on twitter and not reddit, that's just how it is though) and I felt like I got to know people more. Once it was obvious what a pathetic shitshow Musk was going to turn it into, I quit without thinking twice. I miss some of the people and discussions on there, but fuck it, there's no way.
Reddit, I started in 2008 and have been back and forth with the site since then, at times basically on it half the day. It's been steadily growing worse, though. Still a prime way to waste time, sometimes slightly useful or productive, but I feel like the value of what I'd read and participate in on there has slipped over time. The ownership/admins kicking up their head and turning out to be giant dickweeds certainly wasn't cool, obviously. Reddit used to seem like a hip or beneficial company that just stayed out of everyone's way. So, fuck 'em. I miss some communities on there and I'm sure I'll not hear about some local events and things about games. It's not like "ended friendship with reddit! Lemmy is my new best friend!" though. I don't want to participate in reddit but if I was to say, look at some subs now and then without an account to see what's up in a town I'm visiting or something, whatever.
I always stayed anonymous on Twitter, but it's turning into too much of a cesspool these days. Have you checked out Blue Sky at all yet?
I haven't since it's still invite only... I figured if I wanted a Twitter-style thing I'd probably sign up for Mastodon.
I've got an invite code if you want to check it out! Shoot me a message if so.
One of us .. ONE OF US .. O N E O F US!!
I removed my Twitter account around the time Elon took over. I knew it was gonna be bad when he took over. Reddit, I closed my account on the 1st. I hated the official app and saw it was going to die as well.
You've taken your first step into a larger world, welcome! (Technically a smaller world but bigger in spirit, ya know?)
Welcome!
WHATS UP FUCKERRR
I’ve been free of Twitter, Facebook, insta, etc for years now and I promise it’s a lot more liberating.
Mood has been substantially better, sometimes you get dragged into arguments on here/Reddit too but it’s pretty unlikely to get riled up by the type of trolls you see around here given their immaturity
I keep Twitter on just because it's the most effective way of getting tech support from some of the companies in my country. But I am avoiding using it on a principle. Reddit, well... the way it turned out doesn't rub me the right way. This is good enough for now, hopefully it grows into something more reliable and as equally informative.
I'll keep doing what I did, just here.
Welcome, im trying to be more engaged on here. It will be growing pains but we'll get there
The main thing I use Twitter for is to follow local sports and unfortunately, only one of the local reporters has a Mastodon account
I have high hopes for Mlem as it’s developed, but Wefwef is a little smoother imo.
Still trying to find a way to view a full list of the communities that exist on different instances (that I am not signed up to) from within any of the current apps. So whichever implements that, if neither has it already, will win with me.
The only way I've found to do that is with self hosting wefwef and adding all the servers you want to anonymously browse to the
CUSTOM_LEMMY_SERVERS=variableI don’t use either because of the levels of invectivity of the people on said platforms..
same here. Deleted my twitter account today :)
This is the way
Delete Facebook too and you are done.
Same here, glad to be doing this with all of you
glad im not the only one thinking like this
NICE
Twitter is alot more fun now though.
I know the fact that it doesn't have one is kind of a feature, but I do wish Mastodon had some sort of algorithm feed. I liked that after I liked a couple of football/soccer tweets, Twitter started surfacing popular football tweets, even if they didn't have any hashtags.
Honestly just don't bother with mastodon.
I deleted Twitter years ago and don't miss it at all.
Literally the exact same situation. They both really dropped the ball.