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
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.
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.
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.
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?
The two things that worked for me are:
- Start with Lemmy Explorer (https://lemmyverse.net/) and look for communities you’re interested in, and subscribe to them (it helps if you hit the little house icon and tell it what your home instance is)
- Sort posts by “all” and look for ones that seem interesting, then look at the community those are posted in and subscribe.
Do that for a bit, then you can sort by “subscribed.”
Seems to be a workable strategy.
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.
Literally the exact same situation. They both really dropped the ball.
I thought I’d be able to roll with the Reddit Android app. But, man, it’s rough. All of the fonts are way too tiny, and navigation can be a giant jankfest at times.
I might still roll by Reddit on a fullsize PC monitor on the web. Or I might not. Kind of depends on if Lemmy totally buckles under the server pressure over the next week or two.
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.
Check out Mastodon for the Twitter alternative - it’s great. I’m really glad I made the jump.
One of us … ONE OF US … O N E O F US!!
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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.
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.
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!
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I just joined Lemmy today for this same reason. Let’s see how it goes.
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