me is meLemmy is blowing up
MyNameIsRichardAs one of the new users, I'm broadly in favour
Yep same :)
As someone who is also new, I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes!
I also approve of me joining Lemmy.
The approval rating has never been higher!
sexy_peachit's cool
I went from Digg to Reddit and now I'm looking for a new home. I'm really liking what I'm seeing here!
DemigodrickCame here looking for a new home too!
chrismarquardtAs a new user, I’m happy the site let me in. I like it here.
What caused that spike around October 2022?
CheshireSnakeMan, this reddit BS is getting me. First thing I thought of when I read yiur comment was, "what happened in reddit last October?" 😐
animistMaybe people who moved from twitter to mastadon and learned more about federation
0xCAFeI'm not one of the new users but I'm happy because the Lemmyverse feels much more alive now compared to a year ago. ☺️
Happy to be here. :)
I honestly can't say about the influx. Since I'm part of it.
But man....
This does feel like home.
I was already loving Mastodon.
Honestly, the real question is:
What took us soo long....
I was lurking on Lemmy for a long time now read only mode, not signed up, but never had the urge to actually making an account.
I try not to have so many feeds where I'm active at once, to try and better manage the time I spend on this feeds.
Twitter and Reddit were the ones I engaged the most
Twitter became Mastodon and Reddit became Lemmy on that matter, so that I can focus on being active and helpful whenever possible.
So, what took me so long...?
Definitely something I will be asking myself for a while, since so far the experience here have something that reddit just don't. The quality over quantity aspect.
Finally...
Thanks for having me here, I hope I can contribute the best I can to maintain Lemmy awesome as it is. I don't post or reply like a madman, but I like to participate on constructive discussion every now and then.
Hey man, I've felt mostly the same than you migrating to lemmy. A while ago I tried mastodon but it really didn't click with me, how do you do to find people to follow and so? I was only getting recommended the same like 10 guys. I like gaming and programming if it helps.
For Mastodon?
I use it the same as my Twitter, mainly googling mastodon lists of know profiles there, the I copy/paste in the search and follow them.
On Lemmy it's easier, just do a search for the communities you'd like to join, for example:
Gaming at beehaw.org is amazing. Subscribe to that if you didn't already.
mobiuscoffeeSometimes understanding how to cross instances can still be a bit cumbersome though.
There is pretty cool support for relative links though! As long as your instance knows of a community, they'll work.
And if your instance doesn't know a certain instance exists, you just have to paste the url into your search bar to get it working: https://beehaw.org/c/gaming
For me definitely laziness.
This is only the beginning and I’m glad to be a part of this journey this early one. Things should only get better from here (hopefully)
MyopicTopicMan, I been waiting for this for years. I thought with the way Mastodon grew it'd eventually grow into a wider growth among the fediverse but it seems to happen in fits and starts. Glad to see people are federating too and not all dumping into just the mainline instance.
Next I'd like to see major names move off YouTube and Twitch onto decentralized platforms but that's gonna take much more to get there, unfortunately.
KurumatronImagine a site that replaces YouTube that has both the like/dislike and ratings but also feels like the golden era of YouTube. One can only dream
ddhYouTube is a tough one, because it actually pays content providers. Of course, I'm all for places like Peertube gaining popularity.
Yes, it's probably one of the hardest to replace, but I was thinking that it could be hard because of hosting the content
You're right, storage requirements would be massive as well! On the one hand, a big corporation like Google would have the advantage of big datacentres, but community hosting seems to be able to seed a huge amount of data too. This one will be interesting to watch.
I think Nebula is already a step in the right direction even though it's not decentralized
Feelz good man
Amir Honestly this platform is welcoming & people are dignified through conversations. Also informative.
GormadtI'm happy about it, of course I might be a bit biased as I only came over yesterday.
This place is super nice and chill
I'm really digging Beehaw their lqbtq+ space is super welcoming
I’m a reddit refugee, Apollo was my most loved and most used app for years. I was really disappointed about this situation, but after checking out Lemmy, I’m starting to feel really excited about this. I like what I see so far and I think there is a lot of potential, and it is kind of fun to be here now while communities are still smaller. Onwards an upwards!
I’m also checking out the beta for the iOS app Mlem, more work to be done but also good potential here. I’ve also been doing iOS dev work for about a decade so maybe I’ll see if I can help contribute to that project in some way.
Welcome! Not an iOS user, but kinda frustrated with reddit either way.
charlytuneI'm starting to be grateful to Reddit for giving me the nudge that I needed to explore the fediverse. I did have a look at Mastodon a while back (and I may have even joined an instance there, I'm not sure!) but was overwhelmed by not understanding it. I think being part of an exodus where there is lots of advice and support being given specifically for us is really helpful in making me feel like this is somewhere I'll stay.
loiakdsfhow can i install the mlem app? i didn't find it in the app store :/
It's cool
The reason why I even joined lemmy is that the administration here allow magnet links
morrowindWhat's a magnet link?
A magnet links is used to send data to a torrent client
KaiserAs a new person… no commit. Other than I feel obligated to not lurk after reading the plea to not lurk from other posr.
welcome! seriously... welcome!
I am also part of the influx, but I'm worried that this is going to be a short lived thing and people are going to go back to reddit.
It's very unlikely that Lemmy will ever be as big as Reddit, but this influx might have it reach a tipping point where it can start to grow users organically.
Indeed, for this kind of service users attract users. I've been checking in on Lemmy periodically for years and the contest just wasn't there (for me). But now, with plenty more users, I'm seeing a lot more value in spending more time here.
Yep same here, I'm hoping this is the watershed moment for Lemmy and I can start spending more on here and eventually stop using reddit (or be forced to when they take away my third party app). I don't generally create much content, but like participating in the community via comments, so it's hard to be a force for change when nothing is getting posted and no one is commenting.
Unlikely. Why do you say that? Wasn't reddit once small?
Alkalyonpeople are going to go back to reddit.
Realistically, there is no reddit to go back to. After the company goes public, Reddit as we knew it, will cease to exist.
The shareholders will want to be make maximum profit. This means that ads are going to be everywhere. They are going to outsource hosting services to horrible companies, in order to cut down hosting costs like video hosting and image hosting. Features that existed in 3rd party apps are going to be paid features in the official app/webapp, etc.
Reddit is gone. It's lost. It will not be there as you knew it to go back to. It's now a case of where to next and for the time being, lemmy and feddiverse looks the best.
GreenCrushI think the concept of "enshittification" will become more apparent to more users. Younger people, who are more technically literate, and have seen social media rise and fall I think will be more willing to adopt platforms like Lemmy. Reddit was a "place for weirdos" for a long time until the general public noticed it and began to post comments and posts to YouTube/Instagram/Twitter. Lemmy just needs time.
One thing I always like to say to people, is "The internet was cooler when your parents didn't understand how it worked." I think the concept of Lemmy appeals to and will start to appeal to a lot of people soon.
milessidenote, i really love that "enshittification" has more or less become the proper term for this
WilshireI look forward to the addition by Merriam-Webster.
Yeah Cory Doctorow really nailed it with that article.
Jokes on you because middle-aged people are the children of the people who built the internet.
Source: I am middle-aged and also 25 years younger than Tim Berners-Lee
All that may be true but that doesn't mean there's enough people who are motivated enough to put effort into a reddit alternative -- all the reddit design updates suck for the informed user but the whole point of the updates is to keep the much, much larger casual audience hooked, and it's yet to be seen if a reddit alternative is viable today without the casual audience. Hopefully there's some good signs over the next few days when the blackout gets rolling
if we pull a critical mass of those that create and consume quality content, organic effects begin to compete with entrenchment. if not, I am ok-ish with that too. if I have to exepriece the world burning down around me, I would prefer to do so in better company than reddit.
Guys, what are you on about.
It's very clear that Lemmy is dead on arrival.
Don't you see it?
/s
That user does have a point. The higher a barrier to entry the less people you are going to get.
Though there is something to be said for the selection of people that get filtered out. While I appreciate large communities because of the variety of view points available, the quality increasing due to a barrier of entry has advantages too.
As a side note, thanks for writing up guides for people!
I'm also in favour of a higher human-to-bot ratio, which a small hurdle should help with.
I am not in favour of having more bots in exchange of an easier sign up. It's never nice to see nsfl pictures suddenly being posted in a comment section, stuff that you can't unsee.
The higher a barrier to entry the less people you are going to get.
And that's ok. MOST redditors are lurkers who don't interact with the platform and/or bot accounts. Nothing good will come to this platform if these accounts move over.
Give the platform 2 minutes to figure out how it works and all is ok. This on its own is a great screening process.
Not that the platform is hard. It's just different.
Sploosh the WaterI would love for the federated model to become a gold standard for how successful platforms ought to be run.
MeowdyPardnerAgreed, platforms should compete by providing better UX and features, not by abusing network effects and walling off themselves to hold communities and accounts hostage. In a way the fediverse provides a common carrier that is neutral to the users and platforms connected to it, which enables competition in the same way that guaranteeing equal access to physical internet infrastructure to new ISPs is essential to preventing ISP monopolies.