• Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Trying to make a doc for migrants. Just the overview. Got the cold shoulder from one of the small web guys equating Lemmy to heroine. Essentially ‘either do it like me or you are wrong’

    Same as it ever was online.

    As for me? Missing a few communities. Kinda head scratching at things over all, but it could be worse.

    Both want to make a few instances and have no energy to babysit them.

  • FIbynight@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Working on it. Little lonely since most of communities from reddit don’t seem to be here but still searching so we’ll see.

    Definitely feeling like I need to install linux on my mac though, perhaps as some sort of initiation?

  • branno@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Pro: there is a Lemmy app based on the amazing Apollo for Reddit app.

    Cons: Like 5 people total were chatting about the Super Bowl in the most populous NFL community.

    There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.

    Still going to give it a try, but my excitement waned pretty quickly.

    • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      11 days ago

      Like 5 people total were chatting about the Super Bowl in the most populous NFL community.

      Seems like you guys still posted 120 comments, that’s not so bad!

      There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.

      Feel free to have a look at [email protected] for some recommendations, especially this post: https://lemm.ee/post/54763669

      Still going to give it a try, but my excitement waned pretty quickly.

      Sorry to hear, hopefully we can make your experience a bit nicer

    • TomSelleck@lemm.ee
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      11 days ago

      I genuinely miss the F1 and CFB communities for the commentary, but I’m glad I left reddit when they killed 3rd party apps. It’s nice to have a media feed that isn’t cluttered with ads.

      • branno@lemm.eeEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Im shocked that the two biggest CFB communities have fewer than 1000 members.

        • CMLVI@lemmy.world
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          11 days ago

          And there really isn’t much posting in any of them. It’s hard, because I am a fan of smaller NFL and CFB teams, and it’s just me posting stuff with no discussion. So it gets to a point you feel like you’re being annoying about it. I do Supercross discussion threads for people if they wanna join in, in an admittedly small community (even the Reddit one was like…maybe 200 active users, 30k total subs). I have been the only commenter there for over a year lol.

        • Stegget@lemmy.world
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          11 days ago

          A lot of it has to do with the type of folks who were in the initial Lemmy wave; generally a crowd that is more familiar with linux distros than the tuck rule. Not necessarily a bad thing, just a comment on the interests of the type of folks who were more apt to leave Reddit for another platform. Mainstream sports attract a mainstream audience, whom (on the whole) are more likely to stick to a mainstream website. Lemmy will grow but it took years before some of those communities grew to the size they are on Reddit, and it happened then without a comparable mainstream competitor.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I should have been in there, but my eyes were just too glued on the belting I was witnessing. It’s definitely a bummer that a lot of non-tech or news communities aren’t there yet in terms of participation, but at least we’re not making some Rich assholes even more rich on here!

      • TomSelleck@lemm.ee
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        11 days ago

        The eagles are my wife’s favorite team and it was a fun watch for us. Ass. Whoopin.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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      11 days ago

      yeah we’re here not because it’s the next new reddit, but because we were tired of reddit and spez. never said this place wasn’t a fixer upper! it’ll take some time to build up communities. but this place is doing better and better and only seems to be growing.

      keep lemmy in your pocket. crosspost some memes. it’ll be here for you, and even more so if you’re here for us!

      go birds 😜

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Sorry, I used to post a lot more on sports communities when I was on Reddit but haven’t really felt the urge to sense moving to Lemmy. It didn’t help that the game wasn’t very good last night either. We are here. I’m pretty active on the fantasy football community. But there is just a handful of us playing there. Feel free to join us at [email protected]. I’m going to start our offseason mega thread now that the superbowl is done

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I personally like Jerboa, but I also used to use RIF is fun for Reddit which had a similar UI. I’m probably in the minority on preferences which is nothing new

    • MimicJar@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.

      One adjustment I had to make when I moved over to Lemmy is posting/commenting more. On Reddit most of the time your comment was buried. On Lemmy, a bunch of people are going to see it.

      Not saying you need to be the only poster, but sometimes everyone just posting a bit more will reveal a community.

    • Cadenza@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Yeah, the mood is a bit different here. We do owls, raccoons, blahaj and Linux. Extra raccoons on weekends, though. I love this place.

    • Ziggurat@fedia.io
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      10 days ago

      Indeed, Lemmy tends to have fewer but more engaged users. Which is weird at first. Can’t wait for the moment we’ll stop seeing known faces

    • pseudo@jlai.lu
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      10 days ago

      What sub are you still looking for? I might no equivalent of some.

  • Newsteinleo@midwest.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Amazing!! I can click on something with some algorithm now shoving 1,500 similar thing down my throa. Also, feeds are not choked with people trying to farm “engagement” be any means neciesary.

  • YamahaRevstar@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I deleted my last account on another instance and started a new one. So technically I’m not really NEW. But to answer your question, I wanna die.

  • Bones747@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I feel like this is the right time to move to Lemmy… I lost faith in Reddit and it is starting to feel like everything is either an ad or a bot… I feel like the community heee is more genuine and real (we can only hope). And if more people feel like the big tech sites (Facebook/google/reddit) is now in the US Gov’s pocket then maybe it’s time to find alternatives. Blue sky is rocketing on that front but men I prefer the Reddit style discourse. Lemmy checks all those boxes. I’m hoping in time more communities pop up and more users follow.

  • ShyCake@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Learned lemmy exsisted recently. How I’m doing? I’m getting through the days well enough to keep going with an even pace. Trying to focus on my family and my health, rather than the burning world around me. I check my news sites and scroll through the fediverse, hoping looking for good news. I get some of that, but a lot of it is bad news. But going through the fediverse has shown be like minded people, and people who feel just as frustrated and helpless as I do.

    Knowing I’m not crazy Seeing that there are people trying to do good It gives me hope.

    • reksas@sopuli.xyz
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      9 days ago

      yeah, dont focus too much on the news. I have tried doing exactly same, scrolling and hoping to find good news. There are some there but you have to really ignore the bad ones so they dont get to you too much.

      You can hide posts so they dont appear again, i do that on some that i keep noticing over and over and dont want to.

  • boxfulloffoxes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Trying to gt used to it - slowly. I like it so far! Still super pissed that Reddit can just arbitrarily ban accounts, basically without recourse, and shut you out from any community you were in. Lots of niche queer ones I was in… just can’t participate anymore.

  • Khlo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 days ago

    It’s going okay! Still trying to decide which instance to call home. I still find myself on reddit probably equal amount to Lemmy though, unfortunately

    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      The particular instance doesn’t matter too much as long as it hasn’t defederated from other instances you care about - since you can still see, post, & interact with content from other instances. I made accounts on .ml and .dbzer0.

      • Ludrol@szmer.info
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        10 days ago

        It matters significantly. Depending on the users the all feed is totally different. US politics are almost non existent on szmer.info

        Defederation is a secondary point.

      • Khlo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        10 days ago

        I made an account on .ml as well but noticed a bunch of comments weren’t showing up when I was viewing posts on .ml which is unfortunate

        • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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          10 days ago

          Huh. Comments shouldn’t be affected, as I understand it, just posts from defederated instances won’t show up. For instance, .ml is defederated from any and all porn instances - so porn doesn’t show up in my feed. I wonder if it could be a delay in the comments showing up, not actually an absence of those comments?

          Either way, plenty of good instances to join that are less defederated than .ml

        • vxx@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          ml is better to be avoided unless you’re an extremist or want to become one. Well, Lemmy as a whole is very extremist, which is my biggest issue with it, so… still here.