Calling all refugees! Reddugees? What has your experience been since migrating from Reddit to Lemmy?
I've had a great time here. The people on the various communities I've joined are very nice and actually constructive! I haven't encountered any rude or sarcastic responses or one word answers.
I've had really cool conversations and I haven't been told anything toxic or given any anatomically impossible suggestions at all! I really see a difference between here and Reddit.
What particularly amazed me is the lack of knock down dragouts on the Politics and News communities on Lemmy.
People bring up their points of view even if they have contrasting arguments siting historical precedents to support their side of the discussion.
I'm excited to see your experience as well?
I'm really glad to be a part of Lemm.ee and thank you very much /u/sunaurus for making this instance! :D
I think Lemmy definitely has potential, but I feel like the biggest obstacle for mass adopters will be the sign up process. I personally felt a bit of choice overload when picking which instance to sign up on, especially considering how many of them are the exact same. Now that I'm in, though, I definitely feel more at home than I do with Mastodon and Kbin. I'm excited to see where this goes
I agree, I think a "fuck it, pick one for me" button would be great for newcomers. Just gotta make sure the randomized list only contains vetted / reliable instances that wont go dark after 2 days of experimenting.
The only downside is how small the communities are in comparison to their subreddit counterparts. I'm afraid that Reddit might be able to keep coasting on numbers alone for long enough to recover and ultimately overshadow this service... But it's a great alternative, and I for one will not be leaving even if they reverse their API decisions.
They won't recover, because Reddit is going to get only worse. There was an NBCnews interview with Huffman, where he more or less let it slip that the next big step is trying to monetize subreddits. People will eventually migrate to the fediverse because Reddit is going to gut very core of what makes Reddit Reddit. Of course Reddit won't magically disappear but it will slowly drift towards irrelevancy as it transforms into something else.
It could be argued that some of the best content creators of Reddit have left, or are considering leaving out of disgust due to disrespect from the admins. If Reddit alternatives prove to have quality over quantity, Reddit might continue hemorraging users, and the ones that stay will be folks that appreciate dopamine-heavy content from TikTok.
Yup, migrating from Reddit here. Biggest problem for me is finding a good instance. First one I tried was not in my region, poor connectivity. Then I started trying ones in my region (USA) after looking at the list sortable by country here; https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Next one I tried was beehaw.org. That one turned out to be heavily defederated which means it blocks a lot of outside instances. That's really bad. I can block any instance I want in my profile so why do I need someone else to tell me what I can and cannot access.
I did pretty well with lemmy.one, performance was good, but was not particularly impressed by the administration, some disabled features and a few blocked instances. Now I'm trying lemm.ee and we'll see how that goes, so far so good.
The next big hurdle is finding communities. There's no sort or filter function when you list them all in a search. So it can be hard to zero in on what you're looking for. There are some 3rd party sites like lemmyverse.net to help in the search for communities, but it would be a lot better if that was not necessary.
You can tell Lemmy is immature in terms of development, rough around the edges. It lacks quality of life features and has some glaring bugs. Still its not anything that makes it unusable, but the user experience could be better at this point. I'm sure it will get there as the software matures.
The huge thing that makes Lemmy superior (and the Fediverse in general) is that it's community driven by FOSS making it free of corporate influence. That's just a huge advantage, can't overstate that too much. Inevitably what happens with corporate driven communities is they prioritize monetization over community interests. That happened with Reddit in a big way as evidenced by the recent strike.
It's fine, but the typing experience is lacking. One small mistake with make you potentially delete at least a full sentence because it randomly deletes the spaces.
I've always primarily lurked on reddit. I don't usually say anything unless I have something to add and by the time a post makes it to the front page who is going to see it anyway? So I'm trying to participate more which is new for me. Besides that I've had a little trouble with jerboa but I'm chocking that up to growing pains. But so far so good and I'm looking forward to watching lemmy and lemm.ee grow and thrive.
Its not just you, jerboa is a little rough when it comes to navigating across multiple federated instances. But it just needs more time in development, and honestly the level of polish the app already has is impressive.
Navigating between federated instances is rough in general, but it is also the cutting edge of using this stuff, so I can't wait to see those problems be solved and help solve them.
Same here, mostly lurked and looked for any interesting topics. Every now and again would catch a debate gone sour and would read it out of curiosity. Never really cared to accumulate karma, didn't care. Joined reddit years ago when it was simpler and I enjoyed it more. Now its more, karma focused and seeking approval from the mods/masses. I'm glad I left, happy here now.
It's going to take a while re-building a list of communities, and getting familiar with the new UI (I'm using Jerboa on Android). But otherwise, same vibes as when moving from twitter to mastodon, it feels good to rely on decentralized networks where we aren't the product.
What I'm missing at the moment is the ability to build "MultiReddits," i.e. specific groupings of communities for when I want to browse by theme. For example, back on Reddit, my "Sports" M-R included the subs: NBA, MMA and general sports.
Right now on Lemmy, it looks like one can browse communities by either: Subscribed, Local, and All, but nothing else. Am I missing something, tho?
I have to say, I absolutely love it! Their isn't as much engagement or users to produce content, which can be a bit hard for more niche subjects. But that is okay, and I am very confident that over time those needs will fill in the fediverse.
Learning the technology behind federated social media has been extremely exciting! I really do think that this is the future of the space, and learning it has been like learning Linux or Python for the first time. I guess I am lucky that I have a bit more of a background in computers, so I get to be a bit more patient than most people when it comes to learning how the instances talk to each other, but I really believe that with the right user interface, everyday people will get the hang of it.
So one thing this experience has made me realize is that reddit didn't always keep me up on what I could consider interesting news.
I have an RSS feed setup of about 55 feeds. I would keep scrolling on reddit because I'd want to keep trying to find those interesting articles in a haystack but I think I may have reached overstauration on subreddits that I'd have to scroll through a lot of junk.
With rss feeds set to update once a day, once I reach the end of my feeds I now feel more comfortable saying I'm done wasting time for the day trying to keep up with the feeds.
It does mean though that I have to find other ways to waste those 5 to 15 mins of down time waiting on an elevator or waiting on a coffee if I've read through the news of the day. I've returned to wordle and now the mini crossword from NYTimes.
If nothing else, this has made me realize I don't need to keep endlessly scrolling to pass the time.
It really does have the same feel as the Digg exodus, I'm enjoying the camaraderie with the other Reddit refugees.
The software is a little rough around the edges still, but I'm having a whale of a time here. Honestly it's pretty exciting thinking about what this could be if enough communities grow here.
Oh for sure. I actually kind of love that it’s so minimal right now, sure there’s a bunch of stuff missing but what’s there today works well and represents a great platform to build on.
If it was more polished but had more stuff that doesn’t fit my tastes then I’d be less excited (tbh that’s kinda how I feel about kbin)
I'm missing my niche subreddits because the only thing I used Reddit for much anymore were r/synthesizers and r/printsf, and there aren't very many people talking about synthesizers and science fiction lit just yet. I started the former anyway!
good for you! be the change you want to see. It feels lonely at the start, but you gotta help populate whatever community you want to start and people will come!
The first few days was the refugee camp outside Reddit City, where we were all scrambling between our tents and looking for places that would take us. Now those camps are flourishing and buildings are popping up, while new citizens are joining every day!
I'm still browsing and learning how lemmy works. So far I'm quite happy.
Reminds me of the old days lol
But just figuring out how to find interests and such when I have a min, reading things that interest me.
The breath of fresh air from Reddit has been amazing honestly. Didn't realize how toxic it was until I came here
I'm having a great time. It feels a lot cozier than Reddit, and like I'm talking to actual people who I occasionally manage to recognize when I see them later (like you OP, for example). I've posted more within a few days here than I did in years of being on Reddit. Which isn't saying much, but it's something.
It's also been a great opportunity to jump into the Fediverse and get more comfortable with it. It's an exciting time!
I made a reddit account over a decade ago, it was by far my favorite social media platform, and pretty much every single change since then has made it slightly worse. I've been looking forward to this exodus for a while.
So far so good. Only thing missing are niche interests. I'm doing my part by creating 2 communities for my interests that I can play the long game and simply submit daily content. Thinking marathon rather than sprint.
I'm super excited, the Fediverse feels right. Like this is what the internet is supposed to be like.
It's still a bit rough around the edges, and sometimes comments just don't get posted on desktop, and I get a "deleted" popoup on Jerboa for no reason.
But I sure won't leave here anymore, regardless of how the whole reddit kerfuffle goes down. There's so much potential and freedom.
I was pretty new to Reddit, only about 14mo on (mostly because I got sick of husbo sending me reddit links that I finally caved and downloaded Sync). I found some great subs that introduced me to great things.
I'm excited for Lemm.ee and figuring all this out. I'm hopeful to see some of the same type of content I looked forward to from reddit.
Just joined, and I'm curious to see how it compares. I'm still trying to figure out how to add the equivalent of subrexxits (communities?) to my stream here. Wondering if there seems to be a void, should I just create one, add some stuff, and wait for those that are more knowledgeable/active to come and play? Kind of an "if you build it they will come" kind of thing?
Jerboa being the only app has been a bit derpy. I hope that once Reddit goes all Lion King on 3rd party apps that they'll focus on Lemmy and we'll have more options. Other than that, it's been great.
I'm enjoying the lemmy communities set up by some of my subscribed reddit subs.
I'm okay with the potentially offensive communities and happy to block the communities that have content I don't want to consume.
I'm a little confused still, about the "federated" thing and accessing certain communities on other servers and now have accounts on 3 federated servers because I cannot otherwise access some of the communities from the other servers.
If the fediverse gets too fragmented, I fear for what will happen to the servers that inevitaby close down due to lack of funds/users. All posts will be deleted? User accounts too?
If the community name [email protected] is already known, I'd just append the name to https://lemm.ee/c/, so the final URL will be https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected] . I guess someone already made browser script for the purpose.
Also, Lemmy Explorer works well - see this comment. Note that the current instance (lemm.ee) can be set via the HOME button on the upper-right corner.
Thanks to you, I've been able to subscribe to many new communities. Somehow, the search bar here a lemm.ee did not work, or only for a few communities. I've been adding communities manually with the search bar, and it works !
Thanks. Figured out I was pasting into the wrong search bar somehow, probably the search bar of a different fed which wasn't working because feds have different root urls and I allow javascript by whitelist.
I was shocked that you could talk openly about Piracy and other naughty things. Jerboa has been a bit hit or miss and I am still at a loss on how to join another server's community from thier New Community announcement thread.
I started out being "social" on the Internet with IRC in 1994 and it was so exciting to have people in my computer to talk to; it felt so cutting edge and so much cooler than chat rooms on AOL and such.
Then I moved into StumbleUpon, which was my first link aggregation type of site. Not much social about it but it let you pick categories and you could submit links to it. I found tons of awesome and weird stuff on it, it was like discovering a "find cool shit" button on my browser; I'd click that button for hours, for better or worse. I don't know how popular SU was but it felt so innovative to me; I was so sad it was gone one day or at least just a shell of it's former self.
Digg came next, and I had no idea what it was but once I got into it it was amazing; new interesting/funny stuff and a community that comments on it, everyone was hilarious and clever. We all know where that went.
Then it was Reddit, it felt like such a breath of fresh air after digg. It has all the edge of old digg and hilarious commentary that I liked from digg, without since of the stifling ideas that digg had. I have a fond memory of holding back laughter while sitting in a waiting room every week; of course there was no Reddit app back then so I used Reddit is Fun. And I never stopped until last week.
Fedivere has that vibe for me again. I loved the insane amount of content and communities that Reddit has with it's 13+ years of history and Internet culture. But it's just time to move on. Fedivere will probably have hiccups and might even fail to get a meaningful grip but this is such an interesting take on the social link aggregation site and I'm really excited to see where it goes! Thanks to all the hard work being done behind the scenes!
awesome experience for me, it's only been 10 minutes. Lemmy/kbin is light years ahead of reddit's shmangling shmongling corrupt bullshit. Sick of reddit owners STEALING OUR WORK and selling it for their profit. Ohanian and spez need to cough up 99% of their assets back to us. WE CONTROL REDDIT. If they refuse, then reddit dies.
Wow! That is a lot of history on the web to have actually lived through. I started on Facebook of all things, my parents lied about my age to get me an account where I mostly just played games. I was on and off for years, trying to connect with people, share opinions and ideas, and get chased off the site by the mobs of angry people would would harass me whenever I posted something.
I messed with Twitter, and Snapchat (both were as brain dead as Facebook) nothing really connected with me, until I found Reddit. I found the site in my early teens after watching channels like EmKay and I subscribed to all of babies first Reddit subs. I used the site for many years but it was frustrating. I would ask questions or share my opinion on something, and basically just get ignored, or attacked by deranged users who wouldn't even answer my question but insult me for being a n00b or just debase my character based on an opinion (stupid stuff like if you like Darth Vader you're a n@zi) or there were so many rules, SO many rules! There were certain subs I frequented that had over one hundred rules, and I would try to post over and over and over again but there would be some rule that I broke, like having the tags on the other side from the title, or misspelling tags, or not using the official mandatory start word like aita, or my favorite, referring to the group as the 'hivemind'. Whatever!
It just felt geeky and tyrannical more so than Facebook even. I got tired of getting downvoted into oblivion post posting basically anything so I left, only coming back a few days ago to find the crap show going on. I had heard people say that the Fediverse is a nicer place than Reddit so I went here and I'm not regretting it in the slightest.
I never experienced the internet during the old king of the hill days, with AOL and IRCs (though I wish I did) but this place has a nice, retro feel to it that is just delicious. My parents used to talk about their time on AOL and how everyone was nice in those days. They'd get random people wishing them a happy birthday, just because, imagine that! I missed those days even though I never lived them (try to figure that out) and I think this is my equivalent.
Lemmy itself seems fine reading wise. The main issues I have with it are that the communities are spread to thin with everyone making their own niche communities that have little to no activity and thousands of 0 comment posts. Wouldnt be that bad except the sort options for lemmy seem to not work that great and I dont want to spend the time curating from an every changing list of communities just to propagate my feed... because at this point it seems like a waste with servers federating and unfederating. The 3 main servers I tried sofar have been unfederated from the largest gaming community of lemmy which makes them almost useless to me.
Lemmy still needs a lot of work to be a good replacement for reddit. Better sorting options would go a long way and maybe allowing each server to have a "home page" that lists their own curated and popular communities as a home page.
Yeah that's a valid concern. I was thinking of making a blades in the dark community but a lot of people pointed out that there already isn't much content on these rpg communities as it is. So splitting it up would be pointless.
I usually just lurk, but it still feels different here. As other people point out, it's similar to the internet's old days, and although I never got to experience that, I think I feel the same way. It's more free, less crowdy and noisy.
I still find myself needing Reddit though because of the more niche communities and content.
Digging it... Finally took the plunge, joined, and started learning how this all works just a little while ago and it's definitely familiar and feels like the right replacement.
I'm also convinced after what little time I've been here that it's going to grow like crazy sooner or later.
I've been liking it. Funny actually. I used to be really into this site called FunnyJunk back during high-school and got really into it during college. Then it became much more right-wing so I tried out Reddit. Had that for a few years until just recently. Let's see how long this one lasts.
I like it but for some reason it won't let me create a community but other than that it already better than reddit, no karma farming, bots, or only fans
I was actually hesitant at first, because I didn't know of a good alternative. Then, there's Lemmy that I've heard of. Since lemmy.world has been compromised, I chose this server.
I still haven't escaped Reddit fully. However, the fact the board at Reddit Inc. accepted and implemented the new API pricing made my decision to come to Lemmy quicker.
There are pros and cons. I have been having issues trying to upload pictures and with replying to some comments. I very much like the ability to post a link and have a description at the same time so that I don't have to immediately write a comment to describe the content of the link. I like the underlying concept of the Fediverse so far as I understand it. I also like that I can edit post titles. As someone who frequently had to delete and repost posts on reddit because I made a spelling error or some grammatical error in a post, being able to edit the post title is a life saver.
I think there is room for some improvement. I think it would be handy if I am looking at comments in a community that the comment showed which post that comment was attached too.
Overall, not too hard to get used to so far and I am really quite loving it.
As a lurker from Reddit, decided to give things a shot here. The one thing that worries me is it can seem complicated at times getting my head around the federation thing.
And then the issue with some instances blacklisting one another. Hopefully it’s a temporary thing but I’d love to see the community as one rather than broken up. But otherwise I’m getting the hang of it and settling in I guess!
Definitely going to be growing pains, but always follow the nerds. Hehe. What sold me on Lemmy or whatever these fediverse connections are was the fact that /r/startrek moved to a Lemmy site.
I think people being mostly techies here talk too much about the federation aspect of it. In essence it's as simple as Join instance, Scroll All, Subscribe when you like something, Scroll Subscribed.