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[–] ShyCake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Bones747@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours 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.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Heres some websites to help you find the lemmy communities that best fit as replacements for the subreddits you used to frequent:

https://sub.rehab/?visibleServices=lemmy

https://redditmigration.com/

[–] boxfulloffoxes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours 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.

I like it here, unfortunately a lot of the more niche communities that I'm in haven't, and probably won't migrate here.

[–] jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

What happened last week?

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours 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.

[–] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

There's a few communities I'm missing still, mostly shitpost and fan fiction subs. I'd like to start them but I'm still not sure of my own footing yet.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I had initially checked it out but seeing that there were so few posts and all over a year old was a little disheartening.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago
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[–] FIbynight@lemm.ee 43 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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?

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 5 points 17 hours ago

Ah, the good old hackintosh routine!

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

When I joined I felt like I moved to a village after living in a metropolis. There's positives and negatives to that, but in the end Lemmy satisfies my doomscrolling needs so I'm never coming back to reddit.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

When you need to doomscroll.
Why not scroll wikipedia?

https://wikitok.vercel.app/

[–] FIbynight@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago

Oh wow I love that!

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The peer pressure (and stupid broken updates from MS) finally got me to install linux about 8mos into using lemmy. It's pretty great, though - wish I'd done it sooner.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Went with mint right after the announcement of tpm 2.0 since I'm running an off lease decade old office box.

What're you running?

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't recommend linux on a mac unless it's an old model (like ~2012)

[–] FIbynight@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

M1 not old enough? I can already feel Apple trying to kill it.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There's Asahi linux for M1 but the dev that runs it is a bit of a nutter. Also apple software just works best with its hardware (until the planned obsolesence of your hardware happens and suddenly nothing works).

[–] FIbynight@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Well that saves me a bit of work for now then. I’ve got all my old phones/ipads though so perhaps it’s time to try tinkering with things there

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

There are a few tools like lima that let you play around with Ubuntu from macOS if you are still curious. Also an official one from Canonical (company behind Ubuntu linux) whose name I forget now that does a similar thing. Essentially you get a user friendly linux VM to play around with.

Edit: Canonical VM is called Multipass

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