Lemmy definitely scratched the Reddit itch for me, and I don't see myself going back. Unfortunately however, it is still a huge container of information that I still find myself relying on if I need to search for something.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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The information contained in past posts and comments on Reddit is immense. Usually, the easiest way for me to find advice is a Google search that includes βRedditβ in the search field. It almost always returns a comment with exactly the information I was looking for
on duckduckgo I use site:reddit.com and the results will only include links to reddit, I find it better than Reddit's search (duh)
I was there for the great Digg to Reddit migration and now the great Reddit to Lemmy migration.
They can destroy our aggregators but theyβll never be able to destroy our community. π€
Lemmy could be the solution we needed all along. No company can take it away - if the community remains the platform does too.
I mean, nothing is forever.
As cheesy as that sounds, itβs especially true in tech.
Someone can/will come along and fuck up Lemmy too eventually, probably.
Gonna take like 15 years though so for now, it is the place to be.
Just a reminder that Lemmy is intended to not be addictive. Go out and enjoy your life. Lemmy will be here when you're pooping or when you have downtime, you don't need to be glued to it
Messaging from the pooper.
I feel so included. :)
But I'm about to travel and will not poop for 3 days at least /s
It seems like with no algorithms, and a set of common sense guidelines that Federated instances have, we can all learn to understand and respect each other better. Breaking free of billionaire, fossil fuel mafia and hostile anti-democracy government controlled manipulation is what freedom is all about. I love it.
I'm only here because of you. This goes both ways.
<3
And it feels fresh
Thank you for this post, itβs really inspirational. I think we can create an awesome community here. This is the start of something special.
I'm so surprised at how it's taken off. I thought it was going to be a ghost town. Super exciting.
Iβve found Iβm interacting more, rather than just lurking.
Edit: whoops not sure that my image embedding worked, oh well.
Except the fascists. Fuck the fascists, they can go back to the holes they crawled out of.
Fuck the fascists? For sure. I fucking hate all those motherfuckers.
Except that, just about the worst thing of all about fascism is the way that it goes out of its way to dehumanize other people, just so as to make it easier to hate them.
So how about, "Fuck fascism" then? I could get behind that. But maybe still try to save some small modicum of love, as well, for all the poor souls who've been weak or gullible enough to have fallen for it?
Maybe give them one more chance to come out of their holes, if they're brave enough? When I can, I always try give them one more chance to do that. In any small way whatsoever.
I don't mean to purposefully give them "one more chance" to troll, or spew their rhetoric, or stoke hate -- even though we all know that's what they'll do again, 99 times out of 100.
I don't mean supporting some reddit echo chamber I am ideologically opposed to just to feed my own ego and provide them all fodder for more echo-chamber bullying and false validation. I mean using a forum for good-faith communication among honest strangers. The way forums have always been intended to be used (but never always have) since the beginning of the internet 30 years ago.
I just mean that, when thinking of another person instead of another person's ideology, I always want to give them just one more chance to listen to me, and one more chance to talk to me, as a fellow person
One more chance to hear another point of view, one more chance to come to understand and communicate and cooperate from a place of their own standing, as opposed to just snapping back defensively from the place that their fascism has conditioned them to react from.
One more one-in-a-hundred chance that my purposeful efforts to humanize my adversary may somehow lead him to humanize me as well.
Fuck fascism, for sure. But I try not to hate a person for their good intentions. It's said the road to hell is paved with them, but they're still usually a whole lot more respectable than bad intentions.
Inspire radical empathy
Lemmy feels like how reddit felt in 2010
That's a rare thing these days
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All I've been seeing is beans π
I honestly doubted I'd be able to stay away from reddit. I've tried many times before. I've deleted 5 major accounts since 2012.
But Lemmy seems to have been the nicotine patch I've needed. Haven't been on Reddit outside google searching for info, which isn't going away for me personally.
Only thing I actually miss is baseball and my team sub.
Wow this is me exactly. Finding Lemmy to be a breath of fresh air, but the main thing I'm fiending for is my Mariners community. Really hoping mariners@fanaticus.social gets some traction. I was a Sync for Android user and the developer is shifting to Lemmy and that is exciting. I still have not caved and downloaded the Reddit app, so that's a win.
Who's your team? Check out the sidebar on !baseball@fanaticus.social Fanaticus is a sports-only instance which helps keep us insulated from any defederation drama. We've got all the communities set up just waiting for our fellow fans to join us! We also have game bots and are actively developing new features.
If you're interesting in modding your team's community, just post in there asking. The community may seem bare right now but why a little TLC you can make it a home for your favorite team.
You should create a community for your team so when people come here looking theyβll find a community ready to welcome them
I've tried to do this but can't seem to find a clear and concise guide. From what I read, only admins can create communities?
Check out our baseball community's sidebar for your favorite team. Try searching !baseball@fanaticus.social (and give it a minute if someone on your instance hasn't already found us).
Fanaticus is a sports-only instance. We've ported over a game bot and have created communities for all the major sports teams. If you're interested in moderating one of the communities, just ask!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !baseball@fanaticus.social
Ah I didnβt realise you had to be an admin. Maybe reply to the below thread with a proposal for your community
It varies from instance to instance. Some restrict community creation to admins, others don't. I also believe you can only create communities on your home instance.
This kind of confusion is why Lemmy will not be even a minor successor to Reddit IMHO. It's fun though, and I'm glad it exists.
It's unlikely to topple Reddit regardless, but so long as the scalability proves functional enough to support recommending lemmy.world to non tech-savvy newbies I don't see this particular issue becoming problematic. Most of the larger recommended instances have open community creation anyway. I guess BeeHaw doesn't but people aren't really recommending it to newbies either.
I joined here on June 12th and there were practically no posts or communities. Now I can't keep track of it all. I'm so glad to be here and finally be part of this social movement - I've been tracking the Fediverse/Mastodon/Friendica/GNU Social/Diaspora/etc for a VERY long time, but the format of those networks has never been interesting to me. I want to talk about topics, not people.
never commented on reddit mostly bc the bots and i liked to lurk but i hope i can change that and interact more with all of you
Heck yeah fam! Weβve bean waiting for you, so weβre glad youβre here.
Dumb furry doing their part. :3
high paw?
I prefer the term lemmtard
You are welcome!
Except Dave. You know what you did.
Man, fuck Dave.