how are yall feeling about the website?
Seems sluggish, rough, and low population, but fuck spez so I’ll give this an honest chance.
Ngl, us r/efugees are not happy with things over there.
As much as I’m coming to enjoy this, it still isn’t what reddit was, nor is the app experience anything close to as feature rich. But, I’m finding other benefits here that are, and never were, possible at reddit, so it’s still a good thing :)
Reddit is proof that no publicly traded company, nor any that intends to be, can be trusted with anything. Not use that was ever in doubt, but reddit has shown it in such a glaring, grotesque way that it’s the poster child for how shitty corporate thought is.
I dunno. I was enjoying things. I had started moderating two subs I deeply cared about, with one having a strong sense of community building. There’s an emotional response to the loss of that. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to put in the work, put in the passion, when it’s shit on by the very company that profits from my free labor. fuck spez, fuck reddit
I mean it seems so obvious in retrospect I suppose. I hope we’re looking a the start of a real renascence for the internet, away from corporate overlords.
God dam right friend.
The best parts of reddit were the communities of people dedicated to the topics under each sub.
Reddit CEOs didn’t create that. It was and has always been regular users and hardworking Mods that brought us what we loved about reddit. If reddit isn’t going to protect those people, fuck em.
I’m signing off of reddit with the black out. There will probably be a long time before something replaces it. But I’m a long for the ride.
Fuck /u/spez, innit?
That is correct
Fuck u/spez
fuck spez
Fuck that dick head named spez
Fuck u/spez
Sir yes sir!
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So glad to leave that dumpster fire of a website
So far it’s been good. There is a bit of a learning curve, setting up on mobile devices was a little challenging. Seems to be working well now. This thread has been really helpful for me.
I just spent a little time today creating my Lemmy.world account and trying to find equivalents of my favorite subs from Reddit. I really question whether Reddit will survive the uprising that has spawned. I think the IPO is going to go very poorly, then Reddit will turn into some commercial mess. This is my first Lemmy post, BTW!
I’m excited to be a part of something new
Well lets see, my self promo spam to begin :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OHEFg9GbBA
edit: also fuck spez
I’m a slashdot refugee who just had a 16 year stopover on reddit :)
OMG! Slashdot… now that is a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
Hello, fellow /. refugee. I made a stopover on Digg before jumping to Reddit. nice to meet you here.
That was my path… /. -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy.
I should see if I can recover my 5-digit account.
I’ve still got my 4 digit account.😏
We’ve had to go backwards to go forward and I’m all for it.
Honestly I don’t see it as going backwards but unfamiliar. I was reluctant to switch to this style because I didn’t understand it and ended up on mastodon a few years ago into some terrifyingly hostile racist/bogoted/sexist communities. Maybe I did something wrong and ended up in a bad part of town but I ended up deleting the app I was using. So far the experience on lemmy is so much more pleasant lol…
It’s like we’ve just escaped an abusive partner and now starting from zero!
That “first night in the new apartment without most of the furniture, sleeping by yourself for the first time in a while” feeling.
I actually love that feeling except that one time I spent my first night in this prison-like dorm room with dirty walls and no hot water in Japan, dirty sheets and a paper thin futon with nothing to eat and nobody to talk to/no way to call anyone. This feels a lot better than that.
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I’ve lamented the loss of what I called “old internet energy” — the feeling of a largely-nerdy community forming around something new. I felt it on early Digg and on Reddit for a good while, until the last 7-10 years or so after mainstream users started pouring in. I feel that here again. ‘Tis nice.
Loving it - federation is great, hardly ever even know which instance I’m interacting with from kbin, which is a good thing as it means the federation is working and mostly seamless. Can’t wait for some apps to come out and streamline the experience, hopefully some more people will start coming here to populate a lot of the communities that I’d like to participate or lurk in. Right now there’s a lot of… uh… shouting into the void trying to fill the space. I’m posting way more than I ever did on reddit just because like… somebody has to do it, right?
A bit confusing, but I’m really excited about this. I hope the ‘choose server’ part when you sign up gets streamlined a bit. It’s very confusing for new people. My first post on Lemmy by the way!
Just joined a bit, too. Looks great so far. It reminds me of that wild west frontier feeling like when a bunch of us migrated from Digg to Reddit. We’re building another new community.
… With blackjack! And hookers!
Are you Decoy Bender or just Bender?
Just a decoy, I’m afraid. Shut up baby, I know it!
Hell yeah take my money!
It’s ugly, not intuitive, feels way more complicated than necessary for a social site and the name is kind of dumb.
I’m 100% on board because screw Reddit and fuck u/spez.
I hope I can learn the ropes and help this place grow into something better.
If you’re on Android get Jerboa for Lemmy. It’s still in alpha but its still much better than browsing with the website imo, at least in terms of ugliness
I just discovered Jerboa. It’s at least serviceable.
Honestly when i started with reddit it was very confusing. Specially the concept of karma. Now it is time to learn something fresh and new!
