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    Gotta admit, the Fediverse is looking pretty sweet. A surprise, to be sure! But a welcome one.

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      Mastodon really helped get people acquainted with the Fediverse after the whole Twitter shitshow. My sincere hope is that the Fediverse continues to take off. Corporate-owned social media is failing at every turn.

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        I’m having more iterations and more interesting ones in Mastodon that I had in twitter during the last few years.

        Mastodon reminds me of the early days of twitter, which is amazing.

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          I know! I was on Twitter in the early days and it was such a better place than it ended up being. And in the last few months it’s become pretty much unusable for me. I’ve had more interaction on Mastodon than I had on Twitter in years. Hoping the federated nature of Mastodon maintains it as a community. Meta sniffing around makes me think that we’re really onto something and I hope Mastodon and the Fediverse can stay what it is now. I know growth may change things, but I hope the general ethos and concept remain the same.

    • RadButNotAChad@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yuuup. I want cards that show me the picture without clicking, I don’t want anything suggested, and I want the video player to work. RiF did all that. I’m using jerboa for lemmy and it’s close enough

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    1 year ago

    I am a RiF defector and I have to admit that Lemmy is looking pretty promising! Screw the corporate scumbags!

  • Tygr@lemmy.world
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    Still trying to figure this out. Need a decent Apollo style app to fully move in. I’m so done with Reddit. I already nuked the content they let me and deleted a few accounts. Definitely phasing out.

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      1 year ago

      Click Communities. Subscribe to a bunch. Click on your name and go to settings. Set Type to Subscribed, this defaults your home screen to show only posts from subscribed communities. Also make sure the Theme is litely or litely-red.

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        1 year ago

        How do I connect this account to stuff outside lemmy.world? Do I need multiple accounts? Thanks btw.

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          You don’t need multiple accounts*. Lemmy.world is a federated instance of Lemmy. That means you can see not just the *local *content that fellow Lemmy.world users post here, but content posted by any other Lemmy federated instance. If you signed up for Lemmy on the instance sh.itjust.works rather than Lemmy.world, because sh.itjust.works is federated as well, any posts you make are visible to me because both of our instances are in the Fediverse. That’s to say, they agree to mirror content for the sake of building a large shared network of information.

          *The only reason you’d want another Lemmy account is if you were joining an instance that wasn’t federated. That’s to say, someone or some group decided they were going to make their own Reddit-style site using the Lemmy software and keep all of its content private. You’d create an account with that site, sign in and the only content you’d ever see is local.

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    I keep going to Reddit out of habit but am trying to check Lemmy.world more often. Still trying to wrap my head around the whole architecture–I understand it at a functional level but still getting a hang of how it is to actually interact with various servers and communities. Anyway. I hear only a Sith deals in absolutes and /U-who-shall-not-be-Spez’d sure seems to be dealing in that way. May Reddit go the way of MySpace and the net return to a more decentralized and organic space.

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    I was active on Reddit for well over a decade. Even helped mod a couple of small communities at various points. I also loved Apollo and was an early beta tester for that app. For me, Apollo was Reddit. It was the only Reddit client I used in recent years and I miss Apollo as much as I miss Reddit itself.

    I don’t see myself going back to Reddit. Lemmy has been great and has quickly become very “Reddit-like” for me, but with the vibe of what the internet was back in the early 2000s. I am enjoying the communities that are forming on her.

    I’m also very fond of the concept of the Fediverse as a whole. Corporate social media has failed again and again, so I want to move away from it as much as possible.

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      I have an 11 year Reddit account, and recently got banned for posting about how Nazi’s shouldn’t be around anymore.

      Reddit has been slowly turning to shit, and Spez befriending Musk is a pretty big indicator that its going to keep going that way.

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        Sheesh. One thing that always bugged me about Reddit was the arbitrary power that mods had. I had a situation where I was banned from /r/glasses because I posted about Warby Parker (the mail-in glasses service) being a good option for lower-cost glasses in the U.S. Turned out the mod was the owner of an optical shop and he didn’t like it when people recommended Warby Parker and other mail-order services for glasses because it was sucking away money from high-end, overpriced optical shops. So he just started banning people who mentioned any of these mail-order services.

        One thing I like about Lemmy is that the modlog is public. I think that level of transparency is really important and helpful for avoiding situations like people have experienced on Reddit.

        But I agree, Reddit has indeed slowly turned to shit. I love that the general concept behind it is being replicated here and that so many people are starting to recognize the importance of a company being free from a CEO.

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    Going to start a whole new sub for sync defectors - signed guy who came here from digg (in a roundabout way)

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    Yea im kinda excited to transition back to smaller form communities. I remember back in the day when i was on bbforums with like 40 other people, and that was a lot of fun actually

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      Agreed! Over the years, I learned that in smaller communities, people engaged more, got to know each other, and had fun chatting on the same topic!

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        One of the nicer things I’m enjoying seeing after moving to Lemmy from Reddit, is seeing posts about the internet of 10, 15 and even 30 years ago and people having the same experience I had as well!

        But also being reminded that the internet of today is definitely not how it used to be and finding like minded people who share the same values is something that’s sparked my old interest in “being involved” in online communities again.