It really feels like Lemmy is alive because of you.

When I first checked out Lemmy, I wasn’t expecting there to be so much content, so much discussion, and so much community. But I’ve spent the better part of two days glued to my screen, browsing content all day. I’ve seen so many posts, so many interesting discussions about the fediverse, and of course, plenty of memes. It really feels like the start of something incredible.

I’ve gotta get back to work soon, but wow. I think this whole fediverse thing really is the next step for social media. If I find some extra time, I’ll definitely consider contributing to Lemmy’s source code to help this project and the FOSS ecosystem grow.

  • DuckDuckGoneForGood@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    2 years ago

    I was there for the great Digg to Reddit migration and now the great Reddit to Lemmy migration.

    They can destroy our aggregators but they’ll never be able to destroy our community. 🤌

    • NeuralPlanet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Lemmy could be the solution we needed all along. No company can take it away - if the community remains the platform does too.

      • DuckDuckGoneForGood@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        I mean, nothing is forever.

        As cheesy as that sounds, it’s 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.

  • rckclmbr@lemm.eeEnglish
    29·
    2 years ago

    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

  • Grant_M@lemmy.caEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • unwinagainstable@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      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 “Reddit” in the search field. It almost always returns a comment with exactly the information I was looking for

      • BeardyGrumps@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I was looking for support for a network issue and google returned me to several Reddit posts. Everyone of them was deleted or the sub was private. It’s usefulness it’s diminishing real quick.

        • beneeney@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          If the sub is private, you can add “cache:” to the very beginning of the URL. Before the https. That will grab a cached version of before it went private, very helpful. Not sure if it works for deleted stuff tho.

        • stark@qlemmy.comEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          As someone who works in IT, this is very unfortunate. While I don’t agree with what Reddit is doing, I don’t think we should scorch the site. Its an immense archive of information that can be referenced.

          • BeardyGrumps@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            It a dilemma isn’t it. If you had a business partner that decided to change the terms of the relationship so that you felt you had to leave would you let them keep the intellectual property to allow them still to make money from whilst you had nothing?

            I thought about it long and hard and decided that I would take all my information as an archive and remove it from reddit. Once we have an alternative I will be more than happy to upload it to another resource.

        • grissee@lemm.eeEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          as a software dev this also make me sad, but I hope chatgpt can fill that gap left by reddit

          • Hizeh@hizeh.comEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            ChatGPT was probably trained on that data. ChatGPT remembers… like an elephant.

      • Aimhere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Heck, Google usually includes Reddit results in general searches anyway, conveniently grouped together near the top of the results. We can only hope they start doing the same for Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general).

      • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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)

  • Smallletter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • SuperStonker@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      You should create a community for your team so when people come here looking they’ll find a community ready to welcome them

      • Propane@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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?

        • headie_sage@fanaticus.socialEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Check out our baseball community’s sidebar for your favorite team. Try searching [email protected] (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!

        • Coelacanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.

          • Mogwai@vlemmy.netEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            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.

            • Coelacanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              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.

    • los_chill@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      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 [email protected] 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.

    • headie_sage@fanaticus.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Who’s your team? Check out the sidebar on [email protected] 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.

  • insanitycentral@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Even given the circumstances of us being brought here (overt, stubborn, and shameless corporate greed), also glad folks are here. My hopes for lemmy is to be the community center of the internet. Let us not merely be lemmings, let us be lemminites.

  • aaron_griffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Using lemmy is part of the never ending quest of recreating the internet interactions of my youth. When real friends were made on message boards. When things felt like a real group of people, and not so hyperfocused on individual topics so as to ignore the people behind the words.

    Lemmy feels good so far

    • EricHill78@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      It is reminiscent of my days when I would call up the local BBS or get on IRC or telnet talkers and speak to folks all over the world. It has been great.

  • andxze@reddthat.comEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I’m extremely glad such an awesome alternative existed when we needed somewhere to go.

    I also have to say this feels more like a true community than redddit as a whole ever did.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      It’s amusing if you see some of the older posts over the past couple of weeks where administrators and devs are in absolute panic mode trying to fix all the most important bugs because I think deep down they knew this was a huge opportunity that might not come around again.

  • Midas@ymmel.nlEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Whether it’s Lemmy, Kbin, or something that’s yet to be made - I feel the fediverse is here to stay. Genuinely revolutionary step away from centralized services like reddit.

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      The paradigm of having a home base instance and being able to venture out into the fediverse is just incredible. There’s a sense of community and comraderie that was never present on reddit. And yet there’s a breadth of users and perspectives that you could never find on smaller internet forums or platforms.

      Couldn’t agree more, I really believe that federated self hosted sites have the potential to supercede the centralized internet. The fundamental experience is superior, and people will eventually begin to realize that.

      Imagine an internet where nobody is trying to sell you something. Or worse, sell you (to advertisers). What a concept.

  • MissingNo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Humans long for connection. Our global, online community is becoming fragmented these days. It might be a good thing if we can build a more resilient and free community out of that.

    So I’m just saying ‘hey!’ I’m among community and so are you. Let’s get back to contributing and not just mindlessly consuming content.

    • AughtClot@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yup, I agree. Once a community gets too big, it becomes too enticing for corporations to monetize. I hope that Lemmy’s fragmentation keeps our community shielded from corpos (at least, for as long as possible).

  • sudo@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Except the fascists. Fuck the fascists, they can go back to the holes they crawled out of.

    • Aimhere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’d rather not fuck the fascists. Might inadvertently breed more future fascists.

    • ggBarabajagal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      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.