Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn’t the thing that makes a social media site, it’s the engagement
So even if you’re used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!
If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they’re more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they’ll just go back to reddit
But…but…I like lurking.
I’ve done more commenting in this post today than I have on Reddit all year
I feel that.
I got woken up after 1 year of inactivity/lurking.
You’re right, I’ll try. I enjoy reading, but often get overwhelmed with trying to respond, so I end up just giving up and not finishing my
I’m just scared of everyone shitting on me tbh. My ego is too fragile for comments from strangers.
On no don’t tell me Candlejack has appeared on Lemmy alr
I already blocked access to reddit on my network, so lurking is not an option for me ;)
I already blocked access to reddit on my network This is the way.
you know da wae!
I deleted Boost for Reddit. That’s about the only way I liked it. Now all I need is Boost for Lemmy.
Boost for Lemmy would be awesome, here’s hoping!
Check out Jerboa for lemmy. It hits a lot of the features the I loved about Boost. The app is fairly early alpha but if it keeps going for a while it could be a drop in replacement.
i suppose i will not lurk
I feel you, samta, I feel you
After 14 years on reddit I’m tired of watching it die, the death of Apollo is what pushed me over the edge, I loved Apollo. I’ve been browsing in here for the past few days. I like it. Trying to get used to it. Fuck reddit and u/spez all of the situation was trash. Thank you all for recommending this site!! I’m excited to be apart of it!
damn happy to have you here!
One thing that might keep people off is how communities are created/duplicated on Lemmy. I mean you can have the exact same community but on different instances. Then you start asking yourself which one should I join? or perhaps both? This definitely will confuse people.
subscribe to all of them and play with the feed options and sorting order. it takes a little getting used to, but it seems intuitive once you’re subscribed to a bunch of stuff. If the mobile clients develop this should become easier to manage from a UX standpoint.
I absolutely agree. I also don’t get how can you reply from entirely different apps.
It might help to think about Mastodon, Lemmy and other fediverse portals as different email programs, like gmail, outlook, thunderbird. They all use the same protocol (mail) to communicate info. ActivityPub is the underlying protocol that makes the fediverse work but conceptually your instances are like mail servers some run Lemmy, some run Mastodon, but they all talk the same language under the hood.
I can understand this, but im looking at this post from my instance (lemmyNSFW) and it has 16 score and 89 comments. But on lemmy.ml this same post has 1.28k score and 662 comments.
Why is that so different? If they are like different email programs, shouldnt the email chains be the same no matter which program you use?
that’s very interesting. my instance shows the same stats as lemmy.ml - I am thinking this is possibly due to more restrictive federation settings on the NSFW instance - one thing that looks a bit odd is that on NSFW there are hardly any subscribers to their non-local communities, so I think perhaps they are restricting this locally - are you able to subscribe to [email protected]?:
I suspect it only reports the activity from that instance. Definitely feels like there is some room for improvement.
Good Analogy. Thanks!
Thanks for replying! The more I read about it, the more I’m starting to get the picture, but don’t different app/site functionalities and layouts make content incompatible. For example – the tree structure of the long form reddit style discussions of Lemmy / KBin, would look and feel really out of place in Mastodon in my opinion.
I agree with you that Mastodon and Lemmy are quite different - the point of the fediverse is that you can communicate across them if you want. Here’s our conversation showing up in Mastodon:
Lemmy is more like Reddit - principally short, text-based, Mastodon is more like twitter and there’s a lot more graphical stuff there. Personally I find lemmy more intuitive - but I was never really into twitter, whereas I wasted a ton of time on reddit.
Interestingly in the screen shot above, the reply I made to the other poster about the NSFW instance that shows a graphic doesn’t show up - I don’t know why that is, but you can see our exchange shows just fine in Mastodon. In short, I prefer Lemmy but Mastodon has loads of photography and graphical content if that’s your preference - but you can most definitely interact between them. This should be a key factor as the fediverse matures and should help to ensure that our communities continue to grow.
That’s awesome! Thank you for taking the time to write out such a detailed response!
Don’t tell me what to do!
Ah shit…
Ok, you win this round.
Don’t tell me what to do
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!
welcome home.
Motherfuckaaaaa! Uhh!
Alright sir, I shall upvote and comment whenever I feel I have something useful to add!
It’s just basic Lemmyquette.
perfect!
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I think, for mass appeal lemmy will ultimatively need communities for popular topics (games, trends, etc.), which can bring in lots of new users. From what I’ve seen so far the topics are still rather niche, or can’t compete with identical communites on major platforms. When the traction starts getting big enough, it might just run on its own.
This comment is also more or less a test, trying out the platform.
we all know its going to take a while, but the years of work behind ActivityPub and real world implementatiins like Lemmy are beginning to bear fruit - for the benefit of us all.
you’re here right now. that says a lot.
I first saw lemmy a few months ago, but forgot about it. The recent Reddit events have sparked interest again, and I am feeling adventurous. Major Social media platforms seem to collapse / mess up one after the other now, and the concept behind federation is very intriguing (especially that part that even different applications can communicate with each other thanks to ActivityPub).
Same, heard about lemmy, matrix and mastodon before, but never tried to figure it out before the current death of Reddit.
I doubt Reddit will really die though. When Musk got Twitter, many fleed to Mastodon, but over time, many returned back to Twitter (?). Digg did fail though, but I don’t know when that happened, probably wasn’t really in the internet at that time yet.
The hardest thing for me was finding the “right” instance to register in, and that is probably the challenge for most people. Going back to the “popular topics” thing, when bigger communities about a certain thing, or entire instances about that thing exist, people might just register there.
My current guess is that you either pick a general-purpose instance or a specific instance of your interest, if it exists.
I’m exaggerating a bit, I think Lemmy still is “too complicated” for a lot of Reddit users, and that will keep Reddit alive. It’ll be difficult for users to stop using reddit when they can’t find a equivalent super obscure community on Lemmy.
I’ll probably end up lurking on reddit for a while still…
I’ve been going through teddit and libreddit for a while now, but i don’t know if they will survive. The next option would be old.reddit.
I need to wrap my head around the searching. For example, I don’t know if a Community “Geometry Dash” exists somewhere in the Lemmy fediverse or if I just cannot find it. On the other hand, I could create one? But if so, where? Would it fit onto lemmy.world? If I understood right, I can create communities on lemmy.world only anyways.
abuse of the user is pretty much baked into every corporate owned, centralized service. I mean, it literally creates an abusive power dynamic. walking away is often the only option and, without alternatives, that can be difficult.
Federated social is important because it offers and alternative that breaks the cycle of abusive and empowers the content creators and consumers again.
my apologies for using possible trigger words and concepts above, but I am so sick and tired of the same cycle time after time. we need this change.
Another problem I see is monopolization. If there is only one platform with no competition, there is no incentive to innovate. Good example is YouTube. No one can just afford tbps of bandwidth and exa or even zettabytes of storage, so federation (PeerTube) is a way to balance and distribute the load over many individual servers/nodes. (PeerTube also uses a p2p streaming mechanism to reduce strain on the server)
Wow, there’s so many new things to play with! Never heard of PeerTube before, but excited about the idea of a federated YouTube challenger!
And it looks like there’s no shorts on PT? Awesome!
Google might start messing up the alternate frontend Invidious too (the exception
The video returned by YouTube isn't the requested one. (WEB client) (VideoNotAvailableException)started appearing, which is still fixable though), which is a nice option to view yt without the clutter, especially when not logged in.In case you know the media player
mpv, you can pass yt links directly into it and view just the video through it. You need to haveyt-dlpinstalled for this. Then you can type$ mpv 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=....'This is more for Linux though, idk how it is for Windows
YT has been playing games with 3rd party viewers forever. the number of times 3rd party viewers have had to rush out new builds to circumvent the latest YT breakage is disheartening.
At some point google will permanently wall off its garden to trap its users. what then, my friend?
exactly. the internet was historically much more decentralized. laziness, ignorance and apathy got us to the centralized mess we are in today.
we (the unwashed masses of the world) cant directly compete on raw dedicated bandwidth and storage, but we can complete on quality and raw decentralized accessibility. the decentralization helps to mitigate the centralized storage and bandwidth advantages of the big players.
with enough federated instances, we will have a massively redundent medium through which like minded users can congregate and share ideas in a federated and self organizing way. the possibilities are pretty damn tantalizing.
Decentralisation is the reason why the internet was invented, to keep communication lines up in a nuclear war
indeed. DARPA for the wi… err…
edit: love your username, btw.
F*ck /u/spez
EDIT: Spelling
Steven Fukmman
Well, I did quite literally just get this instance set up, so I guess just posting random comments is necessary.
And random replies! Discussions are what makes a social media, social. :)
Replies?! Nobody told me there’d be replies!
oh, god! a human! quick… kill its API access!
I have to say, knowing we are humans talking to each other and not bots astro turfing everything, feels nice. Hopefully it lasts.
100% agreed, my friend. I have quite a bit of hope for this new frontier of federated social. we are going to have lots of growing pains but, for the first time, I think us plebs have a real say in our future.
Random comments
but i don’t have anything to say
other than fuck spez of course
'tis enough, friend!
How does one comment here??
I don’t know either , will figure it out tomorrow
Long time no see, Lemmy. I hope Reddit ending is for the best, and I hope all my precious communities migrate to open source software.
I couldnt say it better. Social media must be controlled by the people using it. There is no other option except bad products promoting dangerous ideas to keep people rich.
