how are yall feeling about the website?
Hey! I’m keeping this as it’s targeted at new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.
Fuck /u/spez, innit?
Fuck u/spez
fuck spez
Fuck that dick head named spez
Fuck u/spez
That is correct
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Sir yes sir!
We’ve had to go backwards to go forward and I’m all for it.
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.
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…
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
Hoping it’s a success but I find it hard to see it becoming one. Purely due to the confusion with how it actually works with different instances. Many casual users are going to be confused and not bother
People use discord though, and I find it just as confusing. It feels the same here, except you make an account on one server and use that server to browse all other servers
I agree. I think there needs to be lesser of a learning curve to get more users onto this.
I thought so too but there is so much information out there and it doesn’t take much at all to figure out. I gave up once because I was tired and my brain was foggy but tried again later and I got it working with jeroba and it’s great. I don’t even mind the lag from all the new users.
Yeah, I’m one of the confused casual users. Can you explain how the instances work? This morning I created an account on my pc but had no time to browse. I downloaded an app called jerboa a few minutes ago. The front page had memes and fun things. I logged into lemmy.world instance and that content is gone. Do I have to have an account for each instance? Are the instances like separate websites?
All the accounts and posts can communicate/share across the instances, but each instance has its own database of posts.
The example people give is that is like email. You can have licenensedtoill@gmail but you can send messages someone @yahoo.
You dont have to create a seperate account for each instance. And on whatever instance youre on you can browse and post on communities of any other instance.
Theres definitely some work to be done to make this all more intuitive though
Does that mean someone else can have the same username as me on a separate instance?
Yes, just like with email.
The way this is successful is if someone develops a way for the 3rd party clients (such as a proxy) to switch to this system instead. Also a way to easily register.
I agree. I think there needs to be lesser of a learning curve to get more users onto this.
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!
It’s got late 2000s Reddit vibes, which I like. I had to remove the Reddit browser bookmark because I suddenly realized I was browsing it again and must have opened it subconsciously. I’m trying to stay here dammit lol.
I feel like I’m back in the best part of the early-mid 00s, when the entire internet was running on phpbb or some random local social networks with 500 users. I missed those, glad to be back in the new, hopefully better, interpretation of those times. Overall, it’s quite nostalgic here. ❤️
I miss that time in the internet, we were all more naive. Corporations harvesting data and relentlessly advertising wasn’t so widespread, or at least as obvious
Honestly I am feeling pretty optimistic about using Lemmy. It is definitely a learning curve in hoping the federated community but I really enjoy the idea of it. I’m hoping it can gain some more traction and get bigger in the near future.
I think its super important we all try to stay active. Upvote, comment, and post as much as you can. When more refugees come lurking we don’t want them to see a ghost town.
Happy to be here, also sad to be here.
I kinda like it actually. A cross between discord and reddit or smth. I’m only 1 hr old so I’m gonna withhold judgment for when I get more accustomed to the ui.
Same. I’m just jazzed to be here, right now.
I like what Lemmy’s got going on - noticed there’s no upvotes/downvotes on comments, but if that’s my only gripe, it’s a very minor one. Currently lurking and replying from a Mastodon account, but it’s a bit janky (I have to copy links back to my Mastodon instance to find the post to reply to it), so I’ll probably end up registering for a separate Lemmy account too.
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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.
I just learned about this site 5 minutes ago. I’ll be done with Reddit soon.
