I don’t know where else to go.
The best thing about reddit for me was an endless stream of information and news propped up by user discussion. I rarely just scrolled endlessly through posts; I loved delving into comments on posts which didn’t even interest me at face value to see what I could learn from niche communities.
It was, hands down, the best, most information dense landscape I’ve ever seen and frankly I feel a little lost without it. I hope that some day, some where I can find something similar.
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I’m genuinely curious, why do the points matter?
brain
As much as I know it’s stupid, I still miss having a total points count with the karma
12k views but probably 10k are bots and the others are too busy scrolling to ever use your knowledge. And then your content is buried on someone else’s platform. I think reddit (and lemmy for that case) are horrible for keeping and spreading useful information and I wonder why people see them as the best alternative.
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If you make it, I’ll join.
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This is my permanent go to. Community already seems great and I hope it gains more traction. The main difference with the change from Reddit is I’ve gone from lurker to trying to be more engaged and posting.
It’s no longer just a Reddit alternative for me. Lemmy is Lemmy, and I like it. I’m still waiting for the 3rd party apps of Kbin though.
Yeah Im on Lemmy until kbin has an app that works as well as connect for lemmy.
So far it replaced my casual Reddit browsing when I’m bored. But when I want to look at some specific stuff I still need to go to reddit but it’s just to get some information and not really to engage with the community.
It seems the the majority agree with you on this hence the up votes but I’m just gonna come out of and say something cuz I’m trying to stop being a lurker. Agreed.
It’s going to be a very slow progression for anything federated to take the lead with specific stuff. reddit just has the knowledge at this point.
Hopefully that knowledge will eventually carry over over to the fediverse. Untill then, I’m gonna need reddit in small doses.
I had really only one sub I wanted to keep up with. They have no intentions of leaving Reddit AFAIK so I just added them into an RSS reader, and explore Lemmy the rest of the time
an RSS reading…huh i might have to do that too
I went as far as deleting my entire reddit post and comment history, and then I deleted my reddit account.
And it’s funny because I’ve already spent more time on Lemmy than I ever did in 6 years on Reddit. Something about it just sucks you in.
Unless something happens, I’m sticking with Lemmy. As for interface and everything, I liked kbin more initially, but I feel like Lemmy development is moving much faster, plus all the third-party development at the moment. As I’ve said in the past, I’m going where the people are. And right now, that’s mostly Lemmy - and since it can federate with kbin, picking between the two is kind of a moot point …at least for now.
Since you have more experience with it, could you elaborate on what the real difference between kbin and lemmy is in your opinion? I keep hearing that kbin can interact with Lemmy and Mastadon, so it sounds like its just “better”, but I feel like thats gotta be a very oversimplified understanding.
Mastodon can interact with Lemmy as well as far as posting and commenting. On a basic level, kbin offers microblogging (your Mastodon-style posting) and a more sleek interface. The visual polish is a little better on kbin, in my opinion. Right now, I’d say the biggest thing is that kbin development is slower, so new feature rollouts are slower than Lemmy at the moment as Ernest works to make sure everything is stable as kbin grows. The API might be available now for third-party development of apps, but for a few weeks there, it wasn’t, whereas that started almost immediately on Lemmy with API availability. But with Artemis for kbin in beta, it sounds like that might have changed. Otherwise, though different, Lemmy and kbin are both based on ActivityPub, hence why you can interact interchangeably with communities, users, voting, and so on. And maybe worth mentioning, kbin allowed community creation earlier than a lot of Lemmy instances, though that did change quickly.
I think it just depends on what you’re looking for - a polished experience with interesting features (kbin) or more cutting-edge feature rollouts and updates more frequently (Lemmy). Of course, I don’t know what the future holds for either platform, so that might change if Ernest gets more of a team on board.
Basically same experience. Kbin seems interesting, and I’m in the Artemis beta which helps with browsing there. But Lemmy is just advancing at a way faster pace.
Only if this place moves on from complaining about reddit and posts content. No one finds the “my ex was crazy” phase endearing.
Fair complaint, but fwiw Reddit went through the same thing with Digg. It passed.
You never met my ex.
The ‘Active’ display falsely gives that impression by keeping those posts on the front page for days. Then the more exposure they get, the more activity they get, and the longer they stay there. That algorithm and the default view definitely need to be reworked imo as they give a false impression that the only thing happening on the site is a post about beans and 5 posts about reddit. When I sort by All > New there’s way more content.
Im cautiously optimistic about Lemmy. Short / mid term I’ll be here as it provides probably 90+% of what I was getting out of Reddit. I’m not sure long term how it will work out but so far I have no reason to leave.
I’ve also noticed I just don’t interact with any of it like I used to with Reddit. I used to spend a lot of time just doom scrolling on Reddit. Now I get the highlights of the news, check the sports sun for updates, and then I’m back to the real world. I like that.
I like that the Fediverse in general feels much smaller (because it is) than normie websites. You get the feel of old school forums here but not this endless feed of garbage that lends itself to addiction and doom scrolling.
You’re a lot more likely to get a conversation here, or at least have someone read what you write.
It’s like Reddit was before everything was so huge. Whatever you say there gets buried before you even have a chance to have any kind of discussion.
And I’ll tell you something else amazing that has happened for me.
It’s like dropping Reddit cold turkey has changed something in my brain. I’m dropping a ton of bad habits like it’s nothing. I was a chain smoker this time last month. Recently I smoked two and a half packs in one day and I was really upset with myself. I said, “no more.” and I’m down to 4-8 cigarettes a day. It’s like it made me realize that I have control over myself.
I’m gonna try to go this whole day here at work without a cigarette. At this rate I will have quit completely in no time.
These communities can make we stop relying on Reddit for many things
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Solutions to your tech problems !techsupport@lemmy.world
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Products recommendations !recommendations@lemmy.world
If you know more I will also add them here
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Reddit had weaponed Hate to keep you scrolling and raging. At least popular
Honestly I think once third-party apps get sorted with subscription or personal API keys, people will return and reddit will keep growing.
I do like the federated model though, and I’ll probably keep using Lemmy too. Feels much more like the “old” reddit from 10+ years ago. Probably because only the old school users have moved to Lemmy.
In my opinion, the only viable way to go for social networks like this is to be decentralized and run by the people. Anyone who is jumping on one of the corporate run Reddit alternatives is just delaying the deadline a bit. Eventually, Profit motives will turn those to shit as well. To me, federated services are the future.
Also, because it’s slightly harder to use than normal sites, the boomer nazis haven’t overrun Lemmy yet, so currently it just feels really great.
Also, because it’s slightly harder to use than normal sites, the boomer nazis haven’t overrun Lemmy yet, so currently it just feels really great.
😂 This is so true… Being liberal I always second guess myself and I don’t want this to be an echo chamber, I want my beliefs and ideas to be challenged, but Conservatives aren’t arguing policy nuance… They are fucking trying to exterminate people and elect a sociopath…
So what do we do… I hope we get diverse discussion on here, while keeping the Nazis away.
Agreed. I always look at it like this: Politics should be determining the best way to implement and expand human rights, not debate whether we should have them at all.
If only!!! Instead it’s at best a discussion of who deserves it and how much. Can’t say how much I appreciate seeing this comment it sums up my strongest feelings so much more succinctly than I ever could.
So what do we do… I hope we get diverse discussion on here, while keeping the Nazis away.
There’s still alt-right people on Lemmy, they’re just isolated on exploding.heads due to most other instances defederating from them
Dude idk. I love challenging view points for basic things but the challenging view points I’ve seen here are sketching me out way more than reddit ever did. And I’m just stumbling on them trying to find new communities or from front page. And they aren’t Nazis type things either. Sympathy for other governments. Ignoring or outright forbidding criticism of other governments.
I think it is one thing to disagree and discuss aspects of laws and society and how to fix problems etc but so far I don’t see that here. I still see a same divide it’s just more world focused now and not "are you racist or willing to tolerate racists because reasons " that has been most of US politics on reddit for years now (and imo rightfully so)
Basically be wary of what you see right now. I’m a liberal too and don’t mind challenging my beliefs and often re-evaluate them but here… so far all that has lead me to is being more alarmed because it feels more innocuous and if I was just a little bit less aware of certain things I could feel myself slipping into it. Oh and they present themselves as liberal.
As for American politics sure. I haven’t seen any nazis yet and haven’t yet. I think ive heard plenty enough from the other side over the last 10 years though I would love to hear something new but haven’t yet. Sorry for the ramble.
Hm, you mean you’re finding like government bootlickers or something? I haven’t strayed too deep into lemmy so far, what I’ve found has been ok.
Definitely have to be weary tho, I’m sure there’s dark places on here too.
A lemmen a day keeps the nazis away
It’s not pretty on either end of the spectrum.
Absolutely, I not some anarchist type who hates corporations out of principle but at this point the enshittification of platforms by large corporations has basically proven to be a natural law of the internet.
I’m somewhat in doubt though whether a decentralized platform run by its users can really keep up with all ongoing developments. Let’s say bots become a problem what about bot detection and banning or what about legal regulatory changes? That being said, reddit devs appear utterly incompetent and somehow they manage. Perhaps in the long run some non-profit organization, something like the Wikimedia Foundation is necessary, at least for individual parts of the network.
Maybe someone with more insights into these topics can share their opinion.
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Lemmy is the only decent alternative I’ve seen, besides the other ActivityPub federators. There was literally nothing else besides Mastadon (I had heard of this before and considered it) and kbin (only know about this since I joined lemmy.) Lemmy had the right combination of features, and a cuter name, so it won the most of us (I believe that’s a big part of the reason.)
Every other alternative to the big social media is too niche, and often dominated by a particular world view or specific community grievance. Lemmy picked up a broad sample of users that reddit just suddenly and indiscriminately cut off without a moment for second thoughts. We’re not a monoculture the only thing we have in common is we used alternative apps for reddit and we were too stubborn to move to the official app. That gives us a lot of diversity in the community and an edge on passionate eccentricity.
reddit has redditors
lemmy has… lemmings?
Lemlings Lemmyheads Lemmynauts Lemmysiders Lemmyzens (Lemmy + Citizens) Lemmylinks Lemmystars Lemmyfolk Lemmylinos DecentLems (Decentralized Lemmys)
As someone who was lurking on Reddit every day, probably not to be honest. I know a lot of people are enjoying the smaller community, but to me it just feels… empty. The bigger instances are fine, but I was never interested in the popular subreddits like r/funny or r/memes. I used reddit for things like specific games, communities that are noticeably dead on Lemmy.
I’m using Lemmy more like an intermediary step between reddit and just quitting altogether.
Lemmy will need to hit a critical mass of regular users before all the niche non-Programmer orientated communities will start to properly populate, hopefully it doesn’t drop off before then
That’s my problem so far. I’ve been leaving subreddits I can live without and trying to use Lemmy for general browsing, but some of the smaller subreddits can’t be replaced.
This is why I made !dragonquest@lemmy.world
The 2 subs on reddit I really cared about were for Dragon Quest and Breath of Fire. I can’t devote enough time to build multiple communities and figured DQ has enough fans that it had a better chance of growing.
Basically same boat a lot of smaller gaming communities haven’t moved here. Also Combat Footage and Ukraine don’t seem to be moving here enough to keep me off Reddit.
No doubts about it. With the decentralization it truly just feels like being on forums again. Just needs more content for nicher topics but that’s slowly growing, i’m happy here away from the larger internet.
Mte. It feels like an exploration without the clinically formulaic presentation of present web design
Also I get Ace of Spades playing in my head whenever I go on here
1:1 complete replacement - been very happy with Lemmy and Fediverse so far
So far this seems like the one. I primarily browsed Reddit using Sync, and Lemmy is where Sync has decided to go.
If there’s a really compelling app for Kbin, however, I might give that a try at some point.
I still don’t really understand the difference in Lemmy and Kbin.
Kbin is host for both Lemmy + Mastadon (a federated twitter replacement) where you interact over both with the same login/username.
So, I’m still confused with Instances and how usernames interact with different Instances. I hear there’s different content on different Instances, but I’m not sure if I need a new username to log in there, or if I just don’t know how to log in using my lemmy.world username.
I hope I’m not too rambly. I’m getting used to the jargon and a little confused.
An instance is like your email provider.
You can (mostly) email anyone at any email address on any provider, but you still need a username and password to log in to your webmail.
With lemmy, you can read and comment on any community, and respond to any user.
e.g. You are from lemmy.world, this community is hosted on lemmy.world, but I’m from lemmy.one
Brooooooooooooooo
Thank you. I’ve been letting the instance concept just kind of float by undetected figuring I didn’t need to understand it to navigate it I suppose. But I much prefer to understand :) thanks for the concise wording
Thank you! That analogy clicks nicely in my head, so it’s very appreciated.
An additional note: if you want to subscribe to a community on a different instance, you need to search for it through your home instance
That helps a lot, thanks
Thanks! So I guess the question I have now is why would I not move to Kbin if that means I get two services for one account?
I mean you can do whatever you want. The fediverse is provided as a free service by a bunch of hosts. It not like hosts are offering competing services.
I guess that’s pretty clear. I guess I meant more of what are the advantages of just having one or the other or both.
No idea. I’ve never used Mastadon or twitter.
Mastodon is also able to interact with Lemmy directly to a limited degree.
It’s all ActivityPub, basically, and each platform just has its own different approach to how it handles that data. Mastodon displays them like Twitter posts, Lemmy displays them like Reddit posts with upvotes/downvotes and all, and Kbin has a bit of a hybrid model along with some sort of boost mechanic I don’t understand.
Mastodon uses the boost button as well. I think it’s similar to an upvote, it just kind of helps the post get more attention. Since kbin is a kind of hybrid of mastodon and Lemmy, it uses both the upvote/downvote buttons and boost button. I’m not sure if boosting Lemmy posts does anything though. I haven’t used kbin or mastodon very much so some of my info may be incorrect.
I’ve been wanting to move to lemmy for a while it just wasn’t active enough so I stayed on reddit. Fuck reddit and fuck proprietary software
Until something better comes along, lemmy.world is the place.
wefwef (now Voyager), the Memmy app (iOS), and the “old.reddit” view (https://mlmym.org/lemmy.world/) make it REALLY easy to use Lemmy.
woahhh, i never stopped using old.reddit. it’s a far superior content delivery scheme to anything they came up with after.
thanks for sharing that one.
Wow! Thanks for letting me know about https://mlmym.org/lemmy.world, this makes lemmy so much better!
Like you, I’m here until something better comes along.
I’m liking jerboa. It definitely has a feel similar to RiF.
Yup, Jerboa is great
Was planning to learn the app for a day or two but didn’t even have to. It’s all very intuitive and reminds me of RIF on Android (R.I.P. btw). And it’s foss too. Although I don’t mind paying a bit, with RIF it was very worthwhile for the many years I used it.
I just added wefwef web app today. Is voyager on the iOS App Store, or has the web app link migrated somewhere else?
