• Newsteinleo@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Amazing!! I can click on something with some algorithm now shoving 1,500 similar thing down my throa. Also, feeds are not choked with people trying to farm “engagement” be any means neciesary.

  • ShyCake@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Learned lemmy exsisted recently. How I’m doing? I’m getting through the days well enough to keep going with an even pace. Trying to focus on my family and my health, rather than the burning world around me. I check my news sites and scroll through the fediverse, hoping looking for good news. I get some of that, but a lot of it is bad news. But going through the fediverse has shown be like minded people, and people who feel just as frustrated and helpless as I do.

    Knowing I’m not crazy Seeing that there are people trying to do good It gives me hope.

    • reksas@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 day ago

      yeah, dont focus too much on the news. I have tried doing exactly same, scrolling and hoping to find good news. There are some there but you have to really ignore the bad ones so they dont get to you too much.

      You can hide posts so they dont appear again, i do that on some that i keep noticing over and over and dont want to.

  • Bones747@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I feel like this is the right time to move to Lemmy… I lost faith in Reddit and it is starting to feel like everything is either an ad or a bot… I feel like the community heee is more genuine and real (we can only hope). And if more people feel like the big tech sites (Facebook/google/reddit) is now in the US Gov’s pocket then maybe it’s time to find alternatives. Blue sky is rocketing on that front but men I prefer the Reddit style discourse. Lemmy checks all those boxes. I’m hoping in time more communities pop up and more users follow.

  • boxfulloffoxes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    24 hours ago

    Trying to get used to it - slowly. I like it so far! Still super pissed that Reddit can just arbitrarily ban accounts, basically without recourse, and shut you out from any community you were in. Lots of niche queer ones I was in… just can’t participate anymore.

  • FIbynight@lemm.eeEnglish
    43·
    3 days ago

    Working on it. Little lonely since most of communities from reddit don’t seem to be here but still searching so we’ll see.

    Definitely feeling like I need to install linux on my mac though, perhaps as some sort of initiation?

  • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Trying to make a doc for migrants. Just the overview. Got the cold shoulder from one of the small web guys equating Lemmy to heroine. Essentially ‘either do it like me or you are wrong’

    Same as it ever was online.

    As for me? Missing a few communities. Kinda head scratching at things over all, but it could be worse.

    Both want to make a few instances and have no energy to babysit them.

      • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 hours ago

        From ‘Guy’ (Even if i think the opinion is shit. No point in calling him out even if he’s unlikely to be here.)

        I think these followers and likes counters’ places unleash the wrong attitude. People write stuff to collect these by pleasing the potential reader instead of writing just facts. Fights over points and factually wrong answers that gained a lot of up-votes drove me away from reddit and SE. Some even write BS and get terribly upset if you point them to a man page that contradicts their statements.

        Communication media should fit the job. Chats be volatile and fast while mail, mailing lists and news are allowing detailed discussions in long articles.

        Sending people from twitXter or FB to Mastodon does not help them evolve. It just gives addicts a supposedly more free variant of their drug instead of getting them away from it.

        Needless to say I disagree with his assertion, if for no other reason than not everyone wants to flee back to the 90’s in terms of how to social/internet

  • straightjorkin@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    There’s a few communities I’m missing still, mostly shitpost and fan fiction subs. I’d like to start them but I’m still not sure of my own footing yet.

  • branno@lemm.eeEnglish
    37·
    3 days ago

    Pro: there is a Lemmy app (Voyager) based on the amazing Apollo for Reddit app.

    Cons: Like 5 people total were chatting about the Super Bowl in the most populous NFL community.

    There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.

    Still going to give it a try, but my excitement waned pretty quickly.

    • pseudo@jlai.lu
      3·
      2 days ago

      What sub are you still looking for? I might no equivalent of some.

    • Ziggurat@fedia.io
      4·
      2 days ago

      Indeed, Lemmy tends to have fewer but more engaged users. Which is weird at first. Can’t wait for the moment we’ll stop seeing known faces

    • TomSelleck@lemm.ee
      15·
      3 days ago

      I genuinely miss the F1 and CFB communities for the commentary, but I’m glad I left reddit when they killed 3rd party apps. It’s nice to have a media feed that isn’t cluttered with ads.

    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      7·
      3 days ago

      Like 5 people total were chatting about the Super Bowl in the most populous NFL community.

      Seems like you guys still posted 120 comments, that’s not so bad!

      There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.

      Feel free to have a look at !communitypromo@lemmy.ca for some recommendations, especially this post: https://lemm.ee/post/54763669

      Still going to give it a try, but my excitement waned pretty quickly.

      Sorry to hear, hopefully we can make your experience a bit nicer

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
      4·
      3 days ago

      yeah we’re here not because it’s the next new reddit, but because we were tired of reddit and spez. never said this place wasn’t a fixer upper! it’ll take some time to build up communities. but this place is doing better and better and only seems to be growing.

      keep lemmy in your pocket. crosspost some memes. it’ll be here for you, and even more so if you’re here for us!

      go birds 😜

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I personally like Jerboa, but I also used to use RIF is fun for Reddit which had a similar UI. I’m probably in the minority on preferences which is nothing new

    • quaff@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      mlem is pretty great. arctic too. I’m planning on switching back to Android this year though, anyone know any equivalent quality Android clients?

  • YamahaRevstar@lemmy.world
    352·
    3 days ago

    I deleted my last account on another instance and started a new one. So technically I’m not really NEW. But to answer your question, I wanna die.

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    I have to confess. I still scroll Reddit from time to time (no longer use my account), and the front page just has a lot more variety. There’s still a lot of bot content from the occasional AITA that’s purely clickbait to the reposts.

    I do like that comments and conversations are better here. I’m seeing familiar names and I like it.