As usual, a few pointers
I’m not new, but when I joined during the initial migration, I saw trends like beans, beef straganoff, and holding in poops for as long as possible. I can’t recall any adjacent inside jokes recently (although I have blocked a lot of communities to preserve my mental health).
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.
Welcome!
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.
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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.
Welcome!
Thank you!
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.
Welcome!
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.
Good to hear!
I like it here, unfortunately a lot of the more niche communities that I’m in haven’t, and probably won’t migrate here.
Yes, that’s usually the sad part. Have you tried having a look at !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ?
I have not but thank you I’ll take a look!
Heres some websites to help you find the lemmy communities that best fit as replacements for the subreddits you used to frequent:
Those might be outdated, I would recommend !communitypromo@lemmy.ca nowadays
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good thanks I’ve sucked 4 dicks already
Not wasting any time? One more dick and you get custom flair on all your posts. Welcome.
Don’t forget to get your card punched!
The fifth is free!You guys are getting paid?
Hell yeah, brother.
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?
Ah, the good old hackintosh routine!
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help!
The peer pressure (and stupid broken updates from MS) finally got me to install linux about 8mos into using lemmy. It’s pretty great, though - wish I’d done it sooner.
Went with mint right after the announcement of tpm 2.0 since I’m running an off lease decade old office box.
What’re you running?
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.
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.
There is !formula1@lemmy.world. I’ll probably create a post later this week for sports communities on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
I’m already subbed. I’ve been trying to be more active about commenting
Im shocked that the two biggest CFB communities have fewer than 1000 members.
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
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
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 😜
yeah ! long live !birding@lemmy.world (^_-)
What sub are you still looking for? I might no equivalent of some.
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
Pro: There are lots of apps other than Voyager for people to find what works for them.
Sorry the whole fediverse was way too busy talking about the Superb Owl (#superbowl on the twittoverse and !superbowl@lemmy.world for the threadiverse).
mlem is pretty great. arctic too. I’m planning on switching back to Android this year though, anyone know any equivalent quality Android clients?
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.
Hell yeah, brother.
Did something happen on the alien site last week?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrlep5xpmzo
Since then, quite a few subs are looking for alternatives. !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com lists them.
Still trying to figure this all out.
It sucks to prepare for a new social media home. I am still on Reddit, but I know it’s only a matter of time before some broligarch decides to take it down or do a TikTok reboot.
Welcome, feel free if you have any questions!
Thank you.
If you browse on PC, I found that the Alexandrite UI (https://a.lemmy.world/) made the transition easier for me. If you try it out use the drop-down at the top left to bounce between “subscribed”, “local”, and “all”. “All” will help you find communities you like to subscribe to. Welcome and good luck.
are also good options!
Thank you.
Enjoying it. I’m loving the filters I can use to limit some of the political spam.
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.
