Yeah I prefer this style of interaction far more than the Mastodon style. I just never could get into the twitter style of social media.
Same. I like a forum-like style. I still think Twitter is a "shout to the void" and same to Mastodon. I like the... slower? Yeah slower, more thought out, and more interactive of this style. Like everything kinda has a purpose to exist.
Yeah, i think reddit model is perfect balance between recommended content and what you are subscribed to. Glad things like this now in fediverse too.
Agreed. I feel like federation is a lot easier to wrap your head around in this style too
I don't understand why people want to follow people. I want to follow topics of interest. It makes all the difference.
Honestly Lemmy is much better than I thought it would be. My main problem is the lack of some niche communities that are on Reddit. For example as a GW2 player I get all my news about game updates & store discounts etc from the GW2 subreddit, but I don't see Lemmy taking that over anytime soon, if ever. Maybe I'll need to use a Reddit scraper for that, if I want to completely abandon the platform.
What I dislike about Reddit is the system of incentivizing karma farming. This leads to unhealthy posting behaviors that always bugged me. So far to me it seems Lemmy does not have that, so it's a huge win.
Well lemmy.ml/c/guildwars2 exist, we just have to revive it!
Not seeing any reposts is honestly so refreshing
If it doesn't exist, you get to create it ;)
I have been trying to comment instead of just lurking. Its against my natural tendencies, but I want to see this place live, so I thought I would be the change I want to see in the world.
I lurked because everything I had to say had already been said, or so it seemed.
Seems like, with less users, that's less likely to happen. Been nice.
Man, to me all of this smells the internet from the 2000s and I can’t tell how excited I am
No lurking? Okay, hi everybody. 👋😄
I'm commenting to boost engagement!
I'm excited to see the concept of federation gaining traction. I can't describe how disappointed I was when Jabber/XMPP failed, IRC faded from relevance, and Facebook/Twitter became the way to talk to people. Now, seeing everyone here and on Mastodon, I'm finally feeling a bit hopeful again.
Come to think of it, I’m surprised I didn’t learn my lesson with centralization when AIM died. I just accepted it as a natural part of the tech lifecycle and found a different centralized service. But seeing the decisions and actions of these companies over the past few years - platforms I trusted - hit differently, and hit even harder when I went to look for forums and RSS and realized my backup options were dying. You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone, or pretty close to being gone. It definitely makes me want to support federation and indie web efforts - it’s much closer in spirit to the web I grew up with.
Just joined, reddit refugee here. I’m just trying to figure out how to sign up to all my related “subreddits” on here to see posts like my home feed
I tried Mastodon and I just couldn't do it. But I don't use Twitter either. I've been using Lemmy/BeeHaw for 10 minutes and it already seems like a drop-in, minimal learning curve to reddit. this looks super promising!
Yeah as a lurker on Reddit (I use libreddit) I really wanna see some change for the better, Fediverses' seem to be the future, we just need to get the general masses aware of its presence :)
My concern is lemmy in general is too complicated a concept for the average user just wanting to browse. I've already encountered 2 users on reddit recently who might have stopped because of this complexity. One said he/she felt like lemmy makes its users answer queries before being able to join a sub, and one just couldn't get why there has to be different instances and was turned off because he/she couldn't quite understand how it all works.
I'm not sure I understand everything completely muself, but I'm willing to try. I don't think a lot of people do, tbh.
Lemmy will have to learn to hide the sausage-maker if they want laymen to enjoy their sausage. That is to say they'll have to make a way for the everyman to interact without the barrier to entry.
Though, no one says Lemmy has to become a AAA social media site
This is the way
It's easier not to lurk when the odds of getting a strangely hostile reply over nothing important goes down
Agreed. I always felt like I had to add five different disclaimers to my comments to avoid bad faith arguments and angry responses. Wasn’t a fun experience at all and often lead to me just deleting comments.
I may have been a little... overzealous when I wrote my beehaw application but I echo this point when I submitted
My last comment on reddit was 6 years ago. I was afraid of what it and the internet at large was becoming. Afraid to be a human online because the trolls and the dox and the swats. The mission statements in the side bar, the long and insightful posts that hope to bridge new people to the culture of beehaw that speak of being nice and compassionate, of working together to build a community of varied interests and peoples let me dare to dream that there exists a place where I can be a human on the internet again.
It's going to take a lot of deconditioning to not be a lurker!
It ain't much, but it's honest work!
While I’m sad about the Reddit api changes. I’m also happy about them if they make Lemmy popular, I’d love to ditch Reddit altogether.
This is where I’m at too. Reddit is my last non-Fediverse social media account, and I already had some reservations about keeping it. I don’t think I’m ready to delete it just yet, unlike FB/Twitter/Instagram.
I feel attacked. First post on my feed when I open Jerboa.
I feel like it's easier and more rewarding to comment when it's a smaller community. The problem is that I don't have anything interesting to post :/
Yes you do. What did you do yesterday?
I went to watch Into the Spiderverse. It was pretty great. I like the original way better, but man this one delivers.
I definitely have this feeling too. I’m finding that memes and other picture-based posts are a little easier for me to start with because they do some of the talking for me.
Haha same! I've already commented here more than what I have on reddit in the past 5 years at least. And I'm not even forcing myself to comment. It just feels authentic. I feel that my voice won't be lost in the void of the internet. I agree with @Disgusted_Tadpole. Last time I had this feeling was on orkut back in the 2000s. Exciting times! :)
Sigh. Yes, I'll do my best.
no lurking? okay hi
hail from another lurker
Man I use to be a mad lurker too, I'd occasionally repost a 30K upvote banger, but other than that I'd always second guess myself when I write a comment, go "nah" and then return back to lurking
On Lemmy tho it's different, and I love it
Feeling pretty seen here. I've registered 2 years now and this is my first post...
Speak for yourself.
…oh, wait. Shit.
I love it when the communities are smaller but I do hope they get bigger too, maybe I won't lurk this time and be more involved but as long as the content is good I don't mind lurking again haha
Feels like 2000's message boards as I've said on a few posts now. It's nice - I do feel like my contributions matter more so I actually hit "post"