I'm very happy there was an alternative.

Everything is new and confusing and some things a bit janky, but its also like dawn of new age.

I really REALLY hope lemmy and fediverse in general will be resilient against corporate corruption that will eventually try creeping in as popularity grows.

I used Apollo, now I'm here

It's strange. I feel lost.

Reddit was reddit because of the people. Those people are now here.

Always cool to see the people of the internet come together and make their own thing :)

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 like it, but I'm still a lil confused about all the fediverse thing. For example, if while browsing this instance I open a link to a thread in another instance I can't comment as I'm not logged there. Any way around this? But overall excited to try this out and hopefully moving permanently here!

I like that the mobile version of the website is already more functional than Reddit's.

It’s great to have new spaces, especially ones not controlled by corporate interests or venture capitalists. I will admit that (while it’s a function of time + engagement) I do miss the breadth and depth of Reddit, particularly for the niche hobby communities. There was/is so much good information on there that will take many years to replicate elsewhere.

So far I’m enjoying it! I like the stripped down design and I’m slowly figuring out the federation thing. Hopefully we can get more people from Reddit to get more content in the communities.

Edit: I've created a Tampa community for people from Tampa FL.

👋 need to find (or make) an RES equivalent because i cannot live without the hotkeys

Reminds me of what reddit used to be, what UBB boards used to be before that, and small irc rooms before that. Freedom, the never constant, always moving community of individuals. Some of the same people I knew on Reddit, I knew in my old Dreamcast irc and AOL days.

Shit changes, we move but we never go away. Now we're here. Thanks for having us.

I really need an eli5 for this fediverse thing. I'm here using Jerboa, logged in to lemmy.world. when I try and comment or vote on content on other instances, like lemmy.ml, I'm told I have to log in. Is that a Jerboa bug? Or do I really need an account on each instance to interact?

I am still trying to wrap my head around how it all works, but I feel like I am slowly getting the hang of it. One thing I was wondering, and forgive me if I get the terminologies wrong, since instances are their own little ecosystems, wouldn't there be multiple versions of the identical communities i.e. gaming, videos etc., or is that the beauty of it all?

Another minor concern I have is that since instances are run by individuals, wouldn't there be a risk of losing massive amounts of content if said owner no longer wishes to maintain their instance or "goes rogue" for a lack of a better word and shuts down access to all communities located on that particular instance/server.

Just deleted all past activity from my reddit account, deactivated it and joined you marry bunch. Glad to be here.

I'm loving the wild west of it so far and how quickly it all seems to be growing. One big thing I've noticed though: How will communities combat the fracture? For example, take 'photography' when I searched around yesterday I found and subscribed to one com. Now there's one on most of the larger instances, each individually only has a couple of subscribers. We will need to find a way to let our communities stay informed of the other communities as they pop up around the Lemmy verse so that we can unify, otherwise all the communities will remain trapped in their own individual bubbles. This isnt a problem if there was an easy way to group communities into supercommunities.

Maybe Lemmy needs a method of putting your community in a list and allowing people to join the list as a community in of itself thus syncing all like minded groups together into a single feed.

I’m excited for a new experience. I only commented about 5 times my entire time on Reddit and I hoping to interact more here.

Test

I'm liking it. I'm sure it'll take some getting used to, but I'm off Reddit for the next 3 days so I'm sure I'll figure it out!

Is very comfortable here, I will not go back on reddit for sure!

Thanks for setting up this instance and allowing all of us to come and join.

This place feels like it could be a good alternative. Once I learn more about how to use it. Looking forward to a new start!

@immadeofgold

This is a very different experience! I'm currently posting from a Mastodon server to a Lemmy server. I'm excited to see how a federated web can serve creators and users alike.

Hey all, still getting my head around this place, but f reddit.

I'm in for this. Sign-up through lemmy.world was a snap and now logged in and posting via Jerboa. Only just getting my toes wet, but digging it

I don't fully understand it, but I'll try to get used to it.

Have been browsing this thing for a few hours now and haven't seen one NSFW post. Kinda weird.

got into reddit fully just a few years ago. it was my go-to for silly frog pictures to cheer me up. any other instances (i hope i'm saying that right, something similar to a subreddit) that are frog related? i'd love to contribute some :)

Reddit ran me off with a permaban 2 months ago because I wrote about the 3 boxes of liberty metaphor in a comment. 2 million+ imaginary Internet points down the drain. Glad to see the site shoot itself in the foot and looking forward to finding an alternative.

And the obligatory: fuck Spez.

I'm really liking it so far. The UI feels really clean.

I have finally managed to create an account, so do we have CSS like original reddit? Other then that lemmy seems pretty cool

Excited to see how this pans out! Really enjoying it so far.

Honestly struggling a bit. Finding the communities for my interests was very easy on Reddit, kinda having a hard time here.