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For real though, since I joined Lemmy (last Friday, 4 days into blackout) I probably spend as much daily time here as I spent there before blackout π but I'm enjoying it !
It's nice to see posts made by real people; this way (using Lemmy), you realize just how much bots' crap is Reddit made of.
Agree. The lack of bots, sponsored posts and AutoMod comments are a breath of fresh air
oh man I do not miss scrolling past the thousand word automod essay on every freaking post. I kinda miss sorting by controversial though.
That reminds me of r/shitposting, there used to be a time where you could ruin an entire post and have like more than 50 replies of the autobot alone
Lemmy is the first platform I've come across that I'm actually excited to use in many years. Being federated and not motivated by profits (with all the tracking and selling of personal information that it entails) makes me feel like I'm not the product.
Your information is freely available through the API of these platforms so I could track you myself now ππ
Same here, it took me a while to figure out how Lemmy works, but I think I'm getting it. Honestly I can't believe I haven't found out about this before now. Go fediverse!
Best way to fight an addiction is to get addicted to something else
Excuse me, does anyone know how to delete someone else's post? I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
Just kidding, I love it here.
Yes, I know how. Just press the button work the forbidden on it, go to the previous page and reload. Gone!
My addiction is worse now.
Hey, at least it's not ~~crack~~ reddit
Me: I have to spend less time on social media.
Also me: Federation is right thing. Do not leave!
The first few days were kind of tough; but once I started finding communities I liked, my feed got pretty nice.
LoL. I wasn't really distracted by random subs on reddit. But on Lemmy. People are into flashlights???!!
I know! Thank God I'm not the only one. I've been seeing that community constantly while trying to figure out how to use Lemmy.
It's even worse now tbh lol!
Indeed! This is where reddit goes to die, to paraphrase a great contemporary philosopher (/s/s/s, ΓΌber/s, in case it's needed)
I don't even know what you said, much less where the sarcasm was.
We've got to spend the time to help the place grow! (and other excuses)
I do not miss the agent-arranged, canned-response, obvious movie/book/TV show AMA's...
Victoria days were the best...
Maybe we can build something similar
This place is already doing what reddit did for me and Jerboa is very close to the 3rd party app I used. Fuck reddit and spez, hello Lemmy!
Well said. I used Sync for Reddit and find Jerboa compares well.
Jerboa
Thankyou for making me aware of this app
Of course!
Just to avoid scree time after reddit blackout, I had uninstalled other social media apps as well. But got suck into Lemmy right after that.
oh I know... I'm so much more active here. It's just a nicer atmosphere for engagement.
Iβm on kbin and yeah, this is my new home
Got to love the Fediverse, eh!
Mhm
I feel seen.
I'm still trying to wrap around my mind about how this federated universe works. Like i know that I could access the content of this instance (is this the correct name?) from Mastodon and I did subcribe to a few lemmy instances from there but didn't manage to read any posts. Plus the thing that in Lemmy i use an account from another instance and I can read and post on everything but not by accessing it directly. It's kind of counfusing and I think this will be the greatest break to it's diffusion. Otherwise definitely better than Twitter/Reddit for sure.
This should help
Lmao I love the emphasis on "everywhere else" with Beehaw at the center as if they hadn't just defederated half of Lemmy from their instance including two of the ones displayed in the image (LW&SJW)
They did? What's the story there? Why'd they do it?
https://beehaw.org/post/567170
they wanted to have a safe space without adding more admins & mods so they cut off 2 out of the 5 biggest instances and dozens of others as can be seen here: https://beehaw.org/instances
Bummer, I guess I can see why they'd do it with the open registration and floods of probable bots on the other instances, but it's still kinda sad to see. Thanks for the info!
Pretty cool infographic. Thanks.
I never thought of myself as addicted to social media, but I got more studying done in two days than I have in two months. It made me realize how much SM consumed my time.
Am I the only one who goes onto sites like reddit and lemmy to learn stuff?
Trying to fill the void has shown me just how large the void was in the first place.
Still need to figure out things (for as much as Jerboa for Lemmy is nice, it can't hold a candle to Sync), but same here.