It really feels like Lemmy is alive because of you.
When I first checked out Lemmy, I wasn’t expecting there to be so much content, so much discussion, and so much community. But I’ve spent the better part of two days glued to my screen, browsing content all day. I’ve seen so many posts, so many interesting discussions about the fediverse, and of course, plenty of memes. It really feels like the start of something incredible.
I’ve gotta get back to work soon, but wow. I think this whole fediverse thing really is the next step for social media. If I find some extra time, I’ll definitely consider contributing to Lemmy’s source code to help this project and the FOSS ecosystem grow.
I was there for the great Digg to Reddit migration and now the great Reddit to Lemmy migration.
They can destroy our aggregators but they’ll never be able to destroy our community. 🤌
Fuckin well put, man. 🫘
Lemmy could be the solution we needed all along. No company can take it away - if the community remains the platform does too.
I mean, nothing is forever.
As cheesy as that sounds, it’s especially true in tech.
Someone can/will come along and fuck up Lemmy too eventually, probably.
Gonna take like 15 years though so for now, it is the place to be.
Just a reminder that Lemmy is intended to not be addictive. Go out and enjoy your life. Lemmy will be here when you’re pooping or when you have downtime, you don’t need to be glued to it
Messaging from the pooper.
I feel so included. :)
But I’m about to travel and will not poop for 3 days at least /s
I read your comment while eating freezie instead of pooping
It seems like with no algorithms, and a set of common sense guidelines that Federated instances have, we can all learn to understand and respect each other better. Breaking free of billionaire, fossil fuel mafia and hostile anti-democracy government controlled manipulation is what freedom is all about. I love it.
Lemmy definitely scratched the Reddit itch for me, and I don’t see myself going back. Unfortunately however, it is still a huge container of information that I still find myself relying on if I need to search for something.
The information contained in past posts and comments on Reddit is immense. Usually, the easiest way for me to find advice is a Google search that includes “Reddit” in the search field. It almost always returns a comment with exactly the information I was looking for
I was looking for support for a network issue and google returned me to several Reddit posts. Everyone of them was deleted or the sub was private. It’s usefulness it’s diminishing real quick.
If the sub is private, you can add “cache:” to the very beginning of the URL. Before the https. That will grab a cached version of before it went private, very helpful. Not sure if it works for deleted stuff tho.
That’s great to know… Ty.
That’s a game changer. I had no idea about that.
As someone who works in IT, this is very unfortunate. While I don’t agree with what Reddit is doing, I don’t think we should scorch the site. Its an immense archive of information that can be referenced.
It a dilemma isn’t it. If you had a business partner that decided to change the terms of the relationship so that you felt you had to leave would you let them keep the intellectual property to allow them still to make money from whilst you had nothing?
I thought about it long and hard and decided that I would take all my information as an archive and remove it from reddit. Once we have an alternative I will be more than happy to upload it to another resource.
as a software dev this also make me sad, but I hope chatgpt can fill that gap left by reddit
ChatGPT was probably trained on that data. ChatGPT remembers… like an elephant.
Heck, Google usually includes Reddit results in general searches anyway, conveniently grouped together near the top of the results. We can only hope they start doing the same for Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general).
on duckduckgo I use
site:reddit.comand the results will only include links to reddit, I find it better than Reddit’s search (duh)
I honestly doubted I’d be able to stay away from reddit. I’ve tried many times before. I’ve deleted 5 major accounts since 2012.
But Lemmy seems to have been the nicotine patch I’ve needed. Haven’t been on Reddit outside google searching for info, which isn’t going away for me personally.
Only thing I actually miss is baseball and my team sub.
You should create a community for your team so when people come here looking they’ll find a community ready to welcome them
I’ve tried to do this but can’t seem to find a clear and concise guide. From what I read, only admins can create communities?
Check out our baseball community’s sidebar for your favorite team. Try searching !baseball@fanaticus.social (and give it a minute if someone on your instance hasn’t already found us).
Fanaticus is a sports-only instance. We’ve ported over a game bot and have created communities for all the major sports teams. If you’re interested in moderating one of the communities, just ask!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !baseball@fanaticus.social
It varies from instance to instance. Some restrict community creation to admins, others don’t. I also believe you can only create communities on your home instance.
This kind of confusion is why Lemmy will not be even a minor successor to Reddit IMHO. It’s fun though, and I’m glad it exists.
It’s unlikely to topple Reddit regardless, but so long as the scalability proves functional enough to support recommending lemmy.world to non tech-savvy newbies I don’t see this particular issue becoming problematic. Most of the larger recommended instances have open community creation anyway. I guess BeeHaw doesn’t but people aren’t really recommending it to newbies either.
Ah I didn’t realise you had to be an admin. Maybe reply to the below thread with a proposal for your community
Wow this is me exactly. Finding Lemmy to be a breath of fresh air, but the main thing I’m fiending for is my Mariners community. Really hoping mariners@fanaticus.social gets some traction. I was a Sync for Android user and the developer is shifting to Lemmy and that is exciting. I still have not caved and downloaded the Reddit app, so that’s a win.
Who’s your team? Check out the sidebar on !baseball@fanaticus.social Fanaticus is a sports-only instance which helps keep us insulated from any defederation drama. We’ve got all the communities set up just waiting for our fellow fans to join us! We also have game bots and are actively developing new features.
If you’re interesting in modding your team’s community, just post in there asking. The community may seem bare right now but why a little TLC you can make it a home for your favorite team.
I’m extremely glad such an awesome alternative existed when we needed somewhere to go.
I also have to say this feels more like a true community than redddit as a whole ever did.
It’s amusing if you see some of the older posts over the past couple of weeks where administrators and devs are in absolute panic mode trying to fix all the most important bugs because I think deep down they knew this was a huge opportunity that might not come around again.
And it feels fresh
so fresh and so clean
so fresh and so clean-clean
I’m only here because of you. This goes both ways.
Even given the circumstances of us being brought here (overt, stubborn, and shameless corporate greed), also glad folks are here. My hopes for lemmy is to be the community center of the internet. Let us not merely be lemmings, let us be lemminites.
Whether it’s Lemmy, Kbin, or something that’s yet to be made - I feel the fediverse is here to stay. Genuinely revolutionary step away from centralized services like reddit.
The paradigm of having a home base instance and being able to venture out into the fediverse is just incredible. There’s a sense of community and comraderie that was never present on reddit. And yet there’s a breadth of users and perspectives that you could never find on smaller internet forums or platforms.
Couldn’t agree more, I really believe that federated self hosted sites have the potential to supercede the centralized internet. The fundamental experience is superior, and people will eventually begin to realize that.
Imagine an internet where nobody is trying to sell you something. Or worse, sell you (to advertisers). What a concept.
Using lemmy is part of the never ending quest of recreating the internet interactions of my youth. When real friends were made on message boards. When things felt like a real group of people, and not so hyperfocused on individual topics so as to ignore the people behind the words.
Lemmy feels good so far
It is reminiscent of my days when I would call up the local BBS or get on IRC or telnet talkers and speak to folks all over the world. It has been great.
Thank you for being here with us!
Humans long for connection. Our global, online community is becoming fragmented these days. It might be a good thing if we can build a more resilient and free community out of that.
So I’m just saying ‘hey!’ I’m among community and so are you. Let’s get back to contributing and not just mindlessly consuming content.
Yup, I agree. Once a community gets too big, it becomes too enticing for corporations to monetize. I hope that Lemmy’s fragmentation keeps our community shielded from corpos (at least, for as long as possible).
Don’t look at me, I’m just here to promote “Barbie”.
Lol yeah but at least I see you on almost every post I look at commenting.
No, you’re breathtaking!
I feel like I am in the presence of greatness. Can’t wait for the movie.
Thanks, but I’m probably going to need some new material after “Barbie” comes out.
I think Lemmy is really cool, and I’m excited to see where it goes from here!
