how are yall feeling about the website?
Hey! I’m keeping this as it’s targeted at new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.
Fuck /u/spez, innit?
Fuck u/spez
fuck spez
Fuck that dick head named spez
Fuck u/spez
That is correct
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Sir yes sir!
Hoping it’s a success but I find it hard to see it becoming one. Purely due to the confusion with how it actually works with different instances. Many casual users are going to be confused and not bother
I agree. I think there needs to be lesser of a learning curve to get more users onto this.
People use discord though, and I find it just as confusing. It feels the same here, except you make an account on one server and use that server to browse all other servers
I thought so too but there is so much information out there and it doesn’t take much at all to figure out. I gave up once because I was tired and my brain was foggy but tried again later and I got it working with jeroba and it’s great. I don’t even mind the lag from all the new users.
Yeah, I’m one of the confused casual users. Can you explain how the instances work? This morning I created an account on my pc but had no time to browse. I downloaded an app called jerboa a few minutes ago. The front page had memes and fun things. I logged into lemmy.world instance and that content is gone. Do I have to have an account for each instance? Are the instances like separate websites?
All the accounts and posts can communicate/share across the instances, but each instance has its own database of posts.
The example people give is that is like email. You can have licenensedtoill@gmail but you can send messages someone @yahoo.
You dont have to create a seperate account for each instance. And on whatever instance youre on you can browse and post on communities of any other instance.
Does that mean someone else can have the same username as me on a separate instance?
Yes, just like with email.
The way this is successful is if someone develops a way for the 3rd party clients (such as a proxy) to switch to this system instead. Also a way to easily register.
I agree. I think there needs to be lesser of a learning curve to get more users onto this.
We’ve had to go backwards to go forward and I’m all for it.
It’s like we’ve just escaped an abusive partner and now starting from zero!
That “first night in the new apartment without most of the furniture, sleeping by yourself for the first time in a while” feeling.
I actually love that feeling except that one time I spent my first night in this prison-like dorm room with dirty walls and no hot water in Japan, dirty sheets and a paper thin futon with nothing to eat and nobody to talk to/no way to call anyone. This feels a lot better than that.
Honestly I don’t see it as going backwards but unfamiliar. I was reluctant to switch to this style because I didn’t understand it and ended up on mastodon a few years ago into some terrifyingly hostile racist/bogoted/sexist communities. Maybe I did something wrong and ended up in a bad part of town but I ended up deleting the app I was using. So far the experience on lemmy is so much more pleasant lol…
Just joined a bit, too. Looks great so far. It reminds me of that wild west frontier feeling like when a bunch of us migrated from Digg to Reddit. We’re building another new community.
… With blackjack! And hookers!
Are you Decoy Bender or just Bender?
Just a decoy, I’m afraid. Shut up baby, I know it!
Hell yeah take my money!
I feel like I’m back in the best part of the early-mid 00s, when the entire internet was running on phpbb or some random local social networks with 500 users. I missed those, glad to be back in the new, hopefully better, interpretation of those times. Overall, it’s quite nostalgic here. ❤️
I miss that time in the internet, we were all more naive. Corporations harvesting data and relentlessly advertising wasn’t so widespread, or at least as obvious
Happy to be here, also sad to be here.
Ngl, us r/efugees are not happy with things over there.
As much as I’m coming to enjoy this, it still isn’t what reddit was, nor is the app experience anything close to as feature rich. But, I’m finding other benefits here that are, and never were, possible at reddit, so it’s still a good thing :)
Reddit is proof that no publicly traded company, nor any that intends to be, can be trusted with anything. Not use that was ever in doubt, but reddit has shown it in such a glaring, grotesque way that it’s the poster child for how shitty corporate thought is.
I dunno. I was enjoying things. I had started moderating two subs I deeply cared about, with one having a strong sense of community building. There’s an emotional response to the loss of that. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to put in the work, put in the passion, when it’s shit on by the very company that profits from my free labor. fuck spez, fuck reddit
God dam right friend.
The best parts of reddit were the communities of people dedicated to the topics under each sub.
Reddit CEOs didn’t create that. It was and has always been regular users and hardworking Mods that brought us what we loved about reddit. If reddit isn’t going to protect those people, fuck em.
I’m signing off of reddit with the black out. There will probably be a long time before something replaces it. But I’m a long for the ride.
I mean it seems so obvious in retrospect I suppose. I hope we’re looking a the start of a real renascence for the internet, away from corporate overlords.
I kinda like it actually. A cross between discord and reddit or smth. I’m only 1 hr old so I’m gonna withhold judgment for when I get more accustomed to the ui.
Same. I’m just jazzed to be here, right now.
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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!
You might have to subscribe to that channel first. If you go to that community where you get the sign in page, there is a box that says “to post in this community, type in xyz to the search bar” then you just paste what they say into whatever search bar is on the website you’re logged into and you can subscribe
For example I am on lemmy.world but there is a community “ich_iel” I want on the German language version “feddit.de” so I have to go the community I want (ich_iel on feddit.de), find the link from the community, then type it in the search bar on Lemmy.world and I am able to subscribe and post in the community
It will be a format like !community@websitename
In my case I had to post something like “!ichiel@feddit.de” into the search bar on Lenny.world
I am new here so this is all I know
Thanks! I’ve been doing it that way, but it feels confusing and it’s not the most comfortable thing to do. I guess that in some time I’ll get to it.
I just learned about this site 5 minutes ago. I’ll be done with Reddit soon.
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.
Honestly when i started with reddit it was very confusing. Specially the concept of karma. Now it is time to learn something fresh and new!
If you’re on Android get Jerboa for Lemmy. It’s still in alpha but its still much better than browsing with the website imo, at least in terms of ugliness
I just discovered Jerboa. It’s at least serviceable.
They seem to be building it up fast.
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 got permbanned a few months ago because reasons? This is more gooder.
Just deleted all past activity from my reddit account, deactivated it and joined you marry bunch. Glad to be here.
