How has ur lemmy experience been so far?

Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

TeaHands,
@TeaHands@lemmy.world avatar

Pretty great tbh. The tricky thing with being an early adopter is you kind of have to be the change you want to see, but I'm old enough to feel no shame about just barging into places and starting new threads as needed.

So far started two accounts on two different instances (I like to keep different subjects somewhat separate) and had really cool interactions on both.

Obviously there are a few UX issues, trying to sub to remote communities is kind of a nightmare, but hopefully I've subbed to enough that other people on my instance will find it a bit easier to find them through search.

Skimmer5728,

great, i've really liked lemmy so far. its really the first alt big tech platform like this that i've gotten into, was never big on mastodon or any of the others out there.

lemmy is honestly a breath of fresh air. really great platform so far, i think it has very strong potential.

i still use reddit for some things, but overall i'm starting to use lemmy a lot more. great work from the devs, can't wait to see the future!

scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

It really feels like how Reddit started, before all the rage-bait and eye-catching bullshit. I miss the floofs, the memes, the fun reasons I joined. Now 90% is politics that keep popping up even though I don't subscribe to any political subs and keep blocking

Skimmer5728, (edited )

this 100%. its just really refreshing rn and great to see.

FuzzyDunlop,

Seriously, I'm not from the USA and I'm not supposed to know the names of American senators, MP's, governors or lawyers, or of who shot who, or who had a panic attack in an airplane, or why people are shouting at each others at a mcdonalds drive-in. Does any american ex-redditor know the name of a single european politician besides Merkel?

The news cycle proposed by reddit is filled with american politics ad nauseam and by ragebait. The european subs of reddit are filled with russian shills. When you add up all of this there is no point into opening reddit for the news.

bdonvr,

Does any american ex-redditor know the name of a single european politician besides Merkel?

Well of course I do! Macron, .... uh

CalcProgrammer1,
@CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml avatar

Maybe not now, but Brexit stuff was all over Reddit when that was going down.

Fylkir,

I at least know

  1. Macron
  2. Boris
  3. Orban
  4. Jezza
scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

Lol way to put it in perspective, I know maybe 2 politicians in all of Europe. Idk when, Reddit used to be global but it's gotten incredibly America-focused, and maybe that's just with the size but holy crap is it annoying now - and I'm American. I get bombarded with politics daily, can't I just have a place that's just memes?

jasory,

It's American politics focused nowadays. Reddit has always been overwhelmingly American, the US is after all the largest Anglophone state. In fact it only got "global" recently with the rise of the French and German subreddits.

GuyDudeman,
@GuyDudeman@lemmy.ml avatar

Mastodon is so much like a Twitter/Facebook replacement that I'm not even interested in it. Reddit/Lemmy's focus is not on broadcasting yourself but rather link aggregating and conversations about those links in the comments. It's always been so much better of a forum type of experience than Twitter/Mastodon/Facebook.

eggnog,

I always tried to get into Twitter whenever I heard people say they love it so much but I could never find the same enjoyment from it. the same is happening with me and Mastodon, but lemmy doesn't really have that issue for me because I loved browsing reddit and they're similar to each other

GuyDudeman,
@GuyDudeman@lemmy.ml avatar

Exactly. I think people who love twitter for conversations have never really been on Reddit before, probably.

lemillionsocks,
@lemillionsocks@beehaw.org avatar

I heard someone else put the issue with mastadon/twitter into words in a way that explained why I never jived with it. With mastadon/twitter you follow people and personalities while reddit and message boards were more about following a subject or interest. The twitter algorithm and sharing I guess spreads a lot of stuff around and it's cool that twitter has so many famous and inside industry people running stuff, but that community based on specific personalities makes it harder to follow.

GuyDudeman,
@GuyDudeman@lemmy.ml avatar

Exactly. The Twitter and Facebook style systems are about broadcasting your personal content. Whereas Reddit and other forums is more about discussion. It's less ego-centric.

XPost3000, (edited )

Oh man it has been unironically great! First day I joined there was basically nothing but a meme sublemmy and a couple of tech subs too, but nowadays there are communities popping up left right and center, and I'm seeing so many familiar subs recreated on here, too

Overall my past week of using Lemmy have been phenomenal, and I'm happy to say that Lemmy has become my mindless scrolling app of choice now

Edit: correct number of weeks

stappern,

I love it so far,only needs more people

Rhabuko,

This. We have to spread the word mouth to mouth. There are a lot of people who are sick of reddit and willing to tolerate the growing pains + bugs of Lemmy.

honk,

At least on my instance everything is running fast, snappy. I like the clean interface. Haven't encountered any major bugs yet.

The only downside for me so far is that there is not a lot to see yet. The only active posts and communities are about lemmy itself. Which is understandable of course but I can't wait to actually get to the phase where I actually get to experience real content lmao

oranges,

Well, I'm here !

I have removed my Reddit account after 10yrs + 100k + karma and more hours invested than I would like to admit.

This time, I'm legit done with the place. I don't like where they are headed and decided to give Lemmy a go.

So far, so good :)

I got my account approved and I'm good to go. This is my first comment of many, many more to come.

Good to be here folks...

lemdoeswhatreddont,

Welcome! Same boat here, wiped several decade+ old accounts today. Sad but... the community here seems great. Lacking on the cat gifs and tiktok reposts etc for sure, but that's not why I loved reddit either.

CCatMan,

Is there a way to find when new instances or communities come online?

SturgiesYrFase,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

I can't answer your question, but I have a question for you.

Are you like, a man who is a cat, or a man who has a bunch of cats?

CCatMan,

Yes. 👨‍🦯🐅🐆🐈🐅🐆🐆🐆🐈🐈🐆🐅🐆🐅🐈🐆🐅

SturgiesYrFase,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

Wild

bruhsoulz,

i doubt ill be fasting from reddit cus theres always instances where i look for smt and the answers are there (like in the search results). but ima be using lemmy from now on for casual scrolling and entertainment instead

jeena,
jeena avatar

Especially the lemmy.ml part was kind of terrible, I got into some weird argument with Tiananmen Square massacre deniers and the mods started deleting my comments, so the whole discussion was meaningless and left me very worried for the future of this corner of the fediverse.

Woodyboye,

Yikes. Are there people like that in lemmy.ml? Ill need to keep an eye out then. Still not completely found my footing in all this yet. Might watch a video or read something to better understand all this soon.

Andreas,
@Andreas@feddit.dk avatar

The history is that Lemmy was originally created as an independent forum for communists. Later, the devs experimented with ActivityPub federation and created the first federated Reddit alternative. The software itself is neutral and can be used by anyone, but the original communist users of Lemmy before federation was implemented are still around. The politics of Lemmy's original community scared off a lot of potential users from exploring federated Reddit, but bringing more users and awareness to Lemmy will also attract politically neutral developers who can maintain a good alternative.

An alternative is not even necessary if the devs are able to leave their ideologies out of the software's design, which I believe they are doing well.

maegul,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

And from what I've seen, the core devs have always supported and encouraged more instances to be created so that there's a diversity of communities ... I don't think want everyone to be just on here (lemmy.ml) and I'd guess they especially don't want to conflicts to erupt over communism (where in the past some facist or neo-nazi brigading happened and that's why sign-ups require approval).

The answer is for some people to get to work and put up new instances. That's what happened at mastodon and it's what allowed the platform to absorb the twitter migration. We really shouldn't expect whole new open-source and free platforms to just be waiting for us to get tired of our corporate for-profit big-social-platforms. It takes a little bit of work from us ... either understanding a little bit about how things work, helping others, engaging, and if we're able, putting up instances, starting communities and contributing back to the source code.

5ttrAx,

Well, that's just not the case. Lemmy's devs have always been highly ideological. The case in point here is their handling of the slur filter.

The basic guiding principle of GPL software has always been freedom. Free software has always been explicitly political, but when you put out free code, you have to accept that it might be used by people you don't like. Adding DRM, such as the slur filter, is against the freedom and openness of the free software, even if the DRM is so half-assed as a slur filter that any half-competent dev could easily remove.

Andreas,
@Andreas@feddit.dk avatar

They changed the compulsory filter to be optional and configurable by community admins. They haven't implemented compulsory features after that either, so I see it as a mistake they made when they didn't fully understand the principles of federation and still treated Lemmy as a centralized communist forum. We shouldn't hold those mistakes over them if they learned from it and changed.

maegul,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

Didn’t know about this.

But, from the cited comment on GitHub:

I want to make it very difficult for racist trolls to use the most updated version of Lemmy.

Fuck yea! This is awesome. Even if not terribly efficacious (I didn’t look into that).

And just to be clear: I talk about principles of platform and instance diversity … and you counter with ”what about racial slurs”?!

GarbageShootAlt2,

I love when anticommunist concern-trolls step on rakes like that.

maegul,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

Yep. Like there's a good point there from a software standpoint and whether this measure makes sense once the user base and spread of instances and cultures goes past a threshold (especially on the language barrier, but not as persuasively as they think I suspect given the grassroots origin of the software). It's probably at, past or near that threshold now, but similarly with the point at which friendly forks make sense.

But, "lets just resist racism as much as possible even with weird software kludges" being a problematic "ideology" that undercuts any claim to fostering diversity? ... LMFAO!

Maybe put the software freedom and free-speech flags down for a second, look around and touch some grass.

5ttrAx,

Yeah, since the only true diversity is which particular flavour of a tankie you are.

GarbageShootAlt2,

If you've got a problem, you can just say it directly instead of presenting this non-sequitur like it's an own. If anti-racism is "tankie" to you then I'm a T-90.

5ttrAx,

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    GarbageShootAlt2,

    lmao those damned "statists". Did I ever say you advocated for racism? What do slur filters have to do with communism? This is reply seems to be very confused.

    5ttrAx,

    I write about principles of free software, and you interpret that as endorsing racist comments?

    If you actually cared about diversity, you'd know that many English slurs happen to be the same as other non-offensive non-English words; your particular narrow linguistic and cultural viewpoint isn't the only one that's valid.

    CarlMarks,

    A slur filter isn't DRM and free software is in no way some kind of culture that obliges software developers to write code that lets you be more racist/whatever online, lol. The code is generously licensed and you can fork it if you want something else.

    CannotSleep420,

    When doing local development, I noticed there was an option in the admin screen to configure the slur filter. Perhaps the slur filter isn't hardcoded anymore like it was in that old github issue? Could an instance admin confirm/deny this?

    JohannesOliver, (edited )
    JohannesOliver avatar

    It is optional and editable, as mentioned at the bottom of the github issue.

    gorkx,

    @Andreas right. all due to developers: no one fucking cares if your into a dead political system. frankly leave that shit at the door. and no one fucking cares about a fucking treatise about their happy shiny place like beehaw.world. just...be excellent to each other.

    @bruhsoulz @jeena @Woodyboye

    GarbageShootAlt2,

    I think it was on the basis of you being personally insulting to the users. The modlog is pretty usable, so you can check why they were deleted

    LollerCorleone,
    LollerCorleone avatar

    That's the reason why I chose kbin over lemmy. However, beehaw also looks like a pleasant place though.

    orbit,

    While I'm subbed to a few lemmy.ml communities I didn't wanna make an account over there for the same reasons. The general inclination is a bit out of my sphere.

    pitninja,
    @pitninja@lemmy.ml avatar

    There aren't really as many leftist posts on lemmy.ml from what I can see, but it's federated with lemmygrad.ml, so if your account is on lemmy.ml you see all the posts from there as well. And because they're federated, lemmygrad users can comment on anything on lemmy.ml, so that's where you will see viewpoints come in that you may not agree with in news/politics/economics related threads. I don't know if kbin.social has its instances whitelist & blacklist published anywhere, but there's a pretty good chance you'd know by now if it federated with lemmygrad. You're likely still browsing posts and comment threads on lemmy.ml but aren't seeing comments from the lemmygrad users in those threads.

    jeena,
    jeena avatar

    As far as I understood, those were people who had accounts on lemmy.ml, not lemmygrad.ml

    FuzzyDunlop,

    And because they’re federated, lemmygrad users can comment on anything on lemmy.ml, so that’s where you will see viewpoints come in that you may not agree with in news/politics/economics related threads.

    Oh boy, I didn't think about that. I never thought that lemmy.ml would federate with a cesspool like grad. So yeah, this explains that. That's why I'm seeing so many shills.

    We have enough numbers to build a "de facto" second main instance which would be completely split from grad, should we focus on one instance? What if we tried to start an instance from scratch?

    pitninja,
    @pitninja@lemmy.ml avatar

    You're certainly welcome to build your own instance and choose who and who not to federate with, but if lemmygrad folks specifically are who you're trying to avoid, beehaw might be a good spot for you.

    jeena,
    jeena avatar

    Oh, and even if they're annoying, I understand how federation works and that users from lemmygrad could comment there etc. and I can handle the shills, what I was surprised about were the mods on lemmy.ml which started deleting my comments. Doing this, they make it impossible for me to even try to engage in a discussion and show a different point of view to the tankies.

    5ttrAx,

    Yeah, lemmy part of fediverse is full of tankies. There is even a pretty active tankie instance over lemmygrad.ml.

    Rick,

    Lemmy.World has been pretty good so far and the people over there seem to be against that kind of shit. We will see as time goes on though!

    TendieMaster69,

    I'm starting to understand how all of the individual Lemmy servers are connected and it's awesome. Understanding how Lemmy is fundamentally different than something like Reddit makes me very appreciative. I think something like Lemmy is the natural future as corporations continue to try to milk the wallets of the average person.

    amanneedsamaid,

    Its social media on our own terms!

    Barbarian,
    @Barbarian@sh.itjust.works avatar

    The coolest part is, Lemmy is bigger than just Lemmy. Kbin & Mastodon users can also see and respond to posts here!

    Toothpickjim,

    How exactly does someone on mastodon respond to posts I can't find any info anywhere on how it's done

    Barbarian, (edited )
    @Barbarian@sh.itjust.works avatar

    They have to subscribe to the community (it looks like a user to them, so it looks like @lemmy). Then they can see the posts from that "user". From there, you see the posts and can reply to them just like they were any other user.

    Toothpickjim,

    Great thanks so much

    Tobi,

    Just as i thought i understand it, you confused me again. How can Mastodon users participate here?

    dogmuffins,

    I don't know in a "what to click sense", but lemmy and mastodon differ from reddit and Twitter in that they're open source running on open standards. There's no proprietary walled garden to protect.

    The underlying protocol is called activitypub. Think of lemmy and mastodon as different interfaces for viewing the same data.

    LootGoblin42,

    I would like to understand how all of the individual Lemmy servers are connected... do you have any good resources for learning about lemmy?

    Barbarian,
    @Barbarian@sh.itjust.works avatar

    If you just want the bare minimum, the ActivityPub article on wikipedia isn't bad. For a deeper dive if you want to get technical, w3.org has a much more detailed explanation.

    qprimed,

    the w3 article is certainly worth the read. thanks.

    BurningnnTree,

    I really like it. The platform itself is great. The main thing that needs improvement is the onboarding experience. It seems really confusing at first, but I think that's mainly because it's not explained well.

    For example, the first step of the onboarding process is choosing which server to join, which I think is kind of a misleading decision. It seems like you're choosing what community you're going to interact with, but that's not really the case. You're mainly just choosing who's going to foot the bill for your network traffic. The decision seems important but it's really not IMO, at least not for someone who's just trying to jump in and see what Lemmy is all about.

    Also, community discoverability is a problem, but I think that could easily be solved with better UX on the community page. (For example I think there should be a message that says "Looking for more communities? Try doing {insert instructions here} to find them."

    AmbientChaos,

    When choosing a server isn't it also important to pick one you think will be around for a while? I'd hate to lose my history if my server went offline

    Lowbird,

    Maybe there needs to be a way to set up regular auto-backups to your local machine (or regular prompts for manual backup), then import history into your new accounts on other servers.

    Edit: also there should be a way to change which instance is your "local" for the homepage, irrespective of which one you actually log in to.

    BurningnnTree,

    Yes it's a meaningful decision, I'm just saying that prospective new users don't necessarily understand what the decision means or why they should make it. I'm not really sure how to solve this issue though, since it's part of a larger question of why should anyone pay to host a server to begin with. I mean currently nobody is incentivized to maintain a server that costs a significant amount of money, so why should anyone try to attract new users?

    PorkrollPosadist,

    Yes. My first Mastodon account was on a server which no longer exists. Unless you are hosting a personal instance, it takes commitment to keep one going, or to at least give your users adequate warning that it is shutting down. Although you could just run a script on a VPS, forget about it for 5 years and let Jesus take the wheel, that's not a nice thing to do.

    Sometimes though, the candle which burns twice as bright, burns half as long.

    Akhuyan,
    @Akhuyan@lemmy.world avatar

    While not every community is on Lemmy yet that I visit on Reddit, by people migrating from Reddit to here, hopefully that issue will be solved soon. The community here seems way more welcoming than the Reddit community is too

    Rentlar,

    Much nicer than StackExchange too:

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    jmp242,

    lol, first time I've been rickrolled in a long time.

    bruhsoulz,

    dude helll yes i also just remembered theres that stupid barried of entry on many subs which ask u to meet really weird requirements to participate.. the other day i prompted gpt to say smt funny and wholesome (it was praise towards the aur(arch user repository)) and tried to post it on some linux/arch sub but the first 3 that came to mind wouldnt allow it, one didnt accept memes, the other had a bot which took it down automatically and the third asked me to comment and participate in the sub before posting.. like come on man.

    Andreas,
    @Andreas@feddit.dk avatar

    The barrier for entry for some subreddits is too high but to be fair, ChatGPT "funny responses" are low-quality content and should be removed.

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    bruhsoulz,

    LMAOOOO

    mcribgaming, (edited )

    I'm excited for the possibilities, but daunted by the realities.

    It's going to be tough to get enough foot traffic to start populating smaller subs. It seems like the Reddit API drama is the big break needed to hit a critical mass of users, but how many will take the time to figure out something like Lemmy? And are the Lemmy instances ready? It's strange to root for Reddit to go through with the API changes after using Reddit for so long. But if there was ever a time to pay a bit extra for additional hosting resources, June 11th (or now!) should be it. If a large influx of new users crash Lemmy instances, and no one can sign up, a golden opportunity will be lost.

    Signing up was not a flawless process. You are asked to make a choice about servers with little guidance on what it all means.

    Requiring a 10 character password with additional character conditions is going to turn a lot of possible new users OFF. It should be 6 characters, with no conditions. Yes, it's not secure, but we need sign ups above everything else. Users can choose to get as complex as they want, but simplicity should also be an option. If people later grow to value their Lemmy accounts, they can secure them at a later time. But extremely easy sign up should be the default for now.

    Asking people to write an extensive answer as to "why you want to join this particular server" should also be suspended temporarily. Again, it's about ease of signing up. We should try to get as many signups in as quickly as possible, and weed out the problem people later. After the possible Reddit migration boom ends, you can go back to application essays as a requirement for entry.

    The web interface is buggy. The site will often "reset" as you are reading a thread, and the whole thread will act if "refreshed". If this causes users to lose a long post they are typing, they might quit Lemmy then and there.

    The community structure needs to be more unified across instances. It's confusing that there are local groups as well as "multiverse" groups across federations, often with the exact same name. It's a bummer that the communities can be splintered, and will have people not realize what's really available.

    I think we're might see some weaknesses of a distributed system like Lemmy in the next few weeks. It's hard to organize and get everyone rowing in the same direction with no "CEO" or clear leader. It does feel like little fiefdoms doing their own things, and that makes it even harder to hit critical mass.

    In terms of content and userbase, so far so good. It obviously leans heavily towards the technically competent. Lemmy sort of screens for the technology inclined since it's only well known to those who are up to date with the latest in tech. So of course it's easy to feel like everyone is like minded and cool for now. But we need to attract casuals if we want vibrant, non-tech groups to exist and flourish too.

    I've only been exploring for 2 days though, so I can be very wrong.

    Link,
    @Link@lemmy.ml avatar

    I agree that the signing up process should be streamlined and bugs should be fixed. But I don't agree we should maximize the userbase even if we need to weed out a lot of nasty people and bots later. That would make the platform more unpleasant instead of better.

    I think the critical mass has already been reached. Not to be an exact copy of Reddit with all its tiny subs, but to be a nice place in its own right.

    To combat the splintering problem I think there should be an option to combine similar communities of different instances. You would still have to choose an instance when posting, but when reading you wouldn't.

    cambionn, (edited )
    @cambionn@feddit.nl avatar

    Requiring a 10 character password with additional character conditions is going to turn a lot of possible new users OFF. It should be 6 characters, with no conditions. Yes, it's not secure, but we need sign ups above everything else.

    I honestly can't agree to this. Current "save" standard is at least 12 char 3 complexity, to which already too few adhere.

    But let's take it a bit further, say, you get more sign-ups due to easier passwords (which I kinda doubt matters that much compared yo other things, but let's roll with it). Imagine Lemmy would suddenly boom with those new users due to changes to make it easier + Reddit acting odd: Lemmy would still be in the initial growth if it suddenly becomes big. Lot of users + no big company/organization/etc to back it up with it's resources (as suddenly booming things can't scale resources instantly, it takes time to adapt) creates a seemingly easy target (no matter if true or not). In other words, it'll create motivation to try and hack it. And with a low password strength, that would mean easy to hack accounts. And what would a large amount of hacks do for the reputation? Especially on a nee service? Probably scare all those new people away as quick as they came...

    chachimenachi,

    I gotta say a lot of this makes sense.

    BlaringSpaghetti, (edited )

    Requiring a 10 character password with additional character conditions is going to turn a lot of possible new users OFF. It should be 6 characters, with no conditions.

    I gather that is not your case and I see what you mean if I think about my parents for instance, but objectively I can only think that a 6 characters password with no restrictions (e.g. 123456) might have been "okeish" and yet still object of jokes 20 years ago, but now it shouldn't absolutely be passed as a norm anyway close to "adeguate", users need to be correctly educated on their own security awareness in general, but also especially here because the it is very likely that the instance where the user account is registered to will not have any paid customer service around to solve their users issues with account security breaches because of their weak passwords.

    So regarding passwords for the casual as for the expert user once and for all the xkcd comics stripe on passwords:
    https://xkcd.com/936/

    and here is a couple of handy online and downloadable generators inspired from that comics stripe:
    https://xkpasswd.ethanify.me/
    https://xkpasswd.net/s/

    But also learn to use password managers! Which also come often with their own handy password generators btw. The gist of it is that you need to remember only one password for the manger, and in turn it is going to remember and service for you your credentials for all your accounts. .

    For instance for the average casual user Bitwarden should more than suffice, it is free, has a freely managed remote service, apps for mobile and extensions for the browsers, it is open source and has been audited: https://bitwarden.com/

    I perfectly know that is a an uphill process, I can see that with my parents, but I also like to think that maybe if something I tell them about how to manage their passwords is able to stick in their mind then one day it might save them from being robbed online for always using the same few charters password everywhere for every effing website.

    frustbox,

    So regarding passwords for the casual as for the expert user once and for all the xkcd comics stripe on passwords: https://xkcd.com/936/

    And when I use a passphrase that my password manager generated, the sign up form called it "weak".

    A much shorter password (about half as many characters) that is arguably weaker and has less entropy was considered "strong". Just because it had punctuation.

    BlaringSpaghetti, (edited )

    And when I use a passphrase that my password manager generated, the sign up form called it “weak”.

    Then respectfully it might be your fault, but I don't know the metrics for which Lemmy rate the passwords, you can also use this other estimator, download the local version of course:
    https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn

    I for instance used a simple setting:

    https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/88b49f82-fde5-4b4d-8672-eff003c01ac3.png

    and got:

    ;;75.cupcake.manly.argument.53%%

    testing it on https://lowe.github.io/tryzxcvbn/

    https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/58e3128c-731b-4090-ad74-f537e1132174.png

    Lemmy although gives it a "medium" quality rating to the password, so I guess it must estimate it differently

    HeadPlug,

    I just got approved here, but have been on Mastodon for a couple of months. Mastodon signup was a lot glitzier, and yet I still couldn't convert my friend, who was like "I don't understand, what do you mean it's like email? >_<". I don't have high hope for Lemmy atm...

    I think Reddit will backpedal and renegotiate with users/devs down the line, once the initial backlash has died down, and they have lowered everyone's threshold of what they would consider a "victory". Things like Lemmy will act as a sword of Damocles/safe harbour for the next time they screw up, sure, and that's a good thing. But I doubt Lemmy will explode in popularity, even if some 3rd party Reddit clients are discussing adding Lemmy support to sort of rugpull Reddit, and that's for 3 reasons(imo):

    1. The hosting costs will be exorbitant for all those new users, considering
    2. Lemmy will be stuck in the exact same boat as Reddit re:all those unpaying users, except now there's no ads either. Donations are the honourable business model, but a couple thousand well-meaning people with disposable income can't properly finance a popular platform.
    3. Even if the Lemmy community solves the above 2 problems, you still have the deciding moment of the "let's jump ship today" user tidal wave, which will make or break such a migration happening. Closest thing I can think of is the WhatsApp Privacy Policy shenanigans in '21. Melon Husk said "Use Signal" - a fine suggestion, tbh - but Signal wasn't ready for this, and so their servers crashed and burned during the tidal wave, while for-profit Telegram just paid for more servers and thus converted the refugees into users.
    Neptune014, (edited )

    Just signed up a few minutes ago. I honestly really like it so far. I was never into Twitter but I did try out mastodon and just couldn't get used to the look of everything. It was also confusing to sign up. So far Lemmy has been great. I am surprised how many active users there are. I was worried it would be super dead.

    edit: spelling

    a1studmuffin,

    Same experience here, I checked out Mastodon and was impressed with the fediverse and open nature of everything, but the style of social media just didn't gel with me. Not surprising as I was exactly the same with Twitter.

    I was literally saying "someone needs to make Mastodon for Reddit" before I discovered Lemmy!

    I feel like a lot of the discussion on here at the moment is obviously focused on Lemmy itself and Reddit, but that's not surprising given the huge influx of new users.

    Looking forward to the various communities and platform itself maturing. The first time I've been optimistic about social media in years, haha.

    Neptune014,

    Totally agree with everything. Another major complaint I see people making is that smaller communities will form when we should just have one central one for each topic. I think this will naturally sort itself out. I will likely join a community if the content is good and the people are nice. If there is a community with 2k people and everyone is mean but a small one with 10 people and good content, I'll join that one.

    Like you I am very excited to see where it goes. I don't think it can become massive. But it would be nice to see communities with 500k people in them. Optimizing server hosting is probably one of the biggest problems right now. I also wonder how the larger instances will make enough money to cover cost of servers.

    wtvr,

    Hey I'm new here bc fuck spez. There's definitely potential here. Would like it to be easier to find communities (sublemmies?) And the app needs work but I'm ready to go all in. Did I mention fuck spez yet

    the_boxhead,
    @the_boxhead@sh.itjust.works avatar

    https://browse.feddit.de/ cam help to find communities

    moof,

    So, first day of Lemmy and so far I’m enjoying it. I’m looking through communities and seeing what I’d like to follow or not.

    Criticism (hopefully constructive) that I do have:

    • I miss the random niche subreddit side of things, but I’m not sure if that’s as a result of lack people on the platform, or the UI not promoting that style of thing much.
    • I am missing a good iPadOS client. I’m currently using the Web UI, which works well enough, but it’d be great to have a more native app.
    • It seems strange that I can’t have a One True Fediverse Identity where my mastodon identity is the same as my lemmy identity and vice versa. I note that Takahē has started refocusing into more of an identity broker for ActivityPub and less of an online experience, so maybe it will be the one true unifying identity.

    On the plus side:

    • There are a lot of fun general communities on here.
    • People are really nice, in general, and this doesn’t seem to be changing, compared to the histories I’ve been browsing
    • I really like markdown as a way to post, and it seems to work ok from my iPad

    All in all, it’s been a positive 24hrs, I might give an update after a week or two.

    hellerphant,

    So far I am really enjoying it, mostly because whenever you post something you don't get 130493025084385 people telling you that your are a horrible person and completely wrong and offering you unsolicited advice and ignoring your question in the first place.

    It is NICE here. For now at least.

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