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.

  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • unwinagainstable@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      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

      • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        on duckduckgo I use site:reddit.com and the results will only include links to reddit, I find it better than Reddit’s search (duh)

  • rckclmbr@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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

  • FuckOff@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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. 🤌

    • NeuralPlanet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy could be the solution we needed all along. No company can take it away - if the community remains the platform does too.

      • FuckOff@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I joined here on June 12th and there were practically no posts or communities. Now I can’t keep track of it all. I’m so glad to be here and finally be part of this social movement - I’ve been tracking the Fediverse/Mastodon/Friendica/GNU Social/Diaspora/etc for a VERY long time, but the format of those networks has never been interesting to me. I want to talk about topics, not people.

  • Grant_M@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Deez@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Thank you for this post, it’s really inspirational. I think we can create an awesome community here. This is the start of something special.

    • Propane@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m so surprised at how it’s taken off. I thought it was going to be a ghost town. Super exciting.

      • Deez@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ve found I’m interacting more, rather than just lurking.

        A meme with the text Feels Goodman over a picture of John Goodman smiling

        Edit: whoops not sure that my image embedding worked, oh well.

  • sudo@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Except the fascists. Fuck the fascists, they can go back to the holes they crawled out of.

    • ggBarabajagal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Fuck the fascists? For sure. I fucking hate all those motherfuckers.

      Except that, just about the worst thing of all about fascism is the way that it goes out of its way to dehumanize other people, just so as to make it easier to hate them.

      So how about, “Fuck fascism” then? I could get behind that. But maybe still try to save some small modicum of love, as well, for all the poor souls who’ve been weak or gullible enough to have fallen for it?

      Maybe give them one more chance to come out of their holes, if they’re brave enough? When I can, I always try give them one more chance to do that. In any small way whatsoever.

      I don’t mean to purposefully give them “one more chance” to troll, or spew their rhetoric, or stoke hate – even though we all know that’s what they’ll do again, 99 times out of 100.

      I don’t mean supporting some reddit echo chamber I am ideologically opposed to just to feed my own ego and provide them all fodder for more echo-chamber bullying and false validation. I mean using a forum for good-faith communication among honest strangers. The way forums have always been intended to be used (but never always have) since the beginning of the internet 30 years ago.

      I just mean that, when thinking of another person instead of another person’s ideology, I always want to give them just one more chance to listen to me, and one more chance to talk to me, as a fellow person

      One more chance to hear another point of view, one more chance to come to understand and communicate and cooperate from a place of their own standing, as opposed to just snapping back defensively from the place that their fascism has conditioned them to react from.

      One more one-in-a-hundred chance that my purposeful efforts to humanize my adversary may somehow lead him to humanize me as well.

      Fuck fascism, for sure. But I try not to hate a person for their good intentions. It’s said the road to hell is paved with them, but they’re still usually a whole lot more respectable than bad intentions.

  • Smallletter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • headie_sage@fanaticus.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • los_chill@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • SuperStonker@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You should create a community for your team so when people come here looking they’ll find a community ready to welcome them

      • Propane@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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?

        • Coelacanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • Mogwai@vlemmy.netEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            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.

            • Coelacanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              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.