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
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Sir yes sir!
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!
Happy to be here, also sad to be here.
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.
Theres definitely some work to be done to make this all more intuitive though
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.
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.
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.
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…
Agreed. I was an early adopter of Mastodon but I found it so empty and strange. I figured I’d wait a couple of years. Much better now. Already like Lemmy over reddit. Not hard really.
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
I don’t fully understand it, but I’ll try to get used to it.
I’m a little confused, but cautiously optimistic. It took a while to sign up and log in, but I got that far, so I guess I can work out the rest too! As a bit of a Reddit lurker, I’m out of my comfort zone, but committed to upvoting and commenting to help build the community!
This is my first comment here, hope I’m doing it right!
It’s good so far; a few UX/UI issues need polishing, some more display options would be nice too.
The whole issue of community@instance is going to take some getting used to for people, and it’s not clear how that’s going to shake out in the long run. I’m not yet certain whether this will become my default space, but I’m willing to give it a go.
There should be a way to make meta-communities. I.e. I could group FOO@lemmy.world and FOO@lemmy.ml and so forth so it shows as one large community when reading it.
It seems like the intended use-case for federated stuff like this is that all of FOO would be in one instance, even though it’s accessible from any instance it still shows which instance it originates in. Which feels a little weird, some topics don’t really have a overarching supertopic that it makes sense for them to belong to.
I don’t necessarily want only FOO@xyz. I want to make say my cars meta community so I can look at several grouped communities like simracing, F1, Indycar etc. the meta community would be my creation and only for me.
is it possible to change what your default space is?
Seems sluggish, rough, and low population, but fuck spez so I’ll give this an honest chance.
The whole lemmy concept mixed with the current situation feels far more like you are part of a real community. Kinda like in old internet days. I will even break out of my reddit lurker days and try to contribute here.
