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How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I honestly can't say about the influx. Since I'm part of it.

But man....

This does feel like home.

I was already loving Mastodon.

Honestly, the real question is:

What took us soo long....

I was lurking on Lemmy for a long time now read only mode, not signed up, but never had the urge to actually making an account.

I try not to have so many feeds where I'm active at once, to try and better manage the time I spend on this feeds.

Twitter and Reddit were the ones I engaged the most

Twitter became Mastodon and Reddit became Lemmy on that matter, so that I can focus on being active and helpful whenever possible.

So, what took me so long...?

Definitely something I will be asking myself for a while, since so far the experience here have something that reddit just don't. The quality over quantity aspect.

Finally...

Thanks for having me here, I hope I can contribute the best I can to maintain Lemmy awesome as it is. I don't post or reply like a madman, but I like to participate on constructive discussion every now and then.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey man, I've felt mostly the same than you migrating to lemmy. A while ago I tried mastodon but it really didn't click with me, how do you do to find people to follow and so? I was only getting recommended the same like 10 guys. I like gaming and programming if it helps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For Mastodon?

I use it the same as my Twitter, mainly googling mastodon lists of know profiles there, the I copy/paste in the search and follow them.

On Lemmy it's easier, just do a search for the communities you'd like to join, for example:

Gaming at beehaw.org is amazing. Subscribe to that if you didn't already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sometimes understanding how to cross instances can still be a bit cumbersome though.

There is pretty cool support for relative links though! As long as your instance knows of a community, they'll work.

And if your instance doesn't know a certain instance exists, you just have to paste the url into your search bar to get it working: https://beehaw.org/c/gaming

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