Yeah I prefer this style of interaction far more than the Mastodon style. I just never could get into the twitter style of social media.
Same. I like a forum-like style. I still think Twitter is a "shout to the void" and same to Mastodon. I like the... slower? Yeah slower, more thought out, and more interactive of this style. Like everything kinda has a purpose to exist.
Yeah, i think reddit model is perfect balance between recommended content and what you are subscribed to. Glad things like this now in fediverse too.
I don't understand why people want to follow people. I want to follow topics of interest. It makes all the difference.
Agreed. I feel like federation is a lot easier to wrap your head around in this style too
I have been trying to comment instead of just lurking. Its against my natural tendencies, but I want to see this place live, so I thought I would be the change I want to see in the world.
Yeah as a lurker on Reddit (I use libreddit) I really wanna see some change for the better, Fediverses' seem to be the future, we just need to get the general masses aware of its presence :)
My concern is lemmy in general is too complicated a concept for the average user just wanting to browse. I've already encountered 2 users on reddit recently who might have stopped because of this complexity. One said he/she felt like lemmy makes its users answer queries before being able to join a sub, and one just couldn't get why there has to be different instances and was turned off because he/she couldn't quite understand how it all works.
I'm not sure I understand everything completely myself, but I'm willing to try. I don't think a lot of people do, tbh.
Edit: I'm aware why lenny is like this (generally) and I am definitely not criticizing it. Just mentioning some points as to why it may be hard for other people to follow us here.
Lemmy will have to learn to hide the sausage-maker if they want laymen to enjoy their sausage. That is to say they'll have to make a way for the everyman to interact without the barrier to entry.
Though, no one says Lemmy has to become a AAA social media site
Completely agree. I'll be ecstatic if Lemmy hits the point where it's self-sustaining. It doesn't need to attract millions, but it needs enough active engaged users to post and comment so that there's enough interesting shit here
I agree, this concept of decentralization is not really widespread. I consider myself informed in topics of open source and privacy, but I also needed to get used to how e.g. searching for communities work. It is definitely not as convenient as reddit, where you have a search bar and can seek out any community, here you need to browse several nodes to find the communities you are looking for. It would be nice if Lemmy caught the interest of many and things like this could be worked out.
I lurked because everything I had to say had already been said, or so it seemed.
Seems like, with less users, that's less likely to happen. Been nice.
No lurking? Okay, hi everybody. 👋😄
Honestly Lemmy is much better than I thought it would be. My main problem is the lack of some niche communities that are on Reddit. For example as a GW2 player I get all my news about game updates & store discounts etc from the GW2 subreddit, but I don't see Lemmy taking that over anytime soon, if ever. Maybe I'll need to use a Reddit scraper for that, if I want to completely abandon the platform.
What I dislike about Reddit is the system of incentivizing karma farming. This leads to unhealthy posting behaviors that always bugged me. So far to me it seems Lemmy does not have that, so it's a huge win.
Not seeing any reposts is honestly so refreshing
If it doesn't exist, you get to create it ;)
I'm commenting to boost engagement!
Just joined, reddit refugee here. I’m just trying to figure out how to sign up to all my related “subreddits” on here to see posts like my home feed
Refugee here too. Took me a minute to figure it all out, but the learning curve isn't quite as steep as all the FUD tech articles made it out to be. I love the potential the fediverse has
I tried Mastodon and I just couldn't do it. But I don't use Twitter either. I've been using Lemmy/BeeHaw for 10 minutes and it already seems like a drop-in, minimal learning curve to reddit. this looks super promising!
I feel attacked. First post on my feed when I open Jerboa.
It's easier not to lurk when the odds of getting a strangely hostile reply over nothing important goes down
Agreed. I always felt like I had to add five different disclaimers to my comments to avoid bad faith arguments and angry responses. Wasn’t a fun experience at all and often lead to me just deleting comments.
I may have been a little... overzealous when I wrote my beehaw application but I echo this point when I submitted
My last comment on reddit was 6 years ago. I was afraid of what it and the internet at large was becoming. Afraid to be a human online because the trolls and the dox and the swats. The mission statements in the side bar, the long and insightful posts that hope to bridge new people to the culture of beehaw that speak of being nice and compassionate, of working together to build a community of varied interests and peoples let me dare to dream that there exists a place where I can be a human on the internet again.
It's going to take a lot of deconditioning to not be a lurker!
It ain't much, but it's honest work!
Sigh. Yes, I'll do my best.
I have commented more here in 2 days than in the past year on reddit, somehow when it's a smaller community like this it's much easier for me
For me I think it has to do with the fact that by the time I got to a thread on reddit, everything that could possibly be said about the topic usually had been said already. How many times would you visit a thread only to find that exactly what you were going to say is already the top comment?
Speak for yourself.
…oh, wait. Shit.
I'm still going to lurk
Same
no lurking? okay hi
hail from another lurker
Feels like 2000's message boards as I've said on a few posts now. It's nice - I do feel like my contributions matter more so I actually hit "post"
I rarely post anything outside of the Fediverse because I can just FEEL whatever it is being leeched upon by advertisers and such lol
I've been doom-scrolling reddit for a while and see this as a chance to kick the habit better than deleting and re-installing a week later
I wish it didn't take a system/site/service imploding to get people to try something new.
MySpace got silly, enter FB. Twitter gets Musked, Mastodon finally takes off after years of not. Reddit nukes their own service, Etc.
Not that bad projects shouldn't die off, but it's always a reactionary move for the masses, rather than a proactive "let's try this new thing because it might be better".
I think Reddit is an outlier in the sense that until now it has been a good service with fairly minor flaws.
FB is totally garbage and had been that for many years now and yet people are not seeking alternatives, maybe because that kind of social media is not that interesting anymore to the types that would care.
It's definitely been going downhill but by choosing good subreddits and using a 3rd party app that strips out all the new "features" it was still usable. Now it won't be usable.
Its so hard not to lurk...
Man I use to be a mad lurker too, I'd occasionally repost a 30K upvote banger, but other than that I'd always second guess myself when I write a comment, go "nah" and then return back to lurking
On Lemmy tho it's different, and I love it
Cheers to new beginnings. Hi everyone!
Man, to me all of this smells the internet from the 2000s and I can’t tell how excited I am
OH YEA! Love what I'm seeing
yoo i heard ab the thing and i wont be usin Leddit for the next days. exited what to see what everyones up to.. on a different platform
While I’m sad about the Reddit api changes. I’m also happy about them if they make Lemmy popular, I’d love to ditch Reddit altogether.