I saw the post in r/Europe that pointed here. I'm loving it so far
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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I got Boost for ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy back. The world is beautiful again!
Now to find communities that I like... I'm a bit lost but I'll settle soon enough.
Love the responsiveness, everything feels so much faster and quicker. Feels like I lost a lot of weight :-D Really like it so far, I just hope that more people make the switch, so that more sub-lemmis? or don't know how to call them, get filled and have more life. Will try to do my part in some sub-lemmis and post stuff be active and so on. :-) Love you all!
Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
Welcome!
Thank you and thank you for your pointers of help :-)
Still confused. My app connects me to a single one of the two instances I joined and I managed to get myself in a position where I get separate notifications from separate posts on those instances. So I've been going back and forth between my app and Firefox. Still a bit confused....
Which app is it?
Voyager
Interesting, maybe try posting about the issue on [email protected] , that community is quite active
Joined yesterday, I'm loving the gestures of the voyager app
Not only Lemmy i also joined Mastodon lol. I find this expirience to be refreshing, maybe thats because this platform has less users or maybe because its not under someones control but i feel as if i moved from big, overpopulated city to a countryside. Its like breathing fresh air, i feel myself free, and i love reading comments here, they look like real conversations between humans. Although im not from European Union but im your neighbor from Ukraine and i totally support this movement or its better to call an idea, i dunno. I replaced a lot of stuff already but thats only the first step. Also im really glad to be here.
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Fine, and how are you?
Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
A few unwritten rules I've found useful over the last couple of years since moving to Lemmy :)
- If you're missing a particular smaller or niche community - be the change and create it!
- If someone is challenging you in a thread in good faith, respond in the same way
- If they're just being a dick, don't waste any sort of mental energy on them - just block them, forget them and move on.
- If you're the one being a dick (and be honest, we all know when we are) walk away for a bit
- Don't be too proud to ask for guidance but do it in the right communities :) e.g. don;t ask for tech help in a community thats not about tech help.
- Be prepared to see a lot of Star Trek memes and Nicole spam.
- Bask in the warm glow of an open source, privacy respecting, non-corporately controlled environment.
You forgot the beans and five days no shit
You're right, I did. Dammit.
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Came over from Reddit as part of plan to divest from US-based products. Happy to be here, and plan to explore. Mainly lurked over on Reddit - hope to contribute more actively over here!
I almost never posted on Reddit. Partly because someone has usually already said something close to what I wanted to say. With the smaller community here I feel like I can make a unique contribution more often.
Welcome!
A question,
How when and where does the money come from to keep lemmy running?
Since nothing is free in life who pays for lemmy?
Volunteers. Think about it like volunteering for your local community. Like a football coach or something.
The server admins pay for it. Or people donate to the instance to keep it running
And on that note, consider donating to the instance and/or the Lemmy devs (and any other open-source project you find useful). I also need to make a round of donations soon!
Divide by zero (the instance I'm on) takes donations. People who donate get a nifty flair in the governance threads, but you don't have to donate to vote on issues the server faces. (We also allow non-members to vote, though since they're not as impacted by decisions made for the instance, their votes are given lower weights.)
This is my first comment, just joined during the weekend. It took about half a day to get used to the lower amount of stuff and the slower pace here. And I really like it! The quality of discourse here seems so much higher and with the lower amount of posts I find that I can take my time and not get overwhelmed. Should have joined years ago :-)
Years ago, it was just a safe haven for half a dozen communists.
2 years ago it was already pretty well spread out IMO, that was just before the API fiasco. Now add some years before that and I'd say yeah, a much smaller community.
But even a couple years ago Lemmy was beginning to thrive.
Welcome, glad to hear you like it!
Yay to all the fresh lemmings. Welcome welcome! Just don't be a dipshit please.
Still not sure about the best Android App, I've tried Interstellar, what seemed kind of unfinished. Now I have Voyager, what seems better so far.
Furthermore I miss some Sub..Lemmis? like r/bida (am i the asshole), r/Staiy, r/LeopardsAteMyFace .
A facebook friend who is transgender posted a list of alternate platforms to use instead of (ironically) Facebook, Google, Insta etc. And since I had recently been perma banned from reddit for twice quoting from The Godfather (I guess their algorithm hasn't seen it) and various djt related insults, I thought I'd give this a try.
Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
i do miss my niche communities on reddit, maybe i'll start some here,other than that lemmy is a good alternative to replace the popular feed on reddit.
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Still looking around 😬
Thanks.
I do like that the sub-lemmy is focused on Europe as a whole, the one on Reddit was labelled as EU
Great, I've made myself right at home. As another user said I miss the smaller communities but it can only get better from here.
Make them and try to convince the members for the corresponding subreddits to join you :) And welcome!
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