Digging it so far. The only thing that I have noticed, and this may just be due to the large influx of people coming to the site, it's been taking literal minutes for me to submit a post or edit my profile

It's strange. I feel lost.

I like it, but I'm still a lil confused about all the fediverse thing. For example, if while browsing this instance I open a link to a thread in another instance I can't comment as I'm not logged there. Any way around this? But overall excited to try this out and hopefully moving permanently here!

Reddit was reddit because of the people. Those people are now here.

I like that the mobile version of the website is already more functional than Reddit's.

Seems sluggish, rough, and low population, but fuck spez so I'll give this an honest chance.

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.

It’s great to have new spaces, especially ones not controlled by corporate interests or venture capitalists. I will admit that (while it’s a function of time + engagement) I do miss the breadth and depth of Reddit, particularly for the niche hobby communities. There was/is so much good information on there that will take many years to replicate elsewhere.

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I just learned about this site 5 minutes ago. I’ll be done with Reddit soon.

I really need an eli5 for this fediverse thing. I'm here using Jerboa, logged in to lemmy.world. when I try and comment or vote on content on other instances, like lemmy.ml, I'm told I have to log in. Is that a Jerboa bug? Or do I really need an account on each instance to interact?

Have been browsing this thing for a few hours now and haven't seen one NSFW post. Kinda weird.

Reminds me of what reddit used to be, what UBB boards used to be before that, and small irc rooms before that. Freedom, the never constant, always moving community of individuals. Some of the same people I knew on Reddit, I knew in my old Dreamcast irc and AOL days.

Shit changes, we move but we never go away. Now we're here. Thanks for having us.

So far I’m enjoying it! I like the stripped down design and I’m slowly figuring out the federation thing. Hopefully we can get more people from Reddit to get more content in the communities.

Edit: I've created a Tampa community for people from Tampa FL.

👋 need to find (or make) an RES equivalent because i cannot live without the hotkeys

It looks like the original internet. Love it

I am still trying to wrap my head around how it all works, but I feel like I am slowly getting the hang of it. One thing I was wondering, and forgive me if I get the terminologies wrong, since instances are their own little ecosystems, wouldn't there be multiple versions of the identical communities i.e. gaming, videos etc., or is that the beauty of it all?

Another minor concern I have is that since instances are run by individuals, wouldn't there be a risk of losing massive amounts of content if said owner no longer wishes to maintain their instance or "goes rogue" for a lack of a better word and shuts down access to all communities located on that particular instance/server.

Just deleted all past activity from my reddit account, deactivated it and joined you marry bunch. Glad to be here.

Question: is the "lag" from hitting the post button to seeing the post intentional or is that just a sign of stressed servers?

got into reddit fully just a few years ago. it was my go-to for silly frog pictures to cheer me up. any other instances (i hope i'm saying that right, something similar to a subreddit) that are frog related? i'd love to contribute some :)

I'm in for this. Sign-up through lemmy.world was a snap and now logged in and posting via Jerboa. Only just getting my toes wet, but digging it

Well, I am here and off reddit, and reading and commenting. So far so good! It will be interesting to see how this goes.

@immadeofgold

This is a very different experience! I'm currently posting from a Mastodon server to a Lemmy server. I'm excited to see how a federated web can serve creators and users alike.

I'm loving the wild west of it so far and how quickly it all seems to be growing. One big thing I've noticed though: How will communities combat the fracture? For example, take 'photography' when I searched around yesterday I found and subscribed to one com. Now there's one on most of the larger instances, each individually only has a couple of subscribers. We will need to find a way to let our communities stay informed of the other communities as they pop up around the Lemmy verse so that we can unify, otherwise all the communities will remain trapped in their own individual bubbles. This isnt a problem if there was an easy way to group communities into supercommunities.

Maybe Lemmy needs a method of putting your community in a list and allowing people to join the list as a community in of itself thus syncing all like minded groups together into a single feed.

A bit uncomfortable with the UI and stuff, as I am an old.reddit user, I like to consume content in my comfortable way. I normally do not tend to have issues with UI changes, but reddit was extremely comfortable in that mode. I will however try my best to get used to this, as I'd do anything to avoid Reddit from now on.

I don't fully understand it, but I'll try to get used to it.

Reddit ran me off with a permaban 2 months ago because I wrote about the 3 boxes of liberty metaphor in a comment. 2 million+ imaginary Internet points down the drain. Glad to see the site shoot itself in the foot and looking forward to finding an alternative.

And the obligatory: fuck Spez.

I'm liking it. I'm sure it'll take some getting used to, but I'm off Reddit for the next 3 days so I'm sure I'll figure it out!

I’m excited for a new experience. I only commented about 5 times my entire time on Reddit and I hoping to interact more here.

This place feels like it could be a good alternative. Once I learn more about how to use it. Looking forward to a new start!