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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the r/196 vibe stays here I'm gonna keep vibin here. I'm liking lemmy so far and don't forget: the community isn't the subreddit - we just happened to be on that subreddit. 196 can be anywhere we want baby 🀠

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The real 196 was inside us the whole time??? πŸ₯Ί πŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆ

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there were other things in us too😏

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yep, this is definitely the 196 i know and love lmao

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] asukii 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If reddit actually reverses course on the API stuff, then hell yeah I'm going back. But if the sub just reopens after the blackout without any substantive change, nah I'm staying here.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

D: why you go back when you have a non profit community running on free software?

I'm glad reddit is going down because finally FOSS can get the spotlight

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's a bit of a wake up call/eye opener for me. Why would I stay on a site that fully adheres to the rule "if a service is free, the user is the product". When there's now perfectly good non profit alternatives. Also, this is why Facebook/Twitter/Google etc need to either stay well away from the fediverse or just get defederated. As soon as they start participating they'll just start taking over and trying to monetize the platform.

[–] asukii 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, realistically I'll probably stay on both. There are tons of great reddit communities that just don't exist here, at least not yet, and I'm genuinely sad to be losing them. Reddit has been a part of my daily routine for well over a decade now, and that's not something I can just give up easily. I do really like the vibes here at Lemmy, but it's got a lot more growing to do before it can fully replace all the wonderful different niches that reddit was able to fill so well.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Im not counting on reddit to make substantive changes. Plus, it is kinda nice here, more calm, better vibes for other stuff

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ye genuinely enjoying the federated experience so far.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i like the small community vibe :)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Xxxthat_emo_kid im replying to this post from mastodon just to see how this works, since I heard you can follow lemmy servers/groups and interact with posts from a mastodon account. but yeah if the sub came back id still browse it if I'm still using reddit by then.

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

How did you find it from there?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@murkeyindividual2 I found the URL to the 196 lemmy from the subreddit before it went private. I learned out that you can find lemmy communities through mastodon by typing "@[CommunityName]@[lemmy instance]" into the search bar. The lemmy community shows up as a mastodon user that you and follow and such. It's very interesting and kind of ingenious. So I thought why not just use my mastodon account I already have rather than make a new account just for lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

@murkeyindividual2 on second thought actually, I'm gonna make a lemmy account. Mastodon UI us just not built for handling lemmy communities well. Still figuring this out lol.

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

Thank you so much! I couldn’t figure it out and didn’t know before I made this account. I’m very excited to try it out!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hey I was kinda trying to get to use Mastodon. What instance do you recommend?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not mastodon (something better), but I recommend mk.absturztau.be or fedi.absturztau.be :3

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

I have even less clue about what is this and how it works, but I'll still check out, dear Internet stranger

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

Foundkey (first link) or Akkoma (second link) are services that are compatible with mastodon (ActivityPub, also works with Lemmy), but have more features, like emoji reacts.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

not going back to reddit if i have to use the ad infested, data harvesting, accessibility nightmare that is the official app.

give me apollo or give me death

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd probably return there too, but I don't think I'll leave here. The 196 lemmy has actually been pretty cool so far, even though it's only been here a couple days. I'd probably just browse both.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I will probably not. I don’t really care for reddit especially given the changes they’re making.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

prob gonna gradually reduce my reddit usage anyway, but i might check it out periodically

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Definitely not going back. Reddit sucked long before this, there just wasn't a big enough alternative.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah idk. its good for me to be off reddit. ill miss some of my insular halo lore arguments on reddit but lemmy seems fine so far so ill probably stay here.

really depends on the nsfw tbh it was coveiniant to have distinct but easily switchable acounts for sfw and nsfw

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk about the ios app but you can easily switch between accounts on Jerboa. You could just make a nsfw alt on lemmynsfw.com

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

Yeah spent some time last night since i couldn't sleep and got a handle on it. Theres some insular reddit groups I'll still check with adblock but thats about it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I quite like it here, but if everyone else goes back to Reddit, it'll become rather hard to scroll here

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is love. Of course I'm staying.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

this is the first i've actually engaged with 196. i knew of it, and visited the reddit a couple times, but it's way more fun to be a part of it here, where everything about this is new and exciting. i'll stick around here for as long as the vibe's good, and if i dip it'll be back into group chats -- not to reddit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

pretty low/nonexistent. i like it here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly have been finding Lemmy and the Fediverse as a whole to be pretty enjoyable so far. It feels nice to be using something that was built through community effort rather than corporate interest.

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

@Xxxthat_emo_kid theres a great chance as its still what im more familiar with, itl be fun to see what ill think after being in reddit celibate for a week

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

Used to love Relay for Reddit.

Noe r/196 is gone, why go back?

Also, now that [email protected] is here, really, why go back?

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

Never knew it existed until The Great Lemmy Migration

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

Eh, why increase the power Reddit and decrease the power of the peer-network?

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