Home of the sh.itjust.works instance.
I think I've made more posts/comments in the last fortnight, than the last year on Reddit.
I've been posting interesting articles to nearly half a dozen communities each per day, even if nobody is responding.
I believe it's worth it to have this activity for those who pass by and see how many people showed up to the party before them.
Quality content is one thing. Engagement is another. I see lots of new posts that are good, but little to no comments. What we need is a few good communities with lots of engagement. On reddit I was more of a lurker, here I will start to do my best to comment more in the hopes it helps. (Still, my comments will probably be stupid and uninteresting, so it might do more harm than good, lol)
Yup. Engagement draws people.
I basically never upvoted on reddit, but I need to change that here.
I am doing my best to avoid lurking. It’s tricky though, I am so used to only commenting on things like once a month. Exhausting work I tell ya.
Can confirm, migrated because they took away my Apollo! Now I’m using wefwef as my new Apollo
Thanks for pointing me towards this. Loving wefwef. Works wonderfully!
Wefwef is great, very pretty :)
I come from Android land so I can't compare it to Apollo but it certainly looks very good
Hello, I just migrated from Reddit and am slowly figuring things out. I'm really enjoying Lemmy and the Fediverse so far!
Are there any communities I should subscribe to? If anyone has suggestions please list them out below, thanks!
I got started with browsing the most popular communities (if you're on a browser, click Communities in the upper left, then pick All under List of communities) and picking the ones that seemed interesting. Then I started searching for ones that mirrored my subreddits and other interests. One thing to note is that Lemmy is growing so fast that you'll often find more than one community about the same topic, so don't be shy about subscribing to somewhat duplicative communities until one comes out on top.
There are still some subreddits that don't have an equivalent here yet, so I check back for those every few days to see if anyone has gotten around to them (I'm definitely not up for moderating myself)
As @[email protected] posted, you can also use https://browse.feddit.de/ to quickly search for communities and see their subscriber, post and comment count to gauge how active they are.
Welcome!
Edit: I just learned about lemmyverse.net which is an even better website to browse both instances and communities. Check it out!
Thanks for the run down, appreciate the detailed explanation! Great idea about finding mirror communities from Reddit.
One thing to note is that Lemmy is growing so fast that you'll often find more than one community about the same topic, so don't be shy about subscribing to somewhat duplicative communities until one comes out on top.
This bring back fond memories of browsing early Reddit lol
I think a big part of this is making less of the content on Lemmy, be about Lemmy (and reddit).
How many casual users are going to join, see literally half of their front page being about either Lemmy or reddit, and then just leave?
Edit: Building on this - I just joined, and my homepage currently has 3 posts that aren't directly about either Lemmy or reddit.
I for one propose more robust ways of finding communities. Maybe if communities adopted a policy of using keywords or hashtags so it can be easier to find all the places where specific topics are being discussed...? I don't know, I'm brand spanking new and trying to find my way; the first thing on my mind is: where am I, where is everything in reference to me, and how do I find out?
Check out lemmyverse.net - it’s a great tool to browse the communities and instances out there
And don't forget to set your home instance by clicking the house at the top. Then all the links take you to the appropriate page on your instance so you can subscribe!
I really hope that the existing Lemmy instances can handle all the new users
Good point, I completely forgot to call out all the people hosting and upgrading instances to help with the massive influx and keep the sites stable.
Also don't join ban happy instances like beehaw.
Beehaw is great, actually. Some things should not be tolerated.
I'm tired of basically every other place on the internet tolerating shitty people because of "freedom of speech" or whatever, poisoning the discussion and making it suck to actually participate.
It's good to have a place where people actually operate on good faith, and not just to fight like everywhere else because they appeal to the lowest common denominator. Just look at how often reddit was criticized for being toxic. If you just allow everything, that is what will inevitably happen. You have to work to prevent that.
¿Por qué no los dos? That's the freedom of the fediverse, freedom of association.
Thank you for everyone's efforts to make the shift from Reddit as smooth as possible. I am normally a lurker/casual Redditor and will likely continue to be so in the Fediverse, but I want to say how much I greatly appreciate how welcoming people have been. I really hope the transition goes as smoothly for original users, and I will do my best to be as minimally invasive as possible.
This and:
I am not sure how confident people are in a) switching from Reddit to Lemmy and b) hearing from it in the news or elsewhere, wanting to join the „fastest growing community“ and have no idea about Reddit so far.
It took me (coming from Reddit) about 2h to overview the alternatives, understand the fediverse structure and its jargon, decide between several instances, find and subscribe to similar communities (not only local ones) and finally write my first comment and post.
Look everybody I'm filling the fediverse with content my content is the best never been content this good before
Okay, so I've been here for a few days and I'm getting increasingly confused. I used reddit exclusively on mobile and was hoping to do the same thing for lemmy. But it seems like every app has major features missing. I've already tried 4 different apps and every one is missing a feature I'd consider critical. Keeping two accounts separate, adjusting settings for two different accounts, commenting, replying, posting, subscribing, and searching for specific instances are all pretty important, but every app is missing one or more of these features.
Is there a quickstart guide anywhere to get more familiar with this? Does anyone know of an app that can do all of this? I've already tried jerboa, summit, connect, and liftoff
Try WefWef.App, it's pretty great, quite reminiscent of Apollo: https://wefwef.app
I don't think I'm understanding. This Lemmy business has been a mess to navigate, I am up to six accounts on Lemmy for different versions. What I am trying to figure out, is why can I sort by 'Top', select 'All' which says it included other communities, but the selection of posts shown with those settings has been different for Kbin, VLemmy, LemmyNSFW, and lemmy.world? If I do this on kbin for example, almost every top post in all is from kbin, same goes for VLemmy, etc etc. Where the heck can I go, and sort by all, to see the top posts of ALL of these Lemmy instances?
I think it's good to encourage those who still have reddit accounts to migrate their content over here in anyway they can before deleting their account entirely. They may have content that they can post that would be beneficial to keep but starve that content from reddit.
It's the strongest weapon you can unleash against that cesspit of a platform. New content is being made here daily and it's amazing, but we have a way to go to compete with such a goliath content farm.
I just saw a post about Avatar Ang getting pegged. What more do these people want?
I'll try my best to participate. I've always been more of a lurker on Reddit ( due to some social anxieties ) but I'll try my best to participate. I would love for Lemmy/Kbin to keep the momentum going.
Just signed up yesterday. I had my carefully curated feed from almost ten years and now just trying to find my feet. I've subscribed to 1 community (memes) but do feel kinda lost. I keep hearing about instances and what's allowed and what isn't in each. I'm not sure where to find the stuff I like.
Will do! See what I did there?
New to Lemmy (I've deleted my reddit account today). Some questions for the experienced users (I'm still a little overwhelmed with how Lemmy works): Is enough to join one server? there are benefits/cons joining more than one? For each server I join I'll have a different user?
There’s usually no need to join multiple servers. The only really reason would be if the communities you want to interact with are in instances that aren’t very well federated (ie connected to lots of other instances). Then you may want accounts on the more isolated instances to access that content and an account on a more mainstream instance to give you access to the rest of Lemmy’s content.
Managing multiple accounts can be tricky, but I’ve heard some of the apps are good at aggregating the content across multiple accounts. I only have one Lemmy account though so I don’t have firsthand experience.
commenting to boost the algorithm (does this place have that?)
Actually finding an instance with a working signup seems to be a huge issue.. this whole process is..who knows what instance they want?
I had zero problems with sh.itjust.works sign-up. I got my email verification in seconds! And from what I have read, it doesn't really matter which instance you choose so long as it hasn't been defederated.
But how does one know this instance will exist in a year? This was my hangup on Lemmy, was as I understand it, you lose your account and posts will be pruned if your instance goes down.
Also I don't want to use an email.
Lemmy needs to come up with some kind of system to keep people from spamming posts. There's no reason scrolling by new should be half filled with 4 accounts spamming posts in the same community or even across multiple communities. Something like a set amount of time between posts or something idfk.
Edit: It also needs to let me view my profile without having to go back to the top of the feed
Just moved over and all this place needs is a little more life. Really digging the federated model too.
Getting used to this, but I guess Reddit crossed a line for me lately. (Don't touch my apps!)
Well, it seems there is a bit of a learning curve. I, and most likely you, still haven't figured out the mechanics of Lemmy and the federverse. Give it time,
Just like Digg before Reddit, we will soon adept. The apps will get better and things will make more sense.
It may look and work slightly different, but with a little work, maybe this will be the communities that thrives the longest..
At least until the ads, bots, and CEOs begin infesting our home again. then I guess we just got to torch it and build a new home.
Now go unpack your favourite content. Lets make this place sing!
Welcome home.
