Because Reddit plans to kill 3rd party clients. No sync no Reddit
If ljdawson could port Sync to Lemmy, that’d be awesome. Lemme is nice, but the app is kinda meh right now.
Or at least, it would be cool if they could open-source it if he doesn’t plan on continuing development. That way, it could be used as a basis for a new Lemmy app.
The memes are here, I trust the anime titties are on there way too.
Booba you say?
I came for the drugs and hookers. So far, pretty disappointed.
Because of the API thing and I was just generally curious. I also tried Mastodon before but I found that I like a “reddit-like” social media a lot better.
Escaping Reddit’s bullsh*t. I exclusively use Reddit using Infinity, Apollo and old.reddit.com. They are now killing the API (and 3rd party clients for that matter) and I don’t think that old.reddit.com will live much longer tbh and I cannot be bothered to use the new Reddit. It takes ages to load and is WAY to bloated. Add the NFT Profile pictures and RPAN into the mix and you have a dead website in my eyes.
Reddit is an absolute dumpster fire right now.
Mainly because its libre and federated, what pushed me over the edge was the reddit api changes (R.I.P in advance infinity)
Same here man. Infinity is/was/has been fantastic!
I’m trying to move as much of my online activity as possible to the Fediverse, mostly because the internet sucks now, but also because I’m excited at the idea of users forming communities and sites of resistance on their own terms, free of capitalist meddling and surveillance.
Edit: don’t forget that even decentralization isn’t free! Put aside a few bucks each month to support your instances!
Another edit (sorry, I’m just brimming with advice today): if you’re a US resident and reading this before joining, consider joining an EU-based instance. They have much more rigorous privacy and data protection laws.
Reddit’s been spiraling downhill for years. Been searching for an alternative that’s not the cesspits of Twitter and 4chan. API is getting killed, government and corporations pushing agendas, armchair experts, subreddit bannings, poor UI/UX, echochambers, hardly any OC, and many many other issues that I’m sure others have already mentioned. I’m dumping the site as soon as old.reddit goes down.
There’s nothing but outrage culture on social media. Just looking for a spot to chill really…
I wasn’t too keen on Twitter and mostly spent time on reddit. When Mastodon came out I was intrigued, but the interface just wasn’t something I was into. Lemmy seems way more up my alley.
As a bonus, you can still interact with people on Mastodon (like me!)
So I’m completely new to the “fediverse” so does this mean now I’ve got a Lemmy account I can use that same account for Mastodon? I never really gave it a try as I wasn’t a Twitter user
@BrokenToshy Yes and no. Your comment shows up to me like a toot and I’m replying to it with a toot, so in that sense, yes. I could even boost your comment to my followers like a toot. But the Lemmy software was designed around communities and groups, and it currently lacks the capacity to do certain one-on-one interaction the way a Mastodon user can. Since you can only use your account from your home instance, that does limit you a bit in how you can interact.
I’ve been interested in the Fediverse for a long time but didn’t have any reason to jump into it because the applications I was aware of did not appeal to me. If I don’t use Twitter and Instagram, why would I be interested in Mastodon and Pixelfed? This all changed when Reddit announced their API change. Reddit is the only social media site I use, so Lemmy seems like the perfect reason to jump in.
Agreeing with this one.
Except I made a Mastodon account to pad its numbers to make Elon feel bad and used the Mastodon account to follow Lemmy (and just used the site sans account). Once the API changes were announced, all in to make reddit feel bad with larger numbers over here.
Phone is grapheneos, use Linux, all FOSS; why did I take so long to do this? Either this or quit all social media.
Because I like the general interface of (old.)reddit but not its userbase. Nor do I think social media should be a profit-driven, as the practices to keep us engaged is clearly having effects on society in every corner of the world.
I also miss the days of old, when communities were smaller and you could actually get to know people.
The idea of having various communities of different sizes and all kinds of topics as we know it from reddit just fits so perfectly to the idea of the fediverse! No more big data companies - truly community owned places for discussion and sharing of information. I really hope lemmy will grow.
Its exciting seeing these few lemmy instances grow a LOT in the past few days. Federated services really give us a chance to break US tech’s stranglehold on world communications. Together we’re strong!
is there an easy way for me to see the growth of Lemmy or specific instances? 🤩
For all of lemmy you can check out the fediverse observer: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/ keeps historical active user counts.
I’ve been chasing the old Usenet feel for decades. Reddit came close, but I can see the writing on the wall now. Lemmy’s got the possibility to get closer.
Because Reddit has fully turned to the dark side lol. It’s been trending downhill for a while now but with the recent API shenanigans it became very clear it wasn’t going to improve. So here I am lol. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had to find an alt (RIP Digg).
Same, plus curiosity and enthusiasm for FOSS. Can’t wait until fediverse is developed enough to host also niche communities like ‘cassette_futurism’ or ‘liminal_space’.
Be the change you want to see :)
Even just creating those communities, then populating them with a few of the top posts from reddit, would be a good start.
Might as well ask here since it’s relevant, but I’ve been thinking of spinning up a beefy lemmy instance and “mirroring” some of my favourite reddit subs across into custom mirror communities. A kind of archive but which you can browse from any lemmy UI. For example, there are some news and sports threads I enjoy following. Would this be a good or bad idea? Would it needlessly flood the other instances?
Thought about the same thing. How and can it be automated? Would give Lemmy a good starting point.
Obviously coded for a different political reason than what I have in mind (to put it mildly), but I found this which might help: https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter
