• googlycoffeemea@beehaw.org
    38·
    2 years ago

    Yeah I prefer this style of interaction far more than the Mastodon style. I just never could get into the twitter style of social media.

    • Packopus@lemmy.ml
      24·
      2 years ago

      Same. I like a forum-like style. I still think Twitter is a “shout to the void” and same to Mastodon. I like the… slower? Yeah slower, more thought out, and more interactive of this style. Like everything kinda has a purpose to exist.

      • Hagarashi8@sopuli.xyz
        7·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, i think reddit model is perfect balance between recommended content and what you are subscribed to. Glad things like this now in fediverse too.

      • ritchie@lemmy.one
        2·
        2 years ago

        And it was accompanied with their character limit. It is not enough to elaborate on anything, its only use is to shout out anything that you got mad about without thinking.

      • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
        0·
        2 years ago

        Twitter/Mastodon: shout to the void, maybe it shouts back

        Reddit/Lemmy: shout into a room full of people that share the same interest

    • naoseiquemsou@lemmy.ml
      8·
      2 years ago

      I don’t understand why people want to follow people. I want to follow topics of interest. It makes all the difference.

    • Icarus@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      same, I tried using twitter and mastodon several times but could never stand them

  • sina@lemmy.ml
    34·
    2 years ago

    Honestly Lemmy is much better than I thought it would be. My main problem is the lack of some niche communities that are on Reddit. For example as a GW2 player I get all my news about game updates & store discounts etc from the GW2 subreddit, but I don’t see Lemmy taking that over anytime soon, if ever. Maybe I’ll need to use a Reddit scraper for that, if I want to completely abandon the platform.

    What I dislike about Reddit is the system of incentivizing karma farming. This leads to unhealthy posting behaviors that always bugged me. So far to me it seems Lemmy does not have that, so it’s a huge win.

  • Shrek@lemmy.ml
    27·
    2 years ago

    I have been trying to comment instead of just lurking. Its against my natural tendencies, but I want to see this place live, so I thought I would be the change I want to see in the world.

    • jakobmn@feddit.dk
      4·
      2 years ago

      Same here. I’m trying to do my part as well. I think I have commented more in a single day, than I would have done in a few years on Reddit.

  • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party
    22·
    2 years ago

    Feels like 2000’s message boards as I’ve said on a few posts now. It’s nice - I do feel like my contributions matter more so I actually hit “post”

    • Blaskowitz@lemmy.ml
      10·
      2 years ago

      I’m surprised my first whimsical drunken post got so high up in upvotes. I am also slightly saddened by it lol. I need to up the effort next time .

    • Tango@lemmy.ml
      9·
      2 years ago

      I rarely post anything outside of the Fediverse because I can just FEEL whatever it is being leeched upon by advertisers and such lol

    • MrsEaves@kbin.socialOP
      7·
      2 years ago

      Yes! I’ve really been missing message boards lately. I didn’t think I’d get to feel that joy again, and here we are! Just gotta keep the momentum going.

  • dxcz@beehaw.org
    22·
    2 years ago

    I lurked because everything I had to say had already been said, or so it seemed.

    Seems like, with less users, that’s less likely to happen. Been nice.

    • local_taxi_fix@lemmy.one
      3·
      2 years ago

      This has been my experience with reddit since it’s so big. It’s been nice to feel like comments I leave here will actually be seen.

  • アルケミー船長@lemmy.one
    21·
    2 years ago

    Yeah as a lurker on Reddit (I use libreddit) I really wanna see some change for the better, Fediverses’ seem to be the future, we just need to get the general masses aware of its presence :)

    • CheshireSnake@lemmy.one
      7·
      2 years ago

      My concern is lemmy in general is too complicated a concept for the average user just wanting to browse. I’ve already encountered 2 users on reddit recently who might have stopped because of this complexity. One said he/she felt like lemmy makes its users answer queries before being able to join a sub, and one just couldn’t get why there has to be different instances and was turned off because he/she couldn’t quite understand how it all works.

      I’m not sure I understand everything completely myself, but I’m willing to try. I don’t think a lot of people do, tbh.

      Edit: I’m aware why lenny is like this (generally) and I am definitely not criticizing it. Just mentioning some points as to why it may be hard for other people to follow us here.

      • DudePluto@lemmy.ml
        9·
        2 years ago

        Lemmy will have to learn to hide the sausage-maker if they want laymen to enjoy their sausage. That is to say they’ll have to make a way for the everyman to interact without the barrier to entry.

        Though, no one says Lemmy has to become a AAA social media site

        • Barbarian@lemmy.ml
          4·
          2 years ago

          Completely agree. I’ll be ecstatic if Lemmy hits the point where it’s self-sustaining. It doesn’t need to attract millions, but it needs enough active engaged users to post and comment so that there’s enough interesting shit here

        • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
          2·
          2 years ago

          It’d be great if there was a way to get involved without having to join a specific instance; that’s hard to wrap one’s head around for a lot of new users, I think (it certainly was for me). Even if it was a temporary thing and users of that method were prompted to migrate to an instance of their choice at some point, having an entry point that was simpler, even if limited in what it let you do, would be helpful.

      • ritchie@lemmy.one
        4·
        2 years ago

        I agree, this concept of decentralization is not really widespread. I consider myself informed in topics of open source and privacy, but I also needed to get used to how e.g. searching for communities work. It is definitely not as convenient as reddit, where you have a search bar and can seek out any community, here you need to browse several nodes to find the communities you are looking for. It would be nice if Lemmy caught the interest of many and things like this could be worked out.

      • アルケミー船長@lemmy.one
        3·
        2 years ago

        Yeah for sure, usually if it doesn’t “just work” or if its not convenient or they just “don’t want to” then it’ll be hard to convince anyone, getting all my family to move from standard SMS to signal was hard, there was no real barriers yet it was still too inconvenient to switch, even with all the benefits it offers. The two biggest issues I’ve seen so far is the “sub-lemmys” or just communities that exist, multiple similar communities can co-exist and have separate users, which isn’t good for growth. The second issue, and by far the most worrying currently, is performance and stability with the instances that currently exist. Already we’re seeing the main lemmy.ml instance being brought down to its knees with all the new users. If reddit doesn’t reverse their API decision by the 12th (which at this point seems unlikely considering all the backlash already with no response) then I can’t imagine how bad it would be to see even a 10th of current active reddit users trying to join at once. Its an ticking time bomb with a very quick expiration date if its not addressed quickly. I do have hope however, although my programming experience is somewhat limited a threw a few bucks on the opencollective, which I suggest everyone do if you wanna contribute in some way and you believe in the idea of a more open free internet, circa the late 90s.

  • CraigeryTheKid@beehaw.org
    171·
    2 years ago

    I tried Mastodon and I just couldn’t do it. But I don’t use Twitter either. I’ve been using Lemmy/BeeHaw for 10 minutes and it already seems like a drop-in, minimal learning curve to reddit. this looks super promising!

    • Luminance6716@lemmy.one
      4·
      2 years ago

      Took me a few minutes to figure out Lemmy, but agree it seems like a decent replacement for Reddit assuming the communities continue to grow.

    • LolaCat@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 years ago

      In the same boat here, created a account on mastodon.lol (rip) and never ended up using it. But i’m enjoying Lemmy a lot more!

  • neardeaf@lemmy.ml
    16·
    2 years ago

    Just joined, reddit refugee here. I’m just trying to figure out how to sign up to all my related “subreddits” on here to see posts like my home feed

    • animist@lemmy.one
      5·
      2 years ago

      Refugee here too. Took me a minute to figure it all out, but the learning curve isn’t quite as steep as all the FUD tech articles made it out to be. I love the potential the fediverse has

    • muerwre@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      Go to “Communities” --> “All” instead of “Local”. In case if someone is searching for that too.

      • mook@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 years ago

        I have a dumb question. Can I add more communities through jerboa, or do I have go to lemmy site to add communities?

        • muerwre@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          If it has “communities” list with a selector to show your the ones from other instances, why not.

          The point is, software on your instance will fetch and send all posts and comments from/to linked communities (you can see the list in your instance webpage footer, under “Instances” link) and skip comments, threads and post from banned communities.

  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
    14·
    2 years ago

    I’m excited to see the concept of federation gaining traction. I can’t describe how disappointed I was when Jabber/XMPP failed, IRC faded from relevance, and Facebook/Twitter became the way to talk to people. Now, seeing everyone here and on Mastodon, I’m finally feeling a bit hopeful again.

    • MrsEaves@kbin.socialOP
      6·
      2 years ago

      Come to think of it, I’m surprised I didn’t learn my lesson with centralization when AIM died. I just accepted it as a natural part of the tech lifecycle and found a different centralized service. But seeing the decisions and actions of these companies over the past few years - platforms I trusted - hit differently, and hit even harder when I went to look for forums and RSS and realized my backup options were dying. You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone, or pretty close to being gone. It definitely makes me want to support federation and indie web efforts - it’s much closer in spirit to the web I grew up with.

  • Voyajer@kbin.social
    14·
    2 years ago

    It’s easier not to lurk when the odds of getting a strangely hostile reply over nothing important goes down

    • phox@syrma.cc
      10·
      2 years ago

      Agreed. I always felt like I had to add five different disclaimers to my comments to avoid bad faith arguments and angry responses. Wasn’t a fun experience at all and often lead to me just deleting comments.

    • ANapSoundsNice@beehaw.org
      8·
      2 years ago

      I may have been a little… overzealous when I wrote my beehaw application but I echo this point when I submitted

      My last comment on reddit was 6 years ago. I was afraid of what it and the internet at large was becoming. Afraid to be a human online because the trolls and the dox and the swats. The mission statements in the side bar, the long and insightful posts that hope to bridge new people to the culture of beehaw that speak of being nice and compassionate, of working together to build a community of varied interests and peoples let me dare to dream that there exists a place where I can be a human on the internet again.

      It’s going to take a lot of deconditioning to not be a lurker!

    • DarraignTheSane@lemmy.ml
      13·
      2 years ago

      For me I think it has to do with the fact that by the time I got to a thread on reddit, everything that could possibly be said about the topic usually had been said already. How many times would you visit a thread only to find that exactly what you were going to say is already the top comment?

        • comfy@lemmy.ml
          6·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, although I regret not being more active in calling out people parroting reddit’s culture. With a lot of people joining at once, it’s easy for the local cultures to be overwhelmed and become much like the place they left.

    • 7eter@feddit.de
      6·
      2 years ago

      i do hope we can grow further while still remaining an open and friendly community encouraging everyone to comment their thoughts!

    • cavemeat@beehaw.org
      4·
      2 years ago

      Same, I’ve been more active here than the past 6 years that I’ve had a reddit account. Posting anything always felt like you were screaming into the void, so I never bothered.

      • smartwater0897@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 years ago

        Reddit was also actively discouraging discussions since people would downvote anything they didn’t agree with right away. Became a total echo chamber…

        • Rod_Orm@lemmy.ml
          21·
          2 years ago

          believe me when lemmy popular we also have problem like reddit had

    • Tretiak@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      When it gets overwhelmed with users it eventually becomes a monoculture and then devolves into an echo chamber. I slowly became a more functional user with time, but generally stuck to the 1-2 subreddits that I thought were worth participating in, and observed the rest.

      • that_one_guy@lemmy.ml
        8·
        2 years ago

        The smaller community is really a blessing, rather than a curse. I’ve seen this come up on reddit again and again: the best subs are the small ones that cater to niche interests. Lemmy is essentially composed entirely of those small subreddits right now.

        • Obi@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          2 years ago

          Well yes but for these niche interest subs to work the platform as a whole needs enough users, because only a small % will visit these subs.