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 π€
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The real 196 was inside us the whole time??? π₯Ί ππ
there were other things in us tooπ
All of 196?? π₯Ί
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.
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
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.
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.
Im not counting on reddit to make substantive changes. Plus, it is kinda nice here, more calm, better vibes for other stuff
Ye genuinely enjoying the federated experience so far.
i like the small community vibe :)
Thereβs a high chance Iβm staying here. I was part of the Digg migration and this place feels how Reddit used to feel at first. I stopped contributing to the site regularly in 2013 because the size of some communities gave me anxiety and there was a rule for every fucking thing.
Yeah, this tbh. I understand there's got to be basic rules, but shit like title formats and most of the time your post not going through (because of X automatically enforced rule like automatic hiding or deletion if you put a certain word or phrase in the title/post body) is just maddening. One time I did a post and the message the mod sent me explaining what was wrong with my post was almost as long as the post itself lol. I really hope this doesn't start happening with reddit alternatives.
And yeah, the sheer size of reddit makes it almost impossible to interact with people on large subreddits. Especially if you're commenting on a post that's like 12 hours old on a large subreddit, your comment will never get seen just because of the deluge of already existing comments.
Ahh a fellow Digg migrant. I kneel.
@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.
Hey I was kinda trying to get to use Mastodon. What instance do you recommend?
Not mastodon (something better), but I recommend mk.absturztau.be or fedi.absturztau.be :3
I have even less clue about what is this and how it works, but I'll still check out, dear Internet stranger
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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How did you find it from there?
@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.
@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.
Thank you so much! I couldnβt figure it out and didnβt know before I made this account. Iβm very excited to try it out!
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
I'll 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.
I will probably not. I donβt really care for reddit especially given the changes theyβre making.
Definitely not going back. Reddit sucked long before this, there just wasn't a big enough alternative.
prob gonna gradually reduce my reddit usage anyway, but i might check it out periodically
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
Idk about the ios app but you can easily switch between accounts on Jerboa. You could just make a nsfw alt on lemmynsfw.com
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
pretty low/nonexistent. i like it here.
I quite like it here, but if everyone else goes back to Reddit, it'll become rather hard to scroll here
Lemmy is love. Of course I'm staying.
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.
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.
Used to love Relay for Reddit.
Noe r/196 is gone, why go back?
Also, now that !rust@lemmy.ml is here, really, why go back?
@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
since it's basically one of the only communities I browse often on reddit I'll return to the subreddit if it does come back since I still don't fully understand how Lemmy works
Think about it as an email with letter subscriptions.
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