I am a refugee but not from Reddit. I have come from other Lemmy instances that stopped working or were shutdown (noteably free media heck yeah) and antemeriddiem.

First, lemm.ee was my first ever Lemmy instance, loved it here. This site worked absolutely flawless so far.

So, my hot take: I discovered lemm.ee blocked Threads, fair, that's not up for discussion from my side. Does anyone can suggest me a nice instance where Threads is federated? I'm curious about this infamous huge amount of content I cannot access from here (and no, Threads app is still not available in my country).

I've been on .world since a few weeks before the reddit 3rd party app ordeal. But I abandoned .world due to their Threads federation. I've been off lemmy for most of a few weeks but have been missing it.

Just wanted to say thank you for creating this instance! I was hoping to find one with community creation, downvotes, and no Threads federation.

Seems like a great fit. Do you have a donation page? If I like it here after a little while, I'd be happy to pitch in a little bit. I had been donating to .world until they confirmed Threads federation...

Edit: Couldn't take the federation with tankies here, and since blocking an instance only blocks posts (not user interaction), I've moved on to feddit.de.

By the way, if anybody has any questions about how to use Lemmy, or maybe suggestions for this particular instance, just drop a comment or post here!

Thanks for this!

Refugee from Reddit here, could someone please help explain what all of this is? I don't completely understand, sorry

On behalf of all the refugees out there I can't thank you enough for creating this instance. I was shocked that subreddits with millions of followers, were willing to shoot themselves in the foot and jeopardize their userbase and the years information they contained just to play slackivist. It got to the point that I couldn't use reddit because of my subs were privated. If people really want to stick it to the man at RedditHQ, leave. Reddit was supposed to be about the people and the community. I guess we forgot about...

Enough about that, thank for making a place for us Reddit expatriates and refugees.

Thank you for setting this up. For the most part, I understand the federated nature of Lemmy, but finding an instance that doesn't get bogged down to the point where I can't log in or can't sign up for a new account...that has been incredibly frustrating.

Can I ask how you're funding this? Are you perhaps taking donations?

Cheers :)

I feel like because things are so new the instances are all really similar.

Btw liftoff is pretty great

Thanks!

I'm a Reddit NCD refugee, but I'm also a Twitter retreater. So I'm already aware of how the fediverse works through the Mastodon instances Mastodon.social and nafo.uk.

I like Lemmy. More options when commenting. I also like the properly functioning search bar. Mastodon really needs to improve that experience, because I still can't find specific toots from another server. It's either creating a new account or scrolling going to the site and then in the instance I'm logged in to then search for the right account to then manually scroll all the way to the right comment.

I'm personally not such a great fan of putting a website up into the cloud, because when the cloud becomes arrogant, they've the power to cancel websites like these. It never can hurt to have a local backup. Preferably encrypted to prevent people getting access to sensitive personal data like what happened with the anarchists hackers at kolektiva dot social. This was potentially damaging to the entire fediverse for all the accounts having a kolektiva accounts commenting here or vice versa.

I was on lemmy.ml for a while but switched over here today because it seems way more stable. Awesome job! Is there a way I can support you?