I apologize in advance as I'm one of the many reddit refugees seeking alternatives. I can't believe how fast reddit is unraveling and you'd think with u/spez's recent AMA he would try to placate the community instead of inciting the situation even further. Anyway, Lemmy's pretty cool so far.
Don't apologize. All refugees are welcome here. Although... there is one small thing you could do to help. Maybe make an account on a less crowded instance? Too many people see "dev-run" and think "main instance". We do need to spread out a bit to make this sustainable.
It’s open source I think its gonna get a lot more development just from Redditors
They have people astroturfing hard right now arguing that reddit is not wrong for anything they are doing
Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy
ICQ -> IRC -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy
NNTP -> Slashdot & Fark -> Reddit -> Lemmy.
Everything old is new again.
This seems like as good a thread as any to make my first post in as a Lemmy user. I've been on Reddit since '09, and was on slashdot back in the 90's. I really am hoping that these new, federated services take off. Onboarding still seems like the biggest hurdle.
Woo hoo, me too. Was there for the rise and fall of each (and Digg). Also - I think its up to us to go back and encourage users from all our niche communities to come on board to these other places. I know a lot of them won't at least not right away. But we can encourage it.
After onboarding the interface is kind of rough to figure out. Mostly because the mobile web version isn't that great, and jerboa also isn't that great, and they're different enough that switching back and forth gets you confused. With reddit's problems, I imagine we'll see some more client apps and ui improvements show up in the next couple months with the added attention, and that'll be the end of that. Honestly, I thought it'd be rougher. I do wish I got more replies to my comments though, so i'm trying to make a point to post a bit more than I ordinarily would.
The desktop web interface seems pretty similar to old reddit/rif so I haven't had that much difficulty with browsing. The fact that I'll be losing my niche subs is the hardest part of moving entirely to Lemmy though.
I'm part of the problem. How's it going guys?
Well kbin.social and beehaw.org have both gotten the hug of death over the last 25 minutes so that's fun haha. Might have to hop over to a smaller instance to spread the load out
Its fitting for Reddit to give multiple hugs of death as it ends brings back fond memories of crushed servers
I don't really know how this system works but if I'm on one instance looking at stuff on another does that help at all? Is stuff cached to help spread out the load?
Yeah, like I'm on sh.itjust.works and subscribed to this community, so when people make posts on !memes@lemmy.ml those get synced and cached on sh.itjust.works, so whenever people on this server scroll through memes it puts load on sh.itjust.works instead of on lemmy.ml.
Gotta get in early and snatch up one of those good names like...CosmicSploogeDrizzle
I sure hope Lemmy has good crowd control.. as a reddit refugee myself
Oh no. Our non-centralized website system will get more users. Aaah.
I'm looking forward to lemmy becoming my primary time waster 😁
Given there is no algorithmic recipe to hook you, I'd wager Lemmy is far better for everyone's mental well-being. You'll ultimately squander less of your time mindlessly scrolling.
Yeah I'm part of the problem too, I use a 3rd party app and I'm bailing out of reddit when it dies.
But hopefully things on this and other servers will stabilize over the next few weeks.
Things are about to get spicy
We still need a good mobile app for Lemmy. I tried using the Jebora one, and its scrolling speed is abysmal.
Silver lining, I am looking forward to all the new things getting developed for lemmy and the like when they can't make things for Reddit anymore. Their loss is our gain.
So far I'm looking forward to surfing this wave. Sad to see Reddit burn, but at least there are alternatives.
Maybe it makes sense to add a donation link in the header/footer of the site? More money for servers is always good 🤔
It begins
Also part of the problem, but so far the experience is being great.
Quality over quantity on most posts here on Lemmy, really liking it.
I can’t wait for Lemmy to be my time waster and news grab all in one ❤️
Loving it here so far! Day one from reddit and this was the very first post I see XD
Here we go guys!
I can't wait! Screw plebbit.
