how are yall feeling about the website?
Hey! I’m keeping this as it’s targeted at new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.
Fuck /u/spez, innit?
Fuck u/spez
fuck spez
Fuck that dick head named spez
Fuck u/spez
That is correct
Sir yes sir!
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Ngl, us r/efugees are not happy with things over there.
As much as I’m coming to enjoy this, it still isn’t what reddit was, nor is the app experience anything close to as feature rich. But, I’m finding other benefits here that are, and never were, possible at reddit, so it’s still a good thing :)
Reddit is proof that no publicly traded company, nor any that intends to be, can be trusted with anything. Not use that was ever in doubt, but reddit has shown it in such a glaring, grotesque way that it’s the poster child for how shitty corporate thought is.
I dunno. I was enjoying things. I had started moderating two subs I deeply cared about, with one having a strong sense of community building. There’s an emotional response to the loss of that. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to put in the work, put in the passion, when it’s shit on by the very company that profits from my free labor. fuck spez, fuck reddit
God dam right friend.
The best parts of reddit were the communities of people dedicated to the topics under each sub.
Reddit CEOs didn’t create that. It was and has always been regular users and hardworking Mods that brought us what we loved about reddit. If reddit isn’t going to protect those people, fuck em.
I’m signing off of reddit with the black out. There will probably be a long time before something replaces it. But I’m a long for the ride.
I mean it seems so obvious in retrospect I suppose. I hope we’re looking a the start of a real renascence for the internet, away from corporate overlords.
Seems sluggish, rough, and low population, but fuck spez so I’ll give this an honest chance.
The whole lemmy concept mixed with the current situation feels far more like you are part of a real community. Kinda like in old internet days. I will even break out of my reddit lurker days and try to contribute here.
Yeah it feels a lot more like an old school forum.
Exactly. The days when people would run little community servers for IRC or shoutcast or whatever on spare laptops hooked up to cable modems, and would mess around doing stuff for their friends or whatever online community they were part of. When websites didn’t all look the same because they’re hosted on the same big tech platform, and if you wanted to publish something you’d put creativity into web design rather than just signing up for a Twitter account. When you didn’t have the constant Faustian deal of selling your activity data in exchange for free platforms. When talking to your gaming clan meant typing in the IP of whoever hosted the TeamSpeak/Ventrilo/Wilco server, rather than everybody all using Discord. When you didn’t have content policies for millions of people being made by one guy in California (IE Tumblr). When most websites were hosted on little $20/mo shared hosting accounts so nobody gave a shit about pandering to advertisers. When a ‘big forum’ was 10s of thousands of users, and forums had their own communities with their own culture.
I miss those days. But this feels a lot closer to that than anything else I’ve encountered in the last several years.
Happy to be here, also sad to be here.
Just joined a bit, too. Looks great so far. It reminds me of that wild west frontier feeling like when a bunch of us migrated from Digg to Reddit. We’re building another new community.
… With blackjack! And hookers!
Are you Decoy Bender or just Bender?
Just a decoy, I’m afraid. Shut up baby, I know it!
Hell yeah take my money!
I’m a slashdot refugee who just had a 16 year stopover on reddit :)
OMG! Slashdot… now that is a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
Hello, fellow /. refugee. I made a stopover on Digg before jumping to Reddit. nice to meet you here.
That was my path… /. -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy.
I should see if I can recover my 5-digit account.
I’ve still got my 4 digit account.😏
It’s ugly, not intuitive, feels way more complicated than necessary for a social site and the name is kind of dumb.
I’m 100% on board because screw Reddit and fuck u/spez.
I hope I can learn the ropes and help this place grow into something better.
Honestly when i started with reddit it was very confusing. Specially the concept of karma. Now it is time to learn something fresh and new!
If you’re on Android get Jerboa for Lemmy. It’s still in alpha but its still much better than browsing with the website imo, at least in terms of ugliness
I just discovered Jerboa. It’s at least serviceable.
They seem to be building it up fast.
I’m a little confused, but cautiously optimistic. It took a while to sign up and log in, but I got that far, so I guess I can work out the rest too! As a bit of a Reddit lurker, I’m out of my comfort zone, but committed to upvoting and commenting to help build the community!
We’ve had to go backwards to go forward and I’m all for it.
It’s like we’ve just escaped an abusive partner and now starting from zero!
That “first night in the new apartment without most of the furniture, sleeping by yourself for the first time in a while” feeling.
I actually love that feeling except that one time I spent my first night in this prison-like dorm room with dirty walls and no hot water in Japan, dirty sheets and a paper thin futon with nothing to eat and nobody to talk to/no way to call anyone. This feels a lot better than that.
Honestly I don’t see it as going backwards but unfamiliar. I was reluctant to switch to this style because I didn’t understand it and ended up on mastodon a few years ago into some terrifyingly hostile racist/bogoted/sexist communities. Maybe I did something wrong and ended up in a bad part of town but I ended up deleting the app I was using. So far the experience on lemmy is so much more pleasant lol…
So glad to leave that dumpster fire of a website
I am here on mobile using Mlem. Mlem has an interface superficially like Apollo, but it doesn’t have nearly the polish and features, like swiping posts to the side to up/downvote. I didn’t realize (until I lost it) how much that single capability improved QoL. Until an app comes along with better UX and QoL, I probably won’t stay. (I don’t doomscroll on my computer either).
I just tried out mobile browser. It works great on iOS Firefox. It’s good enough as a stopgap until someone makes a better mobile app.
Yeah. Mlem needs a bunch of work. It crashes, sometimes shows full posts, has no option for compact posts, etc… I bet it will get there; it’s just going to take time.
memmy is another ios (x-platform?) app to try that is apollo’esq, is more stable, and seems to default to using swipe as the primary method of up/down vote and commenting.
I’m excited to be a part of something new
Well lets see, my self promo spam to begin :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OHEFg9GbBA
edit: also fuck spez
So far it’s been good. There is a bit of a learning curve, setting up on mobile devices was a little challenging. Seems to be working well now. This thread has been really helpful for me.
