This truly is Reddit’s successor.

  • Joe B
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    391 year ago

    Lemmy and mastadon and the whole fedeverse are the future. We didn’t have our eyes open cause we where stuck in the Reddit world for so long. I’m learning more and more everyday and i’m loving it. So easy and so many people :P People will make this place close to reddit as they can but long live lemmy

  • @w00master@lemmy.world
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    291 year ago

    Regardless of the success (or failure) of the blackout what’s important is to create an alternative platform to Reddit. The blackout doesn’t have much legs because of the lack of alternative. Deep inside we all know that many will just go back to reddit once the blackout will end - it’s why the importance of creating an alternative.

    Keep boosting Lemmy.

  • @Master@lemmy.world
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    231 year ago

    The biggest benefit I see so far is the lack of bots. I know there are still some bots out there but most of them are useful bots and not just karma farming bots or bots designed for propaganda.

    • @Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi
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      161 year ago

      I mean the only people who are gatekeeping are those that prevent themselves from joining because they are unwilling to work out how the fediverse and by extension Lemmy work and how it’s actually surprisingly easy to use, once you get used to it.

      In other words people’s fear of change is the true gatekeeper here.

      Still annoying, but so long as we don’t try to make it harder for these people to adapt than it already is, I think there should be no problems.

      • @DekkerNSFW@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        81 year ago

        I didn’t even use third party apps, I just really don’t like when companies try to enforce stuff in that way. I’d love for Lemmy to grow big, and it doesn’t seem to have the same initial clunkiness and feeling of being lost that you’d have on Mastodon during the Twitter shenanigans. I’m hopeful.

        • Jim The VHS Wizard
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          31 year ago

          Ditto. I used to use BaconReader a million years ago, but for the most part I just use my mobile browser if I’m on my phone. But them doing this to 3PA is a red flag, a big giant one, that either they’re looking at Twitter and going “wow that’s working great, definitely not a huge catastrophic trash fire” or at least going “that’s a trash fire alright, but one I’m willing to live with if it means more money.” Time to get out.

  • @triscuit@dataterm.digital
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    211 year ago

    i think accessibility is why lemmy has such an “Old Internet” vibe to it. there are probably a lot of people here that joined reddit over a decade ago (my account turned 11 this year).

    that and, there’s no reason to tie your real identity to your account. i think about the difference between lemmy and mastodon (aside from mastodon being like twitter). i look at mastodon maybe a few times a month, but when i do look at it, i see people using their real identities and posting as if it’s a piece of their professional career

      • awsamation
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        71 year ago

        Not necessarily.

        Something like Facebook is still useful for keeping in touch with extended family and social circles. I may not particularly care about great uncle John, but it’s nice to be aware that he’s in the hospital after a bad fall without that information going through 5 rounds of the telephone game.

        Somewhere like Reddit or the fediverse? I would never want my real identity associated with these accounts. It’s nice to have some anonymity.

          • awsamation
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            111 year ago

            Facebook in specific? Sure.

            But the idea of platform meant for keeping in loose direct contact with your extended family and social group? That has merit.

  • Briongloid
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    181 year ago

    I remember having to explain to people what subreddit where, once lemmy/kbin upgrade their UI enough it will be no more complicated.

    • @UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub
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      61 year ago

      Kbins build docs are a nightmare. I have experience with Linux and docker. Can’t get them to work at all. Closest I get are 500 errors and one can’t find a log tossing errors to explain it to save my life.

      Maybe I’m not as well familiarized with the parts and pieces as I thought, though I’ve built plenty of Drupal stacks and the like, even using docker and Ansible etc.

      Then I look at PRs showing sql injection fixes and XSS fixes and I’m like…oh

  • @Harpuajim@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    141 year ago

    I have a buddy who once gave me props for being able to navigate reddit with ease as silly as that sounds. I can’t even imagine showing him this…

  • @greensky@sh.itjust.works
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    111 year ago

    This is truly a successor to Reddit but I think getting more people to migrate is crucial. Still not a lot of people have heard about this. We need to bring more people here.

  • @totallynotsocsa@beehaw.org
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    101 year ago

    Yeah, we’ve literally seen this forum migration happen many times in the short history of the internet. Reddit had some novel concepts in terms of evolving and democratizing the concept, and it was the best thing since sliced bread for a long time.

    Federation is a reasonable evolution of the user-run, user-generated concept, which ultimately requires more freedom that a heavily monetized platform can ever deliver. I there will always be a distinction between internet media as a product, and internet media as a utility. The neat thing seems to be that the internet kind of always seems to evolve new versions of the latter when they are needed.

  • supernovae
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    81 year ago

    There is some enormous potential opportunities on the horizon that we’re well ahead of here. The real issue is, Reddit will have to join us on the fediverse or they will be history.

    What we have to do as instances/admins/fedizens (whatever you want to call yourselves) is build the future we want. It will be quirky - but at some point that quirkyness is exactly what people want in the end.

  • PumpedSardines
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    61 year ago

    Haha, i feel you compeletly. I really like it so far here. The UI is intuative and the community seems to be active!