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submitted 1 year ago by Xxxthat_emo_kid to c/196

Im also asking this on TUMBLR to see what the general consensus is

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[-] bownage@beehaw.org 39 points 1 year ago

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 🤠

[-] transgwender 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The real 196 was inside us the whole time??? 🥺 👉👈

[-] SOS 18 points 1 year ago

there were other things in us too😏

[-] Kaladin_Stormblessed 11 points 1 year ago

yep, this is definitely the 196 i know and love lmao

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[-] bownage@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago
[-] Monologue@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

omg 196 vore???

[-] asukii@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] SeerLite 25 points 1 year ago

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

[-] markipol@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] asukii@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] transgwender 16 points 1 year ago

Im not counting on reddit to make substantive changes. Plus, it is kinda nice here, more calm, better vibes for other stuff

[-] vinceman 4 points 1 year ago

Ye genuinely enjoying the federated experience so far.

[-] Kaladin_Stormblessed 3 points 1 year ago

i like the small community vibe :)

[-] Monologue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, it is not overwhelming and is actually quite nice to contribute

[-] oldmanspidey@discuss.smash.today 16 points 1 year ago

@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.

[-] lazy_digestive 2 points 1 year ago

Hey I was kinda trying to get to use Mastodon. What instance do you recommend?

[-] magmaus3@szmer.info 3 points 1 year ago

Not mastodon (something better), but I recommend mk.absturztau.be or fedi.absturztau.be :3

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@lazy_digestive right now I am part of a mastodon instance dedicated to the competitive Super Smash Bros community. I am a tournament organizer for Rivals of Aether, which is also a platform fighter (the same genre as Smash). A lot of people who play Rivals came from the Smash community, so it made sense for me to make an account on this instance as its a general community I am part of. I'd say try finding an instance for an online or IRL community you are part of and try to join.

@lazy_digestive On Mastodon, you have an additional "Local" timeline which is a timeline showing all the posts of the people in your instance. So you can stay connected to people through that. I know a lot of the larger instances can feel impersonal because of their size, and a bunch have turned off signing up for new accounts because of a large amount of people wanting to sign up from the Twitter exodus last year.

[-] murkeyindividual2 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] animelivesmatter 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd 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.

[-] ArrayOfCrows 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] priapus@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Definitely not going back. Reddit sucked long before this, there just wasn't a big enough alternative.

[-] murkeyindividual2 8 points 1 year ago

I will probably not. I don’t really care for reddit especially given the changes they’re making.

[-] omni_memer 8 points 1 year ago

prob gonna gradually reduce my reddit usage anyway, but i might check it out periodically

[-] RayeRei 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] priapus@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Idk about the ios app but you can easily switch between accounts on Jerboa. You could just make a nsfw alt on lemmynsfw.com

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[-] nenmyx@skein.city 6 points 1 year ago

pretty low/nonexistent. i like it here.

[-] arp@lemmy.studio 6 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is love. Of course I'm staying.

[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I quite like it here, but if everyone else goes back to Reddit, it'll become rather hard to scroll here

[-] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] GoneGorl 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Rotekoppen@tech.lgbt 2 points 1 year ago

@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

[-] tanja 2 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] Duchess@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

absolutely not, i'm done with reddit.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 year ago

Never knew it existed until The Great Lemmy Migration

[-] katILGK5 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] br3w0r@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Think about it as an email with letter subscriptions.

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