Kick your feet up and drop a shitpost off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world, meme in !memes@sopuli.xyz or chill with the cats of !cat@lemmy.world
If you saw my comment about the pitch fork, here you go: ------E (deluxe upgrades are extra)
Welcome aboard!
ETA Context: https://lemmy.world/post/24558150
Did something new happen on reddit?
Nothing new in particular. People are sick of power tripping mods. Also people that joined Reddit many years ago are sad to see it's turned into something else in many ways. I'm brand new here, I am over Reddit as I just got banned for "threatening violence". I appealed to no avail. I got angry regarding a post about an adult purposely running down a 12 year old. I expressed what I "would feel like doing" to that driver if he knocked one of my sons over on purpose. I didn't actually threaten a real person, it was based on a hypothetical scenario. But no apparently that's threatening violence. So yeah, I'm here.
ah. I thought they did some new, fresh BS and caused another exodus.
It's meta and x that are causing interest in the fediverse again. Pixelfed has gained a lot of users.
I know that, but the title of this post references redditors.
General interest in fediverse includes Lemmy.
Would you mind telling me what "Fediverse" is please. I had a bit of a read about this new place/thing/situation/blogsite or whatever it's called. I'm an old Troglodyte and lucky that I even discovered Reddit 12 years ago. It was great for many years but I've grown tired of the same old comments and the insecure mods. Well anyway, happy newish year.
If anyone's wondering what you should do first, the first thing you should do is block hexbear, and the next thing you should do is join any instance other than lemmy.ml. lemmy.world is a good choice, but there's probably one you'll like better.
If you want to know the most trans-friendly instance, it's lemmy.blahaj.zone. There are people who will tell you it's Hexbear. Those people are liars.
Finally took the plunge out of curiosity and a desire to dump reddit at some point.
Welcome here! Here are a few pointers to get you started
Holy cow this is me!
Welcome! Here are a few pointers to get you started
I came from the first reddit exodus and it's been great over here. You'll get used to it in no time, I promise.
So did I but be careful or you well also get swept up by the brainwashing here, buying a Pixel to run grapheneos, installing Linux on everything, buy privacy respecting email services, VPN and paranoid of everything. BTW I use NixOS and I am still mostly sane.
Watch out, Cat propaganda everywhere
BIG CAT IS WATCHING YOU 😼
I saw a mention of Lemmy on a random thread in r/politics so I'm tentatively having a poke about, since I've already tried to quit Reddit once (for Tumblr - it didn't stick). I remember forums pre centralised internet, is it something like that?
Think of it more like email addresses. Know how a Gmail account can send email to an iCloud account just fine, and both display the same content? Same basic concept. You can have [account]@domain1.com and [account]@domain2.com, and they’re entirely separate accounts. Even if they have the same username, they’re on different instances.
Federation refers to how the instances share data with each other. One of the largest things to look for is what instances your instance federates with, because that will determine what kinds of users you end up interacting with.
Yes, you can consider it like a web forum but with the default sort set to "new post" not "new comment" as is done on Reddit. This tends to favour new content over longer discussion, although you'll get active threads like this quite often.
And thank you for choosing feddit.uk, I hope you enjoy your time with us and if you have any other questions then fire away.
Welcome! Yes, it is something like that.
You chose the UK as your instance, so the local communities could already interest you: https://feddit.uk/communities
On top of that, here is a selection of 20 non-political communities: https://feddit.uk/post/22376629
App can be found on https://www.lemmyapps.com/
Finally, there is also !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
Feel free if you have any questions!
A bit between a forum and reddit. You don't have to sneak away to subreddit, just comment wherever and whenever. There's usually some good interaction. Much smaller places than reddit and less monkeying with comments and votes and such.
We've definitely seen an upswing in registrations this week, we usually have 1 a day and we are already on 8 today.
StarTrek.website saw 4 approved registrations in the past day, and we typically get about 1/day too.
To Newbies, I just want to say:
If you aren't a Marxist-Leninist, you might wanna stay away from the big 3 Marxist-Leninist (aka: Tankie) instances [lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, lemmy.ml]
How could I forget my Tankie Triad warning LMAO
Agreed, also if you're not a Neoliberal I would stay away from World (or if you're Queer, a minority, or someone who isnt comfortable with seeing bigotry).
It is the first time I see myself as a hiring manager. It's not that displeasing though.. Welcome everyone!
Id like to point out there are also some really good mobile apps for lemmy. I use sync for lemmy. Hopefully others will recommend there favorites. There are quite a few good ones!
I'm out of the loop. What's this "Reddit thread from earlier today"?
Also, yes, welcome to former Reddit users. I'm also a former Redditor, but I left during the API pricing fiasco.
A thread on r/technology about Decentralized Social Media actually got some good traction so a few of us logged back in to promote Lemmy a bit lol
For new people
Memes about the Fediverse
Other relevant communities: