Just joined, and well, I’m thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you’ve done quite some good work here.
I really hope lemmy is the one, the biggest plus is that it isnt one company, so no investors to fuck it up
It’s really weird. There’s so few people here, but the conversations are really good. Everyone is friendly and the place is growing. That’s a really great vibe.
That is how it was at reddit during/before/relatively after the digg exodus.
Very much agreed. UI friendly, both on desktop and on mobile–even mobile browser. Instances are kinda confusing but I think im starting to understand it
Agreed. It seems promising and has that magic feeling of when I first encountered reddit for the first time post-Digg. That said, the federated aspects is neat but confusing… Still trying to work out how to view communities on different instances.
EDIT: Ok so apparently this post is actually on a different instance. Not entirely sure how I managed to get here. Now I need to figure out how to subscribe to remote communities?
For now your best bet is to do the community search in the section at the top of the web ui. for example, choose “All” in the filter and search for “gaming” and it will find all gaming communities on all the intances.
The sub you’re on right now also displays on the right hand side of the post, you can also press subscribe there.
Thanks, now we’re cooking with fire! I originally was trying to do it on the Android app, seems like the search isn’t functioning as expected. Web UI works as expected, not a big deal anyways since I can just “app-ify” it with a home screen shortcut.
My thoughts:
404: FetchError: request to http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site
I think the server may be struggling a bit under everyone checking it out.
It’s my opinion that nsfw content is what will make or break Lemmy, Beehaw, Kbin, or any other fediverse community.
Every single social media giant has some degree of nsfw content, it’s a big draw that gets non-techies to join.
Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook; all of them have/had some amount of pornographic material. Of course it’s incredibly difficult to moderate porn though, and in no way am I saying that it should be unmoderated, but I also think that 100% excluding it would be a huge factor in determining long-term success. There’s even a song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eFNRKEROwTo paraphrase an oldie: if NSFW was not allowed, there’d be just one [lemmy] community called
c/bringbacktheporn
Here since yesterday, but I like everything I’ve seen. The communities are welcoming, and users’ profiles lack the useless vanity metrics but allow enough customization to feel personal. Jerboa works well on Android, and everything looks well thought out generally. I hope Lemmy is going up to a great future!
I thought the same thing when Voat started as a mirror to Reddit. It was similar for a while but every time a troll or Nazi was ejected from Reddit they migrated to Voat. Eventually I was one of the last liberals there. Is there anyone maintaining order here or will it be the wild west ?
I think the lemmy structure really annoys trolls and right-wingers. They could register on a server, but they would have to play by the rules (be nice, don’t be a nazi etc), which they really don’t want. So they want their own server, but quickly realize that they’ll be alone there with their miserable peers, which they also don’t like.
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