I want to watch the fediverse expand and grow, this seems like a perfect time to join as so many social networks are apparently wanting to milk their users for as much as they can
Also after I switched to linux last year it has given me a great appreciation for Open Source projects
Some people are really annoying about it or don’t see other good stuff, but the open-source movement is a serious force for freedom imo.
Yeah, it’s extremely refreshing to find online spaces that are non-extractive again where one can exist without entities trying to sell you something. You start to realize the awful way that most tech treats its users. We’ve been getting boiled alive, slowly.
Yeah it’s a sobering experience. Also freeing :)
I’m the same. I signed up to Mastodon and really liked the concept but I was never a huge fan of the Twitter format and never actually used Twitter. I wanted a Reddit equivalent and ended up here.
Some parts, especially the apps, need a bit more polishing and I’m only saying that because I’m coming from using Infinity for Reddit. If I came from the official Reddit app the new lack of ads alone would help me ignore those quirks.
I really hope the Infinity Dev decides to come over here too, for a while now that app is the main way I viewed reddit and there are definitely some features that I’ll miss from it when July roles around
Jerboa works for me so far, but imo it’s incredibly basic, and I would like a wider range of choice
I tried Lemur but I had a lot of issues with it. It hasn’t been updated for 9 months now and that might be why it stopped working entirely? Jerboa works most of the time but showed a few cracks when the instance I’m on was returning errors and logged me out completely a few times.
I’d also like to see Infinity adapted for Lemmy and I wonder how easy it would be? Even if it needs to be forked, which is probably a better idea anyway, it’s a pretty great base to start from. It’s been pretty flawless for using Reddit and it’s the only reason I didn’t give up on the platform a few years ago.
Yeah as I understand it lemur is no longer maintained, and is not really compatable with some lemmy update or something
Also same here in regards to infinity being the only reason I didn’t abandon reddit sooner, I don’t exactly have enough knowledge on the matter to know how hard it would be to adapt to lemmy, but at the very least it’s a start, even if it has to be forked by someone else
In my experience, I have never needed an app on Lemmy or Mastodon the way I have for Reddit or Twitter. It turns out you can actually make a web interface that is lightweight and responsive when it isn’t bogged down by a long list of arbitrary conflicting demands for data collection, advertising, and inflating corporate KPIs.
It’s still nice to have some good apps, but it is not essential and website-ending the way it is with Reddit.
Reddit’s new API rules for third parties. Unfair and I’m not happy. Hoping Christian makes Apollo for Lemmy if the audience is here to support it.
If Christian makes an Apollo for Lemmy I would be more than happy to pay for it.
The Android client I use will quit working at the end of the month if nothing changes. Reddit is becoming a publicly-traded corporation sometime this year, and that will no doubt cause big and mostly negative changes based on past experience. And old.reddit.com I suspect won’t last long. So this is my redoubt, I can see it’s a viable place to fall back to even if I don’t completely understand Lemmy and whether it is sustainable if a huge number of Reddit users start using it.
I’ve been learning to hate reddit over the past few years between:
-its awful redesign
-it’s focus on more social media aspects like group chats, friend lists, follower count.
-Shutting down third party apps
-NFTs
-WAY too many ads
Basically everything that an alternative like lemmy solves
Because Reddit has fully turned to the dark side lol. It’s been trending downhill for a while now but with the recent API shenanigans it became very clear it wasn’t going to improve. So here I am lol. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had to find an alt (RIP Digg).
Absolutely, the API changes breaking 3rd party app support are the line for many users including myself.
Well originally because I want to have a place in case r/piracy gets banned.
Now it’s because of reddit’s horrible decisions regarding their API
One tidbit about lemmy’s early history: I was originally going to contribute to another reddit clone called postmill (despite it being written in php) many years ago, but one of the things that turned me off to contributing to it, was that the creator refused to allow having torrent links. So one of my main motivations in starting it, was to allow piracy.
Obviously because RiF is shutting down.
On the advice of someone else here I used Power Delete Suite to scrub all my posts and edit my comments to say why I’m leaving Reddit how I did it.
I highly recommend doing it if anyone is leaving Reddit instead of just deleting their account. This way it leaves a protest message and removes content from the platform.
I really need some stuff to read on my phone while on the toilet. And reddit is saying I might soon not be able to do that in the way I prefer.
I was tired of reddit continuing to push their IPO agenda, too many influences that changed it from being what it was to a ad ridden dumpster fire.
Reddexodus due to them killing 3rd-party apps in a month. I’m weaning myself off reddit, as I don’t think I could go cold turkey.
This place seems much nicer, inherently built to mitigate a lot of what I grew to hate about reddit-- namely the various bigotries, disinformation, and, well, the Nazis. And, frankly, I’m tired of the corporate-owned social media sites (even though Reddit managed to skirt that designation for a very long time), and the idea of FOSS, federated social media that’s inherently better-moderated by people with zero tolerance for hateful people really does appeal to me.
So, I’m here checking the place out, and we’ll see how it goes and how it grows!
Missed opportunity to say Reddexit.
Glad to have you here. People like you will make Lemmy a nice place to be.
d’oh!
that’s nice of you to say, though! thx!
I like how Lemmy is open source and you can set up your own server/instance to connect it to other instances.
I don’t like ads.
It’s really cool how there are separate communities very similar to Reddit/Twitter/Instagram and yet each community can actually communicate across these services with the same account.
Reddit has gone downhill over time and their API changes were the final straw that caused me to start looking for something new.
Reddit has been spiralling downhill in terms of content and the user interface, and bot accounts are increasing. The official app was also a mess, so I used Boost instead. Now that they’re planning to charge for API pulls, I’ve been pushed over the edge. I’ve moved to Lemmy as it feels like the Reddit before
The memes are here, I trust the anime titties are on there way too.
Booba you say?
It was mentioned on Reddit. I wanted to give it a try. I’m not in favor of losing old.reddit.com or RIF and, like many others, am looking for a new internet home.
Because Reddit plans to kill 3rd party clients. No sync no Reddit
If ljdawson could port Sync to Lemmy, that’d be awesome. Lemme is nice, but the app is kinda meh right now.
I’ve always thought Sync was the best app. But ljdawson has not been so active recently, so I’d be pleasantly surprised if they started a new project now.
Or at least, it would be cool if they could open-source it if he doesn’t plan on continuing development. That way, it could be used as a basis for a new Lemmy app.