People who joined Lemmy in the last few days thanks to posts on /r/buyfromEU, how are you doing?
People who joined Lemmy in the last few days thanks to posts on /r/buyfromEU, how are you doing?
First of all,welcome to Lemmy!
Here are a few pointers to help you settle in
Feel free if you have any questions!
Which Lemmy app is the best?
99.9% of the time I’m just lurking on Reddit, but here I‘m actually getting interested in commenting again. Feels „safer“ than the other place.
Welcome ! Come on [email protected] you'll find that the animator is very friendly and open to chat back.
Welcome!
I was looking for reddit alternatives before and didn't pull through. Now that I did (first hour), I dont see why anyone wouldn't "migrate".
Ah, and I'm using "eternity". Reminds me of the old days before reddit turned facebook.
Welcome!
Looking for some good software recommendations, I like what I'm seeing here.
Switched to LibreOffice, and Betterbird for Mail. Works well so far. Using Vivaldi as a browser, that's a European project but with a modified Chrome core as far as I understand, the built-in AdBlocker works fine in combination with NoScript, even on mobile. Trying out Linux Mint so I can switch the OS when Windows 10 loses support later this year.
what Software do you want?
This is my third or fourth alt on Lemmy since joining. I love that I can stick to one account or change instances if I feel like it. It’s not too difficult to get used to! I’m getting a desktop app next.
I like that there’s an application process for each instance. That gives you a good idea of how the instance is managed and what to expect.
I love that I can get German news and interact with Germans and German language speakers. Or, in other words, I love that it’s not default centralized American.
It’s really cool seeing their instances next to everyone’s handle. There’s so much here! I feel a lot safer. I love that everyone is human.
I see @[email protected] everywhere. I have been here a day and I think I have upvoted them 15 times already. Haha
Well, welcome, that's a very nice comment!
You seems to like every right thing! Welcome abord!
I'm surprised how quickly I've gotten used to it! I honestly really like the mobile app and it's gestures, as well as the customizability.
Although I don't think I'll be completely quitting reddit just yet, as some of my more niche interests don't have communities here yet.
That's fair, most of people still use Reddit for niche interests
It's kind of empty and I thought about stopping my boycott of Reddit because I think it hurts the US more to use Reddit as a place to talk because unfortunately that's where everybody is. Still couldn't get myself to do it though, but I'm struggling to find content here on Lemmy and I suspect maybe I don't know how to use it
Did you have a look at this post? https://lemmy.world/post/26409821
Same here but I also feel like the emptiness helps with my screentime. Easier to check new topics and the continue with life :D i get very stuck on reddit with endless doomscrolling.
same! I'm also free from Facebook scrolling (which turned into BlueSky scrolling and then vanished)
If one thing is to be remebered from this last wave of inscription that is OP was kept busy.
Needed to use that momentum to make Lemmy grow
Thx! I'm still learning the ropes here but so far so good.
Welcome! Don't hesitate to ask.
It's pretty fun, it does stuff better than Reddit so I'm focusing on that. Personally I'm enjoying that you can scroll through so many parts when searching for a topic
Welcome! I'l glad you like it.
you can scroll through so many parts
Do you mean the instances or the feeds?
Thanks, I love it so far. Been feeling a little guilty for staying on Reddit after the API changes but felt too daunting to learn how to fediverse. Glad I finally pushed myself to do it. (Sync helped a lot too since I had it for Reddit before and was/is awesome!)
Welcome ! I don't know Sync but people seems to like it for Lemmy and there is lot of other choice to try for.
I'm as confused as the next guy, but I'm hanging in there! I'm not sure if the decentralized nature means I'm missing communities because I'm looking in the wrong place, or if there's just fewer stuff around.
I feel the same, but it helps to not just browse "subscribed" but to also check out "local" and especially "all"
You can also take a few minutes and check out the "communities" overview and join those you recognise by name or browse a few of them to decide if you want to join them.
It does not matter on which instance most of the time. Also, I am subscribed to similar communities on different instances, cause why not. Worst case scenario: I get duplicate news.
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I think that you will see more stuff in All if more people from your instance are subscribed to more communities from other instances.
Yet it is the case. But if you are in a smaller english speaking instance, you should have most big general community federated to your instance.
Go up to Communities
Change Local to All
Search there.
if you're on an even slightly busy instance, you'll probably see most of what exists.
if someone is on a smaller instance, they can go to https://lemmy.world/communities, select ALL and see what exists
For the most part, just going to all on any server with a couple hundred users should be enough to see most of the communities.
lemm.ee has most of the communities federated.
Would love to get a good replacement for r/hardware. Otherwise it‘s really nice!
good replacement for r/hardware.
[email protected] has some promise, light on conversation, but we could fix that by going there and talking :)
[email protected] has a lot more people in it, but the ML servers are hit or miss on community.
Hey thanks! Are you sure the first one is working? Cant seem to find it 👀
I'm missing some of my topics. Is noone interested in dating, dating advice, self improvement, psychology and this stuff?
Or am I missing something?
People are nice here. I like that. 😊👍
Idk but I just searched up this sub for you
Nice one! Maybe [email protected] as well
Hi, thx for warm welcome, had a harder moment learning multi-server architecture of Lemmy, now I'm fine. Still did not abandoned the other portal (actively trying to get banned there by being a rebel tho).
How bout You? how's Your day? :)
Glad to hear! Doing well, thanks :) If you want a casual conversation space, there is [email protected] :)
Great experience, Voyager is a great app and Lemmy feels kinda like Reddit in the good old days. Still have to check Reddit threads every now and then through search results while looking for info, though. Hopefully we can get more content going, but I guess that’s up to us users :)
Welcome!
I still need to get used to the federated architecture but it's growing on me. I hope we can engage as much as possible so it's more attractive to be active here.
Hi! I'm here to engage 👋
On which sub did you used to hang out?
So far doing really good, also while I know it is some kind of bubble I am in now, I really enjoy not seeing posts from certain subreddits popping up in my feed anymore.
Welcome!
Doing good here.
Thx for these spaces, Lemmy is really enjoyable and Reddit is flushing down so fast!
Honestly, I need to get used to all of it, i'm also used to fast paced information and now I see more quality posts but just a lot less of it. I think it might actually be beneficial for my mental health in the long run though!
Welcome!
Doing a bit more mildly optimistic. Lemmy has great potential!
Not even sure if I saw any posts on buyfromEU. I just saw a picture somewhere with alternatives to various platforms, and it had Lemmy. I had been looking for an alternative to Reddit anyway, so thought I'd give it a shot. My first day here, I got banned from like three Reddit subs and got multiple content takedowns and warnings for up voting Luigi adjacent comments/posts. At that point I was done. Deleted my account yesterday.
I just scroll through the main All feed. Seems like a cool place so far. I'm using the Photon UI because I like how it looks on PC.
Welcome!
Thanks!
Doing great 😆
I saw the post in r/Europe that pointed here. I'm loving it so far
Welcome!
I got Boost for
RedditLemmy back. The world is beautiful again!Now to find communities that I like... I'm a bit lost but I'll settle soon enough.
Welcome! [email protected] can help to find communities
Love the responsiveness, everything feels so much faster and quicker. Feels like I lost a lot of weight :-D Really like it so far, I just hope that more people make the switch, so that more sub-lemmis? or don't know how to call them, get filled and have more life. Will try to do my part in some sub-lemmis and post stuff be active and so on. :-) Love you all!
Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
They're called communities
Welcome!
Thank you and thank you for your pointers of help :-)
This is my first comment, just joined during the weekend. It took about half a day to get used to the lower amount of stuff and the slower pace here. And I really like it! The quality of discourse here seems so much higher and with the lower amount of posts I find that I can take my time and not get overwhelmed. Should have joined years ago :-)
Welcome, glad to hear you like it!
Years ago, it was just a safe haven for half a dozen communists.
2 years ago it was already pretty well spread out IMO, that was just before the API fiasco. Now add some years before that and I'd say yeah, a much smaller community.
But even a couple years ago Lemmy was beginning to thrive.
I'm alright.
Bienvenue cher compatriote
Welcome! [email protected] and [email protected] can help
Not only Lemmy i also joined Mastodon lol. I find this expirience to be refreshing, maybe thats because this platform has less users or maybe because its not under someones control but i feel as if i moved from big, overpopulated city to a countryside. Its like breathing fresh air, i feel myself free, and i love reading comments here, they look like real conversations between humans. Although im not from European Union but im your neighbor from Ukraine and i totally support this movement or its better to call an idea, i dunno. I replaced a lot of stuff already but thats only the first step. Also im really glad to be here.
Welcome!
Came over from Reddit as part of plan to divest from US-based products. Happy to be here, and plan to explore. Mainly lurked over on Reddit - hope to contribute more actively over here!
I almost never posted on Reddit. Partly because someone has usually already said something close to what I wanted to say. With the smaller community here I feel like I can make a unique contribution more often.
Yes, I know what you mean and would encourage you to share your perspective more - it will still be unique, even if it is similar to others.
Welcome!
Thank you :)
A few unwritten rules I've found useful over the last couple of years since moving to Lemmy :)
- If you're missing a particular smaller or niche community - be the change and create it!
- If someone is challenging you in a thread in good faith, respond in the same way
- If they're just being a dick, don't waste any sort of mental energy on them - just block them, forget them and move on.
- If you're the one being a dick (and be honest, we all know when we are) walk away for a bit
- Don't be too proud to ask for guidance but do it in the right communities :) e.g. don;t ask for tech help in a community thats not about tech help.
- Be prepared to see a lot of Star Trek memes and Nicole spam.
- Bask in the warm glow of an open source, privacy respecting, non-corporately controlled environment.
Ngl on reddit id feel the need to look through ppls post history, check their credibility, downvote/report everything I disagree with, it was a bad habit, somehow wasn't what got me banned (I did it for years), haven't felt the need to do that once here, not even close to that mindframe when seeing stuff here.
Reddits algorithim was favoring controversy hard, I swear it pushed stuff that would actively raise my blood pressure at me, then give me something id like for a second just to make me not close the app. I was getting all of my dopamine out of arguing, id just open that app mad ready to argue with my notifications.
A month into lemmy and I stopped expecting arguments in my notifications, I find opening this app to be a calming experience like Reddit was for me a decade ago.
You forgot the beans and five days no shit
You're right, I did. Dammit.
you’re missing a particular smaller or niche community - be the change and create it!
Also consider discussing it on [email protected]
i do miss my niche communities on reddit, maybe i'll start some here,other than that lemmy is a good alternative to replace the popular feed on reddit.
Welcome!
Yay to all the fresh lemmings. Welcome welcome! Just don't be a dipshit please.
Joined yesterday, I'm loving the gestures of the voyager app
Good choice, voyager is the best app
Still learning where to find stuff, and unfortunately most of "my" subreds aren't here (yet), but it looks promising and will continue to support.
Yeah pretty much but weaning off reddit is good
Feel free to recreate your favourite and try to grow it here :).
[email protected] is a decent resource for that.
Also consider joining more general communities
[email protected] is a community for all Japanese RPGs for instance
Welcome ! Indeed, niche topics need a larger userbase, hopefully we'll get there over time
You can use the universal https://lemmyverse.net/ to see if your favourite communities exist.
sometimes they have different names.
you can also create any community you are missing. If you use the same name as the reddit community then people will be more likely to find it and contribute.
A facebook friend who is transgender posted a list of alternate platforms to use instead of (ironically) Facebook, Google, Insta etc. And since I had recently been perma banned from reddit for twice quoting from The Godfather (I guess their algorithm hasn't seen it) and various djt related insults, I thought I'd give this a try.
Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
Fine, and how are you?
Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
Great, I've made myself right at home. As another user said I miss the smaller communities but it can only get better from here.
Make them and try to convince the members for the corresponding subreddits to join you :) And welcome!
Welcome!
I like how Lemmy actually grew in size after i left it after the Reddit moderation problem of a couple years ago. All in all, it's all kind of overwhelming but maybe I'm too emotional.
Thanks.
I do like that the sub-lemmy is focused on Europe as a whole, the one on Reddit was labelled as EU
There's also [email protected].
I like it so far :) Bit confusing sometimes and I'm still trying to find communities that I like and are active.
I hope that many more make the switch from reddit, but I can also see why some people might find the Initial setup confusing or anoying. I think it just takes some time to get used to Lemmy, so I hope a lot of people try it out and stay
Welcome! This post might help https://lemmy.world/post/26409821
I just joined and i'm exploring right now. It's looking good ! Of course it will be easier in a few days but i'm honestly pleasantly surprised !
Welcome! For French speaking communities, [email protected] and [email protected] should be useful
Thank you, i will make sure to check these ones !
A question,
How when and where does the money come from to keep lemmy running?
Since nothing is free in life who pays for lemmy?
Lemmy is much cheaper to run than mastodon. Small instances have negligible financial costs
I pay the server admins for feddit.uk (the instance this community is hosted on) to help with hosting costs because I think they provide a valuable service. Currently I am not paying towards Lemmy (I do pay towards Mastodon development however) but I may start doing that in the future.
My £5 a month to Feddit.uk and £1 a month to Mastodon isn’t much but it’s orders of magnitude more than Reddit and Twitter would have earned from my (adblock using) eyeballs before so hopefully a few of us paying a few pounds/euros/dollars directly is enough to support the services.
Running a lemmy server is cheap enough, so they source most of their money from donations. The lemmy software is also powered by donations.
There are also ways to donate to the core developers who write most of the Lemmy software running on each server.
The server admins pay for it. Or people donate to the instance to keep it running
And on that note, consider donating to the instance and/or the Lemmy devs (and any other open-source project you find useful). I also need to make a round of donations soon!
Volunteers. Think about it like volunteering for your local community. Like a football coach or something.
Divide by zero (the instance I'm on) takes donations. People who donate get a nifty flair in the governance threads, but you don't have to donate to vote on issues the server faces. (We also allow non-members to vote, though since they're not as impacted by decisions made for the instance, their votes are given lower weights.)
Varies between instances. sh.itjust.works, for example, is financed via donations.
Still looking around 😬
Haven't checked Reddit much since creating this account. Thought I might use both but Lemmy is genuinely much better. The only thing I haven't figured out is how to visit the original instance from within voyager and how to make my feed more diverse. Currently it's very politics heavy and I don't wanna unsub from those communities but other stuff kinda gets burried.
Currently it’s very politics heavy and I don’t wanna unsub from those communities but other stuff kinda gets burried.
I think that's less the fault of Lemmy's algorithm and more the fault of the "interesting times" we're living in. There's just a fuck-ton of politics to be preoccupied with at the moment.
I would use two accounts, one dedicated to non politics communities
[email protected] can help discover some of them
The only thing I haven't figured out is how to visit the original instance from within voyager
Top left of your feed, hit the arrow and at the top left you'll see the option to view only subscribed or all posts on your local instance (or all posts from all instances).
Very nice here so far 🙂
Welcome!
Still confused. My app connects me to a single one of the two instances I joined and I managed to get myself in a position where I get separate notifications from separate posts on those instances. So I've been going back and forth between my app and Firefox. Still a bit confused....
New world to explore, keep clicking and wil see where I end up!
Still not sure about the best Android App, I've tried Interstellar, what seemed kind of unfinished. Now I have Voyager, what seems better so far.
Furthermore I miss some Sub..Lemmis? like r/bida (am i the asshole), r/Staiy, r/LeopardsAteMyFace .
Voyager is the best
I basically struggled with the default sorting on home, which is the most 'active' topics. So I saw older posts what was really confusing, because it looked like I don't receive updates. But I found the desired setting in meantime 👍
The sort icon also is very uncommon.. I might fill an issue on Github.
Edit: Got it.. its because the icon of the current chosen sorting shows up, not a generic sort Icon.
I’m a little bit confused still but haven’t had the time to read through any FAQs. I don’t know how to access my account in a web browser for example (I’m using an iPhone app now).
So thank you for those links! Will have a look.
Just arrived. It seams great.