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dparanoidandroid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• doug@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Voyager iOS App makes it feel like I never left.

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  • pleasegoaway@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Reddit refuge here.

    I do miss all the niche subreddits. As the saying goes, “there’s a subreddit for everything.”

    But I think with time, Lemmy can grow to fill that gap.

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    • doug@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You gotta Field of Dreams it. I’m doing it for LV426/the Aliens universe. Just treat it like you’re starting a forum or a newsletter and, hopefully in time, others will contribute and it’ll grow organically.

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      • match@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re right

        it’s time for me to post the weird porn

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      • Walican132@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Where is the LV426 community?

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      • myrak@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m trying to figure that out but I I have to make my own server? Or is it a sub on lemmy.world? There definitely a learning curve

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    • mintiefresh@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I’ve been on Lemmy maybe 2 years or so now? I find myself going back for the subreddits of my interest. But I will try to start posting here more.

      Ultimately I believe in the fediverse despite all of its growing pains.

      It’ll take awhile to grow those niche communities.

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    • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have no doubt we will!

      While we still doesn't have all kinds of active niche communities over here, it is incredible how much the community has grown since I first came here. And that's not really all that long ago.

      Thanks for joining us! :)

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    • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      These days I go 50/50 on Reddit and Lemmy. I know it’s a chicken and egg problem for content, but hopefully 50% usage is enough to change things over time.

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      • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Same. Is your name related to the youtube channel?

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    • jackalope@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mod lemmy.ml/c/anti-trust and we need more people contributing!

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I ported !engineeringmemes@lemmy.world. Because of its limited volume, it’s barely an effort to moderate.

      Just start the communities you want to see :)

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    • ArachnidMania@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Be the change you want to see! Start up your own niche community!

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is also a PWA version for those looking to try it out, and I believe it’s on F-Droid as well.

    vger.app

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are a few minor cultural differences to be aware of. But as long as you avoid saying anything negative about Star Trek or Linux, you should be just fine.

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yea, and can’t be criticizing Nutrek

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      • arrow74@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Shame, I have strong opinions around Discovery. Mostly because every episode is “fate of the universe” and character development arcs usually fizzle our with little actual change in the characters

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  • kmirl@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same for me using Boost on Android. It looks like Reddit only without the bots and AI slop.

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    • iridebikes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same! I’m still a little confused about the way the federation works but I love the decentralization and democratization of the platform. And Boost makes it feel very familiar.

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    • overcookedpancakes@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I just got Boost the other day! I’m still getting used and tinkering with the layouts to make it like Relay still, but this community is very welcoming.

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• bigb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  More or less. There aren’t as many bots, and everyone is generally aware of traditional Internet etiquette (i.e. don’t be an asshole). Lemmy also feels as homogenous as early Reddit: college-educated white people in western countries.

  I started joining forums back in the late nineties and I’ve learned every place on the Internet is in flux. Things always change. Back in the day, stuff would happen like we would lose hosting because someone got sick of running a niche phpBB forum or the moderation team would change. When social media kicked off, changes were driven by money. Facebook was a big gaming platform in my college years (Farmville), which feels completely foreign to today’s Facebook.

  The smaller the community, the more stable it is. Some of those 20-year forums still exist, albeit in a much more diminished state. If a site/platform gets popular, that’s when things can change quickly.

  Lemmy has already changed since I joined and I’m sure it will become something different in the future.

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• Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sync for Lemmy feels just like Reddit is Fun (RiF). So good

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I used to use RiF and loved Sync for Lemmy too. I just wish the developer would fix the bug for posts showing unread! It’s completely stopped me from using the app for something like 6 months now.

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    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What do you mean my that? Like, your own posts or those of others?

      Not sure I’m seeing that on my side. Could be wrong tho

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It depends on the version of Lemmy that your instance is running. My account is on sh.itjust.works which upgraded Lemmy versions a few months ago. Apparently it changed a parameter name that keeps track if a post has been read or not.

        So on Sync, you can click on posts, but they never show as read. It’s super annoying, so I went back to Voyager.

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• SteveNashFan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Welcome! I came in with the blackout a year or so ago, it’s been fun to see more people show up over the months!

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• JayGray91@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Feels that way to me. I wasn’t there like at the very beginning, but was able to be in a few small subreddits turn big. Lemmy/mbin a.k.a. threadiverse seems like it was before my time I started with reddit

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lemmy, Mbin, and now PieFed!

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    • JayGray91@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I didn’t want to put piefed yet since it’s still developing, but pretty fast and hard to give them credit. Is one I most looking forward to because of their topics and feeds. I thought I’d appreciate mbin having built in sorry for microblogs, but I didn’t even explore much of it

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      • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah I was excited about Kbin.social as well, both for not being developed by political extremists and for having more capabilities. However, like you I never ended up using that whole microblogging style bc I simply prefer the Threadiverse format so much more.

        PieFed is indeed developing FAST! But there are minor to moderate annoyances while trying to use it so yeah, I understand people not being ready for that yet. Fwiw, if you were just wanting to avoid being on the server that uses the bleeding edge codebase (PieFed.social), there are a few others, namely https://feddit.online/ (for the list of others see here: https://join.piefed.social/try/, with additional information at https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list).

        It's fantastic to have choices, whether we decide on PieFed, Mbin, or Lemmy to meet our needs on the (Threadi-)Verse!:-)

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    • btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Piefed sucks bigtime.

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      • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It's better than Reddit, badumtis!

        (Yeah, a very low bar indeed) When was the last time you tried it? It gets better literally weekly.

        Genuinely there are elements that I prefer using in Lemmy, and other elements I prefer PieFed, with the balance overall being 90:10 PieFed to Lemmy. And PieFed is growing by leaps and bounds. Lemmy is growing too but more slowly (it also might end up being more stable at larger scales - I dunno, though PieFed also sends like 25x less data per post iirc so the reverse could rather be true).

        Still, use whichever you prefer - the Fediverse is fantastic in offering us so many choices, all for free! Much respect to the dev teams of both, and Mbin too, as well as instance admins and most mods who donate their time to keep it all going!

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• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If it makes you feel any better, Reddit is and always has been shit. From their “fake it till you make it” days to the “narwhals and bacon” and then the RealFeelz™ community make-believe. It’s the people that made it what it was, the platform has always been a steaming loaf of shit.

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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Politics are hotter than old Reddit, but I guess that goes with the times.

  The “federation” aspect is pretty different in a good way. You see a lot of integration with Mastadon, for instance, as the Fediverse is trying to integrate with itself, and each Lemmy instance is like a little fiefdom with its own flavor and subs, whereas Reddit was always more of a monoculture.

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• Letsdothisok@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who told you these lies? Lemmy took the bad parts and called them features.

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• MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reddit was killed by spez. RIP. Long live Lemmy! Hopefully it’s insulated from meddling by venture capital.

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