Gotta admit, the Fediverse is looking pretty sweet. A surprise, to be sure! But a welcome one.
Mastodon really helped get people acquainted with the Fediverse after the whole Twitter shitshow. My sincere hope is that the Fediverse continues to take off. Corporate-owned social media is failing at every turn.
I’m having more iterations and more interesting ones in Mastodon that I had in twitter during the last few years.
Mastodon reminds me of the early days of twitter, which is amazing.
I know! I was on Twitter in the early days and it was such a better place than it ended up being. And in the last few months it’s become pretty much unusable for me. I’ve had more interaction on Mastodon than I had on Twitter in years. Hoping the federated nature of Mastodon maintains it as a community. Meta sniffing around makes me think that we’re really onto something and I hope Mastodon and the Fediverse can stay what it is now. I know growth may change things, but I hope the general ethos and concept remain the same.
My biggest lack of understanding is still regarding access: So, if I choose to access the Fediverse via Mastodon, can I still subscribe to Kbin and Lemmy “subs”?
I love the federated nature of all of this, I just wish it was slightly easier to put into a metaphor. I’ve seen some graphic charts that try, but it’s still a bit confusing. I’m on KBin and I like it a lot, but I have no way of knowing if I’m missing a ton of content or not!
I agree it’s a bit confusing. I think app developers are really working to try and give people an easier onboarding experience. But I’m old enough to remember when people thought Twitter and Reddit were “way too complicated” for the average person. With technology, people seem to learn over time, and devs find ways to make things easier for average users.
Lemmy is only threaded content so no mastadin. Kbin however has threads posts but also microblogging. So kbin can interact with lemmy and Mastadon.
Thank you!!
Happy to help. I’ve been learning a lot so if there’s anything that you want cleared up let me know and I can try.
I am a RiF defector and I have to admit that Lemmy is looking pretty promising! Screw the corporate scumbags!
I keep going to Reddit out of habit but am trying to check Lemmy.world more often. Still trying to wrap my head around the whole architecture–I understand it at a functional level but still getting a hang of how it is to actually interact with various servers and communities. Anyway. I hear only a Sith deals in absolutes and /U-who-shall-not-be-Spez’d sure seems to be dealing in that way. May Reddit go the way of MySpace and the net return to a more decentralized and organic space.
Yea im kinda excited to transition back to smaller form communities. I remember back in the day when i was on bbforums with like 40 other people, and that was a lot of fun actually
Agreed! Over the years, I learned that in smaller communities, people engaged more, got to know each other, and had fun chatting on the same topic!
One of the nicer things I’m enjoying seeing after moving to Lemmy from Reddit, is seeing posts about the internet of 10, 15 and even 30 years ago and people having the same experience I had as well!
But also being reminded that the internet of today is definitely not how it used to be and finding like minded people who share the same values is something that’s sparked my old interest in “being involved” in online communities again.
I was a long time Redditor–a prolific lurker but infrequent poster. I never used third party apps, but Reddit’s CEO behaved like such an asshat that I haven’t been back since the blackout began. Dumped Facebook and Twitter for the same reason: their horrid CEOs. Found my way to Kbin and am enjoying it! Hopefully the the good content will keep on flowing.
Hell yeah! I’m having a blast too from Lemmy.
Any recommendations on kbin?
I am still figuring things out, but looks like kbin is federated with lemmy, it is just a different server and they make UI look more like reddit.
Kbin isn’t actually lemmy at all.
I said it is a different server. But I was able to see communities (it calls them magazines) from lemmy on kbin server.
I feel a little guilty using Starlink, but it’s the only half decent option out here.
I’m here as a Sync defector and super hype that Sync for Lemmy is happening.
Same here. Can’t wait!
They already have a lemmy /c/?
Infinity defector here: Post engagement noises
I was active on Reddit for well over a decade. Even helped mod a couple of small communities at various points. I also loved Apollo and was an early beta tester for that app. For me, Apollo was Reddit. It was the only Reddit client I used in recent years and I miss Apollo as much as I miss Reddit itself.
I don’t see myself going back to Reddit. Lemmy has been great and has quickly become very “Reddit-like” for me, but with the vibe of what the internet was back in the early 2000s. I am enjoying the communities that are forming on her.
I’m also very fond of the concept of the Fediverse as a whole. Corporate social media has failed again and again, so I want to move away from it as much as possible.
I have an 11 year Reddit account, and recently got banned for posting about how Nazi’s shouldn’t be around anymore.
Reddit has been slowly turning to shit, and Spez befriending Musk is a pretty big indicator that its going to keep going that way.
Sheesh. One thing that always bugged me about Reddit was the arbitrary power that mods had. I had a situation where I was banned from /r/glasses because I posted about Warby Parker (the mail-in glasses service) being a good option for lower-cost glasses in the U.S. Turned out the mod was the owner of an optical shop and he didn’t like it when people recommended Warby Parker and other mail-order services for glasses because it was sucking away money from high-end, overpriced optical shops. So he just started banning people who mentioned any of these mail-order services.
One thing I like about Lemmy is that the modlog is public. I think that level of transparency is really important and helpful for avoiding situations like people have experienced on Reddit.
But I agree, Reddit has indeed slowly turned to shit. I love that the general concept behind it is being replicated here and that so many people are starting to recognize the importance of a company being free from a CEO.
Also post engagement
We will watch your career with great interest
Another newb checkin in. Reddit since 2007. Fuck spez.
Wowza where did 1.6k people suddenly came from. A million more on the way?
Good relations with the memes, we must have. If to succeed as a meme hub, we want.
By the dark side reddit has been seduced.
I am a sync refuge. Happy to be here!
It’s going to take awhile before things go back to normal but it’s nice seeing new communitys pop up
