To all the new(er) Reddit refugees!

First time posting after 9 solid years on Reddit. Thanks for the welcome

First time I've seen a comment so good that not only does it get upvotes, it has a negative number of downvotes,
Anyone know how that is even possible?
- Science and fuckery
- It's been very common in my 3 weeks on Lemmy, it's probably more common to see 100% upvotes.
- I downvoted you. No one else had any downvotes; please let me know if it registered. I don't want vote fuckery like they have on reddit.
Locals only! Haole go home!
It feels great, doesn’t it? ☺️

I am here now. Just signed up. Mod of /r/bicycling, /r/sanfrancisco, and a few other smaller subs. The whole thing is a mess right now, so I wanted to see if there are greener pastures here. Any tips are welcome. I literally have no idea what I'm doing.

I wasn't thrilled at the idea of leaving Reddit after 14 years but some things cannot be avoided. My first post here on Lemmy. Thank you for the warm welcome!

@Axxi
Things seem to be better here anyways. Being able to interact with people across different platforms (I'm replying to your comment through Mastodon because it works and it's cool 😎) really does make it feel like "the world of tomorrow" to me

Bathroom's that way.

When will we get our own persistently-broken video player? That's super important for my quality use experience.

It's nice to be wanted.

Wandering around, RiFless, looking for something to do on the internet.

I've been here a week or two now. It's going better than Voat did for me when I last tried to leave Reddit. That was full of alt-right crazies basically, but so far here, people have been lovely.

We have communists on the other end of the spectrum here

My goodness me. This place rocks. Like the way the internet used to be. Fuck corporate greed. Fuck ads. Fuck egocentric dictatorships. And hello to The Future.

Reddit was fun but the admins are insane, I reported an account that was posting CP and they banned me whilst claiming they took action against that account yet it is still up. Classy.

Thank you for the warm welcome. Any tips and tricks for us Reddit refugees?

Redditor here. Feeling a little lost and confused. :)

Hang in there. Explore. It will become familiar...

I'm going to build my own Reddit, with blackjack and hookers!

Add in Whiskey and you’ll have the perfect trifecta of vice!
Welcome! Where do I sign up?

First post here!

As a former Apollo user, I’m super impressed by wefwef. Does anyone know what’s in store for its development? I’d love to see a native iOS app.

Is there a currency equivalent to Reddit gold here? What’s the point of this if I can’t say “Thanks for the gold kind stranger” ???

Honestly seeing all the corpos ruining the platforms that are what they are because millions of people contributed to them. Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, etc. give so much power to their owners yet they don't realize it past their next dollar. I think internet should have always been a fediverse instead of what it has become.

Well it was a good ride at Reddit. I was using Reddit since since 2006 as a lurker. Lemmy is now my home. Hi all!

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I already like the vibe of this place more, at least socially. The site is a bit cumbersome but I'm willing to stick with it to see how it can get better. Plus Sync for Lemmy will be coming and then my life will be fixed.

Hi there everyone!

So many people joined, which is amazing

Wait... Where am I? I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. 11 years wandering the Reddit... I'm lost, a little confused, possibly afraid.

Good news everyone! I’ve just smelled out an entirely new parallel dimension called the fediverse

Heelo there

Thanks for the warm welcome! I used Apollo since 2018 and I was disappointed with how reddit treated Christian.

Cheers! Here's hoping for a bright future!

Hey, hello community this is my first comment on Lemmy, good to see you all.

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Woo

Apollo refugee here! Let’s hope this sticks because I lost all trust in Reddit.

Here from RiF! First post on Lemmy, here's to a bright future ^^

Here we go.

I think registration finally worked this time. Good news, everyone!

Rip Rif. Hello Lemmy.

My first comment on Lemmy!

First post! 🤸

NGL

it doesn't feel great, but change is never easy. but this thing is pretty damn cool

Really hope this takes off and remains open and non-commercial.

Spiderman: Into The Fediverse

What's to stop a single Lemmy instance from going "this is taking too much time and money to run, I'm shutting this server down"? I guess that can apply to any service, but monetization sometimes prevents that from happening. But in this case it's all volunteer work and running a server takes resources.

What happens to all the users created under that Lemmy instance?

This all reminds me of the big Digg migration. Reddit likes to think that people chose it because it was special. For a good majority of us, especially the 10+ year accounts, it was Digg's terrible redesign and very poor product decisions. The nail in the coffin was not understanding its core content producing users willingness to move. History repeats itself.

I was a Digg! refugee.

After a year I went back and tried using Reddit again, wow, what an absolute shit show. That site got noticeably worse.

I had an account there for 8 years with no issue, and this time around I was perma banned after a week cause the mods have really gone off the deep end.

Most threads are filled with Ai comments that all say basically the same thing, and if your comment differs you're banned. You can't have a discussion there anymore

To all my Apollo refugees that are struggling with the interface. wefwef.app is basically a clone of Apollo for this site. The name is shity but it works great!

By "this site" you mean Lemmy, I take it? Kbin apps are all still in early testing stages, as far as I'm aware.
- Yeah, judging by the fact that I'm not seeing an @ on their profile, they're a lemmy.world user, like me.

Thank you for the kind greeting. I really am a refugee in more ways than just leaving Reddit.

(Gives virtual hug and cookies)

Rest in peace RIF. I was honestly heartbroken. I know how sad that must sound, but goddamn, I used it daily for 6 years. It made my office hours and daily commute on the subway so much better.

I've been full-time on a Lemmy for nearly a month already and haven't really missed the other place at all. But damn, seeing that goodbye message on RIF yesterday filled me with emotions that were weird and deeply confusing.

I was told there would be an omelet bar for Reddit refugees.

Glory to forwardlooker!

Glory to forwardgoer!

Our path is from present

To stellar future.

Glory to forwardlooker(Слава вперёдсмотрящему)

Edit: fix translation

What's fediverse?

It's the collection of various softwares/sites/platforms that are all able to interact due to operating on the same underlying technology.
Lemmy is part of the Fediverse. Mastodon is also and users there can follow and post in Lemmy communities despite being a totally different thing. Kbin is another Reddit-like, it and Lemmy coexist pretty seamlessly.
And there are so so many more. Fediverse alternatives to FB, Insta, YT, Linktree, etc etc etc.
You'll also hear "Threadiverse" which is what people have taken to calling that part of the Fediverse that focuses on forum thread type discussions (ie Lemmy and Kbin mainly).
- Thanks for the explanation. How connected are the platforms? As a new Lemmy user, if I search for a particular community to join, am I seeing the same content that someone from Mastodon would? Or is it more that Lemmy is capable of reading Mastodon content but we're not sharing the same content by default?
  I'm finding it a little hard to find the words to even ask this question haha, I'm still a little confused. This all looks nice so far though!

Finally made an account. Super excited. Reddit immediately started to just feel like it was in a decline, something about logging onto it felt off

Same here, plus them killing our apps? I just couldn't support them after that. I used boost and continuing to use the site after they killed it and basically gave all of us the middle finger felt like some sucker shit.

What Apps are people using? Wefwef?

Connect for Lemmy is the closest thing I've found to RIF.
Running Connect for Lemmy here on Android. It seems nice and minimalist. I was a little dissuaded from trying Jerboa with some of the negative reviews.
- Fiddling with a few settings in Connect has given me a close enough experience to RIF which is great.

Testing Lemmy using my browser, what’s the best app?

I am currently enjoying wefwef, jerboa, and thunder the best. Liftoff is good, but not connecting with all instances (lemm.ee, etc). I have tried connect, not my style. Personally am waiting for Sync, was my favorite on reddit.
boost for lemmy is coming soon on google play store (at least to G play store) Very similar to boost for reddit we had before. Will personally probably install it.

Happy to be here!

Continues to eat cheesy broccoli

I remember surfing chans back in the day. I've missed it, but life gets busy. I hated reddit for a long told, but it had so much good information on there and such good third party apps that I caved and it became my favorite thing to do while shitting. I just found out about Lemmy and it feels like I slipped on an old broken-in glove. Thanks for the welcome. After the toxicity of reddit, this is nice.