Working on it. Little lonely since most of communities from reddit don’t seem to be here but still searching so we’ll see.
Definitely feeling like I need to install linux on my mac though, perhaps as some sort of initiation?
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When I joined I felt like I moved to a village after living in a metropolis. There's positives and negatives to that, but in the end Lemmy satisfies my doomscrolling needs so I'm never coming back to reddit.
I encourage you to create them and foster them.
Let me get through the welcome newcomers stuff first! :)
Definitely better at navigating this week than last
Enjoying it. I'm loving the filters I can use to limit some of the political spam.
It's going okay! Still trying to decide which instance to call home. I still find myself on reddit probably equal amount to Lemmy though, unfortunately
I have to confess. I still scroll Reddit from time to time (no longer use my account), and the front page just has a lot more variety. There's still a lot of bot content from the occasional AITA that's purely clickbait to the reposts.
I do like that comments and conversations are better here. I'm seeing familiar names and I like it.
Pro: there is a Lemmy app (Voyager) based on the amazing Apollo for Reddit app.
Cons: Like 5 people total were chatting about the Super Bowl in the most populous NFL community.
There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.
Still going to give it a try, but my excitement waned pretty quickly.
There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.
One adjustment I had to make when I moved over to Lemmy is posting/commenting more. On Reddit most of the time your comment was buried. On Lemmy, a bunch of people are going to see it.
Not saying you need to be the only poster, but sometimes everyone just posting a bit more will reveal a community.
Pro: There are lots of apps other than Voyager for people to find what works for them.
I personally like Jerboa, but I also used to use RIF is fun for Reddit which had a similar UI. I'm probably in the minority on preferences which is nothing new
I genuinely miss the F1 and CFB communities for the commentary, but I’m glad I left reddit when they killed 3rd party apps. It’s nice to have a media feed that isn’t cluttered with ads.
There is !formula1@lemmy.world. I'll probably create a post later this week for sports communities on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
I’m already subbed. I’ve been trying to be more active about commenting
Im shocked that the two biggest CFB communities have fewer than 1000 members.
A lot of it has to do with the type of folks who were in the initial Lemmy wave; generally a crowd that is more familiar with linux distros than the tuck rule. Not necessarily a bad thing, just a comment on the interests of the type of folks who were more apt to leave Reddit for another platform. Mainstream sports attract a mainstream audience, whom (on the whole) are more likely to stick to a mainstream website. Lemmy will grow but it took years before some of those communities grew to the size they are on Reddit, and it happened then without a comparable mainstream competitor.
And there really isn't much posting in any of them. It's hard, because I am a fan of smaller NFL and CFB teams, and it's just me posting stuff with no discussion. So it gets to a point you feel like you're being annoying about it. I do Supercross discussion threads for people if they wanna join in, in an admittedly small community (even the Reddit one was like...maybe 200 active users, 30k total subs). I have been the only commenter there for over a year lol.
Have you tried promoting it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and other NFL communities?
I haven't, but I'm not too worried about it. The football ones are a bigger worry; the game threads were easily the biggest thing I was on Reddit for, and the magic isn't here yet. Part of the issue though is now that I don't get on Reddit or here as much, I'm watching IRL with friends and don't sit on my phone to interact like that lol.
Sorry, I used to post a lot more on sports communities when I was on Reddit but haven’t really felt the urge to sense moving to Lemmy. It didn’t help that the game wasn’t very good last night either. We are here. I’m pretty active on the fantasy football community. But there is just a handful of us playing there. Feel free to join us at !fantasyfootball@lemmy.world. I’m going to start our offseason mega thread now that the superbowl is done
yeah we're here not because it's the next new reddit, but because we were tired of reddit and spez. never said this place wasn't a fixer upper! it'll take some time to build up communities. but this place is doing better and better and only seems to be growing.
keep lemmy in your pocket. crosspost some memes. it'll be here for you, and even more so if you're here for us!
go birds 😜
Yeah, the mood is a bit different here. We do owls, raccoons, blahaj and Linux. Extra raccoons on weekends, though. I love this place.
Don't forget Star Trek!
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And beans.
I should have been in there, but my eyes were just too glued on the belting I was witnessing. It’s definitely a bummer that a lot of non-tech or news communities aren’t there yet in terms of participation, but at least we’re not making some Rich assholes even more rich on here!
The eagles are my wife’s favorite team and it was a fun watch for us. Ass. Whoopin.
Like 5 people total were chatting about the Super Bowl in the most populous NFL community.
Seems like you guys still posted 120 comments, that's not so bad!
There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.
Feel free to have a look at !communitypromo@lemmy.ca for some recommendations, especially this post: https://lemm.ee/post/54763669
Still going to give it a try, but my excitement waned pretty quickly.
Sorry to hear, hopefully we can make your experience a bit nicer
mlem is pretty great. arctic too. I'm planning on switching back to Android this year though, anyone know any equivalent quality Android clients?
good thanks I've sucked 4 dicks already
Don't forget to get your card punched!
The fifth is free!
Hell yeah, brother.
Four?? But I'm literally right here
You're gonna need to get those numbers up.
Rookie Numbers
Not wasting any time? One more dick and you get custom flair on all your posts. Welcome.
I deleted my last account on another instance and started a new one. So technically I'm not really NEW. But to answer your question, I wanna die.
Hell yeah, brother.
Still trying to figure this all out.
It sucks to prepare for a new social media home. I am still on Reddit, but I know it’s only a matter of time before some broligarch decides to take it down or do a TikTok reboot.
Welcome, feel free if you have any questions!
Thank you.
If you browse on PC, I found that the Alexandrite UI (https://a.lemmy.world/) made the transition easier for me. If you try it out use the drop-down at the top left to bounce between "subscribed", "local", and "all". "All" will help you find communities you like to subscribe to. Welcome and good luck.
Thank you.
I miss the drama to feed my schadenfreude I got from reading boru and the like. But besides not able to feed my bad vice, I think I can survive here.
For schadenfreude about internal drama there is !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !fediverselore@lemmy.ca
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Did something happen on the alien site last week?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrlep5xpmzo
Since then, quite a few subs are looking for alternatives. !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com lists them.
lol, they ban subs based on billionaire tears now? damn.
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