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I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.

Hello Lemmy

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[-] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 209 points 1 year ago

Hello to the Fediverse! Hopefully you can also enjoy the rest of the sites such as Kbin, Pixelfed, Peertube, Owncast and Misskey - there's plenty to choose from!

[-] Hikiru@lemmy.world 113 points 1 year ago

I’ve checked a few instances of federated YouTube alternatives and just… no. Most of the content is right wing guys looking for a place to spread hate they can’t elsewhere. The type of people that watch Andrew Tate and Admin Ross. Lemmy is Great though, mastodon seems a little boring compared to twitter. The fix to that would be Elon fucking up enough that the very change averse average internet user would be willing to try mastodon.

[-] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Mastodon gets better when you start following people by hashtag.

Account Settings > Profile > Featured Hashtags

Populate that area with hashtags of what interests you. Pretty soon you have people popping up that share your interests and you follow those that seem interesting.

[-] hemmes@vlemmy.net 24 points 1 year ago

OMG I love Mastodon and my instance (mas.to). Left Twitter for Mas about 8 months ago - I love following hashtags even more than people. There’s some great gems to follow though. For both Twitter, and now Reddit, I left for Fedi and just never went back. Facebook was another cold turkey quitting, no alternative for that one, that was years ago now.

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[-] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 21 points 1 year ago

That's because you haven't found The Good Ones ™ such as TILVids

[-] Marxine@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Nick from The Linux Experiment is there, nice surprise! Gonna give it a try, the videos I saw on the front page seem cool.

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[-] RooRLoord420@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I think the thing that may finally drive people off the platform may be the limitation on viewing posts. Busy days, I'm not likely to hit the limit - big news day? Yeah, going to hit the limit pretty fucking fast.

[-] ellesper@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah- this is my big gripe with all of the alternative video sharing platforms. All of them have a significantly right-wing conspiracy theorist bias. Not really a place I see myself spending a lot of time, personally.

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Damn, I've only been to Lemmy and Kbin so far...

[-] PabloPicasshole@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Baby steps are ok.

[-] MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd only heard of Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube until now. Pixelfed looks cool, Owncast and Misskey are too but I don't watch streamers or microblog so.

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[-] davetansley@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago

Leaving Twitter for Mastodon barely had an impact. I was just about done with that whole place, with or without Musk in charge.

Reddit is different... I still loved using it. I had my subscriptions honed, all my interests represented. I suffered none of the toxicity that others saw. Not sure if that was just because I mostly used smaller, niche-interest subs or because I mostly lurked and seldom posted? It was all friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining, a stream of consciousness that I could dip in to whenever I wanted to.

So I'm not leaving Reddit because of the experience, but more on principal (both the API kerfuffle and a general aversion to ad-revenue models, which are clearly harmful to society). Principals sadly don't give me something to read over breakfast...

I hope Lemmy can become that stream of consciousness in time. I'm trying to do my bit by being an active contributor rather than a lurking grazer.

[-] majere@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

We might have to accept we're on the "losing" side, e.g. Lemmy will never have the numbers our subreddits had. We'll have smaller communities and less content, but hopefully better conversation.

[-] kobra@midwest.social 19 points 1 year ago

Honestly reddit lost too. The quality drop in content and comments is noticeable and unlikely to get better. Meanwhile lemmy/kbin/fediverse in general seems to be thriving with hope and energy.

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[-] Velkas@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

Twitter has seriously turned into a right wing cess pool. :( 😞

Can't even watch porn on there anymore. LOL

I was watching one of my favorite gay porn stars and swiped up foe the next video and it was this couple that had like 45 guns strapped to them out shooting printed out faces of Democrat politicians.

Talk about a damn boner killer.

Also, the only comments that show up are right wing nut jobs as well. Idk what the hell is going on there.

[-] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I learned the best way to avoid all the lunatics is to block anyone with a Blue Checkmark. There are block list's for that to I think, though I was doing it manually.

[-] nyawow@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

What is really terrible is that, Twitter is considered mainstream social media alongside Instagram here in Japan. So even the normies ends up stepping into that right wing cesspool. I was really shocked to see my normie ex friend retweeting transphobic shit😿😿

While I really really hate Twitter, and tend to be more on Instagram, Losing Twitter means losing the single biggest information source for the majority that can’t read English. Even I sometimes have to open Twitter to see wtf is going on in the society (also it’s useful to get the most up to date information during emergency situations, like earthquake)

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[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I deleted my Twitter account when Elon reinstated Donald Trump's account - it was clear there was no saving that platform.

It's a Nazi bar now because the owner is a Nazi.

I still have my Reddit account, but it's becoming quickly like my Facebook account - I barely use it. In Facebook, it's to catch up with friends and family, and in Reddit, it's the more esoteric subs. But I feel dirty & gross every time I load up a page from those sites, so I don't unless I have to.

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[-] Xylinna@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Welcome!! We are glad to have you here!

[-] morethanevil@lmy.mymte.de 39 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the Fediverse 🌞 I switched to Mastodon after Musk announced to buy the Twitter. It is already over a year ago 🤔

I am new to Lemmy myself, but it looks good

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[-] EdgeOfToday@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

It's strange, but the 3 day poop challenge meme that swept through lemmy the other day reminded me of what Reddit used to be. It felt like an actual community where people were actually interacting, and sometimes bizarre posts turned into legends. I hadn't noticed the slow transition to just endless bot reposts. With all the spez drama, i decided Reddit was dead to me, and that was sad to acknowledge the sudden end of an era like that. But lemmy showed me that the things that made me love Reddit have been gone for a long time, and I feel more at home here.

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[-] firepenny@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Same. It was nice to break up from Reddit after 10 years

[-] Amazed@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

16 years here. Hard but that’s life.

[-] ijeff 16 points 1 year ago

16 years too. We've been through these transitions before with Digg!

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[-] End0fLine@startrek.website 32 points 1 year ago

I hope that this is the start of something special on the internet. I hope that this is the beginning of us users taking the power back from big tech companies.

[-] Lamhfada@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Same.

I had deleted my main reddit account that I had for 13/14 years a few months ago. I created a new alt so I could check in and talk about some of more niche interests, but I deleted that 3 weeks ago, just couldn't be dealing with the increasing enshittification.

I've had a Twitter a/c since 2009, have a lot of mutual followers and a lot of people I know only for there, but decided today that it's definitely not going to get any better. I had a Mastodon account since last year, but it was very slow and quiet, and again, not a lot of niche interests I have over there yet. But this weekend's bullshit (and obvious lies from Musk) makes it clear twitter isn't going to get better. Even if the stupid rates thing improves in the next while, it will just be something else Musk decides which will be making twitter worse.

So I'm just going to enjoy the chill vibes and explore all the different communities here.

[-] simo@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

500 upvotes in 2 hours?! Fuck yes bois. Fuck that jailbait mod spez, and his shit website full of toxic spakkers.

Long live the fed!

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[-] Void_Reader@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Same; I've been trying to disengage from anything big tech related recently, not just social media, even Amazon etc. Can't take it anymore. It's all so blatantly exploitative and fucked up. Cancelling subscriptions feels good; hope I stick to it. Can't shake YouTube yet though, need my Rossmann fix. Hopefully we can figure out a viable FOSS alternative; tried PeerTube but it doesn't quite do it just yet.

The Internet can still be a beautiful positive thing.

BezoSpez Zuck-Musk can fuck off.

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[-] megadragon@yiffit.net 22 points 1 year ago

The only thing I still need reddit for is the sports communities. I hope some start getting bigger over here.

[-] LSlowmotion@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

r/formula1 and r/soccer for me personally

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[-] coldv@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the Fediverse! It is smaller but it is growing! So far I think it feels more civilised than the chaos out there in the corporate internet.

[-] guyman@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

The quality of content on reddit has deteriorated at an astounding pace. It feels like everyone is just repeating the same thing to get upvotes... and upvoting people who repeat the same thing. I'm kind of glad it exists now as a containment zone. The people who want higher quality content can move to the fediverse. Those who don't can stay right where they are.

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[-] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I dropped Twitter as soon as Musky took over since I rarely used it anyway. Reddit has been significantly more difficult to let go of, so I haven’t deleted my account yet. I’ve tried to open Apollo at least 50 times since the 30th.

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[-] ThinlySlicedGlizzy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I think this is going to be a trend. Centralized social media just isn't financially viable and it's worse for the users in so many ways. We already have alternatives for youtube, reddit, and twitter popping up. I think youtube might be the hardest to replace though because so many people view youtube as a job rather than a place to share content just for the sake of it. Hopefully with all this we can return to the good old days of the internet where a few corporations didn't control the majority of traffic.

[-] MouldyPriestASSHOLE@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

The problem with YouTube is the sheer amount of historical content that'll never make it to an alternative site. I don't think it can ever be replaced unfortunately.

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[-] Anthwerp@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Just moved to lemmy right now, liking it so far. Will see if I can remove reddit from my diet (lol). Now looking at Bluesky instead of twitter.

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[-] RepentedAlex@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Welcome mate, I still have Twitter but I hope one day I'll be able to cut it off for good!

[-] Kuinox@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I'm waiting for my GDPR data to nuke all my reddits posts and delete my account.

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[-] ThatDude@reddthat.com 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gave up Twitter the day of Musk mocked that disabled employee/partner. Didn't delete the account though. I'm still on Reddit. Hope Lemmy would go a long way!!

PS: I still automatically ignore some image posts on Lemmy thinking it's an Ad cause I'm so used to it on Reddit App 😂

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[-] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

I put them in my DNS blacklist together with Ticktock and Facebook

[-] Kururin@talk.kururin.tech 15 points 1 year ago

People still using Twitter? Never had one and I am glad. I stopped using Reddit. Lemmy been a blast!

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[-] Polydextrous@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Same. The new influx of people has made my experience a little shaky, but I’m still very happy to have this non-spezed reddit to enjoy without the guilt. Fuck reddit, I’m glad I left and I hope they get fucked

[-] Mohkia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Welcome! I moved to lemmy the Sunday before the blackout and haven't looked back. I did go back finally on June 30 and deleted my account. There may not be as much content now but that will come in time as we all hopefully try and contribute. I was mostly a lurker on reddit myself, only started commenting more within the past year so will try to be better here. I am quite enjoying my time here and I hope you do as well.

[-] Archerofyail@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I've decided to at least give it a good shot, to try and see if I can stick with lemmy and mastodon. My current problem is I'm finding it really hard to find people to follow on mastodon, and to find enough active communities on lemmy to sate my social media appetite.

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[-] RaspiJedi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Joined Lemmy last week and Mastodon today, feels good to be free, all looking good so far

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[-] Determinator@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the club, there are quite a few of us in the same situation

[-] Col3814444@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Between Lemmy &kbin I have everything I want, Reddit and Twitter can fuck off.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just went (logged out) to the onesSubreddit I care about at this point (only because they post an event schedule every Monday) and Reddit is super slow. That's not going to help them. I mean, Lemmy can be super slow too, but Lemmy also hasn't been around since the '00s.

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