It really feels like Lemmy is alive because of you.
When I first checked out Lemmy, I wasn’t expecting there to be so much content, so much discussion, and so much community. But I’ve spent the better part of two days glued to my screen, browsing content all day. I’ve seen so many posts, so many interesting discussions about the fediverse, and of course, plenty of memes. It really feels like the start of something incredible.
I’ve gotta get back to work soon, but wow. I think this whole fediverse thing really is the next step for social media. If I find some extra time, I’ll definitely consider contributing to Lemmy’s source code to help this project and the FOSS ecosystem grow.
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Lemmy definitely scratched the Reddit itch for me, and I don’t see myself going back. Unfortunately however, it is still a huge container of information that I still find myself relying on if I need to search for something.
The information contained in past posts and comments on Reddit is immense. Usually, the easiest way for me to find advice is a Google search that includes “Reddit” in the search field. It almost always returns a comment with exactly the information I was looking for
I was looking for support for a network issue and google returned me to several Reddit posts. Everyone of them was deleted or the sub was private. It’s usefulness it’s diminishing real quick.
If the sub is private, you can add “cache:” to the very beginning of the URL. Before the https. That will grab a cached version of before it went private, very helpful. Not sure if it works for deleted stuff tho.
as a software dev this also make me sad, but I hope chatgpt can fill that gap left by reddit
on duckduckgo I use
site:reddit.comand the results will only include links to reddit, I find it better than Reddit’s search (duh)
All I’ve been seeing is beans 😞
bean the change you wanna see
a revolution starts with a single bean
The bean will not be televised
this comment just made me wish there were awards, i woulda given you one so fast lol
Can someone explain the bean trend, sorry getting old bit of a has bean you could say …
Essentially someone posted a photo of some beans and said Lemmy will upvote anything, even just beans.
…we did.
I’m a simple man. I see beans; I upvote.
Yup. Beans and poop. Quite frankly I’m not interested in either of those topics!
You should expand your horizons! Beans just come in so many variants. You got baked beans, half baked beans, twice baked beans (and so on), Lima beans, string beans, chili beans, things that look like beans but aren’t (looking at you, peanuts are a legume), and the list goes on!
I guess I have a semi related question. It seems that canned baked beans are a staple for people in the UK. They even have it on toast of all things. Do canned baked beans taste different in the UK than they do in the US or are they the same? I’m in the US and I think they taste disgusting, but I wonder if they have a different flavor in the UK.
Basically yes they’re very different. I saw a discussion earlier about which brands in the US are comparable, but god knows which of today’s 7000 bean-related threads it was in!
This is interesting and something I had always suspected. Now I want to know what UK baked beans taste like and if they don’t taste like shit lol.
Probably why you aren’t shitting enough
Whether it’s Lemmy, Kbin, or something that’s yet to be made - I feel the fediverse is here to stay. Genuinely revolutionary step away from centralized services like reddit.
The paradigm of having a home base instance and being able to venture out into the fediverse is just incredible. There’s a sense of community and comraderie that was never present on reddit. And yet there’s a breadth of users and perspectives that you could never find on smaller internet forums or platforms.
Couldn’t agree more, I really believe that federated self hosted sites have the potential to supercede the centralized internet. The fundamental experience is superior, and people will eventually begin to realize that.
Imagine an internet where nobody is trying to sell you something. Or worse, sell you (to advertisers). What a concept.
I’m new here, from Reddit, and can honestly say thank you so much and it’s been a warm welcome. I’m getting the hang of Lemmy slowly but surely. The community has been helpful to new members and chill as hell. I’m glad to be here as Lemmy grows!
Welcome! ❤️
Am I doing something wrong, I just see the same posts over and over even when sorting differently?
Try sorting by Top: 6 Hours, that keeps things a little fresher. Also you could sort by New, but that can get overwhelming depending on the level of activity.
Hot and Active sorting kind of suck right now tbh. Try top>day or something.
Edit to elaborate: I believe active heavily weighs recent comments and it sort of creates a feedback loop where someone comments, putting the post to top of active, then others see it there and comment on it perpetuating the cycle.
The website now let’s you sort top 12h, 6h, and 1h too but no apps seem to have that implemented yet.
Oh and sort by All not Local to see communities from other instances that users on your instance have subscribed to.
Check lemmyverse.net too to look for communities no ones subscribed to where you are yet.
the liftoff app on android has sort by top 12/6/1hr, as of the latest update from yesterday or so. works really well!
Wefwef also has it
Oh great, that’s one of my preferred apps. Thanks for letting me know.
I remember when I first joined Reddit it was much the same, but as it got more crowded my front page started becoming fresh more frequently.
I actually prefer this way, it means that there are less bots and more genuine content.
Try to do top 12hours instead, it’s where the middle ground is.
I joined here on June 12th and there were practically no posts or communities. Now I can’t keep track of it all. I’m so glad to be here and finally be part of this social movement - I’ve been tracking the Fediverse/Mastodon/Friendica/GNU Social/Diaspora/etc for a VERY long time, but the format of those networks has never been interesting to me. I want to talk about topics, not people.
Lemmy feels like how reddit felt in 2010
That’s a rare thing these days
💯❤️
Shoutout to the developers building apps for Lemmy. Testing a couple right now, and have honestly been surprised at how polished and smooth they are, even in these early stages.
Makes moving from Reddit a lot easier.
Still getting my head around it. Hoping more interesting content comes about and we can put the memes/discussion of Reddit to bed!
never commented on reddit mostly bc the bots and i liked to lurk but i hope i can change that and interact more with all of you
Came here July 1st, just created account, can’t lurk forever I suppose
Started using lemmy during the beginning of the protests. Went back to RIF about a week later. Now back to Lemmy after apps were killed. It’s definitely helping to full the hole left by RIF, but it’s not quite the same.
Some of my favorite discussion topics on reddit were the comments on subreddits like AITH and MaliciousCompliance, and while they are here, they don’t quite feel the same.
Still adjusting, and in a way, grieving the loss of the social media platform I used for over 10 years. But I’ve also been spending less time scrolling and more time with my other hobbies. So that’s a net positive I guess.
Just a reminder that Lemmy is intended to not be addictive. Go out and enjoy your life. Lemmy will be here when you’re pooping or when you have downtime, you don’t need to be glued to it
Messaging from the pooper.
I feel so included. :)
But I’m about to travel and will not poop for 3 days at least /s
