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!
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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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.
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.
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.
WHATS UP FUCKERRR
I’ve been free of Twitter, Facebook, insta, etc for years now and I promise it’s a lot more liberating.
Mood has been substantially better, sometimes you get dragged into arguments on here/Reddit too but it’s pretty unlikely to get riled up by the type of trolls you see around here given their immaturity
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
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.
The only thing I still need reddit for is the sports communities. I hope some start getting bigger over here.
Is there a fantasy football one that's migrated over?
A couple of small ones are starting out here and there: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=fantasy+football
Doesn't seem like big communities hopped over yet.
be the change you want to see, subscribe to those communities and be active in them
r/formula1 and r/soccer for me personally
There's a Formula 1 community. It's still small, but we can all make it grow. Also, the soccer community managed to grab the football name before the other guys, LOL
Twitter has become a toxic cesspit even before musks takeover. He just made things far worse to the point where it's basically just attempted doxing and permanent ad-hominem barrages. It's not worth any time.
Welcome to the platform! Unfortunately, Reddit isn't what it used to be, but we definitely can reignite the community that we all so fondly remember. Already loving it here and how friendly everyone has been :)
I can't stand chaining comments (with one word in each comment). It's fun to see them once in a while, but they appear as often as spams now.
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Twitter is alot more fun now though.
Joined Lemmy last week and Mastodon today, feels good to be free, all looking good so far
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Where is this magical cheese land you speak of?
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Because Lemmy is on version 0.18.1. That 0 at the beginning is important. Better federation with Mastodon will probably come, but the devs have a lot on their plate right now just making Lemmy work with Lemmy content, so it'll probably take some time.
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Have not touched my Reddit account since June 30th 0:00