how are yall feeling about the website?

  • Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz
    6·
    1 year ago

    Ngl, us r/efugees are not happy with things over there.

    As much as I’m coming to enjoy this, it still isn’t what reddit was, nor is the app experience anything close to as feature rich. But, I’m finding other benefits here that are, and never were, possible at reddit, so it’s still a good thing :)

    Reddit is proof that no publicly traded company, nor any that intends to be, can be trusted with anything. Not use that was ever in doubt, but reddit has shown it in such a glaring, grotesque way that it’s the poster child for how shitty corporate thought is.

    I dunno. I was enjoying things. I had started moderating two subs I deeply cared about, with one having a strong sense of community building. There’s an emotional response to the loss of that. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to put in the work, put in the passion, when it’s shit on by the very company that profits from my free labor. fuck spez, fuck reddit

    • Discoslugs@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      God dam right friend.

      The best parts of reddit were the communities of people dedicated to the topics under each sub.

      Reddit CEOs didn’t create that. It was and has always been regular users and hardworking Mods that brought us what we loved about reddit. If reddit isn’t going to protect those people, fuck em.

      I’m signing off of reddit with the black out. There will probably be a long time before something replaces it. But I’m a long for the ride.

    • jimmyjoners@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I mean it seems so obvious in retrospect I suppose. I hope we’re looking a the start of a real renascence for the internet, away from corporate overlords.

  • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    It’s ugly, not intuitive, feels way more complicated than necessary for a social site and the name is kind of dumb.

    I’m 100% on board because screw Reddit and fuck u/spez.

    I hope I can learn the ropes and help this place grow into something better.

  • Cycrus93@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    1 year ago

    The whole lemmy concept mixed with the current situation feels far more like you are part of a real community. Kinda like in old internet days. I will even break out of my reddit lurker days and try to contribute here.

  • Decoy321@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Just joined a bit, too. Looks great so far. It reminds me of that wild west frontier feeling like when a bunch of us migrated from Digg to Reddit. We’re building another new community.

    … With blackjack! And hookers!

  • Cakein@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’m a little confused, but cautiously optimistic. It took a while to sign up and log in, but I got that far, so I guess I can work out the rest too! As a bit of a Reddit lurker, I’m out of my comfort zone, but committed to upvoting and commenting to help build the community!

    • arc@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s like we’ve just escaped an abusive partner and now starting from zero!

      • teuast@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        That “first night in the new apartment without most of the furniture, sleeping by yourself for the first time in a while” feeling.

        • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          I actually love that feeling except that one time I spent my first night in this prison-like dorm room with dirty walls and no hot water in Japan, dirty sheets and a paper thin futon with nothing to eat and nobody to talk to/no way to call anyone. This feels a lot better than that.

    • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Honestly I don’t see it as going backwards but unfamiliar. I was reluctant to switch to this style because I didn’t understand it and ended up on mastodon a few years ago into some terrifyingly hostile racist/bogoted/sexist communities. Maybe I did something wrong and ended up in a bad part of town but I ended up deleting the app I was using. So far the experience on lemmy is so much more pleasant lol…

  • arc@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Hoping it’s a success but I find it hard to see it becoming one. Purely due to the confusion with how it actually works with different instances. Many casual users are going to be confused and not bother

    • Cobe98@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      The way this is successful is if someone develops a way for the 3rd party clients (such as a proxy) to switch to this system instead. Also a way to easily register.

    • Robonps@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I agree. I think there needs to be lesser of a learning curve to get more users onto this.

    • Licensed_to_ill@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m one of the confused casual users. Can you explain how the instances work? This morning I created an account on my pc but had no time to browse. I downloaded an app called jerboa a few minutes ago. The front page had memes and fun things. I logged into lemmy.world instance and that content is gone. Do I have to have an account for each instance? Are the instances like separate websites?

      • andobando@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        All the accounts and posts can communicate/share across the instances, but each instance has its own database of posts.

        The example people give is that is like email. You can have licenensedtoill@gmail but you can send messages someone @yahoo.

        You dont have to create a seperate account for each instance. And on whatever instance youre on you can browse and post on communities of any other instance.

        Theres definitely some work to be done to make this all more intuitive though

  • calixte@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    A bit confusing, but I’m really excited about this. I hope the ‘choose server’ part when you sign up gets streamlined a bit. It’s very confusing for new people. My first post on Lemmy by the way!

  • omarciddo@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve lamented the loss of what I called “old internet energy” — the feeling of a largely-nerdy community forming around something new. I felt it on early Digg and on Reddit for a good while, until the last 7-10 years or so after mainstream users started pouring in. I feel that here again. ‘Tis nice.