So, I got curious and set my feed to all. Wow, there a lot of arguments about defederation due to the Beehaw decision. Many Many people positing on “the death of Reddit” and the refugee crisis. I get some of the concerns about moderation and ideology but the amount of navelgazing is unreal. Ill just stick to local for a bit until things settle down.
So, how are you finding the big, wide fediverse outside of our pleasant little pocket? With all of the thinkpieces being posted about how Lemmy is never going to work, I wanted to see some fresh takes from the good folk at midwest.social.
Reddit refugee. Pretty new to the federated life.
What I like: the friction. I found on Reddit I could browse for days on end and never find the bottom. at the height of my reddit addiction, I did just that. Last thing I looked at when I fell asleep, first thing I looked at when I woke up. So, federation is working for me. I have to deliberately choose a destination and really give it a looking over, think about what’s happening and respond when I truly have something to contribute. Also, the overall mood is like night and day. So much more positive. There are bits and pieces here and there that are not so upbeat, and that is normal and ok. but the kind of relentless negativity, the battles for attention, the downvote brigading- I couldn’t be happier to get away from that.
What I don’t like is just due to my own ineptitide: for instance I would like to chat with people about plant-based diets and vegetarian cooking, but haven’t found a strong community for it yet.
I am very pleased with midwest.social. I tried Nextdoor to get a local feel, but was overwhelmed by religious proselytizing, useless whining and dark political clickbait. Plus we roadtrip the midwest a lot and feel at home in most if not all of the states. so it feels like home here.
Great point about finding the community for a thing. I’m actually dealing with a bit of imposter syndrome when I want to respond about something I have personal experience but worry I’m not knowledgeable enough and will get dunked after posting.
Finding community is something I think most want as part of a “reddit-esque” experience. The problem is the initial person who wants the thing is expected to setup and run the thing. It’s a hurdle, for sure. I know some mods ask for suggestions for that such issue.
It’s pretty crazy we’re kind of just over here like Switzerland. And that’s exactly why I picked this instance because who wants to defederate from the great lakes?
@llama @InevitableWaffles freshwater is apparently pretty important. Never going to be a Mad Max scenario over here.
I got invited to this instance without really knowing what the whole deal was. I’ve since started to subscribe to communities in other instances, and I think it’s really cool. The big subs usually weren’t my favorite anyway, so I’m happy with the communities here. I do think this won’t be a direct replacement for reddit, and I think that’s fine.
My experience with Mastodon was that it’s generally realy nice exxcept
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It’s a little quiet, and
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Of the conversation that is there, too much of it is about Twitter.
It’s kind of like hanging out with your friend who just had a bad breakup and doesn’t want to talk about anything but their ex.
The Lemmyverse feels kind of like that.
The subreddits I spent most of my time in aren’t here or get about a post a week. If I wanted to read about how spez is a bastard, however, I’d have reading material for months.
I’m generally happy with it, though, and plan to stick around. I just moved from lemmy.ml over to midwest.social, and it seems like a great little community here.
That’s one of the reasons that I was able to join a Mastodon instance that didn’t revolve around people leaving Twitter. Sure, I became more active on it when I wanted to reduce my Twitter usage, but there was already a good community of people that I knew and I could interact with about everyday things, rather than just complaining about Twitter. Hopefully this instance becomes a bit like that, where it’s a separate community that’s kind of like Reddit but also its own thing.
