I’ve been telling a lot of people about it, but everyone’s a skeptic. I’ve heard a lot of people saying that they’re just going to wait to see which Reddit clone comes out on top before switching. Most of them haven’t heard of the other parts of the fediverse like mastodon. I’d like to leave fb/instagram, but like many others, all my friends are on there. I’m not against defederation from meta to preserve the sanctity of what we have. (Although I know many of you might be for it as well.) But in a perfect world, I wish that meta would fall apart and all of my friends would switch from instagram over to pixelfed and we would have a great, non corporate internet again.
What do you think?
No, even on Reddit I wasn’t trying to let IRL people know that I was on Reddit. I don’t want them figuring out my username and seeing any of my comments. Not because I’m like ashamed or anything, but because I enjoy the freedom of not “having an audience”. I write differently if I know that potentially people I know IRL are reading it vs whoever the hell you people are. Anonymity is freedom.
No and no.
I’m over 40 and nobody cares.
no and i’d struggle to recommend it. it seems to be mostly talking about being on the fediverse and hating other social media… hopefully we’ll get to a point where there’s more discussion outside of just being here and why.
I had the same opinion about Lemmy until I took the time to find the same wide assortment of communities that I subbed to on Reddit. Now that there’s a wider variety of content to read, I don’t have that “please stop talking about the fediverse” thought anymore. I will say that tech and tech-adjacent communities on here are still really heavy on the meta discussions (i.e. as in posting on Lemmy about Lemmy—not about Zuck’s website).
i’m sadly finding communities with only one or two posts mostly, but i’m staying the course and i’m hopeful!
Hang in there! I highly recommend using something like https://lemmyverse.net/communities to search for communities. Lemmy (and most other parts of the fediverse) are a double-edged sword: you’re not being algorithmically fed content, so you’re able consciously curate what you devote your attention to, you’re not being surveilled for marketing, etc. However, because of this, it’s harder to accidentally find an interesting community because they’re not actively presented to you.
I just started using the search above to type in keywords of interest. I’ve found some established Lemmy communities I don’t think I would have stumbled across otherwise.
No, they’re not. I’m fine with it really. I enjoy following communities and not people, so not a big loss.
I’ve gotten two friends to drop Reddit and ride the Lemmy train. Great success!
