I barely use reddit anymore save for porn and niche subs but after that glorious app I had used for ages finally died a few days ago I felt devastated. it was like losing an old friend. I hope reddit dies an even slower and more painful death
Thanks to everyone who left reddit because they killed the useful mobile apps, lemmy is becoming a viable alternative.
I’ve been waiting for a viable alternative that isn’t as toxic as reddit for some time now. I hope they kill off old.reddit soon.
I mostly left because I saw an abundance of bootlicking posts and comments, people dunking on mods for continuing the protest and saying that it doesn’t concern them cause they don’t use third-party apps. Granted, some of them might’ve been bots or payed, but a lot of frustration seemed genuine and fron real accounts, and it rubbed me the wrong way.
I really don’t get it. I also used official app for years now and now I’m here and reddit is becoming a memory because how they treated it.
Same. I hadn’t used a 3rd party reddit app in years, and I slowly watched as my reddit experience got worse and worse, but when they mishandled the whole situation it made me wonder why I’m sticking around.
Welcome kit
- fediverse.info
- A 5-min Tour of the Fediverse
- Lemmy Intro
- Reddit migration
- sub.rehab
- Unoffical Subreddit Migration List
- Reddit Megathread
- Lemmymap
- Fediverse Observer
- Fedi DB
- to the Fediverse
- Awesome Lemmy Instances
- Lemmyverse Explorer
- lemmy the-federation.info
- Lemmy Community Browser
- Lemmy/Fediverse Mod Openings
- Guide to finding Lemmy Communities
- !communitysearchtips@lemmy.ninja
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- instance block check
- lemmy source
- lemmy andriod client
- What is ActivityPub?
- The Fediverse Could be Awesome (If We Don’t Screw it Up)
I’m sure this “welcome kit” is meant as a helpful thing but I have to wonder if it is exactly the problem that prevents Lemmy from being adopted.
When someone joins Reddit, they don’t need to read a literal plethora of guides on how to use Reddit. It’s obvious.
What looks like a helpful thing to do is instead going to intimidate and confuse new people.
So ultimately the question is: why isn’t Lemmy obvious to use, and how do we make it so?
When someone joins reddit it isnt obvious what to do. A lot of people come from more common linear communication systems like bbs and etc and the whole reddit comment chain can be confusing to follow. It also is extremely confusing about joining communities and what that does to your feed. The thing is reddit has been around for a lot of years and those of us who have used it have forgotten how confusing it was in the beginning.
I think it’s really the choice of federation. I imagine it’s against the spirit of federation, but is the answer just to direct people to lemmy.world to first sign up? From there, do what you always did on reddit, but check note that you can sub to other communited not on lenny.world? I just migrated a few days ago, but it was that initial choice that was confusing to me and delayed my signing up.
I have the most extensive list of Lemmy apps, you can include it in your welcome kit: https://lemmy.world/post/465785
added, ty
Here is where I’m keeping the updated list. https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/30829
Too much, keep it simple, stupid!
https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/join-the-fediverse/
Could you open a pull request to categorize all this into the awesome list for lemmy?
I see you’ve added the Awesome Instances list, but dbeley’s is more general, e.g:
alternative front-ends, mobile apps, libraries, tools, guides, etc. Thank you!
i updated the main list ty
will need to start organizing this a bit more.
you can find the maintained copy here: https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/30829
I think Sync for Lemmy is being fast tracked.
https://kbin.social/m/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world/t/113154/Sync-for-Lemmy-signup-is-now-open
Reddit on mobile no longer exists for me now that Sync for Reddit’s gone.
Can’t wait to try Sync for Lemmy and see it grow.
Well. Judging by my world feed, the porn is coming.
You can turn off NSFW content. I suppose if I’m browsing all then I should expect it.
While that is reasonable, its really just the porn I want to filter, most people won’t really give you too much trouble for a lot of the non-porn things that get labeled nsfw, some won’t even really register it, but porn always catches peoples eyes.
Where do you turn off NSFW? I checked the box to allow it when creating my account. Where can I turn it off now?
I’d wager most people who want to see NSFW don’t want to see it in all. NSFW seems like it’s more of a thing you search for at specific times rather then something you want popping up while you’re browsing for the other kind of entertainment. Not that I’m speaking from experience of course.
Also, as others have mentioned, the more gorey or profanity filled style NSFW isn’t something I’d like to have blocked from all, but it is something I don’t want to autoplay or be uncensored in case I’m actually at work.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the large “mainstream” Lemmy and KBin instances start degenerating from the NSFW focused instances before too long.
I hope they don’t. Users should have the power to decide for themselves what content they want to see.
