r/Lemmy right now is full of posts basically talking about how bad Lemmy is handling right now.
It’s a bad look and will probably hurt the migration.
I know we are moving off of Reddit but the Lemmy subreddit needs some positivity for people looking to migrate
don’t be surprised if it gets astroturfed with anti-Lemmy content by the admins. They are not above that level of fuckery. And in fact I would outright expect it.
check the accounts of people posting negative about it- default name_name<number> schemas and account ages of less than 10 days all scream astroturf accounts.
Someone has already been astroturing subs like r/programming with antiblackout AI generated spam. If they did it before they will do it again if migration starts having a major impact on the userbase.
Here are a few tips for spotting bots:
- default usernames
- accounts may be ~100 days old when the start posting at times, but are always completly inactive during this “aging”.
- Post/comment history unrelated to the topic, if it exists is nearly always generic freekarma4you type posts or reposted memes.
- In the case of using posts for astroturfing, or meme reposting, bots will often coment on each others posts, this is a good way to find a lot quickly.
- Comments made are super repetitive, often using the exact same wording. (this might be less common/blatant with newer LLM based bots, but wad the case with the shitcoin astroturfing bots a while back)
This might be a hot take but I’m okay with having some barriers to entry that demonstrate patience, understanding, and hope.
Yup. What made me decide to leave is the fact that I’m going to a place full of people who don’t agree with Reddit’s policies, and who are willing to fight a modest learning curve to join a more future-proof community. I’d rather be with people who care about that kind of thing and are kind of nerds about it, even if it doesn’t have as much content as Reddit in its early days. It’s making me nostalgic for Reddit 12 years ago anyway.
I agree. If someone can’t even get through the incredibly mild filter of figuring out how to make a Lemmy account and deal with some of the community-finding niggles (or, heaven forbid, download a free third-party app that will streamline the whole process for you), then I seriously wonder what kind of positive contribution they would bring to the Fediverse.
I’m pretty stupid and don’t like reading big walls of text but I was able to work out the basics lying in bed with one eye open, and had started subbing to communities by the time I was having my first morning coffee.
Sure, I ended up changing my mind on instances a couple of times and now have a few dupe accounts, but I was good to go after about three days of playing around. And again, I’m stupid and easily distracted.
If other ex-redditors can’t work it out, they’re very welcome to stay where they are.
I don’t get the migration issues, at all.
I’m literally an idiot and all I did was type ‘Lemmy World’ into Google, clicked the top result, created an account, and selected 50 or so communities to follow. Then I started posting.
I don’t know what the Fediverse is or other instances or how it all works (and I don’t really care).
This was dumb-shit easy to figure out - as easy as Facebook or Twitter or… Reddit.
Source: am dumb shit.
Honestly who cares? We’re not on Reddit. This is a different place.
In the midst of wading through a sea of people talking about Lemmy admins being tankies and other (mostly untrue) propaganda about the platform, the most legit criticism I’ve heard about Lemmy has honestly been from my older brother.
We had a conversation about Reddit alternatives given the recent news, and his honest take was “I don’t give a fuck about federation. Just give me something that works!”
This is very much one of the biggest problems with Lemmy. Most people don’t want to figure out federation and how it works before they make an account. Part of the reason Lemmy.world is so popular is that it’s presented as the default in a lot of places, and most people don’t want to deviate from the defaults
That’s pretty much how I wound up here. In the initial phase of googling, I didn’t find a very good breakdown of which instances of communities were good candidates for a new user, so I went with the popular one.
I made a kbin as well, but I can’t log into Jerboa with that.
It’d be helpful if there was a flow chart or something directing new users, starting with pointing then toward things like Lemmy vs Mastodon vs Beehaw etc and ending with a specific instance that aligns with that user’s interests.
The official Lemmy website is a pile of steaming poo too, which is the first thing I looked at. It looks amateur and the way the recommended instances list reads and looks isn’t very reassuring at all.
It looks like they’ve made some changes but it still looks like an impenetrable thing for nerds rather than the new wave of social media.
ending with a specific instance that aligns with that user’s interests
Uh oh. The guides I read said the instance doesn’t matter, just pick one! Then you subscribe to communities from any instance you stumble across to build up your “page” of stuff to consume. Is that not what we’re doing? I thought I had this worked out haha
