It really feels like Lemmy is alive because of you.
When I first checked out Lemmy, I wasn’t expecting there to be so much content, so much discussion, and so much community. But I’ve spent the better part of two days glued to my screen, browsing content all day. I’ve seen so many posts, so many interesting discussions about the fediverse, and of course, plenty of memes. It really feels like the start of something incredible.
I’ve gotta get back to work soon, but wow. I think this whole fediverse thing really is the next step for social media. If I find some extra time, I’ll definitely consider contributing to Lemmy’s source code to help this project and the FOSS ecosystem grow.
All I’ve been seeing is beans 😞
Can someone explain the bean trend, sorry getting old bit of a has bean you could say …
Essentially someone posted a photo of some beans and said Lemmy will upvote anything, even just beans.
…we did.
Yup. Beans and poop. Quite frankly I’m not interested in either of those topics!
You should expand your horizons! Beans just come in so many variants. You got baked beans, half baked beans, twice baked beans (and so on), Lima beans, string beans, chili beans, things that look like beans but aren’t (looking at you, peanuts are a legume), and the list goes on!
I guess I have a semi related question. It seems that canned baked beans are a staple for people in the UK. They even have it on toast of all things. Do canned baked beans taste different in the UK than they do in the US or are they the same? I’m in the US and I think they taste disgusting, but I wonder if they have a different flavor in the UK.
Whether it’s Lemmy, Kbin, or something that’s yet to be made - I feel the fediverse is here to stay. Genuinely revolutionary step away from centralized services like reddit.
The paradigm of having a home base instance and being able to venture out into the fediverse is just incredible. There’s a sense of community and comraderie that was never present on reddit. And yet there’s a breadth of users and perspectives that you could never find on smaller internet forums or platforms.
Couldn’t agree more, I really believe that federated self hosted sites have the potential to supercede the centralized internet. The fundamental experience is superior, and people will eventually begin to realize that.
Imagine an internet where nobody is trying to sell you something. Or worse, sell you (to advertisers). What a concept.
Lemmy definitely scratched the Reddit itch for me, and I don’t see myself going back. Unfortunately however, it is still a huge container of information that I still find myself relying on if I need to search for something.
The information contained in past posts and comments on Reddit is immense. Usually, the easiest way for me to find advice is a Google search that includes “Reddit” in the search field. It almost always returns a comment with exactly the information I was looking for
I was looking for support for a network issue and google returned me to several Reddit posts. Everyone of them was deleted or the sub was private. It’s usefulness it’s diminishing real quick.
as a software dev this also make me sad, but I hope chatgpt can fill that gap left by reddit
As someone who works in IT, this is very unfortunate. While I don’t agree with what Reddit is doing, I don’t think we should scorch the site. Its an immense archive of information that can be referenced.
If the sub is private, you can add “cache:” to the very beginning of the URL. Before the https. That will grab a cached version of before it went private, very helpful. Not sure if it works for deleted stuff tho.
I concur still feeling my way around, more mole like than a lemming 😂
Maybe my first contribution will be getting this video to work on the mobile/iOS version of this site lol
Supporting iOS browsers might feel like jumping off a cliff, but I must do it for my Lemming brethren 🫡