Reddit being down is how I found out about this place. This is literally my first post here. Thanks for sucking Reddit!
Don’t forget to apply to the No Poop Challenge!
Jokes aside, welcome. It’s a bit messy but fun here. Make sure to take a look at how instances work, for most part you can ignore it but it does improve a lot your experience.
The top two mistakes I ever made on the Fediverse were unknowingly posting in Chapotraphouse in hexbear.net, and similarly in Lemmygrad.ml. Lemmy was practically unusable for me until I realized I could block those instances (and later lemmy.ml), which improved my happiness here by >99%, no joke.
Definitely it’s worth paying attention to how instances work.
I’m the same way… I don’t like to block people because I want to know what everybody’s saying… But I had to block hex bear. I normally just scroll all and they were everywhere all the time everyday and it just got too much.
I’m out of the loop on the meta despite being active on the platform. What’s the deal with those other two servers? I can see they have strong “personalities”.
It’s a local meme.
A year ago or so someone posted in AskLemmy “I need to survive for 3 days while pooping as much as possible. I can pee as often as I like. It can take up loads of space. What food do I pack?” Apparently they were serious with the question, but… well, it’s bloody hilarious and suddenly everyone was joking about it.
The original thread was deleted, but you see plenty copycat threads like this one.
Welcome to Lemmy. Glad to get new people here.
Just a quick FAQ because newbies tend to get some common things wrong:
Q: What is a “community”?
A: A community is basically a subreddit that lives in a specific instance
Q: What are we called in Lemmy?
A: Most people use “lemming”
Q: What is an instance?
A: An instance is basically a server. For example, you registered at lemmy.world. lemmy.world is an instance. With the power of federation, you don’t need to register at other fediverse platforms to interact with stuff there here (only applicable to federated AND supported fediverse platforms). For example, mastodon.social can mostly interact with lemmy servers (instances)
Also, don’t mind the old looking minimalstic UI of lemmy. A revamp of the UI with a more modern design is being developed as we speak
Any questions welcome.
Welcome! You might want to check out !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca for tips and stuff.
Welcome ! Have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world for communities that might interest you
Oh no! Anyways…
Reddit.com still works. Old.reddit.com does not.
Wonder if they’ve decided to finally do away with old reddit?
Edit: Old.reddit is back up for what it’s worth.
new.reddit.com still works it seems. I think they’re going to take Old.Reddit.com offline, the bastards. If they do that, I may end up back here at Lemmy fulltime. I know none of you want that!
Not gonna happen. They’ll just re-lube the old condom while Reddit rapes them again.
Same issue here.
I think it’s just a temporary issue, but I really will stop using Reddit if old.reddit.com goes down. There are niches that just aren’t on here… but that UI.
The UI is unacceptable and an exercise in everything wrong with modern UI.
They are going to use the scrapping of old as the reason why. My apps that scrape it are down.
My how I Wish lemmy was better.
Weird, it’s been down for me since June of last year.
Literally thousands. That’s all the humans that are left.
Funny how they have the audacity to complain about this place being botted when their bot problem is so, SO much worse.
Yeah there really are not that many here, and while there are probably more who hide in the background, it’s nowhere near what the Reddit scabs/stans claim when they talk shit about Lemmy and alternative platforms in general.
