I wont survive without reddit… I am so dead…
Lemmy fills the itch for me. The only thing it is missing are certain niche communities populated. Maybe some day.
Hope you find your place, even if it isn’t here.
I’ve been here since the API exodus. I still go on reddit sometimes but found myself frequenting Lemmy a lot more. It’s just better and the slow growing is quite noticeable. Gone were the days where you were always checking for new posts.
Can some people who are willing to post something other than American politics and Reddit bashing posts join lemmy soon, I’m sick of my entire feed being nothing but all these negative topics
Use an app with filter lists. Add american political terms to filter. Experience gets muuuuuch better.
For those of us using Firefox there was a post on !youshouldknow@lemmy.world on how you can use uBlock Origin to create word filters.
To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)
For example:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)
I think Lemmy is a bit too complicated to attract the kind of light-hearted users that made Reddit shine. It’s daunting unless you have nowhere else to go.
Idk, I came here with no idea about the instance system, I joined one that was near the top of the list, realised it was entirely Tankies, and made an account on the instance this account is on. I think people are likely to have a similar experience.
Hear about Lemmy -> join one of the first instances they see -> realise how things actually work -> make an account on an instance that’s properly researched and more aligned with the person
Took me 3 tries to get one I liked. I wish new users were put in some “default instance” with no defederations so users can pick and choose where to go better.
Like window shopping
False we have :
!animalswithjobs@lemmy.world
!crows@lemmy.ml
!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
!TwoGoobers@lemm.ee
!taneggs@lemmy.ca
!relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun
!bats@lemmy.world
!Dullsters@dullsters.net
!bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org
!hydrohomies@lemmy.ml
!nolawns@slrpnk.net
!foraging@lemm.ee
!succulents@midwest.social
!houseplants@manyplace
!zombiesurvival@sopuli.xyz
!vampires@lemmy.zip
And we might get a revival of !frogs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
All this is news and linux free. Enjoy!
People on
- !gardening@lemmy.world
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee
- !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz
- !askouija@lemmy.world
Seem to be doing fine.
There is a pinned post with non-political communities on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
You could either block a few communities or make your following feed your main one. I prefer the first case as it allow community with less trafic to reach the top of the page.
There is a lot animal pictures, some fantasy genre conversation and plenty of renewable energie discussion somewhere hidden behind the very detailled and commented biographie of the trump/musk duo.
I had a discussion the other day, where people were not happy with lemmy instances not handing data over to google. They argument was that we should do everything so lemmy can be found more easily, as the only goal is to “win” against reddit.
Unfortunately in that discussion people were not interested in using Lemmy and the Fediverse at large to create a positive vision of the internet. They just wanted to stick it to one corporation they don’t like. I don’t like reddit either, but i think we should thrive for a Fediverse that upholds decentralization, open source and non commercialization of social interactions. All the large Internet corporations want to create the opposite and have been quite successful so far.
I agree with you. It’s short sighted to give in to a separate corporation to “beat” the first. The only way to beat Reddit is to stop using it and forget about it.
The goal should be to remove the ability for a single entity to control the public flow of discourse.
I’m off to buy a Lemmy sticker to put on my thinkpad
Blocking all of the political and news communities can help
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca has a pinned post without active non political communities
Be mindful of the smug “Lemmy Culture” hipsters, they’ll eventually weed themselves out or self segregate though as more normies flow in.
I welcome the masses.
steve holt!!
It took every person on this platform to get us to 600. Bots I’m calling on your power.
