I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.
Hello Lemmy
Hello to the Fediverse! Hopefully you can also enjoy the rest of the sites such as Kbin, Pixelfed, Peertube, Owncast and Misskey - there’s plenty to choose from!
I’ve checked a few instances of federated YouTube alternatives and just… no. Most of the content is right wing guys looking for a place to spread hate they can’t elsewhere. The type of people that watch Andrew Tate and Admin Ross. Lemmy is Great though, mastodon seems a little boring compared to twitter. The fix to that would be Elon fucking up enough that the very change averse average internet user would be willing to try mastodon.
Mastodon gets better when you start following people by hashtag.
Account Settings > Profile > Featured Hashtags
Populate that area with hashtags of what interests you. Pretty soon you have people popping up that share your interests and you follow those that seem interesting.
OMG I love Mastodon and my instance (mas.to). Left Twitter for Mas about 8 months ago - I love following hashtags even more than people. There’s some great gems to follow though. For both Twitter, and now Reddit, I left for Fedi and just never went back. Facebook was another cold turkey quitting, no alternative for that one, that was years ago now.
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What I find when I follow tags is that my feed is now totally flooded with hundreds of new toots every time I log in - how do you deal with this? It’s way too much for me to ever go through and get anything meaningful out of it.
That’s because you haven’t found The Good Ones ™ such as TILVids
Nick from The Linux Experiment is there, nice surprise! Gonna give it a try, the videos I saw on the front page seem cool.
Really? I can’t find his channel
I think the thing that may finally drive people off the platform may be the limitation on viewing posts. Busy days, I’m not likely to hit the limit - big news day? Yeah, going to hit the limit pretty fucking fast.
Yeah- this is my big gripe with all of the alternative video sharing platforms. All of them have a significantly right-wing conspiracy theorist bias. Not really a place I see myself spending a lot of time, personally.
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Damn, I’ve only been to Lemmy and Kbin so far…
Baby steps are ok.
I’d only heard of Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube until now. Pixelfed looks cool, Owncast and Misskey are too but I don’t watch streamers or microblog so.
Are there apps for any of those?
what is the advantage to using kbin if i am already using lemmy?
Mastodon/Fed Twitter integration. You can post on a Lemmy community, tag a hashtag and it becomes a microblog (tweet) at the same time. But upvoted and downvotes are public on kbin. So depends what you want.
And in the long run we’ll see if kbin can keep up with the Twitter like software on the Twitter side and if it can keep up with Lemmy for reddit features at the same time. Like Lemmy can focus purely on meeting Reddits features then passing them. Kbin has to worry and work on both.
Much to learn it seems
Twitter has seriously turned into a right wing cess pool. :( 😞
Can’t even watch porn on there anymore. LOL
I was watching one of my favorite gay porn stars and swiped up foe the next video and it was this couple that had like 45 guns strapped to them out shooting printed out faces of Democrat politicians.
Talk about a damn boner killer.
Also, the only comments that show up are right wing nut jobs as well. Idk what the hell is going on there.
I learned the best way to avoid all the lunatics is to block anyone with a Blue Checkmark. There are block list’s for that to I think, though I was doing it manually.
What is really terrible is that, Twitter is considered mainstream social media alongside Instagram here in Japan. So even the normies ends up stepping into that right wing cesspool. I was really shocked to see my normie ex friend retweeting transphobic shit😿😿
While I really really hate Twitter, and tend to be more on Instagram, Losing Twitter means losing the single biggest information source for the majority that can’t read English. Even I sometimes have to open Twitter to see wtf is going on in the society (also it’s useful to get the most up to date information during emergency situations, like earthquake)
I saw the impact of them siloing their user base yesterday when a trade was made for one of my sports teams. The news broke on Twitter and I heard about it on a local radio show. I tried to find it in the news but I couldn’t. I don’t use Twitter so I wasn’t able to see any info on the trade for another 2 hours until local news and other services started to confirm and replicate the Twitter post.
It’s incredibly short sighted of them to do this.
Audience capture is a bitch
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Welcome!! We are glad to have you here!
Welcome to the Fediverse 🌞 I switched to Mastodon after Musk announced to buy the Twitter. It is already over a year ago 🤔
I am new to Lemmy myself, but it looks good
Any advice on mastodon?
I use Mastoot it’s pretty cool
You can tell who the Memmy users are by the repeat posting when the JSON error happens 😅
I just started using Ice Cubes and it’s pretty solid
I use Mastoot it’s pretty cool
I use Mastoot it’s pretty cool
I love Moshidon as mobil app
Same.
I had deleted my main reddit account that I had for 13/14 years a few months ago. I created a new alt so I could check in and talk about some of more niche interests, but I deleted that 3 weeks ago, just couldn’t be dealing with the increasing enshittification.
I’ve had a Twitter a/c since 2009, have a lot of mutual followers and a lot of people I know only for there, but decided today that it’s definitely not going to get any better. I had a Mastodon account since last year, but it was very slow and quiet, and again, not a lot of niche interests I have over there yet. But this weekend’s bullshit (and obvious lies from Musk) makes it clear twitter isn’t going to get better. Even if the stupid rates thing improves in the next while, it will just be something else Musk decides which will be making twitter worse.
So I’m just going to enjoy the chill vibes and explore all the different communities here.
500 upvotes in 2 hours?! Fuck yes bois. Fuck that jailbait mod spez, and his shit website full of toxic spakkers.
Long live the fed!
Vive la Fédération
It’s strange, but the 3 day poop challenge meme that swept through lemmy the other day reminded me of what Reddit used to be. It felt like an actual community where people were actually interacting, and sometimes bizarre posts turned into legends. I hadn’t noticed the slow transition to just endless bot reposts. With all the spez drama, i decided Reddit was dead to me, and that was sad to acknowledge the sudden end of an era like that. But lemmy showed me that the things that made me love Reddit have been gone for a long time, and I feel more at home here.
Lol, what community was this
/c/memes@lemmy.ml if i recall correctly
Welcome to the Fediverse! It is smaller but it is growing! So far I think it feels more civilised than the chaos out there in the corporate internet.
Same. It was nice to break up from Reddit after 10 years
16 years here. Hard but that’s life.
16 years too. We’ve been through these transitions before with Digg!
13 for me, and a few days ago they banned me without even telling me why. I asked and I got no response. Fuck them, I was getting done with them anyway and when I found out that blind mods couldn’t moderate their own subreddit, I’m glad I didn’t even attempt to appeal.
Been here for a couple weeks, I’ve enjoyed it so far. Some niche communities are missing but I think Lemmy is a good time and I love the vision
Welcome mate, I still have Twitter but I hope one day I’ll be able to cut it off for good!
Same. I feel much better already. I’m very optimistic for Lemmy after it gets these initial technical issues worked out.
Between Lemmy &kbin I have everything I want, Reddit and Twitter can fuck off.
Amen, the only people that provide content are the users.
Does your Lemmy instance federate with Kbin?
I don’t think so? not yet anyway I guess.
Welcome to the club, there are quite a few of us in the same situation
The only thing I still need reddit for is the sports communities. I hope some start getting bigger over here.
r/formula1 and r/soccer for me personally
There’s a !Football one that seems tho be getting the content.
There’s a Formula 1 community. It’s still small, but we can all make it grow. Also, the soccer community managed to grab the football name before the other guys, LOL
Is there a fantasy football one that’s migrated over?
A couple of small ones are starting out here and there: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=fantasy+football
Doesn’t seem like big communities hopped over yet.
be the change you want to see, subscribe to those communities and be active in them
I thought I’d be able to roll with the Reddit Android app. But, man, it’s rough. All of the fonts are way too tiny, and navigation can be a giant jankfest at times.
I might still roll by Reddit on a fullsize PC monitor on the web. Or I might not. Kind of depends on if Lemmy totally buckles under the server pressure over the next week or two.
The servers have been rough today, but ultimately I haven’t found it too intolerable. Haven’t really been a big fan of the Reddit desktop site, so I’m probably sticking around here for a bit.
