In part because it reminds me a bit of the old internet, with stuff being spread around everywhere.
Being “harder”* to understand than reddit, twitter or other big companies’ services is also a good thing, because people should remember that they have a brain and they should use it.
- “harder” because not everyone understands the fediverse right away, since usability is extremely similar
PS: ^superscript doesn’t work with phrases? at least not on preview^
I Just have to say that I am seeing much more success with my posts and comments than ever on Reddit
Late 90’s, early 2000’s internet was fun. It was the wild west.
If you’ve used Gopher nothing else will every scare you again.
I still miss altavista, ska the fun with IRC. Good times.
I like that the rough edges keep the boomers away. That’s the point where I know to move on from a social media site.
I used the old site for more than a decade, and I remember when the highest upvoted posts on the frontpage had only 2K upvotes. Lemmy is at that point now and its future is full of potential.
When I first joined the old site, the top post all time was the one about the guy trying different things with rice (either that or the guy posing with asscracks at an MTG grand prix)
Reddit 0/10
Lemmy with rice 10/10
Oh man I remember the asscracks guy, that’s gotta be like ten years ago now?
It’s a bit of a shame the no-poop guy is no longer the top post on Lemmy.
Also forces me to learn more about the Fediverse, third party apps, hosting my own Lemmy instance, etc which I always appreciate
As a soon to be 30 yr old this reminds me of the internet I grew up loving lol, feels just the right amount of old school to me
Same. I’m loving it. Feels new and nostalgic at the same time.
When I see the notifications popup in the top right corner, it surprisingly reminds me of old FB. Back when instead of an app buzzing in my pocket 24/7 with notifications that are actually just ads or BS, I intentionally choose to log on, see the notification, and think “Oh, someone interacted with me, let’s go see what they said.”
Yes! At first I wasn’t too keen about that, but it’s actually more freeing this way. I get to choose when to notice a notification, not the other way around
Oh man, I never thought about that, but you’re 100% right. I’ve had this nagging feeling of nostalgia while using Lemmy for the longest time, and that’s exactly what it is.
It’s beautiful and I hope the rest of the internet has a revolution like this.
Idk much about servers or anything but I hope someone finds a good way to replace YouTube next
That’d be PeerTube, but federated video is hard. It’s very expensive in terms of bandwidth and storage. In comparison, hosting a mostly text-based website with very little embedding of images and no embedding of video and sharing it with the world is relatively easy.
It’s definitely forced me to learn a lot within the past few days. I guess I should thank reddit, because if they hadn’t forced the 3rd party apps out of business I wouldn’t have ever heard of Lemmy or kbin.
What is kbin and how does it relate to Lemmy?
I am guessing kbin is an app for Lemmy like wefwef?
It’s actually another Reddit clone similar to Lemmy, but much newer. You can use kbin to see posts from kbin, Lemmy, or Mastodon. There’s a bit of a guide to it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/145npay/the_redditors_guide_to_how_kbin_works_your/
After using Lemmy and kbin a little bit over the past few days, Lemmy seems to be a bit more stable at this point so I’m sticking with it for now. But with more development time, kbin might ultimately be where I head to.
Thanks! I will check it out kbin.
I have Mastedon but Lemmy is more enjoyable. I’m thinking it’s because mastedon is more like twitter and I never got into twitter to begin with.
You can subscribe to kbin “magazines” just like communities from other federated lemmy instances too, so you can view them all through lemmy.world or whichever instance you’re on
Kbin is a mix of both.
The UI is built like lemmy and has a micro blog which is more twitter-esque.
reddit also started out rough around the edges too!
I like when things take more time to build but it’s far more of a collaborative effort. It makes me much more invested and devoted to the platform’s success!
I totally agree. Gives me something new to learn which I always appreciate.
Agreed. It’s nice being here.
Agreed, I’m getting nostalgic feelings for slashdot, digg, and old Reddit.
I’ve come to like it more than Reddit at this point. The community feel here you can’t buy and can only make it with actual factual care.
The only complaint I have is a minor one, and that’s speed and sometimes things don’t load. Though I know that’s a symptom of growing pains. That will likely be a non-issue in the future as the tech grows with the popularity of the community
Hey, the speed issue is solely because the instance you’re on, Lemmy.world, is way overcrowded. You can resolve this issue by joining a smaller instance or even hosting your own. The best part of Lemmy is you aren’t tied to any one server. You can create an account on a different instance/site and never miss a Lemmy post. I’m on my own private instance and have zero issues with loading speed
That sounds very doable. I’ll have to look for a tutorial and work on that next chance that I get.
How do I transfer my subscriptions to another server, though? Do you really just have to re-sub to everything all over again?
Because I have so many subs now…
Yes that’s an annoyance but I would expect support for that in the medium term.
I made an account on a separate server just to test and it does indeed perform tons better. Just sucks there isn’t some way to “own” your user and download like a fingerprint of it on demand from a server, so you could easily transfer yourself somewhere else.
Reminds me of Reddit in 2008 when I joined. Legitimate communities forming and finding their way. Wasn’t super intuitive how to use or what to do, but something special.
Reddit has since just transformed into something almost unrecognizable, but its tough to beat the size and reach it’s built.
On thing Lemmy is going to have to worry about is bots. I’m hoping the decentralization is a good solution to both monetization and bots. We shall see.
Unpopular opinion: it should stay a little bit slow. Every other commercialized platform trains us for immediate gratification.
Agreed. “Losing” Reddit was and is still painful, but I’m more and more convinced that it was necessary. Both in general and for me as a person. I’m going to try to get back into reading and other oldschool, ‘slower’ stuff. Modern internet has been poisoning our brains for like half a decade at the very least.
Highly recommend getting back into reading. I stopped reading books for a while and completely forgot the joy of it. Don’t be disappointed if your reading discipline isn’t what it used to be. It’s like a muscle and I am still in the process of re-training it.
One of the best tools that helped me was signing up for my library’s digital service (Libby). It’s so easy and accessible that it kind of blew my mind. I also invested in a refurbished backlit e-reader that could display the epub files that I borrowed from the library… Utter magic!
Thanks - I have the entire Stephen King catalog and I think I stopped somewhere around 2017 or so, so I’ve got a good bit of backlog to catch up to.
I remember being surprised when anybody in the media knew what reddit was. This was only 5 years or so ago. I felt happy at that time, but didn’t realize that was the jump the shark moment for reddit.
Imagine if back in the day all the PHPBB forums were federated
Reddit would never come to exist in that case, I think. MySpace and Facebook would probably’ve had a harder time growing. The sheer amount of php forums over the net was mind blowing.
Eh, I have mixed feelings about how the Fediverse welcomes people by not really explaining how the whole thing works, but people have found their way around in no time at all.
It’s definitely a growing platform, but there are rough edges in the usability of it aside on desktop and mobile, and in many third-party apps like Jerboa.
I’m sad to hear you did not feel like a good explanation of the fediverse was given. Is there something you’d still want to know? I’m no expert but I’ve been here for a while, so I might be able to help or at least guide you!
Feel free to ask! And if you don’t feel like commenting on here, feel free to DM me with questions too.
Agreed 100%. There was definitely a barrier to entry in the internet’s early days which is why it was so nice. People that were there had to learn because they WANTED to be there and make it something great.
