Now you know how linux users feel
🥲
but there aren’t any games on linux ☹️
([CurrentYear]+1) will definitely be the year of the Linux desktop!
Tbh Lemmy (and the rest of the fediverse) isn’t ready for mainstream use 😔
I’m not sure I agree with that. It isn’t ready to provide a first class luxury airliner experience - and that is a requirement for some, but if you’re okay with a bumpy ride, Lemmy is absolutely serviceable.
Lemmy has a wild west style vibe to it. Anything is possible, and that offers excitement to many people. There was an unfortunate bug regarding hot posts that emerged while the Reddit protest is going on, but that bug has been fixed (even if the fix hasn’t been rolled out everywhere yet).
That and the ‘function over form’ look of the default website / PWA is not beautiful, but again quite serviceable.
The social communities are in flux, due to the general expansion, but that also means there’s great opportunity.
One thing that it sorely lacks is easy video upload… it might have that in the near future, but let’s face it, it’ll be disabled by default on all instances… just takes way too much space. And most memes nowadays are actually videos, so… no, mainstream users will never come here. And that could actually be a good thing if you think about it, it filters out users by design, not bad IMO.
that’s definitely part of the excitement for me now, but will I stay here? not unless things keep updating. How is Lemmy moderated though? That wild west feel is a double edged sword and tends to turn into a cesspool on the internet before too long.
Definitely agree that lemmy has a wild west feel to it right now, and like you, i love it.
But most people have very low tolerance for interruption to their experience and just want it to work, no matter who is running it. For my part, I’d like to see the process of searching for new communities and accounts get smoothed out, and maybe process of linking to a post on another instance.
On the other side of the coin, a lot of the tools needed for effective moderation on a large scale are still in the process of being made. Beehaw defederating from 2 other large instances threw a wrench in the works, but hopefully they’ll refederate once better tools are added.
We’re probably the early adopters But still, that’s like living in the future
It’s cool and exciting
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How did you find out about lemmy? I’ve long since lost the knowledge to find new cool internet stuff, until it becomes more popular, like lemmy
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Ah well, it’s their loss honestly. Plenty of great little sites out there, they probably just want to lurk and not contribute
Yeah. Even with the low usercount, people are SO active on here.
Yeah it’s more fun when you don’t have a string of 5 trolls after your comment telling you how much you suck.
Did they not implement shadow bans for mentioning Lemmy?
I’ve mentioned Lemmy before and some people just responded to my comments today
but I think I’ve only mentioned Lemmy once on there maybe twice
Depends on the sub probably, I didn’t link directly to either site except on r/redditalternatives
Specially effective on subs with weird posting rules (john oliver etc etc) where people are confused.
I honestly don’t understand the desire to entice people from reddit.
If people want to leave, they will.
I wouldn’t have found this site if not for a post on reddit. If nobody talks about it elsewhere nobody will find it. Anyway I was mostly just commenting and trying to correct people who were trying to make lemmy and kbin seem really hard to use.
Same here. Keep telling people; lots of them come over.
Specially when you mention Sync for Lemmy, or Memmy for Lemmy and Artemis for kbin/Lemmy which are both heavily inspired by Apollo.
Even made this quick summary of what’s going on reddit and how Lemmy/Kbin works to copy/paste on any relevant thread; seems to be quite effective. Feel free to use it.
Yup, that’s how I found it.
Yeah the operator of the instance I made an account on shared that their instance is open to signups on a random reddit thread about one of the apps potentially shutting down so I decided to take the leap then. I’ve found myself on Mastodon now too!
