• tmpod
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      22 years ago

      We’ll be fiiiiine 🥲 starts hyperventilating

    • @sweeny@sh.itjust.works
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      Hell yeah, just got here and am ready boost some engagement! I already like it here, I forgot that being able to see the amount of down votes used to be a thing

      *Looks like I’m the 69th comment here, what a start!

      • @MJBrune@beehaw.org
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        12 years ago

        One of the things I love about Lemmy is that I’m literally over here in a different instance. I can willingly see other content but I also have this local group I can be close with. It brings me back to the old Internet with the benefits and reach of the new Internet.

        • @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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          22 years ago

          Excellent point. A small community, that can easily interact with the larger community. This is what the internet always should have been.

    • @Roderik@lemmy.world
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      02 years ago

      Given there is no algorithmic recipe to hook you, I’d wager Lemmy is far better for everyone’s mental well-being. You’ll ultimately squander less of your time mindlessly scrolling.

      • @madikonrad@midwest.social
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        22 years ago

        That’s what I love about Fedi in general. The algorithms are either fully gone, or are almost entirely working in favor of the users rather than against them.

  • @andrew@lemmy.ca
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    22 years ago

    This seems like as good a thread as any to make my first post in as a Lemmy user. I’ve been on Reddit since '09, and was on slashdot back in the 90’s. I really am hoping that these new, federated services take off. Onboarding still seems like the biggest hurdle.

    • @constantokra@lemmy.one
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      After onboarding the interface is kind of rough to figure out. Mostly because the mobile web version isn’t that great, and jerboa also isn’t that great, and they’re different enough that switching back and forth gets you confused. With reddit’s problems, I imagine we’ll see some more client apps and ui improvements show up in the next couple months with the added attention, and that’ll be the end of that. Honestly, I thought it’d be rougher. I do wish I got more replies to my comments though, so i’m trying to make a point to post a bit more than I ordinarily would.

      • @Laplacian@lemmy.ml
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        The desktop web interface seems pretty similar to old reddit/rif so I haven’t had that much difficulty with browsing. The fact that I’ll be losing my niche subs is the hardest part of moving entirely to Lemmy though.

  • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈
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    12 years ago

    Fedi/Lemmy, etc…are going to see a historic deluge.

    Good luck and thank you for busting balls to help put reddit out of business and into the trash heap.

  • Ai of the Storm
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    12 years ago

    So far I’m looking forward to surfing this wave. Sad to see Reddit burn, but at least there are alternatives.

  • BackOnMyBS
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    Judging from my experience trying to sign up for a Lemmy instance for the past 2 days, it’s going to be hard. Unless I was doing something wrong, I can see a lot of people having difficulty signing up and eventually giving up. kbin was much easier to sign up for.

  • @Windshear@lemmy.ca
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    12 years ago

    Funny how even the small wave is enough to take down the city 🤣. I hope Lemmy can grow to be my primary time waster. There’ll be downtime and hiccups, but I’m a patient man.

  • @drcabbage@lemmy.ml
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    We still need a good mobile app for Lemmy. I tried using the Jebora one, and its scrolling speed is abysmal.

    Silver lining, I am looking forward to all the new things getting developed for lemmy and the like when they can’t make things for Reddit anymore. Their loss is our gain.

    • @suborbital@lemmy.ml
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      02 years ago

      Interesting. I’m using Jerboa right now and while I have a few complaints, scrolling speed isn’t one of them. I wonder if it’s a phone specific issue.

      • @casey@lemmy.wiuf.net
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        02 years ago

        Right now I’m just using the web interface on mobile - selfhosted though so I got to change the theme to dark.

        • God
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          02 years ago

          I just use a dark reader extension on the browser.

          • Celediel
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            02 years ago

            Dark Reader made Firefox on Android so unbelievably slow for me that I disabled it out of frustration, and have just been blinding myself rather than waiting 10+ seconds for Firefox to load sites that Chrome loaded near instantly.

            • God
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              02 years ago

              ehhh I don’t use firefox tho I use Kiwi Browser with dark reader extension. It works very very fast.

              I would use firefox but firefox is kinda slow on my phone and I dislike slow.

              • Celediel
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                02 years ago

                TIL about Kiwi Browser, thanks for this, I think I could like this a lot. Firefox’s mobile extension support is extremely limited, so this is a breath of fresh air.

                • God
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                  02 years ago

                  The only warning I can give you cuz it bothers some people around me is that it’s centralized and closed source. It’s also not privacy oriented. Other than that I like it more than Firefox in all respects.

  • @iDunnoBro@sopuli.xyz
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    02 years ago

    Yep… Bought Sync and Apollo long ago. Moved to Lemmy today. Slowly moving all of my main socials to decentralized/federated platforms because the greedy corpos breaking their own shit.