& I’m doing pretty good! The wefwef app has done a great job of recreating the Apollo experience and has made it a lot easier to not want to go and download the Reddit app. The more active it gets here, the easier it’ll be. How are you guys doing so far? Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?

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[–] heliumlake@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm very happy this space is flourishing. Lots of organic conversation and increased engagement. My only hope is that this revolt against corporate social media will be sustained. I would love to see this turn in to an existential threat to the companies selling our data and privacy to the highest-bidding advertiser.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fediverse faces structural issues of its own, but they're different issues than corporate social media, which gives me a lot of hope that they can outlive them. I really want Lemmy and Mastodon to become the norm, they would be much healthier online spaces for everyone.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

With the usage increase of app like Discord the contraction of social media will be the norm in the following years. Instead of having a single instance that hosts everything, we'll have a smaller but higher quality of communities. My social circle has encountered something similar; I deleted my social media accounts but kept a Discord server where I hang out with my friends. Quality over quantity is the name of the game now.

[–] mythic_tartan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like this idea, but I find Discord’s UI hostile to new users. Any good alternatives?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Matrix. I've been using the element app.

[–] mythic_tartan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I’ll check it out

[–] Papergeist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Same here. The only social I have been on since 2014 was reddit. I was on reddit earlier, but that's when I dropped Facebook. I never used Twitter or Instagram or Snapchat or whatever.

Social media has some good qualities but it's still young and we haven't figured out how to safely regulate it. Maybe this federation thing is the way

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Until discord shits the bed. I've been enjoying matrix, it's a bit more like IRC.

Tbh I was kind of weirded out when everyone decided just to accept our chatrooms would now belong to one company.

[–] Goatberry_Jam@vlemmy.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People here are less argue-y and more conversational. I like it (I say this as an argue-y person)

[–] Papergeist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder if we are seeing a lack of bots at this point on Lemmy. I'm kinda hoping this place stays just under the radar for a long time

[–] eating3645@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

https://youtu.be/uLlv_aZjHXc