Fuck /u/spez, innit?

Hoping it's a success but I find it hard to see it becoming one. Purely due to the confusion with how it actually works with different instances. Many casual users are going to be confused and not bother

Just joined a bit, too. Looks great so far. It reminds me of that wild west frontier feeling like when a bunch of us migrated from Digg to Reddit. We're building another new community.

... With blackjack! And hookers!

We've had to go backwards to go forward and I'm all for it.

I feel like I'm back in the best part of the early-mid 00s, when the entire internet was running on phpbb or some random local social networks with 500 users. I missed those, glad to be back in the new, hopefully better, interpretation of those times. Overall, it's quite nostalgic here. ❤️

Happy to be here, also sad to be here.

Ngl, us r/efugees are not happy with things over there.

As much as I'm coming to enjoy this, it still isn't what reddit was, nor is the app experience anything close to as feature rich. But, I'm finding other benefits here that are, and never were, possible at reddit, so it's still a good thing :)

Reddit is proof that no publicly traded company, nor any that intends to be, can be trusted with anything. Not use that was ever in doubt, but reddit has shown it in such a glaring, grotesque way that it's the poster child for how shitty corporate thought is.

I dunno. I was enjoying things. I had started moderating two subs I deeply cared about, with one having a strong sense of community building. There's an emotional response to the loss of that. But I'll be damned if I'm going to put in the work, put in the passion, when it's shit on by the very company that profits from my free labor. fuck spez, fuck reddit

I kinda like it actually. A cross between discord and reddit or smth. I'm only 1 hr old so I'm gonna withhold judgment for when I get more accustomed to the ui.

I just learned about this site 5 minutes ago. I’ll be done with Reddit soon.

It's ugly, not intuitive, feels way more complicated than necessary for a social site and the name is kind of dumb.

I'm 100% on board because screw Reddit and fuck u/spez.

I hope I can learn the ropes and help this place grow into something better.

I like it, but I'm still a lil confused about all the fediverse thing. For example, if while browsing this instance I open a link to a thread in another instance I can't comment as I'm not logged there. Any way around this? But overall excited to try this out and hopefully moving permanently here!

Reddit ran me off with a permaban 2 months ago because I wrote about the 3 boxes of liberty metaphor in a comment. 2 million+ imaginary Internet points down the drain. Glad to see the site shoot itself in the foot and looking forward to finding an alternative.

And the obligatory: fuck Spez.

Just deleted all past activity from my reddit account, deactivated it and joined you marry bunch. Glad to be here.

I'm confused yet intrigued

I don't fully understand it, but I'll try to get used to it.

I'm a little confused, but cautiously optimistic. It took a while to sign up and log in, but I got that far, so I guess I can work out the rest too! As a bit of a Reddit lurker, I'm out of my comfort zone, but committed to upvoting and commenting to help build the community!

It'll take some time to get used to this and learn how to properly use this, but I'm happy to have this community. :)

Question: is the "lag" from hitting the post button to seeing the post intentional or is that just a sign of stressed servers?

It's good so far; a few UX/UI issues need polishing, some more display options would be nice too.

The whole issue of community@instance is going to take some getting used to for people, and it's not clear how that's going to shake out in the long run. I'm not yet certain whether this will become my default space, but I'm willing to give it a go.

Seems sluggish, rough, and low population, but fuck spez so I'll give this an honest chance.

/u/spez is awful. (First post on Lemmy on any instance!) Looking forward to seeing Lemmy grow!

Just found out about this site and happy to be here. Time to delete reddit off my phone!

This is my first comment here, hope I'm doing it right!

The whole lemmy concept mixed with the current situation feels far more like you are part of a real community. Kinda like in old internet days. I will even break out of my reddit lurker days and try to contribute here.

I dig it.

I suppose the Reddit issue has at least got me to look into Lemmy. Seems interesting, albeit quite small. Still, oak trees grow from small acorns, etc, etc. ;-)

I think it's an improvement to reddit honestly. The communities seem chill compared to Frontpage so I'll stick around.

Hi, just joined but have been lurking for a day or two.

Just trying to find my bearings at the moment. I haven't joined any communities yet but will look at doing that later today.

I'm hoping that Lemmy is a less toxic space than Reddit became, and that an influx of us refugees doesn't ruin things for people who have been here longer. My hope is that those of us who migrate here learn to fit in with the ethos and rules of Lemmy, rather than trying to change things (or worse, expecting them to change to fit what we're used to "over there").

I'm looking forward to getting stuck in!

Honestly I am feeling pretty optimistic about using Lemmy. It is definitely a learning curve in hoping the federated community but I really enjoy the idea of it. I’m hoping it can gain some more traction and get bigger in the near future.