I’m here from Reddit… Gimme hugs!
Another reddit refugee here and this is my first ever comment on Lemmy.ml (or any of the Lemmy instances, for that matter). Welcome!
And another one here. Let reddit burn to the ground with their own VC greed.
We’ll explore this weird new world t together!
Exciting time for us!
Created my own instance to help out. Created a few communities, hopefully they’ll become searchable from the big instances soon.
Someone has to search for the full address and then follow a community for it to be followed by a server.
Put some links to your communities, I’ll sub to start the link
I’ve made three so far -
https://1337lemmy.com/c/thesopranos
https://1337lemmy.com/c/chicubs
https://1337lemmy.com/c/chibears
The link has finally been made, so no need to sub unless you’d like to. Thanks for offering!
It’ll be good practice for when a bunch of third party apps die and some post about “how to go about delete your stuff and registering on this list of alternatives in just a few easy steps” comes up.
And by practice, I mean that the horse corpse is going to be fucking pulverized.
My first plan was to delete my content the first of July if reddit didn’t change mind, but I’ll delete it before because I want to use a third party app to do so without too much hustle
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And after the 1st of July too, probably
Definitely not. Before people were migrating from Twitter only just to go back
Don’t know. The thing with Mastodon is that you wouldn’t find people to follow and it lacked features people wanted.
Lemmy here is way more entertaining already. Of course a lot of people will just check it out and go back but I think enough will stick around. Like a small subreddit you enjoy and slowly grows.
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Honestly, I just don’t get twitter and never joined. I also don’t super get mastadon. I see people talking about having great conversations, but it seems like the WORST interface for that (fedilab on android anyway). It’s a good “rss aggregator” with comments, but the 500 character limit is still tiny for most comments I’d ever want to make, and the threading / comments are quite limited. At least on lemmy, if there’s a post people are replying to - you can see the replies, you’re not linked randomly half way through a thread, and you can type a longer comment. I just think I’m way more reddit acclimated, and actually I “grew up” with Slashdot so…
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I could never wrap my head around the discoverability and reach issues – I haven’t had any problems with either of those, and I’m running a solo server (though I’ve come to suspect that there was maybe a jargon and expectation barrier, and they just couldn’t overcome the different layout).
What I can understand is running away from the somewhat, uh, hostile welcome many of them got. Instead of bringing people in and helping them acclimate, a bunch of folks just got up in new peoples’ faces and gave them no room to make faux pas.
I don’t see that happening here. The crowd that’s showed up over the last week or so has been made up of core Reddit folks, and the atmosphere is very Reddit in nature.
It’s just the volume of content that is missing, and that already feels like it’s inching toward critical mass and can become self-sustaining.
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Let’s hope so! I wish for a slow but steady growth.
I fear that we wont be so lucky. If a million people try to check out Lemmy at once, all the instances can go down.
Mine will be fine. I splashed out and got a VPS with one whole CPU core!
People go to twitter to see what famous people and influencers have to say.
People to go Reddit for the consolidated forums while also being able to browse a bunch of other entertainment and memes all in one shot. Or at least I do. The breadth of offerings of Reddit is a selling point.
reddit has so many users that basically all interests are covered. I can look up an discussion thread on relatively obscure anime/manga that came out 8 years ago. That’s hard to compete with and why I won’t be quitting reddit entirely.
Yup, I’ve ended up having better luck searching for a product with “site:reddit.com” as well. It’s also been the home for memes for quite some time. Even when I don’t feel like delving into discussions on things, it’s still the best / easiest place to scroll silly pictures and laugh for a bit when I’m lifting at the gym and between sets.
I won’t be quitting though I’ll be trying to dwindle my use a bit. I’m not much of a doom scroller but I will run through a list of subreddits on a regular basis.
It would make a great stress test though when suddenly millions join Lemmy :)
Reddit chose a very bad time to mess up, right when we’re in the middle of coding some of our biggest performance improvements. They timed this perfectly to make things as stressful as possible for nutomic and I lol.
Has there been any work / planning around an ability for third parties to setup broadcast servers to help distribute the load? I know that kind of thing is extremely difficult but maybe it would be a reasonable effort for handling read only requests. I haven’t had a chance to look into lemmy’s architecture yet so not sure if this is a valid question or not :)
Not that I know of.
Your efforts are appreciated!
❤
No stress test needed, every admin has already said they know it’s going down
No one will come; you can’t use RIF here, either.
(ha ha)
Someone at RIF must be thinking about adding support for Lemmy.
E: Or jump to Jerboa. Looks a bit early in development but it’s surprisingly functional.
I’ve been part of Ruqqus & Imzy, I hope that this time it will be a success! (hopium overdose)
I miss Imzy, that was such a wholesome site :)
I miss imzy tooo =(
