First of all,welcome to Lemmy!
Here are a few pointers to help you settle in
Feel free if you have any questions!
Loving it so far! I’ve also found great replacements for all the US software I’ve been using. Should have done that a long time ago, there are actually amazing non fascist alternatives!
Welcome!
I am having trouble with the absence of centralized communities. For many many topics communities seem to exist on multiple instances and that splits up the user base and discussions it seems. I get that it is an inherent part of the design, but it hurts my experience.
Also the number of users seems to be too low still to create a lively environment. I hope that changes but so far the number of posts and comments on those posts seems a bit low compared to what I was used to.
Having said all that, I love the app (I am using voyager) and the general vibe of the people on here. Let’s hope on more users and a continued constructive community!
What topics are you interested in? Usually there is a more active community, and then smaller ones.
For instance for movies:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=movies&order=active can help to discover those, usually weekly or monthly active users is a good metric.
This post can help as well: https://lemm.ee/post/57443076
A few other examples where one community become “the one”
I am happy I joined (in past 14 days or so). So far I like it a lot. In the past I tried lemmy and was confused how it works. Somehow I thought when I post something on mastodon it can also be targeted to lemmy (posts or replies), but I think I largely misunderstood and that put me off for some time. But when I found out about this sublemmy I had to try again and this time with success!
I’m confused about this too, I’ve subscribed to the hashtag #buyeuropean on mastodon and I see posts from this community here over there? 🤔
Glad to be here. Switched to vivaldi. On my way to delete amazon, paypal, microsoft and google accounts. Using Signal + an own hostes emailadres from germany. Thinking im on a good way
Well done!
Pretty cool, good to see we have an alternative to reddit.
This is my first comment, just joined during the weekend. It took about half a day to get used to the lower amount of stuff and the slower pace here. And I really like it! The quality of discourse here seems so much higher and with the lower amount of posts I find that I can take my time and not get overwhelmed. Should have joined years ago :-)
Welcome, glad to hear you like it!
Years ago, it was just a safe haven for half a dozen communists.
2 years ago it was already pretty well spread out IMO, that was just before the API fiasco. Now add some years before that and I’d say yeah, a much smaller community.
But even a couple years ago Lemmy was beginning to thrive.
Welcome to non-corporate reddit 🎉
i do miss my niche communities on reddit, maybe i’ll start some here,other than that lemmy is a good alternative to replace the popular feed on reddit.
Welcome!
Not only Lemmy i also joined Mastodon lol. I find this expirience to be refreshing, maybe thats because this platform has less users or maybe because its not under someones control but i feel as if i moved from big, overpopulated city to a countryside. Its like breathing fresh air, i feel myself free, and i love reading comments here, they look like real conversations between humans. Although im not from European Union but im your neighbor from Ukraine and i totally support this movement or its better to call an idea, i dunno. I replaced a lot of stuff already but thats only the first step. Also im really glad to be here.
Welcome!
Still learning where to find stuff, and unfortunately most of “my” subreds aren’t here (yet), but it looks promising and will continue to support.
Yeah pretty much but weaning off reddit is good
It is. :)
Feel free to recreate your favourite and try to grow it here :).
!fedigrow@lemm.ee is a decent resource for that.
Will consider it. Thx!
Also consider joining more general communities
!jrpg@lemmy.zip is a community for all Japanese RPGs for instance
Welcome ! Indeed, niche topics need a larger userbase, hopefully we’ll get there over time
You can use the universal https://lemmyverse.net/ to see if your favourite communities exist.
Thank you!
sometimes they have different names.
you can also create any community you are missing. If you use the same name as the reddit community then people will be more likely to find it and contribute.
So creation of a sublem, you know what I mean, doesn’t make me the admin?
When I created a lemmy community (sub-lemmy) nearly 2 years ago on lemmy.world, I remember becoming the mod instantly.
Maybe I am mistaken, or maybe different instances have different policies.
did you create one? If you look in the sidebar does it say who is the mod?
No, I didn’t create one.
Came over from Reddit as part of plan to divest from US-based products. Happy to be here, and plan to explore. Mainly lurked over on Reddit - hope to contribute more actively over here!
I almost never posted on Reddit. Partly because someone has usually already said something close to what I wanted to say. With the smaller community here I feel like I can make a unique contribution more often.
Yes, I know what you mean and would encourage you to share your perspective more - it will still be unique, even if it is similar to others.
Welcome!
Thank you :)
A few unwritten rules I’ve found useful over the last couple of years since moving to Lemmy :)
- If you’re missing a particular smaller or niche community - be the change and create it!
- If someone is challenging you in a thread in good faith, respond in the same way
- If they’re just being a dick, don’t waste any sort of mental energy on them - just block them, forget them and move on.
- If you’re the one being a dick (and be honest, we all know when we are) walk away for a bit
- Don’t be too proud to ask for guidance but do it in the right communities :) e.g. don;t ask for tech help in a community thats not about tech help.
- Be prepared to see a lot of Star Trek memes and Nicole spam.
- Bask in the warm glow of an open source, privacy respecting, non-corporately controlled environment.
You forgot the beans and five days no shit
You’re right, I did. Dammit.
you’re missing a particular smaller or niche community - be the change and create it!
Also consider discussing it on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
Ngl on reddit id feel the need to look through ppls post history, check their credibility, downvote/report everything I disagree with, it was a bad habit, somehow wasn’t what got me banned (I did it for years), haven’t felt the need to do that once here, not even close to that mindframe when seeing stuff here.
Reddits algorithim was favoring controversy hard, I swear it pushed stuff that would actively raise my blood pressure at me, then give me something id like for a second just to make me not close the app. I was getting all of my dopamine out of arguing, id just open that app mad ready to argue with my notifications.
A month into lemmy and I stopped expecting arguments in my notifications, I find opening this app to be a calming experience like Reddit was for me a decade ago.
99.9% of the time I’m just lurking on Reddit, but here I‘m actually getting interested in commenting again. Feels „safer“ than the other place.
Welcome ! Come on !superbowl@lemmy.world you’ll find that the animator is very friendly and open to chat back.
It’s true. I’ll talk owl stuff all day! I’ve been trying extra hard this year to include plenty of non-US centric things too, even before my country went totally off the rails.
Welcome!
I got Boost for
RedditLemmy back. The world is beautiful again!Now to find communities that I like… I’m a bit lost but I’ll settle soon enough.
Boost for Lemmy hasn’t been updated in a year or so, you might want to try voyager app if things are not working correctly.
Aaaah… Too bad, I was so happy to get Boost back haha. I’ll give Voyager a shot
Thanks for the heads up
Welcome! !communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help to find communities
Yay to all the fresh lemmings. Welcome welcome! Just don’t be a dipshit please.
I like how Lemmy actually grew in size after i left it after the Reddit moderation problem of a couple years ago. All in all, it’s all kind of overwhelming but maybe I’m too emotional.