Here we are now, entertain us

Apollo/Reddit refugee. Just saying hello!

  • Spicylem@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    Feels like it’s off to a solid start. Change can be good sometimes. I’m using wef wef and feeling right at home! I’m also watching all the apps.

    Ultimately, it’s the users and mods they make the community … not a company. I’m also really rooting for them entire fediverse to conceptually take off!!

  • Ath47@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Hi! I’m in the same boat (or lifeboat, as it were). So far, I have to say I’m impressed with Lemmy and the various apps that are racing to become the most polished and feature-packed. I hope you find yourself at home here too.

  • Drunemeton@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Same lifeboat. Been here about 2 weeks and am just getting comfy figuring out the federated thing.

    Welcome other refugees! Please take off your life preserver and feel free to roam about the Fediverse.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@social.fossware.spaceEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Welcome newbie. Most of us were in your shoes recently. You’re already following the top tip: be engaged. To be counted as an active user you need to comment or post once a day. Nothing wrong with not being active, but the number of active users is a shiny sparkly number we’re all staring intently at for the moment.

    If you are looking for the communities similar to Reddit, look at sub.rehab. You can filter that to just lemmy and kbin.

    Enjoy. Your task now is to find the poop post. You’ll probably catch references to it soon, if you haven’t already.

  • Magiwarriorx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been here for like 4 days lol. Never touched Apollo, but detested the way Reddit handled things and can see the writing on the wall.

    I’ve made more OC in the past two days than I have in the past year on Reddit.

  • FoggyRoses@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Same here, though my acc has been here since the announcement of api changes, just now moving in with the traffic lol

  • thinkingemoji@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Real question to my Apollo refugees is what app are we using to browse Lemmy on iOS? I’m using memmy rn and it gets better with each daily update.

    • tyfi@wirebase.orgEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      wefwef.app is absolutely incredible once you add it to Home Screen. Feels 90% as good as Apollo.

  • DooshDoosh@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    If anyone has any good info on what this is all about I would really appreciate it. kbin seems pretty intuitive but lemmy is a bit daunting.

    • fidodo@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy as a whole is not a central service like Reddit is, it’s an open protocol and standard with open source servers and clients that anyone can set up.

      In that regard it’s a lot like email or http. Like those protocols, no one can own it or control it. If you leave your email provider you are not locked out of email, you can switch to another provider and still communicate with any email address from any server. Same with http. You can leave your host registrar and you can still connect to other servers and provide a website over DNS. You cannot be locked out, it’s just an agreement on how to communicate between distributed entities.

      Lemmy is that but for forums. At the end of the day, Reddit was just a streamlined url sharing focused forum that reached critical mass at scale. Forums have always existed in the internet but they’ve typically started small because they were siloed communities. On Lemmy each instance is like a forum, but unlike standard forums, each instance can communicate and aggregate content (federate) with other instances.

      So unlike Reddit, you don’t just join one centralized monopolist service, you choose a home instance to create an account on. This is less user friendly because before you can participate you need to make a choice of which instance to join, but as the recent drama has made crystal clear, centralized monopolies lead to corruption. Yes you have to decide, but, you GET to device, and that choice is power so no one instance can take over. You can always switch to another one.

      Instances provide 3 primary functions. Accounts, communities, and aggregation. Accounts are like email. You aren’t just username like on a centralized service, you’re username@server like in email, so you have your choice of server. Like email, accounts can communicate anywhere, the instance provides authentication for users under their namespace and posts can go to any other instance.

      Communities are like forums or subreddits, but they exist under the namespace and tutalage of an instance. This does mean you can have the same name and topic under multiple instances, but it also means no community can have a monopoly on that name which on Reddit has lead to abuses of power.

      Aggregation is like the front page or feed or for you pages of various social networks and instances has control of what other instances they federate with. This is essentially how moderation can work cross instance. Instances are responsible for providing a safe and pleasant feed to their users and can choose to only aggregate content from other instances that have good moderation policies.

      The centralization on Reddit allowed it to be streamlined and that streamlining was a big part of its success, but it was also what enabled the abuses of power, not just by the admins but by certain mods as well. Lemmy is not as streamlined, but I think Reddit’s actions illustrate not only why it’s necessary, but also why it’s worth it.

      It’s still very early days with Lemmy so it’s still kinda a wild west. It’s very much like the early days of email where there were tons of random and sketchy email providers and it wasn’t clear which providers were best. But unlike email there’s very little lock in. Switching emails is a big pain. You need to change your accounts, update contacts, and set up forwarding. Personally, I don’t have a big attachment to my account, if I need to switch instances it’s not a big deal to me. It’s also unclear on how communities distinguish themselves and build reputation. But all these issues will be worked out over time and I think having a social network that is decentralized and open, that belongs to all of us, is worth it.