Friendship ended with Reddit, now Lemmy is my best friend
Welcome!
Sorry for the unwelcoming people. They’re actually all Reddit refugees from a month ago and you know what some Redditors be like.
Find a good app, there’s quite a few now. I like Thunder, but try out a few since preferences seem to be based on what users were most familiar with on Reddit. They’re all solid.
There’s a few things around explaining how it all works if it’s confusing at first. But basically, start searching for and following communities to build up your feed. Until then, viewing Hot and Top Today for All instances will get you by.
Don’t be surprised if it’s slow sometimes as traffic uptick is big. Also, there’s a lot of NSFW that pops up and I’d recommend not browsing at work even with it filtered.
Have fun!
Wdym? The community here is already much better than on Reddit. Same post there was met with little notice, and all of that was like “stop shilling, loser”.
I believe I’m quite settled here already, using Jerboa on my phone. One thing that could help get more people here in my opinion is promotion of the “lemmy” “brand”. Now when I try to lookup the lemmy keyword on my search engine, I have to scroll waay below the first results (which is not a behavior of most users). Why isn’t e.g. the “official” app called simply Lemmy, but instead “Jerboa”? I assure you this is confusing for many people.
Anyways, thank you for welcoming me! I see great potential in Lemmy (compared to e.g. Mastodon, which is dependent on specific people and not communities).
TLDR: Met with awesome community already, but the app is a little bit confusing.
If I had to guess, LiftOff, Thunder, Connect, and Sync are the front-runner apps, so try them out. I bounced between 5 when I got here before landing on a favourite. Jerboa has reportedly gone a bit downhill, or other apps have surpassed it. As a former RIF user, I personally didn’t like it.
You should always upvote people like @saltesc that are friendly to newcomers, that’s how you build a friendly community
Welcome welcome
What’s up with the new wave of people talking about Reddit? Did their admins do some stupid shit again?
(I’m just curious, mind you, it has been months since I don’t browse Reddit.)
For me two things come to mind:
- X’s influence - they are doing some stupid $hit (like removing ability to block people). So I guess my brain decided it is fed up with corpo apps.
- degradation of content quality - I feel like Reddit has served it’s purpouse, and I struggle to find something funny and/or informative. When I opened Lemmy for the first time, at least 4 interesting articles came on my feed.
degradation of content quality
One reason why reddit could die slowly. It won’t be a process of dumb leader quotes/decisions like the twitter to mastodon waves. It will be slow and continuously.
Got it!
It’s kind of hard to generalise based on one point of data, but I’m surprised at you saying that the content quality went down. I did expect it to happen, but not so quickly. (Also, welcome to Lemmy!)
