I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.

Hello Lemmy

  • Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.netEnglish
    2124·
    2 years ago

    Hello to the Fediverse! Hopefully you can also enjoy the rest of the sites such as Kbin, Pixelfed, Peertube, Owncast and Misskey - there’s plenty to choose from!

    • Hikiru@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1208·
      2 years ago

      I’ve checked a few instances of federated YouTube alternatives and just… no. Most of the content is right wing guys looking for a place to spread hate they can’t elsewhere. The type of people that watch Andrew Tate and Admin Ross. Lemmy is Great though, mastodon seems a little boring compared to twitter. The fix to that would be Elon fucking up enough that the very change averse average internet user would be willing to try mastodon.

      • Drunemeton@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        2 years ago

        Mastodon gets better when you start following people by hashtag.

        Account Settings > Profile > Featured Hashtags

        Populate that area with hashtags of what interests you. Pretty soon you have people popping up that share your interests and you follow those that seem interesting.

        • hemmes@vlemmy.netEnglish
          25·
          2 years ago

          OMG I love Mastodon and my instance (mas.to). Left Twitter for Mas about 8 months ago - I love following hashtags even more than people. There’s some great gems to follow though. For both Twitter, and now Reddit, I left for Fedi and just never went back. Facebook was another cold turkey quitting, no alternative for that one, that was years ago now.

        • TheChancePants@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          What I find when I follow tags is that my feed is now totally flooded with hundreds of new toots every time I log in - how do you deal with this? It’s way too much for me to ever go through and get anything meaningful out of it.

          • Drunemeton@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Follow a few interesting people based on a tag, perhaps by number of favorites / boosts, and then remove that tag.

            You can always add it back in later.

      • RooRLoord420@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        2 years ago

        I think the thing that may finally drive people off the platform may be the limitation on viewing posts. Busy days, I’m not likely to hit the limit - big news day? Yeah, going to hit the limit pretty fucking fast.

      • ellesper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        2 years ago

        Yeah- this is my big gripe with all of the alternative video sharing platforms. All of them have a significantly right-wing conspiracy theorist bias. Not really a place I see myself spending a lot of time, personally.

    • MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      I’d only heard of Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube until now. Pixelfed looks cool, Owncast and Misskey are too but I don’t watch streamers or microblog so.

      • XanXic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 years ago

        Mastodon/Fed Twitter integration. You can post on a Lemmy community, tag a hashtag and it becomes a microblog (tweet) at the same time. But upvoted and downvotes are public on kbin. So depends what you want.

        And in the long run we’ll see if kbin can keep up with the Twitter like software on the Twitter side and if it can keep up with Lemmy for reddit features at the same time. Like Lemmy can focus purely on meeting Reddits features then passing them. Kbin has to worry and work on both.

  • Dave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    84·
    2 years ago

    Leaving Twitter for Mastodon barely had an impact. I was just about done with that whole place, with or without Musk in charge.

    Reddit is different… I still loved using it. I had my subscriptions honed, all my interests represented. I suffered none of the toxicity that others saw. Not sure if that was just because I mostly used smaller, niche-interest subs or because I mostly lurked and seldom posted? It was all friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining, a stream of consciousness that I could dip in to whenever I wanted to.

    So I’m not leaving Reddit because of the experience, but more on principal (both the API kerfuffle and a general aversion to ad-revenue models, which are clearly harmful to society). Principals sadly don’t give me something to read over breakfast…

    I hope Lemmy can become that stream of consciousness in time. I’m trying to do my bit by being an active contributor rather than a lurking grazer.

    • majere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      2 years ago

      We might have to accept we’re on the “losing” side, e.g. Lemmy will never have the numbers our subreddits had. We’ll have smaller communities and less content, but hopefully better conversation.

      • kobra@midwest.socialEnglish
        20·
        2 years ago

        Honestly reddit lost too. The quality drop in content and comments is noticeable and unlikely to get better. Meanwhile lemmy/kbin/fediverse in general seems to be thriving with hope and energy.

    • decus@reddthat.comEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      I made the transition from Digg to Reddit way back when, and like you didn’t see a lot of the toxicity of Reddit likely by having a honed list of subreddits. 99% of my time was spent lurking tho over the last years - so now I’m going to take more initiative and engage more with the platform

    • basskitten@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      2 years ago

      Same here. Lemmy is rising quickly though, I have no doubt it will be a sufficient Reddit replacement soon enough. I’ve been using Apple News as my “read over breakfast” app. I already pay for the sub anyway, and once I set it up with a bunch of sources/topics I was interested in, it became a pretty good reading experience.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        103·
        2 years ago

        I hope you consider an open news alternative, or even a closed one slightly less bad than Apple. Good for you for not using Reddit though.

        I fear that sounded too condescending, I seriously want to encourage you to not use Apple without making you sound like an idiot.

        I don’t think you are an idiot, just the same as the other millions of people who were taken in by Apple’s ‘privacy’ and ‘simplicity’, while not realising the price gouging, right to repair smashing, closed source, keeping everything ensnared its ecosystem that it really is.

    • PopcornChickn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I was never big on Twitter myself… I made an account when it first came out and never used it… and then for a high school unit for something we were required to make accounts (I graduated 10+ years ago… so that in and of itself is scary). I’ve never liked twitter. It always seemed to be screaming into the void.

      Mastodon I really appreciate the real conversations with real people, especially when they are interested in what I have to say. I made a post about getting rid of lawns and had people from all angles of the argument discussing with me about it. It felt… healthy?!

      Well, as healthy as internettin’ is.

      • RiverGhost@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yes, I never got into Twitter but I have an active Mastodon life. I also appreciate smaller communities where you can talk to people like you said. On big platforms I don’t even bother commenting, much less making a post. It will just fall into the void.

        • PopcornChickn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          You’re right… it’s just not worth it for the most part on larger platforms. I’m not sitting here trying to argue with anyone-- we can have a civilized discussion that ends in a disagreement on smaller platforms. On larger platforms it always turns into fights and pilings-on. It is gross.

  • Velkas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6810·
    2 years ago

    Twitter has seriously turned into a right wing cess pool. :( 😞

    Can’t even watch porn on there anymore. LOL

    I was watching one of my favorite gay porn stars and swiped up foe the next video and it was this couple that had like 45 guns strapped to them out shooting printed out faces of Democrat politicians.

    Talk about a damn boner killer.

    Also, the only comments that show up are right wing nut jobs as well. Idk what the hell is going on there.

    • Cryptic Fawn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      18·
      2 years ago

      I learned the best way to avoid all the lunatics is to block anyone with a Blue Checkmark. There are block list’s for that to I think, though I was doing it manually.

    • nyawow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      182·
      2 years ago

      What is really terrible is that, Twitter is considered mainstream social media alongside Instagram here in Japan. So even the normies ends up stepping into that right wing cesspool. I was really shocked to see my normie ex friend retweeting transphobic shit😿😿

      While I really really hate Twitter, and tend to be more on Instagram, Losing Twitter means losing the single biggest information source for the majority that can’t read English. Even I sometimes have to open Twitter to see wtf is going on in the society (also it’s useful to get the most up to date information during emergency situations, like earthquake)

      • AzPsycho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        I saw the impact of them siloing their user base yesterday when a trade was made for one of my sports teams. The news broke on Twitter and I heard about it on a local radio show. I tried to find it in the news but I couldn’t. I don’t use Twitter so I wasn’t able to see any info on the trade for another 2 hours until local news and other services started to confirm and replicate the Twitter post.

        It’s incredibly short sighted of them to do this.

  • Meldroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    483·
    2 years ago

    I deleted my Twitter account when Elon reinstated Donald Trump’s account - it was clear there was no saving that platform.

    It’s a Nazi bar now because the owner is a Nazi.

    I still have my Reddit account, but it’s becoming quickly like my Facebook account - I barely use it. In Facebook, it’s to catch up with friends and family, and in Reddit, it’s the more esoteric subs. But I feel dirty & gross every time I load up a page from those sites, so I don’t unless I have to.

    • PopcornChickn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I make one post a month on Facebook. Usually within the first couple days. This month’s was about how since the supreme court wanted to rule dumb last week, I was going to play along and disallow certain people from shopping at my etsy shop. Got me a handful of orders, too… which is nice.

      Reddit I just use still to check in on if any weird news happened… but that’s about it.

  • Morethanevil@lmy.mymte.deEnglish
    411·
    2 years ago

    Welcome to the Fediverse 🌞 I switched to Mastodon after Musk announced to buy the Twitter. It is already over a year ago 🤔

    I am new to Lemmy myself, but it looks good

  • EdgeOfToday@lemm.eeEnglish
    36·
    2 years ago

    It’s strange, but the 3 day poop challenge meme that swept through lemmy the other day reminded me of what Reddit used to be. It felt like an actual community where people were actually interacting, and sometimes bizarre posts turned into legends. I hadn’t noticed the slow transition to just endless bot reposts. With all the spez drama, i decided Reddit was dead to me, and that was sad to acknowledge the sudden end of an era like that. But lemmy showed me that the things that made me love Reddit have been gone for a long time, and I feel more at home here.

      • ijeff@lemdro.idEnglish
        16·
        2 years ago

        16 years too. We’ve been through these transitions before with Digg!

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 years ago

          13 for me, and a few days ago they banned me without even telling me why. I asked and I got no response. Fuck them, I was getting done with them anyway and when I found out that blind mods couldn’t moderate their own subreddit, I’m glad I didn’t even attempt to appeal.

    • Garrathian@dmv.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Been here for a couple weeks, I’ve enjoyed it so far. Some niche communities are missing but I think Lemmy is a good time and I love the vision

  • End0fLine@startrek.websiteEnglish
    32·
    2 years ago

    I hope that this is the start of something special on the internet. I hope that this is the beginning of us users taking the power back from big tech companies.

  • simo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    282·
    2 years ago

    500 upvotes in 2 hours?! Fuck yes bois. Fuck that jailbait mod spez, and his shit website full of toxic spakkers.

    Long live the fed!

  • Lamhfada@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 years ago

    Same.

    I had deleted my main reddit account that I had for 13/14 years a few months ago. I created a new alt so I could check in and talk about some of more niche interests, but I deleted that 3 weeks ago, just couldn’t be dealing with the increasing enshittification.

    I’ve had a Twitter a/c since 2009, have a lot of mutual followers and a lot of people I know only for there, but decided today that it’s definitely not going to get any better. I had a Mastodon account since last year, but it was very slow and quiet, and again, not a lot of niche interests I have over there yet. But this weekend’s bullshit (and obvious lies from Musk) makes it clear twitter isn’t going to get better. Even if the stupid rates thing improves in the next while, it will just be something else Musk decides which will be making twitter worse.

    So I’m just going to enjoy the chill vibes and explore all the different communities here.

  • Void_Reader@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 years ago

    Same; I’ve been trying to disengage from anything big tech related recently, not just social media, even Amazon etc. Can’t take it anymore. It’s all so blatantly exploitative and fucked up. Cancelling subscriptions feels good; hope I stick to it. Can’t shake YouTube yet though, need my Rossmann fix. Hopefully we can figure out a viable FOSS alternative; tried PeerTube but it doesn’t quite do it just yet.

    The Internet can still be a beautiful positive thing.

    BezoSpez Zuck-Musk can fuck off.

      • Void_Reader@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Thanks very much for recommending this! Tried it and am quite happy. Also just tried NewPipe on my phone and it works really well. Bye bye YouTube

    • thegenesis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Oh yes I’ve still not been able to get out of YouTube. :(

      Got out of pretty much every other social media platform!

  • megadragon@yiffit.netEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    The only thing I still need reddit for is the sports communities. I hope some start getting bigger over here.

  • ThinlySlicedGlizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    I think this is going to be a trend. Centralized social media just isn’t financially viable and it’s worse for the users in so many ways. We already have alternatives for youtube, reddit, and twitter popping up. I think youtube might be the hardest to replace though because so many people view youtube as a job rather than a place to share content just for the sake of it. Hopefully with all this we can return to the good old days of the internet where a few corporations didn’t control the majority of traffic.

    • MouldyPriestASSHOLE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      2 years ago

      The problem with YouTube is the sheer amount of historical content that’ll never make it to an alternative site. I don’t think it can ever be replaced unfortunately.

      • ThinlySlicedGlizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        As soon as everyone realizes Youtube is seriously declining everyone at c/datahoarder is gonna start archiving everything. I’m personally going to try and archive as much of my favorite channels as I can. Regardless of everyone’s efforts though there’s still gonna be so much lost content.

    • golli@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      Another issue with YouTube is that media, especially video is vastly more resource demanding than anything mostly text based.

      With something like Twitter or Reddit (as long as you don’t directly host all media) the quality and importance of each post relative to it’s resources needed don’t really matter that much.

      Especially with high bitrate video footage on the other hand it does matter. So having a drive for profit somewhere in the chain does in someway help shape the system to be viable financially.

    • Blazze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Centralized social media is as viable as any other digital media, but like many other services there’s not a lot of room for growth once you reach the plateau. This is fine for a private company, but doesn’t translate well to public or investment platforms who’s returns are based on profit growth over consistency.

  • coldv@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    2 years ago

    Welcome to the Fediverse! It is smaller but it is growing! So far I think it feels more civilised than the chaos out there in the corporate internet.