Fediverse

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!

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.

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.

Welcome!! We are glad to have you here!

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.

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.

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

Same. It was nice to break up from Reddit after 10 years

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The quality of content on reddit has deteriorated at an astounding pace. It feels like everyone is just repeating the same thing to get upvotes... and upvoting people who repeat the same thing. I'm kind of glad it exists now as a containment zone. The people who want higher quality content can move to the fediverse. Those who don't can stay right where they are.

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.

I dropped Twitter as soon as Musky took over since I rarely used it anyway. Reddit has been significantly more difficult to let go of, so I haven’t deleted my account yet. I’ve tried to open Apollo at least 50 times since the 30th.

Welcome mate, I still have Twitter but I hope one day I'll be able to cut it off for good!

I'm waiting for my GDPR data to nuke all my reddits posts and delete my account.

Just moved to lemmy right now, liking it so far. Will see if I can remove reddit from my diet (lol). Now looking at Bluesky instead of twitter.

Gave up Twitter the day of Musk mocked that disabled employee/partner. Didn't delete the account though. I'm still on Reddit. Hope Lemmy would go a long way!!

PS: I still automatically ignore some image posts on Lemmy thinking it's an Ad cause I'm so used to it on Reddit App 😂

I thought I'd be able to roll with the Reddit Android app. But, man, it's rough. All of the fonts are way too tiny, and navigation can be a giant jankfest at times.

I might still roll by Reddit on a fullsize PC monitor on the web. Or I might not. Kind of depends on if Lemmy totally buckles under the server pressure over the next week or two.

Same. I feel much better already. I'm very optimistic for Lemmy after it gets these initial technical issues worked out.

Welcome to the club, there are quite a few of us in the same situation

People still using Twitter? Never had one and I am glad. I stopped using Reddit. Lemmy been a blast!

Welcome! I moved to lemmy the Sunday before the blackout and haven't looked back. I did go back finally on June 30 and deleted my account. There may not be as much content now but that will come in time as we all hopefully try and contribute. I was mostly a lurker on reddit myself, only started commenting more within the past year so will try to be better here. I am quite enjoying my time here and I hope you do as well.

Yeah, I've decided to at least give it a good shot, to try and see if I can stick with lemmy and mastodon. My current problem is I'm finding it really hard to find people to follow on mastodon, and to find enough active communities on lemmy to sate my social media appetite.

There's no reason for a community driven site like Reddit to do things that hurt the community. It's like they are trying to kill themselves the same way Musk is trying to kill Twitter.

It's better to get away from those properties now before something worse happens.

Joined Lemmy last week and Mastodon today, feels good to be free, all looking good so far

Between Lemmy &kbin I have everything I want, Reddit and Twitter can fuck off.

I put them in my DNS blacklist together with Ticktock and Facebook