• Beaver@lemmy.ca
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          Spez is a funny enemy as he is slowly breaking furniture while demanding loyalty in the fortress.

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        3 months ago

        I hope you are doing a good job of converting more Redditors to Lemmy :D

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          He totally is! I’ve noticed Blaze’s posts a bunch -well assuming he goes by the same name lol. He’s doing a great job at shepherding and getting the info out there. @Blaze@sopuli.xyz

          Also I took a peek at some of threads discussing the paywalls and noticed there seems to be increased awareness about Lemmy, dare I say interest😆

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    We’ve definitely noticed an increase in signups at lemmy.ca when that news was announced. Not all active users yet, but a lot of signups

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    I’m new here coming from Reddit.

    Yalls subreddit needs links to here. And a short guide on getting started.

    I had to scroll a bunch of comments to find the right name to Google. Then I had to find the most popular app to use. It was a bit of a hassle. Not too bad. But enough to be off-putting to newbies.

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      The benefit is also it’s curse. It’s all open, so there can be a bunch of names and a bunch of apps. Nobody agrees what the best app is.

      But once you get your own ecosystem set up, it is amazing.

      Which is a huge hurdle for new people 😬

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      3 months ago

      Please tell your friends to join LemmyWorld (biggest instance) and install the app Voyager (cross platform support) to get started on the platform!

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          I just thought that LemmyWorld would be the easiest to get started from Reddit as it has the least discoverability issues with Lemmy communities.

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            For the vast majority of active communities, they should be discoverable from lemm.ee as well. It’s the second most active instance, chances that someone looked up that community is quite high.

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    3 months ago

    every time spez opens his mouth a bunch of people go “hmm let me see if there’s something else”

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    Only 50k? I thought it would be much more than that. Didn’t know Lemmy was still this small after all these years.

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      There are probably a lot of lurkers who don’t vote or comment, but there is no way to know their numbers

  • Yambu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I got banned from reddit for criticizing the mods of a popular subreddit. Perm-ban on a white vest account for saying the mods are crybabies as they once again complained about having to mod the sub.

    Fuck reddit. Fuck spez.

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      I agree. I came here for two reasons:

      • Reddit is proprietary
      • Shit mods
      • API paid
      • Karma system

      Though I still do crave the niche communities from Reddit and I might occassionally visit Reddit once in a while on my browser for them, otherwise the ads are pretty unbearable for me. The UI is also so fucking bloated. Fuck spez

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      I pretty much got permabanned for ban evasion, even though I was on an alt that has no reference to the others other than being on the same IP, my other accounts got banned simultaneously.

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        Same thing happened to me. 7-day ban evasion suspension instantly into a perma on three accounts at once all because a single subreddit mod threw a fit when I accidentally posted there again off r/all on an alt.

        They were all made with the same email address so I could have easily made another alt by now and kept posting but I’ve taken it as an opportunity to do a Reddit detox

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    I like Lemmy’s culture better. It isn’t perfect, and maybe someday I’ll create my own instance. And I can do that.

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      The culture’s a bit too reddit-like for my taste, but it’s alright and some communities are better about it

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        To me it feels like Reddit but before Reddit became so popular. That has both good and bad aspects, but overall I enjoy posting here.

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    I’m here after the reddit news. Was a little confusing at first.

    By the way, what are “subreddits” called on lemmy? I can see they start with “c/“ instead of “r/“.

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    Every time reddit announces something dumb I open Lemmy again. I’d rather be here on principle but the content/users just aren’t here yet. Where are the cross post bots?

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        I don’t have the time. This just fills the empty gaps in my day, before bed winding down

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          Isn’t that how it always goes. Everyone wants the end result, but nobody wants to do the work.

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            Yep. Weirdly, I didn’t do any work to populate reddit either. It’s almost like that would be impractical and unrealistic for an end user to do.

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              It’s only impractical for a small userbase. As the userbase grows, the amount of posts each user needs to contribute in order to maintain an active community drops to a realistic level.

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    I’m now here due to the Reddit news. I’m still browsing both, but I look forward to changing over.

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      Welcome. Please comment and post as much as you can. The more content Lemmy has the more people will engage and create more content

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      Welcome! I have noticed the last week or two that there has been a real influx of activity, and it’s now basically the same experience for larger subreddits/lemmy communities. All we need is some niche community and better cross/instance community combining and we’re golden. Enjoy!

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      My oldest Reddit account was close to 15 years old and I haven’t logged into any of them for almost 2 years. All the same content and none of the Reddit BS.