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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

I'll make the mandatory "Hi, I came here from Reddit" post that I'm guessing is mandatory on lemmy for threads dunking on the site? Might as well be my first post in the fediverse too to get that out of the way. Wish I had known about lemmy sooner tbh but better late than never.

Also if someone has the spare time for it, I'd love to get pointed towards whatever's commonly used for onboarding here. If there stuff I should be aware of and tools I should look into, what phone apps people use, that sorta stuff. I picked my host because I wanted something european but I'm now kinda eyeing the old layout option that world seems to have since I used to use the old layout on reddit too.

EDIT: Wow, thank you for all the recommendations. Definitely gotta take a look at all the various apps that people are using to find one that works for me!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You came at the right time. When I left during the API nightmare and removal of third party apps, Lemmy was like walking into a desert wasteland and praying it loaded up and you weren’t just standing there in the void.

When it did load, where sand should be in the wasteland, it was beans. Slimy, canned beans as far as the eye could see.

You’ve entered during the golden age if you ask me. I don’t even think about Reddit anymore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Hahaha I had forgotten about the beans!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I use Voyager for Lemmy on Android (it looks like Reddit-is-Fun), but unlike Reddit, Lemmy has no API restrictions, so you can use whatever you want, to get the design/layout that works for you best.

Enjoy your time here and take it easy!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yup, using Boost which used to be my go to app for Reddit on Android.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

https://join-lemmy.org/ is a fantastic resource for onboarding. They even have a great list of apps with pictures of the interfaces for each: https://join-lemmy.org/apps

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm a big fan of Sync app. It was formerly a Reddit app. It doesn't get much updates but it's fully functional for my needs.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Voyager is basically a spiritual successor to Apollo. So if you miss that from the API purge, then give it a try.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Connect for lemmy is a RIF-esque ui that I enjoy.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I'm on eternity its the fediverse successor to infinity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

For a phone app, I use boost. There are ads, but they are FAR less intrusive than most mainstream apps.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Jerboa master race

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

WELCOME. It’s so much better here. Can’t help with onboarding but you’ll get used to it. Oh and I’d recommend you use voyager app for browsing if you don’t know already

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I came because I discovered boost is now for Lemmy. Only wish Narwhal was still around.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Funny to think back in the day WatchPeopleDie, jailbait and fiftyfifty was all the rage. Now Nintento charachters are banned

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Man.. I even remember being on watchpeopledie and that sub scarred me for life, to think we now get banned for upvoting sentences containing Luigi is insane.. Reddit has changed so much, can't even be mad at nazi's cause they're afraid it'll hurt Elon's little feelings..

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Regime priorities have changed

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

not happening here though

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I haven't used Reddit for years but I get a lot more timeouts and comment removals here than I ever did over there.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The modlog would beg to differ. Come on, don't be dishonest, we can all see why you got comment removals and timeouts.

https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=13310926

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, they really ramped it up on Reddit, however I think Lemmy just depends on the community and instance. I mean, hell, 196 split up kind of over this stuff (or at least, that was the initial trigger imo).

If you find yourself censored on World, there's quite a few other options (although usually farther left or tankie). Folks just need to host their own versions of things, although we rarely see more conservative folks bothering. Given how federation works, it's actually a wonder there isn't a Truth Social style community out there for most of us to block. >.>

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The thing about right Wingers is that they don't want to talk to each other for the same reason we don't want to talk to them. It turns out they're just nasty people generally, that's why all of their spaces are either small and Niche like storm front or a completely dead like through social. Their predatory, they rely on having people like us to bully around and their communities die without us

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Reddit removes all the time, but they shadow remove so you never get a notification or anything.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh, absolutely dude... People on here are absolutely the thinnest skinned I think I've ever seen on the internet, bar none. And they all seem to want to start shit over something and then act astonished and run to mods for help if they get any sort of response in kind.

Hey, here's a thought: If you wanna talk shit to people, you probably shouldn't be shocked if you get it right back... And if you have to then go get a mod because you're now butthurt over a fight you picked? What, was your mom busy or something? 🤣😂 Cuz that's the exact energy I get from that

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't get what kind of communities and posts y'all are hanging out in where people talk shit and start shit 🥴

I've mostly only had proper interactions with folks here. Some miniscule percentage of rude assholes who are looking for a reaction, but other than that, much smoother than Reddit ever was.

[–] RedditRefugee69 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have encountered some rage here that reminded me of Reddit but it's much more rare.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Much rarer in my experience also. I am much more at peace here, and find myself much less inclined to frantically refresh my inbox when having conversations here.

Notifications here make me excited in a good way, rather than raise my blood pressure like they did on Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It's always the stupidest shit for me, tbh... Like yesterday there was a post of an (obviously fake) tweet from Dave Ramsey (a "Christian" ~~financial consultant/planner ~~ grifter) that said 'fuck your 401k, go buy that truck you want now' or something to that effect, which led to a few conversations in the comments that revolved around what was essentially the cost effectiveness of actually following the (clearly horrible) tweet's advice.

This one dude makes a comment in which he basically says "no, that makes sense. Used car values are on a bell curve and will sell for more than what you purchased it for 30 years ago at around the same rate of return youd get from an index fund" in not so many words. Now, I'm not in financing (or cars tbh), and tbf I do a pretty heroic amount of drugs generally speaking, but I'm almost certain that that's not how ANY of that works... lol So i made a little comment politely saying so, laying out my logic for my position, and making sure to explicitly state that I'd be more than open to being proven wrong, but I wanna see some proof, which I didnt think was too awfully crazy or anything until dude replied shortly after babbling that I just needed to look it up, and something about hilux(?); I dunno, just being kind of a prick, demanding I find his proof for him, and then complaining about me (or people on lemmy in general, maybe?) cant take jokes so seriously. Big 'do your own research', MAGA, 'it WaZ A PraNK bRo' energy.

I can link it if anyone is having SRD withdrawls or something lol

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

That is partially because some of the refugees from Reddit, happen to be assholes. So they go and make instances thinking that they'll be better than their Reddit counterparts, only to demonstrate that they are just as bad and probably showcasing the reasons why.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Me watching Reddit implode

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

sickos.png

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

anyone know what it was?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

According to Subreddit Drama:

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We really are at the point where doing what the allies (US) did in WW2 is unacceptable content huh?

Mockery of history

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well, the dumbass nazi just called a war veteran a "traitor" for agreeing that Ukrainian's shouldn't be exterminated by Russia. Really tells you what side he's on.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A war veteran and a literal astronaut. What elon fantasizes about being.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good point. What a fucking loser.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Well, you see, it's bad unless the government tells us it's good.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

cool

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I saw someone post that! I love those stickers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Some people in the comments said that it was a sticker depicting a crosshair over the photo of Elon doing the Nazi salute.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

For real things really changed in the last handful of years

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