First active day on the fediverse after 11 years on Reddit, and liking it here!

I find Lemmy generally more welcoming to post comments. Its likely because of the lack of bots and trolls. Let's hope they stay clear from here.

I have been a redditor since the great digg migration. I am enjoying the fediverse experience so far. It makes me realize how much reddit had slowly changed into a place i did not like as much.

It only gets more interesting with each day :)

I’ve seen a little bit of the subreddit on my front page(?) already, kudos! Honnestly your aplomb to posting and trying to contribute, even recreating a favorite community, is very reassuring. I have high hopes for the Fediverse :)

Towards the end browsing Reddit just made me angry instead of providing entertainment. Like you mention, what really got under my skin were all the ads disguised as genuine posts, and then all the bots asking for a place to purchase the item advertised.

Do you remember a time where news would break on Reddit and the it would be two or three hours later you would see cable news stations pick it up? It hasn’t happened on Reddit for a very long time. Happened to me yesterday here on Lemmy for the first time. That was a nice feeling. It reminded me of how good reddit once was and how bad it is today. But more importantly, it showed me that Lemmy isn’t just a reddit replacement, it’s looks like it’s the future of the internet.

Anyways, I guess I don’t really have a point, just needed an excuse to shit on reddit again. Fuck reddit.

Same story here. Probably about a decade using Reddit and it just aint what it used to be even 5 years ago, forget 10 years ago.

I started off just looking for an alternative but quickly warmed to the whole idea of the fediverse (after I figured out what it is lmao). Feels like it hits a really good balance between old-style internet forums and modern-style social media.

It made me realize we don't have to settle for a 1:1 clone - we can build something better. Something that can't be held hostage by a bunch of shareholders and execs, or run into the ground by one asshole.

I think there's a chance to make something really fucking awesome here and I'd rather contribute to that than go back to doomscrolling on Reddit. At this point, I don't think I'd go back even if they miraculously reversed everything.

I am with you 100%. Even though there is a learning curve, it's not too bad. If the process gets simplified I think it might take off more. I forgot all about voat. I remember when the fatpeoplehate subreddit got banned they all went there.

11 years with Reddit in September here.

As some other people have mentioned, I have missed that rawness of old internet forums, and I feel like this brings it back in some way. Which I love, as Reddit was becoming too corporate, which has obviously been their downfall.

I feel as I can be more active on here, though I became more and more active on Reddit as time went on, but didn't really enjoy it.

I would like to hear more about the move to Voat, what caused the failure in your opinion? I was not part of that as I had other things going on at the time.

I saw someone edit a post title and it blew my mind. I'm liking it here so far too. There's a few kinks to work out, but I don't think the learning curve is too bad. The Jerboa app is fine too.

I was a lurker on Reddit because the community was so toxic. On Lemmy, everyone is nice. It is nice to see such good place on the internet today

This feels super exciting like when I was alternating between digg and reddit before digg started dying in 2010.

I am also an 11-year Reddit vet making the move. Welcome! This isn't my first Fediverse experience, but definitely my most promising (I don't really tweet, so Mastodon is kind of whatever to me). This and kbin have been great.

I was also part of the Voat migration. I never left Reddit, as I didn't mind them cracking down on some of the more questionable content, but I did check Voat out. I wasn't part of the cesspool that showed up there, but I did enjoy participating in some of the smaller communities. I think what didn't work was that it just got stale. Same reason I didn't like Snapzu or some of the other "Reddit alternatives." Even larger communities were just... dead. What made Reddit work was that everyone was there, and even small, niche communities had active users.

Hear hear buddy! That's all we want, a get together and lurk on.

My only concern is that I seem to have "Subscribe Pending" for a lot of different communities. Not sure what that means and not sure what the limits are for that.

Overall, I prefer it here over reddit. I think I will actually be more active.

I think it's equally good to reddit, and with a better community spirit. :) No bots or angry people yet...

Hey, welcome to our little corner of the world. May your time here be fruitful

Same here was on Reddit for like 11 years at least. It's definitely a learning curve. I didn't even know lemmy, mastadon, or the fediverse even existed before this blackout.

Also an 11 year Redditor here haha.

I got my start browsing rage comics on iFunny and 9GAG, then began browsing Reddit around 2010/11. I finally made my account in 2012. I too watched as Reddit became overrun with bots. I watched as summer Reddit stopped ending and became the norm, people responding in comments with corrections and more information lessened, the obvious astroturfing increased, obvious propaganda took over almost all the defaults, and most importantly, they started shutting down subs that might possibly maybe make them look bad for an IPO.

They desecrated the grave of Aaron Swartz on spit on his name by removing him as a co-creator of Reddit. The cartoonishly evil decisions came one after another and I've had enough as well.

Voat didn't stand a chance because the people who were migrating over were lurkers.

I genuinely believe in Lemmy because this time, it's the mods. The people that actually keep the site running.

Fuck Reddit, fuck u/Spez, go Lemmy

11 year reddit lurker here too, trying to be more active on this platform. Welcome.

I do not reply to Reddit's threads at all but Lemmy somehow makes me feel like I'm part of this community. Enjoying my time here very much.

I'm surprised by how quickly it's become active. Most discussions are still about Reddit or Lemmy, but even that feels like it's changing.

Welcome to the party pal 🥳

My only concern is that I'm wondering about the viability of federated websites once the user-base of a single instance gets large enough. At that point won't it just be the same problem where there is a massive server usage and therefore needs community support?

Very excited for malicious compliance to be back. It was also one of my favorite subs. That, pettyrevenge, and prorevenge were some of my favorites.

My first day here too! I'm still not quite sure how this works. hello from lemmy.world! Lol

I've been trying to contribute here more than I did on Reddit, and honestly I'm amazed how smooth it's been.

Lots of small UI frustrations, but I can already see the pull requests lining up, so I'm happy to wait.

Next month, I would have been on Reddit for 12 years. I'm with you here man, hope to see your community thrive smoothly

I noticed maliciouscompliance appear here, welcome!

Drat, and here we are going to welcome you to the r/TwelveYearClub. LOL

Welcome to Lemmyverse!

I joined in 2007 originally, but now I'm excited to be here instead. Reddit has been making increasingly shitty decisions and ignoring the community that made reddit. I'd been looking to jump ship for a while and the fediverse seems to be a good answer to the problem of shady corporations.

Hello!!!

welcome! i deleted my 10 yr reddit account a couple days ago and havent gone back. im mostly a lurker. im getting my fill with lemmy, tildes, & kbin right now. one thing i miss is the tv episode discussions i always read on any show i watched

Welcome and glad to have you here. Here's to all of us making Lemmy a great place to socialize online 🥂!

I was on Reddit 14 years and 8 months, saw the Digg migration and saw how the influx of people made the site better in so many ways. Hopefully this community will grow and we can make this place be even better by learning from the mistakes Reddit made.

I agree, this place is a breath of fresh air compared to the toxic cesspool named Reddit. Also thanks for giving me another new community to subscribe to!

Same, but 12 years. Giving the fediverse a chance.

I'm just a typical lurker on reddit, and depend so much of its niche sub for particular topic. Ngl i cant completely ditch reddit like most of redittor refugees here seems to be, but i think i could slowly convert my aimless scrolling time on reddit here

Welcome mate, I hope you enjoy your stay!

Hey, thanks, and welcome! Malicious Compliance was one of my favorites, too!

How did voat fail and how is Lemmy different?