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[–] supernight52@lemmy.world 94 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I know that I just came from Reddit today, so... At least 1 person joined because of this fuckery lol

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Welcome! I'll leave this comment explaining Lemmy that I've previously left for new users:

Welcome to Lemmy! I'm glad you joined. There are tons of tutorials out there for how to use the platform, but if it helps, here's my advice:

I use the Android app Sync For Lemmy. Reminds me a lot of rif is fun from before Reddit shut down 3rd party API access about a year ago.

Lemmy.World is the name of the biggest instance on Lemmy. Think of it as a discord channel with different sub-channels except those are called communities here (and instead of r/ for subreddits we have c/ for communities).

There are still trolls here. What's nice about Lemmy is that you can block individual trolls, communities of trolls, or even instances of trolls (if you deem them so). Conversely, if you get banned from any of the above, you can make a new account on any other instance (like dbzer0 or shitjustworks) and still have access to the content from those people/places. The same is true if certain communities/instances change their policies on things like Luigi, which happened on Lemmy.World recently. I switched over to dbzer0 to avoid that censorship and to also see stuff about pirating - that which is banned on Lemmy.World.

Lastly, we can see posts/comments from other people on the Fediverse, like from Mastodon (Twitter alternative) and others.

Hope you enjoy your stay here! Lemmy is primarily tech- and politics-focused rn, but a lot of people draw parallels to Reddit's early days, which is good!

[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just joined today because of this!

[–] El_Scapacabra@lemmings.world 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ArcturusRoot@lemmy.world 58 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

4 new users. Less than half of what I’d hope for.

[–] supernight52@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey, that's like a ~.1% increase of userbase, assuming 45k!

We're actually closing in on 50k, posssibly already past it by now.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

lol literally rewatched ROTK yesterday

[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

That's 4 more than I expected.

[–] Gengaar@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reporting in, couple subs I’ll miss but fuck that shit.

[–] FrostBlazer@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

There’s always the potential for them to grow as a community here. I’ve found a few smaller communities I liked that were slow at first but have been gradually gaining traction.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Welcome 🙂 this feels similar to old reddit, but a bit less nerdy and a bit more political than reddit in 2014 or so, but the times have also changed.

[–] GreatCathulhu@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

💙 Welcome :)

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So what's the cathulhu chant? Me'wglui mrow'nyanfh Cathulhu R'eow meowgah'nagl fhtagn coughs up a hairball?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Welcome. Let us know if you have questions. I recommend to you and JandroDelSol that you play around with the Hot, Scaled, New and Top 6 Hours and 12 Hours to see more action and posts.

[–] supernight52@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the tip!

[–] socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Welcome aboard, I joined in the last big exodus. It's not the same here but it's good and getting better.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, Lemmy reminds me more of old Reddit. Back when /r/AskReddit had daily “my house is on fire, should I evacuate or just stay here at my computer” types of posts.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

nowadays askreddit is mostly political, or an incel, or a entertainment type question that people cant handle the answers.