2y ago

Refugee Redditors as they make the move.

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Image Transcription: Meme
['Let me in' - a two panel image of a man in a suit standing outside a closed metal gate, and shaking it vigorously in the second panel with his head tilted back and his mouth open screaming. The second panel also has small amount of motion blur. There is text at the bottom of both images.]
LEMMY IN.
LEMMY IIIIIIIN!
^{I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!}
- I appreciate the work you're doing to aid in accessibility. I'm not sure using "unkempt hair" is quite right. I would have thought this is natural afro hair. I don't think the hair description adds to the transcription so is probably better to remove.
  
  To be safe, I removed the hair description altogether. Initially added it because I thought it might've been part of the character's appearance in the skit. Given the rest of the character's appearance, I wasn't sure if it was textured hair or just curly/frizzy hair blowing in the wind with poor image quality, and whether it was an intentional choice for the source material or just his natural hair type.
  
  It's an unkempt afro
- Thank you for doing this, I have good vision, but at the time I found this post the image was missing, so your transcription was the only way of getting the context of the conversion
- You're great for transcribing! To avoid the word unkempt, as that can be offensive, I would transcribe the hair as 'clumpy afro-textured hair'.
  
  I thought it was messy or blowing in the wind tbh, since he didn't look like a kind of person who would have textured hair. Looking further into it, I think I was fooled by the scene's lighting.

I don't speak on behalf of everyone, but we prefer the term r/efugees

Me, who's already been here for a few weeks, trying to just load a post or make a comment right now with the influx of traffic:
- Use a non Lemmy.world account and you’ll have more success
  
  how does that work
- So true!

New from Reddit today. This is my first comment. Hello Lemmy!

I'm in this picture and I'm actually ok with it.
- Me too

After 16+ years on Reddit, I deleted my comments and posts and then my account. Did the same with Twitter. A little sad but also liberating.

Me, who didn't join one of the huge instances, instead hosting his own instance: "Why is everyone complaining? Lol."
- This is the 3rd time I've seen someone mention they run their own instance. The other two specifically mentioned how it was for just them, and I'm wondering what the benefit is going that extra mile for just yourself. Is it worth it? Or is it simply a case of "because I fucking can?" 🤔
  
  You don't need to worry about being defederated unless the instance is whitelist only (or you're an ass).
  
  I am part of a team that runs an instance for financial discussion, specifically related to direct registration of securities.
  For us, the benefit is additional control over the resiliency and transparency of the server and moderation style.

Me trying to login in to every instance except the one where I signed up.
- “Oh yeah I think I get it now”
  continues to mess up
  
  i made a misteak once.
- I've registered on at least two, maybe three instances because I could never move from one to the other. I think i may have it working now.
- Holy shit im in this boat. My mobile experience has been rough. No idea what I did or if any of it was right. Jerboa, Readtthat, logins, confusion. I'm getting the hang of it on PC and on Lemmy.world. But, fuck ig I know if Lemmy.world's "all" is the true all?
  
  But, fuck ig I know if Lemmy.world’s “all” is the true all?
  There is no true "All". Every instance pulls in content from communities that at least one user on that instance has subscribed to.
  You can use the Lemmy Explorer to go find communities that nobody on your instance has found yet.

I had my wife sign up yesterday as a daily reddit user and average tech skills. Based on that experience, I really don't think lemmy is going to go mainstream in its current form.
- I agree. Had the same thought. Right now I think the influx will be tech savvy users fleeing reddit and have no big problems understanding Lemmy.
  However, there will be (I hope!) a larger influx of 'normal' users wanting to check Lemmy out (my theory is that all the content creators are ending up here and the lurkers will start to follow content in the end) will have a hard time. Why bother them with instances or how you pick communities, how the fediverse works? Just allow people to sign-up, no forcing to choose server, one account only, deal with that login/create account when you end up on different servers, etc. Just make the initial access a smooth pane of glass. Later they can deep-dive in the tech if the so choose to. Just stop throwing tech into peoples faces, it really is as simple as that. Like someone else stated, if I drive a car I should not have knowledge about my engine, model/type of crankshaft, timing of the belt, etc. I have a garage for that sort of thing and I will not be bothered with details (unless I ask the mechanic of course).
  I said this before and it seems that the 'core' or 'old skool' Lemmy users have issues with that, you should have to know the tech if you want to join.
  I hope this will not be a typical open source/low level attitude of admins and tech savvy people where people are just lost in that tech maze. Whatever you need to run in the background, do whatever, just give me an alternative to reddit. This is not me speaking but I fear the average emigrating reddit user will want this simpleness. And why not give it to them, why force people to understand fediverse?
  
  People follow the path of least resistance and right now signing up to reddit is still that. Give a link to 1 of 10 or so general lemmy instances at the home page, let people sign up and explore. Offer a few links to some deeper understanding stuff for those who want it.
  The couple of people I've tried to get to migrate get hit with what they feel is a wall of text trying to understand what the fediverse is, and they're just straight up not interested in investing any time in this when they can still just easily log into reddit and be on their* way.
- It's basically the same premise. Link aggregator with a forum attached, where upvoted content rises to the top. She doesn't need to know how instances work in order to use it in the same way that she doesn't need to be a mechanic in order to drive her car.
  
  To an extent yes but when you follow a link to a different instance and try to log in with your account you can't. You have to get to that instance in the correct way to interact with it from what I understand.

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”
- The wretched refuse of Reddit's scheming shore

Made an account on sh.itjust.works now and the performance is so much better. Federation is so awesome.

I am refugee no idea what’s going on yet but it feels right.

I FINALLY managed to make an account after 4 days of lurking limbo! Hi guys!

Hey guys! This is my very first comment ever on the Fediverse. I'm still not 100% sure how this all works. My tech-savvy brother tried explaining it to me, and I think it's like a collection of sites, each with their own collection of subs, all connected through one account, so you have the ability to cross-platforms seamlessly. I'm so happy to finally hop on this lemmingrush like everyone else! :) Hi everyone!

The memes are already better than reddit’s daily meme reposts

I'm a degenerate gambler from Reddit. Now I'm a degenerate gambler on Lemmy.

trololo

Haha :D

My biggest problem so far is that reddit.com is entered automatically by muscle memory. I need to rewire my brain, or redirect reddit.com to lemmy.world in the router.
- Maybe block it on your router?
- You can edit your hosts file so that if you type in reddit.com it just provides lemmy.world's IP address and connects to that instead.
  
  You can also do this to some websites on your coworkers computers with hilarious results

So a few months in I can see now lemmy is a great alternative to reddit, but most people are still on reddit and u/spez was right. The uproar is gone by and everybody just lives with a shitty reddit app now and api is now paid.

This works a lot better than I thought it would lol

stumbles in from reddit and throws up racist memes all over the floor

Now we need lemmy.in
- I dream of a world with a nsfw community on lemm.ee/c/smash
  
  Or maybe lemm.ee/c/datpeepee

theres hope

Well...damn... https://domains.google.com/registrar/search/whois/lemmy.in?hl=en&searchTerm=lemmy.in

we need a dad jokes community

we need a dad jokes community

theres hope

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

LEMMY IN LEMMY MAKE AN ACCOUNT LEMMY BEEHAWWAAAAA

I have a feeling that the user of lemmy gonna be called lemmyin (lemmy in) just like how reddit and their users are redditor
Lemmyin this train. We're leaving reddit!!!!
- I think "lemmings" or "lemons" are going to be the final winners of that race.
  
  I love being a lemon

I am honestly curious how long it will take for lemmy to get its first million users. May we win or not. but still nice to see a chance and grow
- Win?
  
  I think in this scenario “winning” would be replacing reddit as the primary link aggregator and online forum. But even if that does happen eventually, it’ll be slow and gradual

My momma said I’m allowed in so let me in now!!!! 🤣

The narwhal has been baconed, I'm ready for the reddit switcheroo to lemmy
- Ah, the old Lemmy switcheroo!
  
  Hold my narwhal, I'mgoingin...

Oh god I finally was able to log in, 2 days after I thought I failed to make an account because none of the emails went through.
I wish there was some sort of way that I could send CPU power or bandwidth, tor style, to these new decentralized platforms. I totally get that they're having growing pains, and I also get that part of the tradeoff of decentralization is "well, who pays the hosting bills then?"
I'd love to put a percentage of my bandwidth and home server (or even AWS instance) CPU resources towards running an encrypted Lemmy.world instance. I don't want to just run my own barren, empty server like what the Federated system would let me do; I don't feel like that would actually have any benefit to making a reddit-replacement since why would anyone use my instance? No, I specifically want to dedicate resources to helping the popular instances, be able to run.
- To be fair you're on the most popular instance, the nice thing about federated stuff is you can join a smaller instance that's not overloaded, and still have access the same content.
  I wish they did a better job of explaining that on the lemmy site haha
  
  But wouldn't accessing content on the other instance be just as slow? How would making your own instance just for sign in be beneficial?

Me trying to figure out which damn app I can use that won't crash.
- Sync is making a client for Lemmy. I used sync for Reddit for 10 years and it was the best.
- Connect for lemmy going strong on my Samsung s6, love the AMOLED theme, UI feels similar to infinity from which I migrated
  
  Using connect from RIF and pretty smooth.
  Issue isn't so much the viewer / interface. Easy enough to adapt or as others have mentioned looks like there is a flood of options coming. The real issue is content. Lemmy is a vertible desert. Most posts on Lemmy are about Lemmy. We need sub migration or this bombs. Instead of reddit mods posting pictures of John Oliver and telling themselves they are revolutionaries, they need to pack the hell up and encourage user base to move here. Can you imagine the smug grin on Spez's face when people are channeling their creative energy to post hand painted John Oliver artwork and Spez memes to his servers? He could give two shits if all of reddit was AI Spez nudes if traffic is up. Leaving and NOT CRAWLING BACK is the only thing truly impactful. If you're reading this you are least starting to solve the problem.

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LEMMY IN.

LEMMY IIIIIIIN!