No matter who you are, thanks for being here.

Lemmy definitely scratched the Reddit itch for me, and I don't see myself going back. Unfortunately however, it is still a huge container of information that I still find myself relying on if I need to search for something.

I was there for the great Digg to Reddit migration and now the great Reddit to Lemmy migration.

They can destroy our aggregators but they’ll never be able to destroy our community. 🤌

Just a reminder that Lemmy is intended to not be addictive. Go out and enjoy your life. Lemmy will be here when you're pooping or when you have downtime, you don't need to be glued to it

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Whether it's Lemmy, Kbin, or something that's yet to be made - I feel the fediverse is here to stay. Genuinely revolutionary step away from centralized services like reddit.

Don't look at me, I'm just here to promote "Barbie".

All I've been seeing is beans 😞

It seems like with no algorithms, and a set of common sense guidelines that Federated instances have, we can all learn to understand and respect each other better. Breaking free of billionaire, fossil fuel mafia and hostile anti-democracy government controlled manipulation is what freedom is all about. I love it.

I honestly doubted I'd be able to stay away from reddit. I've tried many times before. I've deleted 5 major accounts since 2012.

But Lemmy seems to have been the nicotine patch I've needed. Haven't been on Reddit outside google searching for info, which isn't going away for me personally.

Only thing I actually miss is baseball and my team sub.

Am I doing something wrong, I just see the same posts over and over even when sorting differently?

I'm only here because of you. This goes both ways.

Except the fascists. Fuck the fascists, they can go back to the holes they crawled out of.

I joined here on June 12th and there were practically no posts or communities. Now I can't keep track of it all. I'm so glad to be here and finally be part of this social movement - I've been tracking the Fediverse/Mastodon/Friendica/GNU Social/Diaspora/etc for a VERY long time, but the format of those networks has never been interesting to me. I want to talk about topics, not people.

Lemmy feels like how reddit felt in 2010

That's a rare thing these days

Thank you for this post, it’s really inspirational. I think we can create an awesome community here. This is the start of something special.

I'm new here, from Reddit, and can honestly say thank you so much and it's been a warm welcome. I'm getting the hang of Lemmy slowly but surely. The community has been helpful to new members and chill as hell. I'm glad to be here as Lemmy grows!

Thanks mom.

As someone of the early adopters of Lemmy (check my account) I really like how Lemmy is growing. First it was a far-left place with some pro-russian trolls, and know with the migrants from reddit it feels more and more like a reddit competitor. Thx for joining us. Let's make this a better place than all monopolized greedy networks.

I'm extremely glad such an awesome alternative existed when we needed somewhere to go.

I also have to say this feels more like a true community than redddit as a whole ever did.

I was a lurker in Reddit and didn’t have an account there. Randomly came across Lemmy when browsing memes. Stayed here and didn’t know I would make an account, let alone I would speak anything lol.

I’m still learning about the whole fediverse thing. But if I could play a role in keeping Lemmy alive I would be happy to contribute.

I never expected Lemmy to feel this great. Sure, it's not as big as the endless sea of Reddit, but I like that. It's feels more close knit, and like an actual community.

This is my first comment since joining. While I was always fine being mostly a lurker on Reddit for 12 years or so, I feel more invested in the smaller conversations going on here. Yeah, I like a long drawn out thread but the fact that there isn't much jockeying for karma or making jokes just to kind of "meme along" makes it feel more authentic. Forums and discussion boards are always going to be filled with inanity and jokesters, it's been that way since BBSes and usenet in the 90s but the federated nature of Lenny and others feels more natural and reflective of actual social groups, rather than ones forced into boxes or walled gardens like so much of the internet these days. Thanks everyone.

I'm still waiting for the tech communities to migrate here. I mean - tech unrelated to web and this platform. There are lots of very busy people who just don't follow everything that is happening around. I've seen a post on Reddit that just linked here, and since I really, really do hate Reddit owners, I created an account here to see if it can replace Reddit with my work included.

I'm glad there's some traffic here. But well, I haven't even found a way to search for a specific community. That makes more serious use a little tricky. I hope the features will appear here soon.

I tried the tildes, but same thing. It's like "general purpose", it's hard or impossible to find a specific community.

And that's exactly the things Reddit killed - specific community forums. And well, most of what's left of them remains still on Evil Corp.

Dumb furry doing their part. :3

never commented on reddit mostly bc the bots and i liked to lurk but i hope i can change that and interact more with all of you

Shoutout to the developers building apps for Lemmy. Testing a couple right now, and have honestly been surprised at how polished and smooth they are, even in these early stages.

Makes moving from Reddit a lot easier.

You too. I am done with corporate social media. I'm in the process of deleting accounts from FaceBook and Instagram.

I absolutely prefer Lemmy and Mastodon to their corporate counterparts 🤮...

Humans long for connection. Our global, online community is becoming fragmented these days. It might be a good thing if we can build a more resilient and free community out of that.

So I'm just saying 'hey!' I'm among community and so are you. Let's get back to contributing and not just mindlessly consuming content.

Glad to be with you guys. I was worried that the Internet would be boring after I’ve left Reddit. Well it’s not and it is because of you

Even given the circumstances of us being brought here (overt, stubborn, and shameless corporate greed), also glad folks are here. My hopes for lemmy is to be the community center of the internet. Let us not merely be lemmings, let us be lemminites.

Started using lemmy during the beginning of the protests. Went back to RIF about a week later. Now back to Lemmy after apps were killed. It's definitely helping to full the hole left by RIF, but it's not quite the same.

Some of my favorite discussion topics on reddit were the comments on subreddits like AITH and MaliciousCompliance, and while they are here, they don't quite feel the same.

Still adjusting, and in a way, grieving the loss of the social media platform I used for over 10 years. But I've also been spending less time scrolling and more time with my other hobbies. So that's a net positive I guess.

Still getting my head around it. Hoping more interesting content comes about and we can put the memes/discussion of Reddit to bed!

I think the focus for devs/the community going forward has to be focusing on how easy it is to get on this platform so it can eventually hit a critical mass of users for regular new content/more active discussions.

I’m using the memmy beta, it was really easy making an account on lemmy.world and logging in on memmy with that but the initial search I did made me think getting set up was a much longer process

Many thanks to my son who told me about Lemmy last night. Reddit tab closed. Lemmy tab open.

And it feels fresh

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I'm just trying to find the snack bar.

I concur still feeling my way around, more mole like than a lemming 😂

Been loving seeing how active this place is getting, I didn't post often on Reddit but this just feels better somewhow, and I feel more inclined to comment on contribute!

The avid and intelligent discussions I see on Lemmy are heartwarming in itself. Ngl, I never really got that with R*****. Lemmy feels like home. Just wish I would've been apart of it earlier than a few weeks ago

Using lemmy is part of the never ending quest of recreating the internet interactions of my youth. When real friends were made on message boards. When things felt like a real group of people, and not so hyperfocused on individual topics so as to ignore the people behind the words.

Lemmy feels good so far

Except Dave. You know what you did.

Thank you for being here with us!

Came here July 1st, just created account, can't lurk forever I suppose

Remember, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

I was finally able to log in!! My other email address never received the verification email and I couldn't resend it for some reason...

I think Lemmy is really cool, and I'm excited to see where it goes from here!

Even me? Wow

You're welcome

np bruh

where is the porn communities?

The performance seems to be a lot better than it was a few days ago as well :) I am not sure if it is because it is daytime and everyone is working but either way!

ETA: Thanks for all the hard work!

I'm doing my part!

Even Phil?

Love ya lemmy

Everyone is welcome in the fediverse.

username checks out! 😎

Good to be here!

Thank you for being here as well.

Thou art Lemmy. I am Lemmy. All that groks is Lemmy.

It feels good here. There is potential to flourish into something good, with positive intentions. Let's hope the fediverse continues to grow.

Nice. Definitely agreement with your post

Awww thank you also for being here. Let’s make this fediverse work 💪

Excited to see this kick off. Hopefully the hype sticks!

I've been lurking so far but yes, excited to join in this growing space

Lurking until I figure out how I want Lemmy to fit into my world.

So far I've only used Reddit to look at OSRS updates, because that's where the mods interact with the community and there's the biggest community giving feedback on the updates. Other than that, for general doomscrolling, Lemmy is great. When Lemmy.World has kept up.

Yes I know I can use other instances, no I didn't know that when I created the account and I don't really want to create another don't @ me.

I really hope this will stay that way and this isn't just a hype...

Hey thank you too, buckaroo.

<3

I got ya fam. You do you, and your doing great.

Glad to be here! Thank you too.

Happy to be here

What a nice seal of approval

♥

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Yup I feel the same!

You are welcome!

I feel Lemmy got Great potential! Thank you 👍

Thank you all for being here!

What a heartwarming post! Thanks, kind stranger

When I joined Lemmy one year and some months ago (the instance I'm talking from), this wasn't a desert, but this wasn't a living place either. Maybe I didn't subscribe to some communities, but I could see two or three new posts per day, with a couple of comments in the best case scenario. I didn't do my part either as much as I'm doing it now.

But now, between holding poop for 3 days, or eating beans, or the abundance of users on every instance, this is a neverending party, and I'm happy. I'm still not doing my part posting, but I comment very often. And I even have one account on two instances each (is that correctly said?).

With correct mods, with wholesome admins and with polite users, even disagreeing, these places will be forever my virtual home.

i'm so happy that lemmy exists you don't know, thank you too

You’re welcome

And we begin.

❣️

I've been lurking so far but yes, excited to join in this growing space!

And thanks to all the people developing! Either Lemmy itself or all the apps to read it.

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