To all the new(er) Reddit refugees!

First time posting after 9 solid years on Reddit. Thanks for the welcome

I am here now. Just signed up. Mod of /r/bicycling, /r/sanfrancisco, and a few other smaller subs. The whole thing is a mess right now, so I wanted to see if there are greener pastures here. Any tips are welcome. I literally have no idea what I'm doing.

I wasn't thrilled at the idea of leaving Reddit after 14 years but some things cannot be avoided. My first post here on Lemmy. Thank you for the warm welcome!

I've been here a week or two now. It's going better than Voat did for me when I last tried to leave Reddit. That was full of alt-right crazies basically, but so far here, people have been lovely.

My goodness me. This place rocks. Like the way the internet used to be. Fuck corporate greed. Fuck ads. Fuck egocentric dictatorships. And hello to The Future.

Thanks, so far Lemmy is looking like an interesting place with good vibes all round!

This atmosphere has good vibe. Goodbye RIF, hello Lemmy 👋

When will we get our own persistently-broken video player? That's super important for my quality use experience.

Closed Reddit account and embarking on this new adventure with lemmy.

Hiii im here from reddit but, when i tried to post the post has been being uploaded for the past 2 hours, also loading communities and upvoting has been EXTREMELY slow ;'D

btw this is a hella cool site

Wait... Where am I? I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. 11 years wandering the Reddit... I'm lost, a little confused, possibly afraid.

Hey, hello community this is my first comment on Lemmy, good to see you all.

Redditor here. Feeling a little lost and confused. :)

I'm going to build my own Reddit, with blackjack and hookers!

Former reddit user here. I hope that this site grows and prospers and I look forward to discovering replacement communities for subreddits I've used.

Really hope this takes off and remains open and non-commercial.

Bathroom's that way.

Thank you for the welcome.

Bye bye Reddit. Hope they collapse after getting rid of 3rd party apps. Reddit is Fun was my shit. I gotta find a Lemmy equivalent so I can get off my phone's web browser.

First post! 🤸

Thanks! I mostly lurked on reddit for many years (as a Digg refugee), and I want to try and get out of that rut and actually contribute some content here. Wish me luck!

Cautiously optimistic about the migration. Reddit had gotten pretty weird.

I sense a real opportunity for the Fediverse off the back of Reddit and third party apps porting across.

If the UX (user experience) is similar then it'll more than likely pull people across.

So far the communities have been extremely friendly and it is a breath of fresh air

Nothing better than being greeted with Futurama, for the Fediverse when new episodes of Futurama drop in July! (I'm extremely excited for the new season)

Lasted one day on the official reddit app. Sadly the readability of it with the massive amounts of ads and sponsored posts makes me rather not use reddit at all.

Glad lemmy seems to genuinely be an upcoming alternative!

im very happy to redditn't

Incoming user from reddit! My app got shut down. I was salty about it so I decided that I was going to find an alternative, rather than use the official app, and I found lemmy! I like the community vibe so far. I'm still figuring out how different communities and instances work together with federating. I was always more of a lurker on reddit, but I might try to become a more active commenter (for community engagement!)

Well it was a good ride at Reddit. I was using Reddit since since 2006 as a lurker. Lemmy is now my home. Hi all!

Here we go.

I've only been here for two weeks and already have seen major improvements. Thankful to the admins for their hard work, and glad to see the wonderful people here contributing to this platform's awesome growth. Loving it here and wishing continued success to the fediverse :)

Today was my first day on the Fediverse via Lemmy.world, and I was so happy to see a Futurama Community among the top posts right when I logged in!

I hope it's also okay to say that I just created /c/Disenchantment for my fellow fans of a slightly related show. 😄

Any Futurama fans that also like Disenchantment and our one true Queen Bean please come join!

This all reminds me of the big Digg migration. Reddit likes to think that people chose it because it was special. For a good majority of us, especially the 10+ year accounts, it was Digg's terrible redesign and very poor product decisions. The nail in the coffin was not understanding its core content producing users willingness to move. History repeats itself.

Rest in peace RIF. I was honestly heartbroken. I know how sad that must sound, but goddamn, I used it daily for 6 years. It made my office hours and daily commute on the subway so much better.

Thanks! 11yr RiF user here and using Jerboa now, it's different but similar feeling:)

Here from RiF! First post on Lemmy, here's to a bright future ^^

Hello. Glad to be here. I'm not going back to reddit, they nuked Sync for Reddit and I refuse to use reddit app.

I already like the vibe of this place more, at least socially. The site is a bit cumbersome but I'm willing to stick with it to see how it can get better. Plus Sync for Lemmy will be coming and then my life will be fixed.

It's nice to be wanted.

What's to stop a single Lemmy instance from going "this is taking too much time and money to run, I'm shutting this server down"? I guess that can apply to any service, but monetization sometimes prevents that from happening. But in this case it's all volunteer work and running a server takes resources.

What happens to all the users created under that Lemmy instance?

Cheers! Here's hoping for a bright future!

Good news everyone!

Just migrated from reddit, and I’m really excited to see Lemmy gain popularity and grow! This is about to be my next addiction.

I think registration finally worked this time. Good news, everyone!

Thank you. Just killed my Reddit alter ego so let's vsee what this will bring us. Glad to be here.

First comment on Lemmy. Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help get us started? I'm using the Connect Lemmy app!

What Apps are people using? Wefwef?

We're all refugees here

Hi, all! This is my first comment on Lemmy. I’m exited to be here!

It’s sad watching Reddit go the way of the dodo, but I’m happy to see everyone come together to give the big ole fuck you to u/spez in solidarity and migrate over when they effectively broke Apollo and the other 3pd apps

First post here!

As a former Apollo user, I’m super impressed by wefwef. Does anyone know what’s in store for its development? I’d love to see a native iOS app.

Rip Rif. Hello Lemmy.

Me too! I was on reddit for about 15 years, passed through some stories there. I hope we have a lot of cool safes to open here. At the end, We should´ve come before. This is the model of internet we should encourage, but reddit was too confortable for anything else. Now is the time! The funny thing is that I neve spent money on reddit, but I already signed up for donations here.

Goodbye RIF, hello lemmy!

Uninstalled the Sync app today.(RIP) Should be fun getting to know Lemmy.

a new reddit refugees sounds like dream.

My first comment on Lemmy!

Just landed from reddit. Excited to be a part of the early adapters of fediverse!

NGL

it doesn't feel great, but change is never easy. but this thing is pretty damn cool

Moved from Digg to Reddit 14 years ago. Happy to do the move again.

Hello everyone! Thank you to everyone working to keep servers running during this influx of signups and all the helpful posts I'm seeing around explaining instances and generally how to Lemmy.

Wandering around, RiFless, looking for something to do on the internet.

Damn over 3k upvotes..activity is going up!. Let's get this train going! Welcome! :)

I love how massive this community is getting

I was told there would be an omelet bar for Reddit refugees.

Time for me to leave reddit and join the fediverse

As my first post here, I feel welcomed with the highest geek honor!

Happy to try it though I haven't found a cell app I much like yet.

I think the biggest challenge is going to be transplanting the knowledge. There are so many tutorials and walkthroughs that are on reddit.

It's why what was working best was the Mods making everything private.

First comment on Lemmy... Been a lurker on Reddit for years who's recently become more active... Looking forward to contributing more on Lemmy! Network errors galore right now, but that's a good thing right? Everybody coming over from Reddit in droves, I would imagine... Let's f'in goooooo!

Edit: this comment gave me all sorts of problems while attempting to post, sorry for the duplicate versions... but I imagine this will calm down soon and all will be right as rain in no time 👍

Hellloooooooo... I like grilled cheese

Hello :)

No more centralised social media. I really hope more of us make the switch. Lemmy feels like it could become a really special place.

well, this is my first comment on lemmy!

First post on Lemmy! So long Reddit, looking forward to Sync for Lemmy to be developed. By the way, where's the bathroom?

Yo yo. Happy to be here. Thanks for the warm welcome.

Just landed from reddit. Excited to be a part of the early adapters of fediverse!

Thank you for the warm welcome. Any tips and tricks for us Reddit refugees?

Hello new friends! I'm a Reddit expat, looking for a new source of cat videos.

Thank you for opening your doors.

Ahoy future worlds of magic and mystery!

Sanctuary, please.

Hello fellow previously rdt

12yr Reddit account being abandoned cause of all the fuckery. Happy to be a Lemming now

Another refugee here. I hope i post more here than i did there

Rip RiF

Glad to be living reddit behind. RIP.

I'm reminded of when Voat was gonna replace Reddit. I'm still skeptical we'll get a lot more users migrating since things over there seem to have stabilized. But this is an exciting time for Lemmy to try some new things and fix what was broken with reddit.

Thanks for the warm welcome : )

It begins (⁠｡⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠｡⁠)

Apollo refugee here! Let’s hope this sticks because I lost all trust in Reddit.

Still trying to figure this Lemmy thing out. I have an account with Lemmy.World, but I can still post/view other instances if they are shared? Anyways now that RiF is gone, guess I'm done with Reddit. Glad to be here!

Hmmmmmm

I still don’t understand any of this or what I’m doing. Wish me luck!

Thanks for welcome! Although I am still a bit sceptic whether this platform can grow. we will see...

wefwef makes lemmy feel exactly like reddit did

Nice that that's the first thing I see here

Don't worry ya'll we 'll ruin it for ya

Was part of the great Digg migration, and yet again another platform got greedy...

thank you for the welcome!

Permanently Deleted

I remember surfing chans back in the day. I've missed it, but life gets busy. I hated reddit for a long told, but it had so much good information on there and such good third party apps that I caved and it became my favorite thing to do while shitting. I just found out about Lemmy and it feels like I slipped on an old broken-in glove. Thanks for the welcome. After the toxicity of reddit, this is nice.

Hello. First post on Lemmy - y'all seem nice. Missing Sync for Reddit but I will move on. Thank you for having us

10+ year Reddit refugee looking for a new home. Lemmy looks slightly difficult to navigate but hopefully this becomes the new face of the internet

I'm very excited to start fresh. ☺️🫶

I am still feeling a little lost but fuck spez.

WELCOME ALLLLL!

After 12 years on reddit (most of those on Apollo) it’s nice to be here and thank’s for the warm welcome!

Shut up Terry.

activity pub - cutting-edge 2013 technology 👽

What's fediverse?

My first lemmy comment

RIF user here also, hope to stay here - testing lemmy apps now

Woo

Thank you. Looking forward to the new Futurama episodes too.

I made it in! Excited for something new after 10 years on Reddit

Yes hi I'm here for the checks notes upvotes.

in a weird way it’s refreshing to see a part of the internet breathe again without it needing to be a singular website for forum talk

I'm 40% happy

Wanted to post as part of the great migration.

Thanks! after many years on reddit, here I am, hello all.

Howdy folks!

Heelo there

After 12 years on reddit (most of those on Apollo), it’s great to be here! Thank’s for the warm welcome.

Happy to be here!!! Everyone has been so welcoming

Thanks, I hope to find my way around and behave myself.

I was told there would be an omelet bar for Reddit refugees.

give a checkout to lemdro.id, new instance from the collective mod team of several large technical subreddits!

Used Reddit for 16 years. Also a little confused. But stoked!

Hello all!

Hi there everyone!

frankly I hesitated a lot between lemmy and squabbles... finally I migrated to the 2!

Hey, fellow refugee here. Sometimes I get a language not allowed error when posting? Also do communities with the same name on different servers share comments? For example, PatientsGamers

Finally made an account. Super excited. Reddit immediately started to just feel like it was in a decline, something about logging onto it felt off

It begins 🗿

It begins (⁠｡⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠｡⁠)

It begins 🗿

Haven't you ever heard of a little thing called 'showmanship'

Hi Lemmies, thanks! First post. Excited to see how this turns out!

Good News everyone! I do feel welcomed into the future, this is my first post. I finally got signed up after I found wefwef and knew it was the missing link and now I could enjoy the fediverse.

I didn’t even try going to the official app. Oh my no.

Had almost a day with lemmy. Now I'm starting to get the basics sorted this looks like it will be a fun place.

Already seeing fermiliar communities which is sweet

Just landed from reddit. Excited to be a part of the early adapters of fediverse!