Moviechat.org exists as the perfect substitute for the IMDb boards, it even has the old IMDb threads for all movies, series, etc. Check it out!
The boards were killed in 2017, so nowhere near 10 years ago, but it indeed feels longer.
I see now, thanks! Note: If that's the case, we need an updated FAQ later down the line, when Ruud says Lemmy.world will have been properly stress-tested :-)
I did not realize that lemmy.world is but a single instance - it's all starting to come together in my head :-)
The FAQ linked earlier in the thread suggested making an account on lemmy.world, that same thing was what I meant in my post as well. And I see the comments about it being beneficial to "stress test" the Lemmy backend, so... should I edit my original post?
Sure thank you, I'd gladly check it out!
Small question - is Tildes not part of the "Fediverse"? If it is, why can't I use it with my lemmy.world account? Are there multiple Fediverses? :-)
The OP thumbnail is brilliant, but missing at leaset one reaction layer. Of coures I've seen videos were the "youtuber" was reacting to someone's reaction to something, so...
... and this wouldn't be that bad, were it not for the fact that people gaming the algorithm with stupid low effort content works.
This part is especially helpful:
"You should always stay on lemmy.world. To join the "music" community from lemmy.ml, you click the search icon in the top right corner on lemmy.world (not the "Communities" link) and search for !music@lemmy.ml including the exclamation mark (!) at the start. You should see the community pop up in the list after clicking Search. In general, the search term is "![community-name]@[instance-name]"."
A few times I was looking for communities using the search bar, and got confused that I found more than one community for the same thing (e. g. music) and they seemed to be on different Lemmy instances. I did not know if I can even subscribe to them or not, if they are even visible for me with my lemmy.world account or not, etc. Now I understand that part a bit better. Thanks again! :-)
Thanks! This seems to be exactly what I was looking for :-)
I used to browse Reddit 90+% of the time from my phone through the RiF app, so after June 30th, here is what I did and what I recommend as a starter pack for others in the same situation:
- Create account on lemmy.world, so the browser part is covered
- Search for the information on which app provides the closest to the RiF (Apollo, etc.) experience
- Instal Liftoff and be happy - it is just like RiF :-) (for Apollo and others, it could be different - find your own favorite!)
- Dial back dramatically on using Reddit at all. I only load 4 subs in my phone's browser, because I did not find the Lemmy / Fediverse alternatives yet
- Constantly look for the communities to replace the subreddits you are still visiting
- OPTIONAL - once or twice a week, look at /r/pics and /r/videos and laugh at the creativity of the still ongoing protest :-)
So that is where I am right now, posting this via the web browser on the lemmy.world site, by pressing "create a post". Seems easy enough for now, but I find it a bit confusing that other people can post from Mastodon and other Lemmy instances... Do they see the same communities I do? Do I see all Lemmy communities if I use lemmy.world....? So many questions, but it's exciting to explore this brand new structure.
Even after reading the Fediverse and ActivityPub articles on Wikipedia my head is spinning, and I don't really understand how everything fits / works together, but here I am! An ex(-ish) Redditor after the APIcalypse, looking for cool new communities, and excited about the future that the Fediverse can bring!
(I'm willing to learn! Someone please link me a FAQ where I can find the answers to my questions :-) )
Former(-ish) active Reddit user here. Your comment hit home, because it pointed to "social technology", capitalism, conversations and value of interactions.
Capitalism's approach sees value in Reddit, Twitter, etc. as being advertising platforms and means of data collection. So anything from which they can't make money is just there.
The real value is the interactions and conversations these platforms are fostering. The IMDb Message Boards were a really fun place to discuss movies, but the suits in the IMDb boardroom came to the conclusion that having the boards hurt the engagement with the site, providing "negative experience" to the users. Which was just good old corporate bull for "it is too expensive to keep them up". So they axed the boards (did not even keep them as a read-only archive!), deleting all posts, deleting all that tremendous cultural value that accumulated over the decades the Message Boards were operating.
Sad. But these stories (and now Reddit's story, sadly) are the wake up calls we need to advance in our "social technology". All we need is to realize thatour conversations and interactions with other people is the value in itself. Right now, the capitalist approach to everything is deeply rooted in the minds. We need to change that, and clearly separate societal values from capitalist values on the internet. I don't know if this "Fediverse" is the way to do that. But I'm happy to join. I'm happy to try.
And Void_Reader - I'm really glad you posted this. This is my first comment on Lemmy, and I'm happy to be reacting to your thoughts here.