My account here is 4 years old. I was so excited to learn about Lemmy back then, but the user base was painfully low. I’m getting that same excitement I had back then.
Please new people, make this your permanent home and forget Reddit!
Forgeddit
I’m definitely considering taking up permanent residence
That’s the idea 😉
on it my good sir!
People stay if there is enough content and the user experience doesn’t suck. So fare, more and more people try to engage and build new communities. Just try to add value. Also the UI and Apps improved quickly but its fare from perfect :-)
And the Reddit blackout hasn’t even started yet. Gonna be interesting to see what this place looks like a week from now. I’m excited!
blackout?
we are come that you may have engagement, and have engagement more abundantly. - lemmy jesus
It’s all good I’m still mostly getting 1 upvote, similar to reddit
You’re doing your best and that’s OK!
Why was Obama crying?
He was moved by the speech Obama gave for him.
Oh wow, of course, duh. It was so obviously obvious.
Now you got 68 since the community here is awesome. :)
Now 81
That calls for a c/suicidebywords :D
Seeings subreddits namedropped makes me teary-eyed 🥺
(I know Reddit is still technically alive, but it’s dead to me now)
It’s seems that my audience was also mostly just one person… That person is dedicated though.
My audience is one person to me I’m dedicated to being my biggest fan though
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I jumped on a week ago. The change in that time has been totally insane! I went from being able to scroll for an hour maybe for the first few days, to now, it’s developing into a full blown doom-scroll addiction…
I miss the old lemmy from a week ago when i signed up haha, feels like it blew up so much.
Yeah, Lemmy has changed alot already for us “old timers” :)
back in my day there was only one thread with hundreds of comments. Kids these days have it easy.
Yep, ‘back in my day’ you could finish reading everything posted that day. I’m glad it’s kicked off!
Same boat. It’s kind of amazing, you can literally watch the userbase grow with popular entries getting more and more general upvotes.
My first comment was the most upvoted comment on a subreddit. I got 19 upvoted.
People are just much more supportive and friendlier here. But I guess because we are in a state now before all the assholes join from reddit…
Maybe it’s just me but Mastodon seems still way friendlier than Twitter, I guess partly to do with the people but also the platform structure that seems to have less incentive to attack people. Hope it’s the same for Lemmy.
I really hope that won’t be the case. So far I like Lemmy and the vibe here a lot and am not afraid to comment somewhere which was the case on Reddit. I hope it stays that way, guess we’ll see that after the blackout.
I joined a year ago and it’s crazy, i remember getting excited over 20 upvotes, that AMA and the whole 3rd party fiasco really brought a lot of people here!
Yeah, u/spez being a terrible CEO/person might be the best thing to happen to the fediverse. I tried Mastodon a few months ago but the community wasn’t big enough to get me hooked. I joined Lemmy earlier this week and I really like the community that’s developing here.
I feel nostalgic in advance for having stumbled on an inside joke that I was almost around early enough to be on the inside of but can nevertheless clearly project myself there.
Holy shit, you’re famous
Hey it’s that guy who got 20 upvotes!
Look at you with 6 whole upvotes!
Go Lemmy!
Hell, I was surprised when I got 20 on reddit. Specifically once something hit /all your comment never gets read.
Let’s get this to 500!
I think we reached 500 already. To 1000!
Yeah, just passed 600…
“I’m doing my part!” is probably the most used meme on Lemmy
I’ve already readthat
I blame phone posting :/
I didn’t even notice your username and was just trying to be helpfully funny, not sarcastic 😅
Yeah…but I used the doge version!
y’all better keep that at 20
I’m doing my part
The Earth Federation thanks you!
Squash those bugs!!!
The only good bug is a dead bug!
Ok boomer
Osti meilleur même hahaha j’suis mort merci
I’m grateful to see open source softwares blow up online
deleted by creator
Yeah still missing a lot of country/thing-specific communities
It’s like a warm, beautiful sunset.
Yes, I’m very proud of the Reddit community for several times over the years mass-recommending open source and federated options.
I remember before federation was an implemented feature and there were like 5 instances that couldn’t talk with each other. I feel old now.
I remember reddit before even subs when it was just a single page for tech news :(
I remember when helium was created from hydrogen in the biggest of bangs
