• DeadButGonnaMakeIt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        20·
        7 days ago

        I know! I hadn’t even thought of that until I saw someone’s was like “mee” and now I need to get another account. It’s like how people get caught off guard when I tell them my 20 year old email is just my name with no numbers or special characters.

        • tischbier@feddit.orgEnglish
          4·
          6 days ago

          Haha it’s great because there’s always another instance where your username will be available.

          Or you can choose to be something different on each instance.

          I just came over from Reddit too. It took me a day to settle in and understand how federation worked but now it makes total sense to me.

          Start posting stuff with us welcome welcome everyone :)

      • pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz
        12·
        7 days ago

        So tasty names still available

        (There always will be many good names available since every name can exist once on every instance)

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      Here, have some beans.

      We don’t do pay-a-social-media-ceo-to-win around here, we do beans. Practical, eatable, 100% all natural digital beans.

      Some other users may be able to gift you a proper lemmy kilmister commerative gold token, but I don’t have the jpg.

      EDIT: oh right, a possibly useful warning:

      About a month or two ago, lemmy seems to have attracted its first mass spam bot, dming thousands of users with basically a phising email.

      If you get a message from ‘Fediverse Chick’, that’s not her, someone stole her image, just block the user.

  • ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world
    18·
    6 days ago

    Welcome. I think you will like it here. We’re kind of like reddit except we aren’t trying to make money from you, or your content. And we are more likely to follow the golden rule. And swear. Lots of swearing.

  • HalfSalesman@lemm.eeEnglish
    212·
    6 days ago

    Be mindful of the smug “Lemmy Culture” hipsters, they’ll eventually weed themselves out or self segregate though as more normies flow in.

    I welcome the masses.

    • LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      6 days ago

      Yes they started banning thousands of active users for “inciting violence” if you say things like “fuck Elon musk” or “my favorite character in super Mario bros is Luigi”

            • quarklover123@lemmy.world
              2·
              17 hours ago

              Well, someone murdered the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and it is alleged that this guy named Luigi Mangione did it. The media went into a frenzy trying to make us hate Luigi, but since most Americans experience what is like to live under a system that treats healthcare as a way to make profits, nobody did. They even tried framing this as a left x right issue instead of a class issue but even many people on the right didn’t think Luigi did anything wrong. Luigi is also a conventionally attractive dude, so it’s hard for the media to play with people’s preexisting prejudices. After many attempts, they seem to have decided the best approach to this was to suppress all speech on the matter. They are trying to frame this murder as an act of terrorrism and seem to be very scared of the public response to this. Reddit is trying to ban any mention to Luigi (even Nintendo related ones), and also has banned many people who did as little as upvote a comment related to him.

              Kind of a lot 😅

        • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          6 days ago

          They seem to think if they censor hard enough that people will stop hating murderous billionaires.

    • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
      18·
      6 days ago

      Reddit recently started doubling down on far-right actions. Like making it so you can be banned for just upvoting a post that breaks the rules, or banning you for saying the name “Luigi.”

      Personally, I recently got permabanned for being truthful about fascists.

    • docfate@lemmy.world
      8·
      6 days ago

      I got a warning today about upvoting violence. The only thing I have upvoted in the last little while is pro-Canada stuff like elbows up. If that gets me kicked off Reddit then fuck them and fuck spez the little pig boy.

    • feddup@feddit.ukEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      For me I left Reddit recently and switched because Reddit made a change that broke the Boost app.

    • klu9English
      7·
      6 days ago

      For some people, Trump has shit the bed (invasion threats, trade wars etc) and has stimulated a number of people to move away from US-controlled services and products.

    • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
      4·
      6 days ago

      I was just assuming it was all the censorship because any post with Luigi automatically gets deleted for violence even in the Nintendo subreddits talking about Luigi’s Mansion

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
    305·
    7 days ago

    Can some people who are willing to post something other than American politics and Reddit bashing posts join lemmy soon, I’m sick of my entire feed being nothing but all these negative topics

    • Saleh@feddit.org
      10·
      6 days ago

      I had a discussion the other day, where people were not happy with lemmy instances not handing data over to google. They argument was that we should do everything so lemmy can be found more easily, as the only goal is to “win” against reddit.

      Unfortunately in that discussion people were not interested in using Lemmy and the Fediverse at large to create a positive vision of the internet. They just wanted to stick it to one corporation they don’t like. I don’t like reddit either, but i think we should thrive for a Fediverse that upholds decentralization, open source and non commercialization of social interactions. All the large Internet corporations want to create the opposite and have been quite successful so far.

      • tischbier@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        I agree with you. It’s short sighted to give in to a separate corporation to “beat” the first. The only way to beat Reddit is to stop using it and forget about it.

        The goal should be to remove the ability for a single entity to control the public flow of discourse.

        I’m off to buy a Lemmy sticker to put on my thinkpad

    • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
      91·
      6 days ago

      I think Lemmy is a bit too complicated to attract the kind of light-hearted users that made Reddit shine. It’s daunting unless you have nowhere else to go.

      • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz
        41·
        6 days ago

        For those of us using Firefox there was a post on [email protected] on how you can use uBlock Origin to create word filters.

        To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:

        lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)

        For example:

        lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)
    • pseudo@jlai.lu
      2·
      6 days ago

      You could either block a few communities or make your following feed your main one. I prefer the first case as it allow community with less trafic to reach the top of the page.

      There is a lot animal pictures, some fantasy genre conversation and plenty of renewable energie discussion somewhere hidden behind the very detailled and commented biographie of the trump/musk duo.

  • arotrios@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    7 days ago

    Dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens… 112,744 to be inexact…

    Lemmy Total Users by Day: 1,352,936 for 3/12/25.

    Divided by 12, that’s 112,744 and some change… probably a couple of baker’s dozens in there…

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
      26·
      7 days ago

      Looks like ~53k monthly active users, I think that’s a better stat, since it doesn’t include people making new alts and abandoning their old accounts.

      • arotrios@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        Then that’s 4,416 dozen, give or take a baker.

        But all in all, I’d say that lemmings are much more active than Redditors - just based on responses to my posts and comments. I’ve earned 15k karma on this account, far more than any of my vastly older reddit accounts. Take that for what you will, but I’ve personally found the community here much more active, especially as of late.

        Content quality is drastically better too.

  • CptAdHoc@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    Happy to be here. Leaving reddit for this place was a great decision. 💪

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    Welcome everyone!

    Dont stress about which instance you join. Took me 3 tries before I found the one I like, but I was able to see most of the stuff from each one.