• marin♡ @beehaw.org
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    I think it’s inevitable to not talk about the elephant in the room. A lot of the new Fediverse users have migrated from Reddit so a lot of the discourse over the next few days might center around whatever is happening around that place. On the other hand, I do hope that other people take the time to explore and break out of their lurking behavior from Reddit.

    Quick tip for those who don’t want to see any reddit discussions, just mute the word Reddit. I might do that in a bit lol

    • YouNaughtyMonsters@beehaw.org
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      How would one mute the word Reddit? I took a look at the options in settings but didn’t find anything that appeared relevant to me. What did I miss?

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        As of now, I think the only way I could do it is through the iOS app Mlem. I’m not too tech savvy and heavily rely on my husband for help regarding these matters. Sorry about that ;;

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    That’s like rescuing people from a shipwreck and being surprised they’re talking about the ship that sanked and not about the furnishings of the ship that saved them.

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      Yeah, and a lot of the discussion amounts to ‘this ship has nicer furnishings than the one that sank even if it’s a lot smaller’ as well.

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    This is day one for a good chunk of us, a little bit of time as we start to fall into different communities and it’ll phase out

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      I agree with this. Across all Lemmy servers thousands of users are joining everyday now looking for at least a little bit of validation and conversation starters.

      Eventually it will die down and people will be more interested in their specific communities.

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    This is part of why Voat (pre fatpeoplehate ban turning it into a right wing shit hole) was a ghosttown. The majority of the active communities there were just complaining about different aspects of reddit instead of trying to share and discuss content.

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    It’s unavoidable right now. Reddit shooting itself in the foot is currently a hot topic. When the dust settles all the Reddit talk will eventually die down.

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      yes, please; obviously we don’t want to go too far in stiffling discussion since this is a Big Deal, but please remember we’re not trying to be Reddit (and especially not a Reddit meta hub) and that we have lots of other stuff you can talk about and contribute to on here!

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    Right? I came here to find new communities and regrow my online presence, not to stare back and laugh at the burning pile of rubble we left behind. (Although I suppose I should stop scrolling through “All”, it’s not like I ever did that on Reddit)

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      Curating the proper set of subs is the real winner. Gonna spend quite a while finding communities.

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        Yeah, having built up 13 years of Reddit subs adding and removing…I keep having to remind myself this won’t be an immediate thing to replace it for me

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      I was going to say, I’ve curated my feed on Lemmy and the only times I see the Reddit stuff is from the News community (and memes). Every other community has been doing their own thing and I’m here for it.

      • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
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        Right. My feed is all reddit… then posts complaining about reddit posts. It never ends.

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          Idk on my Lemmy home page out of the top ten posts only one is about Reddit. Try joining some more communities and changing your feed under settings to “subscribed” instead of “all” or “local”. Just like how Reddit’s all/popular pages were kinda trash, you have to curate your feed a bit here too.

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    Like others are saying it’s a big deal for a lot of past and current members so I understand why it’s getting so much traction, but yeah it does seem like the biggest threads are reddit. That said you can sort by hot or new and there is plenty of content that didnt come to reddit.

    For example [email protected] is run by the old /r/startrek team and other subreddits like daystrominstitute jumped on as well.

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      how do I follow the [email protected] community using an account created on another instance? Every time I click a link there, it takes me to that instance and tells me I am no longer logged in and have to make another account (which I did at first but I’m regretting now because I’m getting myself confused, I think).

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        Two ways. You can either copy the link I shared, click the search icon on the top right and search the community and that will give you a link you can subscribe to. You can also click communities up top, switch to all, and then search “star trek”

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        I’m too lazy to edit the url or type out the community name so I just search in “posts” instead of “communities” for the keyword (in this case “star trek”). This place is still small enough that the community I’m looking for is usually one of the top results.

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        It’s one of the biggest flaws of Lemmy so far. The link actually takes you to the instance where that community is. You made your account on another instance, so it’s like trying to log into Gmail with Yahoo.

        You have to search for the community link in your instance browser.

        Now I can’t get into more details cause I’m in a hurry, but If you didn’t already look into how federation works. I hope someone will reply with a more complete answer

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    I don’t think it’s really that surprising given how a lot of us got here. Depending on what other bullshit comes up, I bet the reddit talk will die off in a week or so.

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    We need to keep the momentum going. Get as many people to move from Reddit to Feddit as possible while the opportunity is still there.

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      Why are you so obsessed with growth? Is it not OK if people discover the Fediverse without it being swarmed by new users? Is it the “number goes up” phenomenon?

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        It’s having dealt with running communities in the past and knowing that once things get too slow the community starts to die. I believe strongly that stuff like this will be extremely important in the distant future internet.

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      Exactly. It’s not just Reddit, it’s news, it’s current events. Frankly it’s a moment in internet history we’re all going to look back on, for better or worse.

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        A defining point in Internet history for that matter. This is like the Digg exodus. A paradigm shift in social media. It isn’t often that we see mass migrations of Internet users from one platform to another.

        This will surely delight future digital anthropologists in their chronological studies of the Internet. We just gotta make sure our archives can last for generations.

        Hello future historians!