• animist
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    11111 months ago

    It’s all good I’m still mostly getting 1 upvote, similar to reddit

  • @Neil
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    9611 months ago

    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!

    • @not_a_dog@lemmy.one
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      811 months ago

      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!

    • @qprimed
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      611 months ago

      we are come that you may have engagement, and have engagement more abundantly. - lemmy jesus

    • @NewBrainWhoThis@lemmy.world
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      311 months ago

      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 :-)

    • @starrox
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      211 months ago

      on it my good sir!

    • Petri
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      211 months ago

      That’s the idea 😉

    • mozingo
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      111 months ago

      If this place grows just a bit more, I’m definitely staying. I’ve always preferred the vibe of smaller communities anyway.

  • Skull giver
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    • @hschen@sopuli.xyz
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      2111 months ago

      I miss the old lemmy from a week ago when i signed up haha, feels like it blew up so much.

          • ddh
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            211 months ago

            Yep, ‘back in my day’ you could finish reading everything posted that day. I’m glad it’s kicked off!

    • @SturgiesYrFase
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      511 months ago

      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…

    • @starrox
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      411 months ago

      Same boat. It’s kind of amazing, you can literally watch the userbase grow with popular entries getting more and more general upvotes.

    • Sagittaire
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      2011 months ago

      Yes, I’m very proud of the Reddit community for several times over the years mass-recommending open source and federated options.

    • @asexualchangeling
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      1411 months ago

      It’s honestly been amazing to witness, it’s still got a ways to go before it’s anything like mainstream but still

    • @BlinkerFluid
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      411 months ago

      It’s like a warm, beautiful sunset.

    • @BlinkerFluid
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      3611 months ago

      Lemmy! THE HOT NEW REDDIT SENSATION CREEPING THE NATION!

      REDDIT WHO!?

      EXACTLY!

      LEMMY’S GOT TECHIES, IT’S GOT TREKKIES, IT’S GOT MASTODON INTEGRATION AND ISN’T OWNED BY A CORPORATE ENTITY, OR ANY GOVERNMENT! RADICAL!

  • @Goat@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • @frippa
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    2911 months ago

    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!

    • @Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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      411 months ago

      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.

  • randromeda
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    2611 months ago

    My first comment was the most upvoted comment on a subreddit. I got 19 upvoted.

    • @mrmanager@lemmy.today
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      2411 months ago

      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…

      • ddh
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        711 months ago

        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.

      • @sparklingsquirrel@feddit.de
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        511 months ago

        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.

  • @gun
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    1611 months ago

    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.

      • @Klawrence_f
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        211 months ago

        I remember when helium was created from hydrogen in the biggest of bangs

      • @BrewJajaja
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        1211 months ago

        Wait is there a specific Lemmy person? Because I initially though that this site was some Motorhead fan page that evolved into a reddit alternative lol lol. Im so old.

        • Drew Got No Clue
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          611 months ago

          From their Github:

          Why’s it called Lemmy?

          • Lead singer from Motörhead.
          • The old school video game.
          • The Koopa from Super Mario.
          • The furry rodents.
  • fernandu00
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    811 months ago

    Where do you track your upvotes? O use jerboa BTW

    • @SturgiesYrFase
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      1911 months ago

      There’s no karma total, lemmy only tracks you individual post/comment vote counts. Break free of the shackles of Karma Addiction!

      • fernandu00
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        111 months ago

        Karma addiction is a thing…but I don’t get a notification when I get upvoted.it’s not a bad thing…I use infinity to access reddit and it doesn’t show notifications either so I’m used to it…but I got curious about how you track your upvoted because of the meme

        • @SturgiesYrFase
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          411 months ago

          Up there in the top right corner is the number of upvotes a comment or post has gotten, there’s no total upvote/downvote tracking here.

        • Drew Got No Clue
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          811 months ago

          It is a good thing, objectively. But at least on Mlem there is kind of an equivalent of the karma in the profile page (comment score and post score), if you miss that. 😎

          Some may interact less though if there is no karma; gamification works after all. I guess we’ll see.

          • @newbiejones@sh.itjust.works
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            Great point on gamification! I guess we will see if it is a good enough factor or not on here.

            Gamification works if your content is consistently good and dissuades other opinions. How many times have you deleted something you posted that got negative Reddit karma or no likes because you were frankly embarrassed? I did and now I realize I probably regret it.

        • @DrQuint
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          711 months ago

          It’s perfect and I wish Reddit did it ages ago. It’s the same as Forums with account levels, it makes you think someone has more input than they actually do, and it opens up the system to people selling accounts or botting accounts to later sell (which is a rampant problem on reddit and there’s now anti-bot bots).

    • Petri
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      111 months ago

      Is there another option other than Jerboa? I miss RiF…