Fediverse go Brrrr

3 years ago by aRatherDapperFox to c/memes

I don't know how I never stumbled upon Lemmy before, I've been looking for a worthwhile alternative to Reddit for over a year now. Guess I wasn't looking hard enough!

LemmyNameMyself 24 points 3 years ago

I've only joined a day ago and already love it here! Hope more people join as they leave Reddit

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Cougar 16 points 3 years ago

That last bar is going to be waaay more vertical once June is over.

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aRatherDapperFox 9 points 3 years ago

Just gotta figure out how best to direct people with the federation and server load issues before then. Should be fun!

EDIT: To clarify, this is not sarcasm. I'm genuinely excited to be a part of this!

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SturgiesYrFase 4 points 3 years ago

It's exciting to see people(myself included) joining these communities.

Even more exciting, and a bit frustrating, to bear witness to hopefully one of the last Reddit Hugs of Death.

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Barbarian 5 points 3 years ago

That bar is going to be way more vertical tomorrow. The community finder is reporting 2 communities breaking 7k+ users.

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petrescatraian 13 points 3 years ago

@LemmyNameMyself There clearly seems to be an uptick in Lemmy usage. I am on Friendica and just stumbled to this post in the Global Community tab after I saw a plethora of other Lemmy posts (yes, I am commenting on your post from a different social network altogether). This never happened ever since I joined the Fediverse almost a year ago (damn, how the time flies). The vast majority of the posts used to come only from Mastodon.

I am glad that the Fediverse is starting to become more diverse (ba-dum-tsss)

@aRatherDapperFox

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aRatherDapperFox 6 points 3 years ago

The ability to interact across platforms is pretty incredible. I've been looking into other fediverse platforms since my introduction to Lemmy -- thank you Reddit! 🥰

KBin looks interesting. I'm familiar with Mastodon, but before looking into Lemmy I never really understood what it meant that it was "federated". Tell me more about Friendica, please? If you don't mind, that is.

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petrescatraian 6 points 3 years ago

@aRatherDapperFox yep, it is a Facebook-like network. By default it looks like the older Facebook interface, but your server admin could add various themes for you to choose from. It also uses BB Codes for text formatting (so you can do some pretty wild stuff like having your text use different color, size, along with having images and other media content posted inline). You can have YouTube and Vimeo videos embedded inline, you can have title posts, you can like and dislike content (yes, there is a dedicated button for this, and yes, it does federate with platforms supporting it such as Lemmy or Kbin.

You can also use markdown on it if you feel like it (it will be remdered as the appropriate BBCode syntax).

You can create groups (called forums for some reason, but that will change), as well as group various people or accounts or pages in a single feed (similar to G+'s circle feature)

You can crosspost and interact with Twitter (although, understandably, devs decided to pull the plug on the appropriate addon, so expect bugs to appear in the following future). You can send a post by email to someone, you can crosspost to Tumblr, you can subscribe to RSS feeds, you even have initial support for bluesky if you aready have an account there (server-to-server communication is in the works). You can follow and interract with Diaspora accounts (another Facebook alternative that for some reason decided not to use ActivityPub).

You can create pages (just like on Facebook) and you can label them news or organization and a lot more stuff.

And yes, as you noticed, your server admin can add various addons to the Friendica instance so you can have various features.

If you want, you can set up a server for your friends/family and experience the Facebook of 2012 or so on steroids.

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asexualchangeling 4 points 3 years ago

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aRatherDapperFox 2 points 3 years ago

First, I love your username.

Second, both of those sound intriguing. I'll be signing up for PixelFed for sure.

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aRatherDapperFox 3 points 3 years ago

Isn't it wonderful?

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clemthecat 12 points 3 years ago

New here too as a Reddit Refugee. Hoping this will be a nice alternative.

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aRatherDapperFox 11 points 3 years ago

Personally, so far I adore it. It doesn't scratch that... Endless content consumption itch that Reddit did. There are a lot less users, so there's a lot less "fresh" content piling up on my home feed for me to scroll through and huff air out my nose at.

It's been a bit of an adjustment, but now that I'm more used to it it's definitely a welcome change. I find myself actively engaging more instead of just scrolling by, contributing instead of lurking.

Welcome to Lemmy!

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Hexorg 6 points 3 years ago

Give it some time the content will come. Also make sure to post that content yourself too. Posting and commenting are very needed right now to attract more people and the more people get attracted the less posting and commenting you’ll need to do to maintain everyone engaged

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asexualchangeling 3 points 3 years ago

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aRatherDapperFox 2 points 3 years ago

I definitely have been! I'm mostly active in !wow@lemmy.ml and !pokemon@lemmy.ml right now, trying to branch out and do more across the website Fediverse. :)

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d4rknusw1ld 2 points 3 years ago

How do you find these other instances on other servers? I’m an Apollo refugee I’m so confused how to find my way around the fediverse.

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tonytins 11 points 3 years ago

I've been waiting for this day since GNU Social was still known as StatusNet.

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Suoko 4 points 3 years ago

it used to be a quite place ...

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zwubb 10 points 3 years ago

A meme taken from the fediverse Twitter clone and posted on the fediverse Reddit clone... there is always a lighthouse

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aRatherDapperFox 3 points 3 years ago

It does not surprise me in the least to find out this meme has been done before, but I actually made this lol. I wish I had seen it on the Fediverse Twitter clone, then I would've screenshotted the "Tweet" and posted the screenshot and we really WOULD be kinda full circle there.

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zwubb 7 points 3 years ago

It won't be FULL circle until it's been screen capped dozens of time and the image is revenged by compression.

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aRatherDapperFox 3 points 3 years ago

Fediverse clone of iFunny when?

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fishy_2_0 3 points 3 years ago

give it a couple of years and wel probably see one and the promptly steal some jpgs from there to post on here

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GenericPerson 10 points 3 years ago

It's great to finally have a good alternative that actually functions. Reddit has sucked for a while now.

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smartwater0897 10 points 3 years ago

First day for me too. Seems really good so far, interesting threads and discussions.

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aRatherDapperFox 5 points 3 years ago

There are a lot less people on here, but I feel a lot more keyed in and engaged with the communities I am a part of on here. It's nice!

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Bicyclejohn 8 points 3 years ago

I love the fediverse. Hopw meta crashes and burns

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Hexorg 8 points 3 years ago

I think that means I need to make activitypub based VR application

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asexualchangeling 2 points 3 years ago

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ch1cken 5 points 3 years ago

i've stumbled across lemmy before but never really looked into it much, glad i did though, its great

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zekiz 2 points 3 years ago

Facebook also will soon join the Fediverse. We'll Instagram will

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CasscadingSymmetry 3 points 3 years ago

Getting Instagram and TikTok would be interesting but I can see how it is a bit unlikely to be possible.

Edit: It seems someone has done an Instagram one called pixelfed

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zekiz 2 points 3 years ago

Instagram is currently creating a microbloggin service that uses ActivityPub

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cujo 1 point 3 years ago

Well, that's more than a little concerning. I mean, it wouldn't be bad for the fediverse to get some mainstream attention... I just don't trust Facebook, or Meta, or whatever they're calling themselves now.

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duskfall 1 point 2 years ago

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