Welcome to the fediverse!

  • pmich80@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1391·
    2 years ago

    First time posting after 9 solid years on Reddit. Thanks for the welcome

      • Briongloid@aussie.zoneMEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        It’s been very common in my 3 weeks on Lemmy, it’s probably more common to see 100% upvotes.

          • Briongloid@aussie.zoneMEnglish
            61·
            2 years ago

            Personally I feel that what Reddit has been using for nearly 20 years was successful because it worked, the negativity that inevitably comes with large groups of people was the only issue and a lot of Lemmy users think it’s the basic systems that worked.

            Karma added a little boost to activity and engagement, while upvote/downvote helped curate content at a site wide level.

            The value of these made up points is directly correlated with the size of the overall group and the larger Lemmy grows, the more it will have the same issues, it’s just a matter of how long we get to enjoy this environment before it outgrows us etc.

            The only important thing is that while we still can, we try to reinforce to people that the vote itself is matter of quality and appropriateness to the community the comment/post is in, as apposed to whether the thing is liked etc.

          • Awa@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            Yes. However you can install a PWA (progressive web app) via chrome and firefox (perhaps other browsers but those are the ones I use). The PWA allows you to use lemmy when logged into your instance of choice and it acts like a mobile app. To install, go yo your instance in a browser, then check our options. For chrome, it says add to home screen. I believe firefox it says install app.

      • Possible_EmuWrangler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        I havent looked at code, so i can only guess. Just before you looked at it, i clicked downvote. I realise my mistake and unclick/click it again. The local server we’re browsing on (Server A) sends the downvote to the server the post was made on(Server B), but it also temporarily adjusts it local figure for a while until it can refresh from the server the post was made on. Last it knew server B had a tally at 0 downvotes, so it goes negative. (If Server A had a downvote figure of 4, the same process would have shown 3 to you)

      • KingFapNTits@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I downvoted you. No one else had any downvotes; please let me know if it registered. I don’t want vote fuckery like they have on reddit.

        • TheGreatFox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          It registered, I see the downvote. The reason you don’t see downvotes on most comments is that most people here don’t give them out for no reason, so there just aren’t any to display.

          Pretty sure the negative downvotes weren’t intentional manipulation, my best guess was some cross-federation code interacting weirdly. Though it’s fixed now anyway, you responded to a comment that was 17 days old.

    • eldavi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      2 years ago

      12 years for me and i’m kicking myself for letting myself get so entrenched after i had experienced the same thing before; fediverse, here i come! lol

  • scoofy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    2 years ago

    I am here now. Just signed up. Mod of /r/bicycling, /r/sanfrancisco, and a few other smaller subs. The whole thing is a mess right now, so I wanted to see if there are greener pastures here. Any tips are welcome. I literally have no idea what I’m doing.

  • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
    331·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been here a week or two now. It’s going better than Voat did for me when I last tried to leave Reddit. That was full of alt-right crazies basically, but so far here, people have been lovely.

    • justineie_bobeanie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 years ago

      This seems like the first thing with enough critical mass to get going, what with reddit and twitter sulimultaneously imploding faster than a poorly constructed submersible craft. It’s not driven by political outrage so much as the old platforms making themselves unusable and forcing healthy users off their platforms.

  • shad0wm0ss@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 years ago

    My goodness me. This place rocks. Like the way the internet used to be. Fuck corporate greed. Fuck ads. Fuck egocentric dictatorships. And hello to The Future.

  • HPTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    2 years ago

    When will we get our own persistently-broken video player? That’s super important for my quality use experience.

  • Sumeron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 years ago

    Thanks, so far Lemmy is looking like an interesting place with good vibes all round!

  • faceula@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    2 years ago

    Wait… Where am I? I’m getting withdrawal symptoms. 11 years wandering the Reddit… I’m lost, a little confused, possibly afraid.

  • mokcie15@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    2 years ago

    Hiii im here from reddit but, when i tried to post the post has been being uploaded for the past 2 hours, also loading communities and upvoting has been EXTREMELY slow ;'D

    btw this is a hella cool site

    • Zathras@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      Yeah looks like lemmy.world is slow today. Not surprised due to the influx of users. Ruud and the team has been working on it diligently the last couple of weeks, expanding hardware, writing code, fixing bugs, etc. Please be patient as we grow!

      • Aculem@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Naw, an instance is a server that can host content, but it’s connected to every other instance that agrees to federate with each other. You can think of it as an email address, Gmail and Yahoo have their own features but can communicate with each other no problem.

  • anonymous_bot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 years ago

    Former reddit user here. I hope that this site grows and prospers and I look forward to discovering replacement communities for subreddits I’ve used.