There has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.
Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!
Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!
edit: Here’s a nice getting started guide for lemmy: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/
i should have added it here a while ago!
Reddit old-timer from Toronto here. Happy to see how fast the Fediverse is evolving thanks to u/spez. Feels like the internet again.
Okay this federated stuff is really growing on me.
The idea that you can sign up on any server, and still have a feed from many different servers is pretty cool.
It’s like email but Reddit style
That makes way more sense!
The only roadblock I see is how difficult it is to follow communities outside your main instance. It would be nice if there was a log-in-as option so you can easily subscribe if you come across a page that isn’t a part of your instance. Right now you have to either search it on your main, or copy the url over (which I’ve seen doesn’t work all the time, but could be because of server load.)
Mastodon makes it easy to follow someone on a different instance, so I expect it’s only a matter of time that Lemmy adds that functionality (especially now with the influx of new users)
It’s easy with Mlem on iOS
Yeah, I read that before, but I didn’t really understand what that meant.
Email is federated as well. You sign up to a server (ex. Gmail.com), then you use and interact only with gmail.com, but you can then tell gmail to send an email to another server such as outlook, and it’s the same for their users.
Difference being the content is public here, whereas email isn’t, and Lemmy also uses ActivityPub which is a standard to forward messages between servers.
Fifteen-year veteran of reddit checking in. So glad to be a part of this societal shift, and excited to see where we go from here!
If anyone else is missing an old-reddit/digg style UI on the desktop, I’ve published Rediggit for Lemmy. It’s very much a work-in-progress, but it should scratch that immediate itch for more legroom. Currently for light theme only, but more coming (and feel free to hack away and shape my mess into something even better).
BC here, yet another reddit refugee. New to the fediverse and still trying to figure it out.
Redditor of 12 years chiming in from BC :P
New Brunswick Reddit refuge…
Another Western Canadian reddit refugee here. I still can’t decide if I consider myself Albertan or British Columbian. I’ve spent about an equal amount of my life in each province. Alberta does have the lower drinking age and less taxes so it might edge out the competition.
My first post, and hopefully the picture i attached works. This is Loki, my 27 year old macaw, one of 2 rainbow chickens i have
This here’s my birds
so friggin cute! i miss having chickens. no more free breakfast!
Lol this Mlem app is sweet but I can’t see your photo, it just shows up as large but I can’t scroll along it.
Hey fellow (mostly) Canadians! Reddit Refugee of 13 years, this is my first Lemmy experience. I originally made a Lemmy.world account, but moved here as I felt more comfortable having the server hosted in Canada for data integrity/security.
Seems like a neat place, the distributed/“federated” stuff was a bit confusing at first, but seems neat. I guess we’ll see how big the migration from Reddit to here is.
Hello from Ontario! Too bad we could not sign up with our existing Mastodon user account (is that even possible?).
@lexcyn@lemmy.ca @smorks Actually I guess I could just use my Mastodon account to reply/etc but doing it this way is a lot more confusing, haha
i was just going to tell you that you could do that, but you figured it out yourself, haha. unfortunately there’s currently no way to the the reverse (lemmy to mastodon), i don’t believe.
Fair enough, I will keep them separate anyways because navigating from Mastodon to Lemmy is a nightmare lol
yes, agreed, it’s not the most intuitive thing in the world. hopefully it gets easier as the platforms mature.
True - although since I use a dedicated Mastodon app on my phone, it lets me get notifications - hopefully there’s a Lemmy app soon!
btw transitioning my 13 year old Reddit account over here :)
Thank you for all your hard work @smorks@lemmy.ca and @crb@lemmy.ca !
Thanks for the welcome! I am from Sask originally, but currently residing in STILL FLIPPING SNOWY Nunavut!
No, I’m not bitter. Not at all. Nope. Too cold to be bitter.
Coming from Reddit also, and trying to navigate around here - Happy Canada Day!🍁
Thank you for approving me! And on Canada Day too!
Redditor of 11 years chiming in from BC.
