• FIbynight@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    8 hours ago

    Working on it. Little lonely since most of communities from reddit don’t seem to be here but still searching so we’ll see.

    Definitely feeling like I need to install linux on my mac though, perhaps as some sort of initiation?

  • Khlo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    12·
    12 hours ago

    It’s going okay! Still trying to decide which instance to call home. I still find myself on reddit probably equal amount to Lemmy though, unfortunately

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
    9·
    12 hours ago

    I have to confess. I still scroll Reddit from time to time (no longer use my account), and the front page just has a lot more variety. There’s still a lot of bot content from the occasional AITA that’s purely clickbait to the reposts.

    I do like that comments and conversations are better here. I’m seeing familiar names and I like it.

  • branno@lemm.eeEnglish
    37·
    14 hours ago

    Pro: there is a Lemmy app (Voyager) based on the amazing Apollo for Reddit app.

    Cons: Like 5 people total were chatting about the Super Bowl in the most populous NFL community.

    There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.

    Still going to give it a try, but my excitement waned pretty quickly.

    • MimicJar@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 hours ago

      There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.

      One adjustment I had to make when I moved over to Lemmy is posting/commenting more. On Reddit most of the time your comment was buried. On Lemmy, a bunch of people are going to see it.

      Not saying you need to be the only poster, but sometimes everyone just posting a bit more will reveal a community.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I personally like Jerboa, but I also used to use RIF is fun for Reddit which had a similar UI. I’m probably in the minority on preferences which is nothing new

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 hours ago

      Sorry, I used to post a lot more on sports communities when I was on Reddit but haven’t really felt the urge to sense moving to Lemmy. It didn’t help that the game wasn’t very good last night either. We are here. I’m pretty active on the fantasy football community. But there is just a handful of us playing there. Feel free to join us at !fantasyfootball@lemmy.world. I’m going to start our offseason mega thread now that the superbowl is done

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
      4·
      11 hours ago

      yeah we’re here not because it’s the next new reddit, but because we were tired of reddit and spez. never said this place wasn’t a fixer upper! it’ll take some time to build up communities. but this place is doing better and better and only seems to be growing.

      keep lemmy in your pocket. crosspost some memes. it’ll be here for you, and even more so if you’re here for us!

      go birds 😜

    • TomSelleck@lemm.ee
      18·
      16 hours ago

      I genuinely miss the F1 and CFB communities for the commentary, but I’m glad I left reddit when they killed 3rd party apps. It’s nice to have a media feed that isn’t cluttered with ads.

      • branno@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        14 hours ago

        Im shocked that the two biggest CFB communities have fewer than 1000 members.

        • Stegget@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 hours ago

          A lot of it has to do with the type of folks who were in the initial Lemmy wave; generally a crowd that is more familiar with linux distros than the tuck rule. Not necessarily a bad thing, just a comment on the interests of the type of folks who were more apt to leave Reddit for another platform. Mainstream sports attract a mainstream audience, whom (on the whole) are more likely to stick to a mainstream website. Lemmy will grow but it took years before some of those communities grew to the size they are on Reddit, and it happened then without a comparable mainstream competitor.

        • CMLVI@lemmy.world
          2·
          13 hours ago

          And there really isn’t much posting in any of them. It’s hard, because I am a fan of smaller NFL and CFB teams, and it’s just me posting stuff with no discussion. So it gets to a point you feel like you’re being annoying about it. I do Supercross discussion threads for people if they wanna join in, in an admittedly small community (even the Reddit one was like…maybe 200 active users, 30k total subs). I have been the only commenter there for over a year lol.

            • CMLVI@lemmy.world
              1·
              12 hours ago

              I haven’t, but I’m not too worried about it. The football ones are a bigger worry; the game threads were easily the biggest thing I was on Reddit for, and the magic isn’t here yet. Part of the issue though is now that I don’t get on Reddit or here as much, I’m watching IRL with friends and don’t sit on my phone to interact like that lol.

    • Cadenza@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Yeah, the mood is a bit different here. We do owls, raccoons, blahaj and Linux. Extra raccoons on weekends, though. I love this place.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      16 hours ago

      I should have been in there, but my eyes were just too glued on the belting I was witnessing. It’s definitely a bummer that a lot of non-tech or news communities aren’t there yet in terms of participation, but at least we’re not making some Rich assholes even more rich on here!

      • TomSelleck@lemm.ee
        5·
        12 hours ago

        The eagles are my wife’s favorite team and it was a fun watch for us. Ass. Whoopin.

    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      10·
      16 hours ago

      Like 5 people total were chatting about the Super Bowl in the most populous NFL community.

      Seems like you guys still posted 120 comments, that’s not so bad!

      There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.

      Feel free to have a look at !communitypromo@lemmy.ca for some recommendations, especially this post: https://lemm.ee/post/54763669

      Still going to give it a try, but my excitement waned pretty quickly.

      Sorry to hear, hopefully we can make your experience a bit nicer

    • quaff@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      mlem is pretty great. arctic too. I’m planning on switching back to Android this year though, anyone know any equivalent quality Android clients?

  • FuzzyElevator64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    17 hours ago

    Still trying to figure this all out.

    It sucks to prepare for a new social media home. I am still on Reddit, but I know it’s only a matter of time before some broligarch decides to take it down or do a TikTok reboot.

  • YamahaRevstar@lemmy.world
    422·
    19 hours ago

    I deleted my last account on another instance and started a new one. So technically I’m not really NEW. But to answer your question, I wanna die.

  • Aurinia@lemmy.world
    14·
    16 hours ago

    I miss the drama to feed my schadenfreude I got from reading boru and the like. But besides not able to feed my bad vice, I think I can survive here.