Be mindful of the smug “Lemmy Culture” hipsters, they’ll eventually weed themselves out or self segregate though as more normies flow in.
I welcome the masses.
Same!
This is my first post, on my first day here, and it feels pretty good.
It’s kind of a rush picking a username knowing most are still available.
I know! I hadn’t even thought of that until I saw someone’s was like “mee” and now I need to get another account. It’s like how people get caught off guard when I tell them my 20 year old email is just my name with no numbers or special characters.
So tasty names still available
(There always will be many good names available since every name can exist once on every instance)
and the best part is that if a name is taken on one instance you can just try another!
The tankies have been notified. I expect you will receive a proper welcoming in the not so distant future.
Oh god, oh no. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife…
Welcome in.
Can some people who are willing to post something other than American politics and Reddit bashing posts join lemmy soon, I’m sick of my entire feed being nothing but all these negative topics
I think Lemmy is a bit too complicated to attract the kind of light-hearted users that made Reddit shine. It’s daunting unless you have nowhere else to go.
People on
- !gardening@lemmy.world
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee
- !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz
- !askouija@lemmy.world
Seem to be doing fine.
There is a pinned post with non-political communities on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Idk, I came here with no idea about the instance system, I joined one that was near the top of the list, realised it was entirely Tankies, and made an account on the instance this account is on. I think people are likely to have a similar experience.
Hear about Lemmy -> join one of the first instances they see -> realise how things actually work -> make an account on an instance that’s properly researched and more aligned with the person
Big things are happening in the world right now. I know that it sucks.
I had a discussion the other day, where people were not happy with lemmy instances not handing data over to google. They argument was that we should do everything so lemmy can be found more easily, as the only goal is to “win” against reddit.
Unfortunately in that discussion people were not interested in using Lemmy and the Fediverse at large to create a positive vision of the internet. They just wanted to stick it to one corporation they don’t like. I don’t like reddit either, but i think we should thrive for a Fediverse that upholds decentralization, open source and non commercialization of social interactions. All the large Internet corporations want to create the opposite and have been quite successful so far.
Blocking all of the political and news communities can help
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca has a pinned post without active non political communities
Use an app with filter lists. Add american political terms to filter. Experience gets muuuuuch better.
For those of us using Firefox there was a post on !youshouldknow@lemmy.world on how you can use uBlock Origin to create word filters.
To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)For example:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)
Right there with you, it’s going to be a long four years…
Just block the subs. Or subscribe to communities that interest you and stick to your subscribed feed.
More Star Trek memes!
Hi :) it’s a niche community but I’m doing what I can
I’m loving it already! And…I’m not scrolling through ads too!!
Every time I end up on Reddit the amount of ads makes me recoil. You’re free now!
How come theres been an influx of users recently? Did reddit shit the bed again?
Yes they started banning thousands of active users for “inciting violence” if you say things like “fuck Elon musk” or “my favorite character in super Mario bros is Luigi”
Well i can understand that - the best character in super mario bros is Yoshi
Reddit recently started doubling down on far-right actions. Like making it so you can be banned for just upvoting a post that breaks the rules, or banning you for saying the name “Luigi.”
Personally, I recently got permabanned for being truthful about fascists.
For me I left Reddit recently and switched because Reddit made a change that broke the Boost app.
glad to be here!
There might even be scores now
Dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens… 112,744 to be inexact…
Lemmy Total Users by Day: 1,352,936 for 3/12/25.
Divided by 12, that’s 112,744 and some change… probably a couple of baker’s dozens in there…
Looks like ~53k monthly active users, I think that’s a better stat, since it doesn’t include people making new alts and abandoning their old accounts.
Then that’s 4,416 dozen, give or take a baker.
But all in all, I’d say that lemmings are much more active than Redditors - just based on responses to my posts and comments. I’ve earned 15k karma on this account, far more than any of my vastly older reddit accounts. Take that for what you will, but I’ve personally found the community here much more active, especially as of late.
Content quality is drastically better too.
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Hey fellow redfugees!
Welcome! It’s nice and comfy here, if a little less of an infinite content-hose compared to Reddit. You might need to do a little more heavy lifting yourself in terms of posting and commenting, but on the plus side - people actually read what you post, instead of being drowned by a deluge of spam and bots! And discussions are mostly friendly and civil!
I kinda like that it’s smaller here in terms of content and users. I left reddit back at the API thing, I’d been on there over ten years and was spending easily an hour or two a day on there. Here, I pop in, check it out, get a similar experience - but I don’t get stuck in endless scrolling or stupid arguments. Instead I’m reading more books.
Yes that’s what I’ve found! There’s less of it but the quality is far better, the atmosphere is far better and it’s like reddit used to be years ago. I’ve missed all that and I’m so glad I found lemmy. ☺️
And it also actively prevents doomscrolling when you see the same post multiple times.
I prefer redxiter.
Welcome to Lemmy. Here’s your Molotov, the guillotine is just down the hall. First left.
Let’s be real, we ain’t touching grass, let alone take action.
Actually I volunteer in a community centre
Honestly I’d expect more action for Lemmy than left leaning Reddit accounts just cause people here have taken steps to make a difference
We never said they’re real.
Yes, of course, strictly in Minecraft.
Speak for yourself, friend!
we are
legionsquad.
Welcome and dont forget to tip your local server administrators. Servers are not free.
Keep it away from corporations by donating today. :)
Lemmy and Mastodon are like “PBS” social media.
“This is brought to you by people like you.”
Just be warned, those dozens are all actually one person.
It’s me. I just enjoy talking to myself so much I made lemmy
Well, I didn’t expect us to have an existential crisis today, but here we are.
That’s okay, we’ll get past it again
Are you Drone Rights?
And blaze, and db0, and descalines, and ada and pugjesus, I’m everyone. I’m even you
Dessalines is a Drone Rights alt? Makes sense.
Obviously! We’re all a little conflicted inside this brain, but we get by
He is I and I am him
Slim with the tilted brim, what’s my motherfuckin’ name?what’s my motherfuckin’ name
Excuse us?? It’s OUR motherfuckin’ name too!
za-ba-do-hiiiiii-hi-hi
I have several personalities, so I guess you can say there’s dozens of us.
If anyones looking for chill communities to sub to, here’s a fat ol list https://lemmy.world/post/16327122
Dozens? More.
