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!

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        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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          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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      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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      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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        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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          I’m not so good at posting but I’ve been commenting way more in the past few days then I have on reddit in a long time

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            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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              There’s a search function for a lot of it. The easiest way to discover communities currently is https://browse.feddit.de, and you’ll want to copy the full URL of the community into your instance’s search bar, i.e. if you wanted to follow the Pokemon TCG community you’d search for https://lemmy.ml/c/pokemontcg and it should bring up the community from there.

              There’s a technical reason why that is, due to the way federated servers work, but i’ll defer to someone smarter than I for that explanation.

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

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      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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      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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        Instagram is currently creating a microbloggin service that uses ActivityPub

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          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.