Welcome to the fediverse!

      • Briongloid@aussie.zoneMEnglish
        2·
        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
            1·
            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.

      • 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.

          • Awa@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
            1·
            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
        1·
        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)

  • 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.

  • justineie_bobeanie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 years ago

    Incoming user from reddit! My app got shut down. I was salty about it so I decided that I was going to find an alternative, rather than use the official app, and I found lemmy! I like the community vibe so far. I’m still figuring out how different communities and instances work together with federating. I was always more of a lurker on reddit, but I might try to become a more active commenter (for community engagement!)

  • Rogue_General@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    I’ve only been here for two weeks and already have seen major improvements. Thankful to the admins for their hard work, and glad to see the wonderful people here contributing to this platform’s awesome growth. Loving it here and wishing continued success to the fediverse :)

  • Feliberto@programming.devEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    Hello. Glad to be here. I’m not going back to reddit, they nuked Sync for Reddit and I refuse to use reddit app.

  • HPTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

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

  • Vlhacs@reddthat.comEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    What’s to stop a single Lemmy instance from going “this is taking too much time and money to run, I’m shutting this server down”? I guess that can apply to any service, but monetization sometimes prevents that from happening. But in this case it’s all volunteer work and running a server takes resources.

    What happens to all the users created under that Lemmy instance?

  • scoofy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    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.

  • SqueakyDoors@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    First comment on Lemmy. Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help get us started? I’m using the Connect Lemmy app!

    • sweBers@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      Best I can say is that you have your local server, which is the server you originally signed up in. You then have all the rest of the connected (federated) servers that can see what you say.

      Each server is its own mini-lemmy, so it is broken down into communities just like subreddits. Each has its own server administrators and each community has its own moderators.

      Regarding content delivery, it seems to be about the same process: a link, image, video, or text from a certain community. The responses are similarly threaded with buttons for interaction.

      The largest differences I have seen are that each server instance can have duplicate communities. Different servers have different tolerances for communities. In extreme cases, whole servers can be blocked (defederated) from your server. This is usually due to unwanted behavior from the users that is not curbed by the moderators or extreme communities that cause hardship for other users.

      This is what I got after about a week of lurking. If I’m not correct, please let me know.

  • Briz@vlemmy.netEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Hello everyone! Thank you to everyone working to keep servers running during this influx of signups and all the helpful posts I’m seeing around explaining instances and generally how to Lemmy.

  • partyhat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    First post here!

    As a former Apollo user, I’m super impressed by wefwef. Does anyone know what’s in store for its development? I’d love to see a native iOS app.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      The dev of WefWef is aiming for feature parity with Apollo and they’re updating it super often.

      Welcome!

      Memmy !memmy@lemmy.ml is quite good, a native app. Mlem !mlemapp@lemmy.ml feels more like Apollo than Memmy but isn’t quite as far along as Memmy.

  • Antium@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Still trying to figure this Lemmy thing out. I have an account with Lemmy.World, but I can still post/view other instances if they are shared? Anyways now that RiF is gone, guess I’m done with Reddit. Glad to be here!

  • albcunha@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Me too! I was on reddit for about 15 years, passed through some stories there. I hope we have a lot of cool safes to open here. At the end, We should´ve come before. This is the model of internet we should encourage, but reddit was too confortable for anything else. Now is the time! The funny thing is that I neve spent money on reddit, but I already signed up for donations here.