I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.

Hello Lemmy

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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Hello to the Fediverse! Hopefully you can also enjoy the rest of the sites such as Kbin, Pixelfed, Peertube, Owncast and Misskey - there's plenty to choose from!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I’ve checked a few instances of federated YouTube alternatives and just… no. Most of the content is right wing guys looking for a place to spread hate they can’t elsewhere. The type of people that watch Andrew Tate and Admin Ross. Lemmy is Great though, mastodon seems a little boring compared to twitter. The fix to that would be Elon fucking up enough that the very change averse average internet user would be willing to try mastodon.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Mastodon gets better when you start following people by hashtag.

    Account Settings > Profile > Featured Hashtags

    Populate that area with hashtags of what interests you. Pretty soon you have people popping up that share your interests and you follow those that seem interesting.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I think the thing that may finally drive people off the platform may be the limitation on viewing posts. Busy days, I'm not likely to hit the limit - big news day? Yeah, going to hit the limit pretty fucking fast.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yeah- this is my big gripe with all of the alternative video sharing platforms. All of them have a significantly right-wing conspiracy theorist bias. Not really a place I see myself spending a lot of time, personally.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    what is the advantage to using kbin if i am already using lemmy?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    Mastodon/Fed Twitter integration. You can post on a Lemmy community, tag a hashtag and it becomes a microblog (tweet) at the same time. But upvoted and downvotes are public on kbin. So depends what you want.

    And in the long run we'll see if kbin can keep up with the Twitter like software on the Twitter side and if it can keep up with Lemmy for reddit features at the same time. Like Lemmy can focus purely on meeting Reddits features then passing them. Kbin has to worry and work on both.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    It's strange, but the 3 day poop challenge meme that swept through lemmy the other day reminded me of what Reddit used to be. It felt like an actual community where people were actually interacting, and sometimes bizarre posts turned into legends. I hadn't noticed the slow transition to just endless bot reposts. With all the spez drama, i decided Reddit was dead to me, and that was sad to acknowledge the sudden end of an era like that. But lemmy showed me that the things that made me love Reddit have been gone for a long time, and I feel more at home here.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    The only thing I still need reddit for is the sports communities. I hope some start getting bigger over here.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Twitter has seriously turned into a right wing cess pool. :( 😞

    Can't even watch porn on there anymore. LOL

    I was watching one of my favorite gay porn stars and swiped up foe the next video and it was this couple that had like 45 guns strapped to them out shooting printed out faces of Democrat politicians.

    Talk about a damn boner killer.

    Also, the only comments that show up are right wing nut jobs as well. Idk what the hell is going on there.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I hope that this is the start of something special on the internet. I hope that this is the beginning of us users taking the power back from big tech companies.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Welcome to the Fediverse 🌞 I switched to Mastodon after Musk announced to buy the Twitter. It is already over a year ago 🤔

    I am new to Lemmy myself, but it looks good

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    Twitter is alot more fun now though.

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