how are yall feeling about the website?

  • Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz
    11·
    1 year ago

    Ngl, us r/efugees are not happy with things over there.

    As much as I’m coming to enjoy this, it still isn’t what reddit was, nor is the app experience anything close to as feature rich. But, I’m finding other benefits here that are, and never were, possible at reddit, so it’s still a good thing :)

    Reddit is proof that no publicly traded company, nor any that intends to be, can be trusted with anything. Not use that was ever in doubt, but reddit has shown it in such a glaring, grotesque way that it’s the poster child for how shitty corporate thought is.

    I dunno. I was enjoying things. I had started moderating two subs I deeply cared about, with one having a strong sense of community building. There’s an emotional response to the loss of that. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to put in the work, put in the passion, when it’s shit on by the very company that profits from my free labor. fuck spez, fuck reddit

    • Discoslugs@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      God dam right friend.

      The best parts of reddit were the communities of people dedicated to the topics under each sub.

      Reddit CEOs didn’t create that. It was and has always been regular users and hardworking Mods that brought us what we loved about reddit. If reddit isn’t going to protect those people, fuck em.

      I’m signing off of reddit with the black out. There will probably be a long time before something replaces it. But I’m a long for the ride.

    • jimmyjoners@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      I mean it seems so obvious in retrospect I suppose. I hope we’re looking a the start of a real renascence for the internet, away from corporate overlords.

  • Decoy321@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    Just joined a bit, too. Looks great so far. It reminds me of that wild west frontier feeling like when a bunch of us migrated from Digg to Reddit. We’re building another new community.

    … With blackjack! And hookers!

    • arc@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s like we’ve just escaped an abusive partner and now starting from zero!

      • teuast@lemmy.world
        26·
        1 year ago

        That “first night in the new apartment without most of the furniture, sleeping by yourself for the first time in a while” feeling.

        • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          I actually love that feeling except that one time I spent my first night in this prison-like dorm room with dirty walls and no hot water in Japan, dirty sheets and a paper thin futon with nothing to eat and nobody to talk to/no way to call anyone. This feels a lot better than that.

    • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Honestly I don’t see it as going backwards but unfamiliar. I was reluctant to switch to this style because I didn’t understand it and ended up on mastodon a few years ago into some terrifyingly hostile racist/bogoted/sexist communities. Maybe I did something wrong and ended up in a bad part of town but I ended up deleting the app I was using. So far the experience on lemmy is so much more pleasant lol…

  • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    It’s ugly, not intuitive, feels way more complicated than necessary for a social site and the name is kind of dumb.

    I’m 100% on board because screw Reddit and fuck u/spez.

    I hope I can learn the ropes and help this place grow into something better.

  • Cakein@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’m a little confused, but cautiously optimistic. It took a while to sign up and log in, but I got that far, so I guess I can work out the rest too! As a bit of a Reddit lurker, I’m out of my comfort zone, but committed to upvoting and commenting to help build the community!

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    It’s good so far; a few UX/UI issues need polishing, some more display options would be nice too.

    The whole issue of community@instance is going to take some getting used to for people, and it’s not clear how that’s going to shake out in the long run. I’m not yet certain whether this will become my default space, but I’m willing to give it a go.

    • lhx@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      There should be a way to make meta-communities. I.e. I could group FOO@lemmy.world and FOO@lemmy.ml and so forth so it shows as one large community when reading it.

      • KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        It seems like the intended use-case for federated stuff like this is that all of FOO would be in one instance, even though it’s accessible from any instance it still shows which instance it originates in. Which feels a little weird, some topics don’t really have a overarching supertopic that it makes sense for them to belong to.

  • Cycrus93@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    1 year ago

    The whole lemmy concept mixed with the current situation feels far more like you are part of a real community. Kinda like in old internet days. I will even break out of my reddit lurker days and try to contribute here.