Newcomers who joined Lemmy last week, how are you doing?

good thanks I've sucked 4 dicks already
- Rookie Numbers
- You're gonna need to get those numbers up.
- Not wasting any time? One more dick and you get custom flair on all your posts. Welcome.
- Four?? But I'm literally right here
- Don't forget to get your card punched!
  The fifth is free!
  
  You guys are getting paid?
- Hell yeah, brother.

Pro: there is a Lemmy app (Voyager) based on the amazing Apollo for Reddit app.
Cons: Like 5 people total were chatting about the Super Bowl in the most populous NFL community.
There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.
Still going to give it a try, but my excitement waned pretty quickly.
- I genuinely miss the F1 and CFB communities for the commentary, but I’m glad I left reddit when they killed 3rd party apps. It’s nice to have a media feed that isn’t cluttered with ads.
  
  There is !formula1@lemmy.world. I'll probably create a post later this week for sports communities on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
  
  Im shocked that the two biggest CFB communities have fewer than 1000 members.
- There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.
  One adjustment I had to make when I moved over to Lemmy is posting/commenting more. On Reddit most of the time your comment was buried. On Lemmy, a bunch of people are going to see it.
  Not saying you need to be the only poster, but sometimes everyone just posting a bit more will reveal a community.
- I should have been in there, but my eyes were just too glued on the belting I was witnessing. It’s definitely a bummer that a lot of non-tech or news communities aren’t there yet in terms of participation, but at least we’re not making some Rich assholes even more rich on here!
  
  The eagles are my wife’s favorite team and it was a fun watch for us. Ass. Whoopin.
- Like 5 people total were chatting about the Super Bowl in the most populous NFL community.
  Seems like you guys still posted 120 comments, that's not so bad!
  There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.
  Feel free to have a look at !communitypromo@lemmy.ca for some recommendations, especially this post: https://lemm.ee/post/54763669
  Still going to give it a try, but my excitement waned pretty quickly.
  Sorry to hear, hopefully we can make your experience a bit nicer
- Indeed, Lemmy tends to have fewer but more engaged users. Which is weird at first. Can't wait for the moment we'll stop seeing known faces
- yeah we're here not because it's the next new reddit, but because we were tired of reddit and spez. never said this place wasn't a fixer upper! it'll take some time to build up communities. but this place is doing better and better and only seems to be growing.
  keep lemmy in your pocket. crosspost some memes. it'll be here for you, and even more so if you're here for us!
  go birds 😜
  
  yeah ! long live !birding@lemmy.world (_-)
- Sorry, I used to post a lot more on sports communities when I was on Reddit but haven’t really felt the urge to sense moving to Lemmy. It didn’t help that the game wasn’t very good last night either. We are here. I’m pretty active on the fantasy football community. But there is just a handful of us playing there. Feel free to join us at !fantasyfootball@lemmy.world. I’m going to start our offseason mega thread now that the superbowl is done
- Pro: There are lots of apps other than Voyager for people to find what works for them.
- I personally like Jerboa, but I also used to use RIF is fun for Reddit which had a similar UI. I'm probably in the minority on preferences which is nothing new
- Sorry the whole fediverse was way too busy talking about the Superb Owl (#superbowl on the twittoverse and !superbowl@lemmy.world for the threadiverse).
- Yeah, the mood is a bit different here. We do owls, raccoons, blahaj and Linux. Extra raccoons on weekends, though. I love this place.
  
  Don't forget Star Trek!
  ...
  And beans.
- What sub are you still looking for? I might no equivalent of some.
- mlem is pretty great. arctic too. I'm planning on switching back to Android this year though, anyone know any equivalent quality Android clients?

I deleted my last account on another instance and started a new one. So technically I'm not really NEW. But to answer your question, I wanna die.
- Hell yeah, brother.

Working on it. Little lonely since most of communities from reddit don’t seem to be here but still searching so we’ll see.
Definitely feeling like I need to install linux on my mac though, perhaps as some sort of initiation?
- When I joined I felt like I moved to a village after living in a metropolis. There's positives and negatives to that, but in the end Lemmy satisfies my doomscrolling needs so I'm never coming back to reddit.
  
  When you need to doomscroll.
  \ Why not scroll wikipedia?
  https://wikitok.vercel.app/
- I encourage you to create them and foster them.
  
  Let me get through the welcome newcomers stuff first! :)
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help!
- Ah, the good old hackintosh routine!
- The peer pressure (and stupid broken updates from MS) finally got me to install linux about 8mos into using lemmy. It's pretty great, though - wish I'd done it sooner.
  
  Went with mint right after the announcement of tpm 2.0 since I'm running an off lease decade old office box.
  What're you running?
- Wouldn't recommend linux on a mac unless it's an old model (like ~2012)
  
  M1 not old enough? I can already feel Apple trying to kill it.

Still trying to figure this all out.
It sucks to prepare for a new social media home. I am still on Reddit, but I know it’s only a matter of time before some broligarch decides to take it down or do a TikTok reboot.
- Welcome, feel free if you have any questions!
  
  Thank you.
- If you browse on PC, I found that the Alexandrite UI (https://a.lemmy.world/) made the transition easier for me. If you try it out use the drop-down at the top left to bounce between "subscribed", "local", and "all". "All" will help you find communities you like to subscribe to. Welcome and good luck.
  
  https://p.lemmy.world/
  https://m.lemmy.world/
  https://o.lemmy.world/
  are also good options!
  
  Thank you.

Did something happen on the alien site last week?
- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrlep5xpmzo
  Since then, quite a few subs are looking for alternatives. !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com lists them.
  
  lol, they ban subs based on billionaire tears now? damn.

Enjoying it. I'm loving the filters I can use to limit some of the political spam.

I have to confess. I still scroll Reddit from time to time (no longer use my account), and the front page just has a lot more variety. There's still a lot of bot content from the occasional AITA that's purely clickbait to the reposts.
I do like that comments and conversations are better here. I'm seeing familiar names and I like it.

It's going okay! Still trying to decide which instance to call home. I still find myself on reddit probably equal amount to Lemmy though, unfortunately
- The particular instance doesn't matter too much as long as it hasn't defederated from other instances you care about & vice versa - since you can still see, post, & interact with content from other instances. I made accounts on .ml and .dbzer0.
  
  It matters significantly. Depending on the users the all feed is totally different. US politics are almost non existent on szmer.info
  Defederation is a secondary point.
  
  I made an account on .ml as well but noticed a bunch of comments weren't showing up when I was viewing posts on .ml which is unfortunate

I miss the drama to feed my schadenfreude I got from reading boru and the like. But besides not able to feed my bad vice, I think I can survive here.
- For schadenfreude about internal drama there is !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !fediverselore@lemmy.ca
- !bestofredditorupdates@lemmit.online
  
  Is that instance defederated from .world ? The link gives me the "couldn't_find_community" error. I searched for the community via Duckduckgo and was able to see it, but was logged out. When I logged in, all the posts disappeared.

There's a few communities I'm missing still, mostly shitpost and fan fiction subs. I'd like to start them but I'm still not sure of my own footing yet.
- There is !fanfiction@literature.cafe
  
  Yeah I had initially checked it out but seeing that there were so few posts and all over a year old was a little disheartening.
- An instance is not the same as a community/sub.

Trying to make a doc for migrants. Just the overview. Got the cold shoulder from one of the small web guys equating Lemmy to heroine. Essentially 'either do it like me or you are wrong'
Same as it ever was online.
As for me? Missing a few communities. Kinda head scratching at things over all, but it could be worse.
Both want to make a few instances and have no energy to babysit them.
- I want to hear more about how Lemmy is like heroin.
  
  From 'Guy' (Even if i think the opinion is shit. No point in calling him out even if he's unlikely to be here.)
  I think these followers and likes counters' places unleash the wrong attitude. People write stuff to collect these by pleasing the potential reader instead of writing just facts. Fights over points and factually wrong answers that gained a lot of up-votes drove me away from reddit and SE. Some even write BS and get terribly upset if you point them to a man page that contradicts their statements.
  Communication media should fit the job. Chats be volatile and fast while mail, mailing lists and news are allowing detailed discussions in long articles.
  Sending people from twitXter or FB to Mastodon does not help them evolve. It just gives addicts a supposedly more free variant of their drug instead of getting them away from it.
  Needless to say I disagree with his assertion, if for no other reason than not everyone wants to flee back to the 90's in terms of how to social/internet

Definitely better at navigating this week than last
- Good to hear!

Learned lemmy exsisted recently. How I'm doing? I'm getting through the days well enough to keep going with an even pace. Trying to focus on my family and my health, rather than the burning world around me. I check my news sites and scroll through the fediverse, hoping looking for good news. I get some of that, but a lot of it is bad news. But going through the fediverse has shown be like minded people, and people who feel just as frustrated and helpless as I do.
Knowing I'm not crazy Seeing that there are people trying to do good It gives me hope.
- Welcome!
- yeah, dont focus too much on the news. I have tried doing exactly same, scrolling and hoping to find good news. There are some there but you have to really ignore the bad ones so they dont get to you too much.
  You can hide posts so they dont appear again, i do that on some that i keep noticing over and over and dont want to.

I feel like this is the right time to move to Lemmy.. I lost faith in Reddit and it is starting to feel like everything is either an ad or a bot.. I feel like the community heee is more genuine and real (we can only hope). And if more people feel like the big tech sites (Facebook/google/reddit) is now in the US Gov’s pocket then maybe it’s time to find alternatives. Blue sky is rocketing on that front but men I prefer the Reddit style discourse. Lemmy checks all those boxes. I’m hoping in time more communities pop up and more users follow.
- Welcome!
  
  Thank you!

Trying to get used to it - slowly. I like it so far! Still super pissed that Reddit can just arbitrarily ban accounts, basically without recourse, and shut you out from any community you were in. Lots of niche queer ones I was in... just can't participate anymore.
- Welcome!

I like it here, unfortunately a lot of the more niche communities that I'm in haven't, and probably won't migrate here.
- Yes, that's usually the sad part. Have you tried having a look at !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ?
  
  I have not but thank you I'll take a look!

Amazing!! I can click on something with some algorithm now shoving 1,500 similar thing down my throa. Also, feeds are not choked with people trying to farm "engagement" be any means neciesary.
- Good to hear!

Heres some websites to help you find the lemmy communities that best fit as replacements for the subreddits you used to frequent:
https://sub.rehab/?visibleServices=lemmy
https://redditmigration.com/
- Those might be outdated, I would recommend !communitypromo@lemmy.ca nowadays

What happened last week?
- Reddit "accidentally" banned a lot of nsfw subreddits.

I'm not new, but when I joined during the initial migration, I saw trends like beans, beef straganoff, and holding in poops for as long as possible. I can't recall any adjacent inside jokes recently (although I have blocked a lot of communities to preserve my mental health).