I run a few groups, like @fediversenews@venera.social, mostly on Friendica. It’s okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.
Currently, I’m testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It’s in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it’s coming along nicely.
Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.
All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!
Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.
- unique_hemp ( @unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de ) 103•1 year ago
It’s looking great! I joined just 2 days ago and the communities I subscribed to are already looking much more lively today. Thanks, Reddit blackout!
Also written in Rust, btw :)
- PenguinCoder ( @Penguincoder@beehaw.org ) 83•1 year ago
How do you know something is developed with Rust?
Don’t worry, the devs will tell you.
- KNova ( @knova@links.dartboard.social ) 10•1 year ago
Check the GitHub! It’s linked at the bottom of the web page (“Code”)
- Flickertail ( @flickertail@lemmy.world ) 7•1 year ago
I’ve also found this to be true with Julia devs
Source: am Julia dev
- nii236 ( @nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev ) English15•1 year ago
Weirdly enough the fact that it’s written in rust is why I am using it instead of kbin (PHP)
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) English20•1 year ago
PHP!? They’re writing the shiny new thing in the joke language from r/ProgrammerHumor?
- nii236 ( @nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev ) English10•1 year ago
Exactly right?
To the average Redditor I guess its fine, but to me its unacceptable haha.
Repo link: https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) English5•1 year ago
Welp, I guess I chose right after all.
- nii236 ( @nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev ) English4•1 year ago
There is:
- The right choice
- The other choice (PHP)
- The wrong choice (PHP)
- Osnapitsjoey ( @Osnapitsjoey@lemmy.one ) English10•1 year ago
What makes rust so special?
- J_C___ ( @J_C___@sh.itjust.works ) English31•1 year ago
- Osnapitsjoey ( @Osnapitsjoey@lemmy.one ) English8•1 year ago
God damn! Okay now I’m fully behind it
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) English14•1 year ago
Fast because it’s pointer-based like C/C++, but better because it’s memory safe, which means it won’t crash, leak or mysteriously overwrite it’s own data constantly.
- Danacus ( @daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz ) English7•1 year ago
I’d say that it’s fast because it’s compiled to machine code and doesn’t use garbage collection. But I see what you mean with “pointer-based”.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) English2•1 year ago
Is there anything with no garbage collection that doesn’t work with pointers? If the compiler is handling all the memory allocation for you it might as well just collect garbage, so I figured they were kind of synonymous.
Since we’re now going into details, Rust is neat because they figured out a way to keep track of the memory safety of pointers at compile time. That’s hard to do, which is why it’s a new language and not the old standard.
- bhj 🦥 ( @bhj@lemmy.one ) English8•1 year ago
Rust is a very good language but is relatively new on the scene so it has to compete against other languages that fit the same niche(primarily C++) that have been around a lot longer.
Rust has been very popular for hobby projects for a while but it’s still pretty rare to see it for larger projects, and you still almost never see it for enterprise projects. So it’s cool seeing an app that uses it blow up.
- nii236 ( @nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev ) English3•1 year ago
There’s a bit of a groundswell, where I’ve seen young devs try to push an organisation that they’re working in towards Rust. This is usually a terrible mistake because it means you’ll be forcing all the other devs to maintain your Rust code.
- Ragoo ( @Ragoo@feddit.de ) English3•1 year ago
It should be noted that while Rust is rarely used, some very big players are pushing it. E.g. last year Microsoft Azure’s CEO tweeted that “it’s time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ and use Rust for those scenarios where a non-GC language is required”, Windows contains some Rust code now and the Linux kernel also supports Rust in addition to C since December.
- pimeys ( @pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io ) English2•1 year ago
I’ve written a bit less than half a million lines of Rust now and worked mainly with it in the last three companies in the past seven years. It works really well for large projects with many contributors.
- nii236 ( @nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev ) English7•1 year ago
While I lean more towards Go, I have found that any Rust project that actually reaches maturity tends to be amazingly well built.
It might be a side-effect of Rustaceans on average being good programmers, or maybe the language itself just lends itself to robust, high performance software. Who knows.
- Drew Got No Clue ( @ndr@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
It’s probably a bit of both. The language (well, the compiler) enforces good practices and you need to think more about what you’re writing and not just copy-paste snippets.
- Drew Got No Clue ( @ndr@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
To be clear, only the backend is in Rust (probably the most important part though).
- bhj 🦥 ( @bhj@lemmy.one ) 5•1 year ago
I haven’t been here much longer. It’s been really cool seeing all of the communities pop up as users flood in.
- Flickertail ( @flickertail@lemmy.world ) 88•1 year ago
A year ago, I viewed the Fediverse as an unnecessary, complicated framework created by a handful of well-intentioned individuals as a solution to a problem that wasn’t really there.
Today, I view it as a necessity.
This past year has been a hard lesson for me to stop placing trust in massive, centralized web services like Twitter and Reddit and to start federating more of my online activity. There’s going to be growing pains, but Lemmy has been pretty good so far and it’s definitely going to be worth it in the end.
- fwgx ( @fwgx@f.fwgx.uk ) 57•1 year ago
For wide spread adoption there are a lot of issues with the fediverse. The main one is the home pages of fediverse instances or join-X.org sites immediately turn people away with their language, jargon and content. Nobody cares about the open source licence, or how it’s “federated” or what the developers can do, or that you can run your own server or what languages and frameworks it’s built on etc. These all will turn people away. Literally the first sentence on join-lemmy is “Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform”. Nobody wants to self host anything (well I do, but near to 100% of people don’t). Then there are screen shots of code diff’s and actual code, then a list of programming languages, then some Latin with hard to see ‘mod tools’, and then at the end back to self hosting “With Lemmy, you can easily host your own server, and all these servers are federated”. None of this is enticing people in. It’s turning people away.
These entrances to the fediverse should be about community, discussions, engagement etc. That’s what people want to sign up for and start participating. Just get them signed up. Once they’re in they can learn about the other benefits and that they can move the profile to different servers, or whathaveyou. Keep all the other bumf hidden away behind a “benefits” link.
Someone needs to come up with better terminology to fediverse and federated to avoid having to explain it all the time. It’s federated… You know… Like email. Well I’ve used email a long time and nobody has ever called it federated or used that term before when talking about any aspect of email - and I run my own email server.
Tl:dr: just cut the crap and make on-boarding easier. Dont let developers dictate the content of the homepage.
- Stumblinbear ( @Stumblinbear@pawb.social ) 54•1 year ago
The apps need some work, but overall it’s “okay.” The rest of my gripes lie entirely around the lack of content, which can’t be helped
- psudo ( @psudo@beehaw.org ) 46•1 year ago
Just remember: Only You can prevent dead communities!
- palitu ( @palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org ) 13•1 year ago
it can be helped!
- manitcor ( @manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech ) 2•1 year ago
I am on it for AI and GPT things, bringing over our content and will be posting more, going to setup bots to keep it flowing too!
- Square Singer ( @squaresinger@feddit.de ) 46•1 year ago
In general, it works pretty nice, but there are some limitations.
The biggest one for me is discoverability. The federation means that there is more fragmentation and it’s harder to find the right community for something.
For example, there are country/city communities for my country/city on multiple instances. And since it’s hard to find the “correct” one, it fragments out much harder than Reddit did. Combine that with generally lower attendance numbers and you get really tiny communities.
This is not aided by Jerboa, which doesn’t open internal links internally. So if someone posts a link to a community and I press it, it instead tries to open it with my email app.
- TheRoarer ( @TheRoarer@beehaw.org ) 44•1 year ago
I hate when threads and comments automatically update, scrolling content down my browser.
I hate that when I hit back on my web browser, it doesn’t bring me back to where I was previously on the page. I have to scroll down all over again.
Lack of content or small communities don’t bother me. It just means more people need to contribute, myself included.
- dracul104 ( @dracul104@lemmy.sdf.org ) 41•1 year ago
I love the concept of decentralization. Feels more like the internet of old.
- brianala ( @brianala@lemmy.world ) 39•1 year ago
I signed up for Mastodon awhile back but never really got into it since I don’t really do Twitter much either. I have been reading about lemmy but didn’t sign up until today.
It was a little confusing trying to sign up, the first instance I tried to sign up with had a waiting period for account approvals but I finally found one I could sign up with instantly and then I started poking around. I think I am getting the hang of it!
I have also downloaded Mlem to test on my iphone. It’s easy and simple to use, not a lot of features yet but it seems promising.
So far outside of a bit of focus time to figure out how to actually get signed up and find communities to subscribe to I’m cautiously optimistic. This seems more like how the older days of the internet were, before the enshittification of social media. Let’s see if this trend continues!
- pushka ( @pushka@beehaw.org ) 11•1 year ago
Yes - same for me, I love the reddit format compared to twitter, but also I just had bad luck with mastodon being really slow for me, but if all the things are self hosted - it’ll be inconsistent depending on the instance and load ~
- Paul Schoe ( @paulschoe@mastodon.world ) 1•1 year ago
Which Mastodon server are you on?
- pushka ( @pushka@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
i don’t really use it / haven’t used it in ages and haven’t really used twitter before,
- worfamerryman ( @worfamerryman@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
I was never much of Twitter user, but I like mastodon due to the community. It’s such a wholesome place. Lemmy seems to be going that way as well.
- dropte_eth ( @1st@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year ago
I tried mastodon very briefly about 6mths ago, and it seemed pretty quiet ala diaspora - has it filled up a bit now?
- worfamerryman ( @worfamerryman@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
I was never a big Twitter user. So it’s hard for me to judge, but it requires being a bit more active and following people.
Start searching hashtags and following the people you find interesting. I typically just use it as a way to scream into the void about what’s on my mind and then respond to the responses I get.
- dave ( @dave@lemmerz.org ) 38•1 year ago
The idea is outstanding. The parts of the UI that work are great. There’s much work to be done, especially with regard to subscription and discovery. The whole “copy/paste this into your server’s search bar” thing is… not great.
- RagingNerdoholic ( @RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca ) 34•1 year ago
The UX is kinda rough around the edges, but it’s filling my scroll addiction while reddit takes a steaming dump on everyone.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 33•1 year ago
For me, 10/10 just as good. It only needs more content.
I think it’s important to make sure your instance is federated with all the other big ones, though, since adding a new one is not user-friendly.
- CodingAndCoffee ( @CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.world ) 31•1 year ago
I hope the #RedditMigration sours adoption
I think you meant spurs lol
Anyway yeah I’m liking Lemmy and the fediverse so far. I actually prefer the UI/UX of https://kbin.social more for desktop, but Jerboa is great for mobile. If they stay actively in development it’s going to be hard to beat IMO
I’ve followed from Fark to StumbleUpon to Digg to Reddit, and now many years later, to Lemmy. I think the communities being spread across instances is extremely powerful for overall global community resiliency (if the separation is respected and we don’t end up with a bunch of duplicated “subs” everywhere).
I’m sure you’ve heard plenty of people say this today, but the one thing I feel the most is excitement. The chaos reminds me of the early-ish days (~1996?) of the web when everything was discoverable and not already aggregated to be served up to you inbetween advertisements.
- Admiral Muffin ( @admiral_muffin@lemmy.one ) 31•1 year ago
It feels like the start of something new, you know? Sort of exciting because coming from Reddit to Lemmy feels like taking a leap of faith as we are looking for this place to replace what we have lost. At the end of the day, communities are what make or break a platform and we have that going.
In terms of the platform itself, I am still trying to figure my way around here but the UI/UX feels easy to interact with. I guess I would love to have a mobile app for iOS down the line to replace my addiction to Apollo!
- Confuzzeled ( @Confuzzeled@lemmy.world ) 30•1 year ago
I’m quietly hopeful that more and more people migrate over to lemmy, if it wasn’t for all this api nonsense I’d have never heard of the fediverse. I don’t know how it passed me by but I’m glad to be here now.
- Baggins ( @baggins@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Same here, I first heard of Mastodon last year and made an account. Gave up after a while as it a bit clunky/I didn’t really understand it. Didn’t hear of Lemmy until mentioned on Reddit a couple of months ago. Never used Twitter that much anyway, but am liking it here.
My preferred choice is Beehaw, seems a bit calmer and I like their system.
- thedarkfly ( @thedarkfly@feddit.nl ) 28•1 year ago
I tried the fediverse with Mastodon to replace Twitter, but it didn’t work out. On Twitter, I was exclusively following accounts of personalities/organizations. As these accounts did not make the switch from Twitter to Mastodon, there was little use.
I feel like the fediverse works way better with content aggregation. I don’t really care who specifically is on Lemmy, as long as there is content and discussion. So far it’s been really nice.