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Newcomers who joined Lemmy last week, how are you doing? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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As usual, a few pointers

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Welcome!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Welcome!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

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/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Those might be outdated, I would recommend [email protected] nowadays

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

What happened last week?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I like it here, unfortunately a lot of the more niche communities that I'm in haven't, and probably won't migrate here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, that's usually the sad part. Have you tried having a look at [email protected] ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I have not but thank you I'll take a look!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Trying to gt 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Welcome!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

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.

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