I ate all the food. Sorry.
So is this a defederation thing? I’m going to assume. Otherwise, what’s the point of being federated if I sub to another community on another instance and only the people from my instance can see those comments? Or am I missing something?
Members of the community highlight built in sponsored segments and the extension/addon allows you to skip over them.
Firefox: uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Simple Tab Groups, New Tab Suspender, SponsorBlock for YouTube.
I recently discovered STG, and I cannot stress enough how great it is! It takes a minute to set up with colors and group names. But, oh my, how great it is to have my Spotify, Lastfm, and Bandcamp in a Music group, all my work stuff in a Work group, all my general stuff like Facebook, Lemmy, and email in a Home group, shopping sites in a Shopping tab, and so on. Being able to toggle between them is so useful.
I love Beehaw. It was the first general instance that was suggested all over the place, even the top on join-lemmy.org for a long time. I respect what you’re doing, and that’s why I joined. I like the local communities and cohesiveness. And I know it’s just a few instances right now (pending revisits), but I’m worried that might increase. That, and DotWorld is growing quickly and has a lot of the 1:1 communities popping up to match beloved subreddits.
It hasn’t made me rethink being a Beehaw member at all, because I do respect the ethos and understand, but it also means I have to make another account to feel like I can truly interact fully across the Fediverse. But between my Beehaw account, my kbin I’ve decided to leave within the kbin verse for the moment, making a new one will mean 3 accounts I’ve got to keep up with (really 4 with the NSFW-only one). It’s not difficult to do, especially toggling between them in Jerboa, but it kind of defeats the bigger purpose and unification. Just a ramble to vent. Like I said, I get it. Hope everyone has a good rest of their day.
That was suggested for the official announcements: Beehaw Yeehaws. 😂
Lemmy is promising, and I’m here to stay. I haven’t nuked my account on Reddit yet. But as others have said, I don’t plan on posting much there anymore. Unfortunately, I’m going to be slightly tethered to wherever the smaller, more niche communities that I like end up.
I am also an 11-year Reddit vet making the move. Welcome! This isn’t my first Fediverse experience, but definitely my most promising (I don’t really tweet, so Mastodon is kind of whatever to me). This and kbin have been great.
I was also part of the Voat migration. I never left Reddit, as I didn’t mind them cracking down on some of the more questionable content, but I did check Voat out. I wasn’t part of the cesspool that showed up there, but I did enjoy participating in some of the smaller communities. I think what didn’t work was that it just got stale. Same reason I didn’t like Snapzu or some of the other “Reddit alternatives.” Even larger communities were just… dead. What made Reddit work was that everyone was there, and even small, niche communities had active users.
I’ll believe it when I see it. I don’t doubt it’s gone through extensive testing. But every Bethesda title needs a good patchin’, which may come sooner or never, in the case of community patches decades later. That said, I expect bugs, but hope it’s nothing game breaking.
I haven’t seen that personally - for me, that experience was on Rumble. I think that’s where a lot went. My experience on Odysee has been largely tech/crypto, DistroTube, The Linux Experiment, Linux and privacy stuff. But I guess everyone’s experience varies. I went in subbing to those channels, so maybe I got served more of the same.
KOTOR is one I’ve wanted to try, but worry it’ll be a Morrowind experience for me. I was excited to hear about the remake, but that seems like it could be in limbo at the moment.
Oblivion was far more vibrant and fantasical-feeling while out and exploring. Skyrim felt very dull and depressing, but that was also the vibe they were going for. I don’t fault anyone for not liking something. Hell, Witcher 3 should be right up my alley on paper, and I just didn’t end up enjoying it, even after giving it several hours at a friend’s recommendation.
As for YouTube, Odysee exists and has a mirroring for YouTube uploads for content creators, but it’s mainly just tech and crypto people at the moment - yes, there’s others, but most everyday people have never even heard of LBRY or Odysee.
I came in on Oblivion and loved it. For as much of a mess as Skyrim was, I enjoyed it. I’ve found it very, very hard to go back and play Morrowind (or earlier games) as a newcomer without a pair nostalgia goggles. I agree, like all Bethesda releases, it will be a buggy mess. But I’m still looking forward to it. I just want another entry in the series to get lost in, but that’s probably just my depression and me looking back at more than a decade ago with my own nostalgia goggles.
It looks like someone is making an extension to handle subscribing to Lemmy communities easier from kbin. I’m still trying to figure it all out myself though.
Thanks for the in depth links. I appreciate it. That’s unfortunate. With that, that’s the beauty of open source and having different options for instances to join. I know Beehaw doesn’t subscribe to those uh ideals. I’m also on kbin, which can interact with Lemmy and everything. I don’t know - I’m still brand new to all of this.
From my understanding, you can interact between the different platforms. They are a little different in their approach, and I don’t fully “get” kbin just yet, but you can post to and interact with Lemmy from a kbin account.
That’s the issue with having so many potential places to migrate to now - people are scattered across different platforms. Reddit worked because that’s where everyone went. Millions of users means a greater potential for an active community with your niche interest. But I guess maybe there was uncertainty at the start - I came in a little after, but long before most “everyday people” had even heard the word.
Honestly, if the key smaller communities that I’m in on Reddit don’t migrate away to another platform, then I don’t know that I’ll even fully leave. Assuming the site doesn’t completely implode at this point, of course. For as many subs as I subscribe to, I really only find myself on a handful each day.
That said, spez has really soured my taste for Reddit with the AMA. I only really use old.reddit on desktop, but I’ve used mainly third-party apps over the years, like most people, I would assume. Even if they lowered API costs to be more reasonable AND third-party app devs decided to come back, they’re still limiting NSFW access to third-party app API calls anyway, so a lesser experience either way.
At the end of the day, I’m going to be where the community is, be that here, kbin, or whichever one rises up and has staying power and growth over the next couple years.
Okay, cool. I appreciate the quick reply. I thought for half a second I didn’t really understand all of this like I thought haha. That makes way more sense. Thanks again!