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

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.

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.
- We call them "instances" round here. A sub is my mom according to my friend
  
  An instance is not the same as a community/sub.

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?
- Ah, the good old hackintosh routine!
- 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.
- 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?
- 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/
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help!
- I encourage you to create them and foster them.
  
  Let me get through the welcome newcomers stuff first! :)

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

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

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.
- What sub are you still looking for? I might no equivalent of some.
- Sorry the whole fediverse was way too busy talking about the Superb Owl (#superbowl on the twittoverse and !superbowl@lemmy.world for the threadiverse).
- 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
- 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 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.
- 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
- Pro: There are lots of apps other than Voyager for people to find what works for them.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- mlem is pretty great. arctic too. I'm planning on switching back to Android this year though, anyone know any equivalent quality Android clients?

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

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.

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.
  
  Thank you.
  
  https://p.lemmy.world/
  https://m.lemmy.world/
  https://o.lemmy.world/
  are also good options!

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.

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.