People who joined Lemmy in the last few days thanks to posts on /r/buyfromEU, how are you doing?

Joined yesterday, I'm loving the gestures of the voyager app

Fine, and how are you?

Still not sure about the best Android App, I've tried Interstellar, what seemed kind of unfinished. Now I have Voyager, what seems better so far.
Furthermore I miss some Sub..Lemmis? like r/bida (am i the asshole), r/Staiy, r/LeopardsAteMyFace .
- !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

Not only Lemmy i also joined Mastodon lol. I find this expirience to be refreshing, maybe thats because this platform has less users or maybe because its not under someones control but i feel as if i moved from big, overpopulated city to a countryside. Its like breathing fresh air, i feel myself free, and i love reading comments here, they look like real conversations between humans. Although im not from European Union but im your neighbor from Ukraine and i totally support this movement or its better to call an idea, i dunno. I replaced a lot of stuff already but thats only the first step. Also im really glad to be here.
- Welcome!

A few unwritten rules I've found useful over the last couple of years since moving to Lemmy :)
If you're missing a particular smaller or niche community - be the change and create it!
If someone is challenging you in a thread in good faith, respond in the same way
If they're just being a dick, don't waste any sort of mental energy on them - just block them, forget them and move on.
If you're the one being a dick (and be honest, we all know when we are) walk away for a bit
Don't be too proud to ask for guidance but do it in the right communities :) e.g. don;t ask for tech help in a community thats not about tech help.
Be prepared to see a lot of Star Trek memes and Nicole spam.
Bask in the warm glow of an open source, privacy respecting, non-corporately controlled environment.
- You forgot the beans and five days no shit
  
  You're right, I did. Dammit.
- you’re missing a particular smaller or niche community - be the change and create it!
  Also consider discussing it on !fedigrow@lemm.ee

A question,
How when and where does the money come from to keep lemmy running?
Since nothing is free in life who pays for lemmy?
- Divide by zero (the instance I'm on) takes donations. People who donate get a nifty flair in the governance threads, but you don't have to donate to vote on issues the server faces. (We also allow non-members to vote, though since they're not as impacted by decisions made for the instance, their votes are given lower weights.)
- The server admins pay for it. Or people donate to the instance to keep it running
  
  And on that note, consider donating to the instance and/or the Lemmy devs (and any other open-source project you find useful). I also need to make a round of donations soon!
- Varies between instances. sh.itjust.works, for example, is financed via donations.
- https://feddit.org/post/2600584

Came over from Reddit as part of plan to divest from US-based products. Happy to be here, and plan to explore. Mainly lurked over on Reddit - hope to contribute more actively over here!
- I almost never posted on Reddit. Partly because someone has usually already said something close to what I wanted to say. With the smaller community here I feel like I can make a unique contribution more often.
- Welcome!

A facebook friend who is transgender posted a list of alternate platforms to use instead of (ironically) Facebook, Google, Insta etc. And since I had recently been perma banned from reddit for twice quoting from The Godfather (I guess their algorithm hasn't seen it) and various djt related insults, I thought I'd give this a try.

Yay to all the fresh lemmings. Welcome welcome! Just don't be a dipshit please.

This is my first comment, just joined during the weekend. It took about half a day to get used to the lower amount of stuff and the slower pace here. And I really like it! The quality of discourse here seems so much higher and with the lower amount of posts I find that I can take my time and not get overwhelmed. Should have joined years ago :-)
- Years ago, it was just a safe haven for half a dozen communists.
  
  2 years ago it was already pretty well spread out IMO, that was just before the API fiasco. Now add some years before that and I'd say yeah, a much smaller community.
  But even a couple years ago Lemmy was beginning to thrive.
- Welcome, glad to hear you like it!

Still looking around 😬

i do miss my niche communities on reddit, maybe i'll start some here,other than that lemmy is a good alternative to replace the popular feed on reddit.
- Welcome!

Thanks.
I do like that the sub-lemmy is focused on Europe as a whole, the one on Reddit was labelled as EU

Great, I've made myself right at home. As another user said I miss the smaller communities but it can only get better from here.
- Make them and try to convince the members for the corresponding subreddits to join you :) And welcome!
- Welcome!

Very nice here so far 🙂
- Welcome!

I’m a little bit confused still but haven’t had the time to read through any FAQs. I don’t know how to access my account in a web browser for example (I’m using an iPhone app now).
So thank you for those links! Will have a look.
- The website you would go to in your desktop browser is feddit.nu.
- Figure which server you are on then go to that url
  So feddit.nu for u
  
  Ok, that was almost embarrassingly easy 🙈😅 Thanks!

I just joined and i'm exploring right now. It's looking good ! Of course it will be easier in a few days but i'm honestly pleasantly surprised !
- Welcome! For French speaking communities, !forumlibre@jlai.lu and !support@jlai.lu should be useful
  
  Thank you, i will make sure to check these ones !

New world to explore, keep clicking and wil see where I end up!

Still learning where to find stuff, and unfortunately most of "my" subreds aren't here (yet), but it looks promising and will continue to support.
- You can use the universal https://lemmyverse.net/ to see if your favourite communities exist.
- Yeah pretty much but weaning off reddit is good
- Feel free to recreate your favourite and try to grow it here :).
  !fedigrow@lemm.ee is a decent resource for that.
  
  Also consider joining more general communities
  !jrpg@lemmy.zip is a community for all Japanese RPGs for instance
- Welcome ! Indeed, niche topics need a larger userbase, hopefully we'll get there over time
- sometimes they have different names.
  you can also create any community you are missing. If you use the same name as the reddit community then people will be more likely to find it and contribute.

I like it so far :) Bit confusing sometimes and I'm still trying to find communities that I like and are active.
I hope that many more make the switch from reddit, but I can also see why some people might find the Initial setup confusing or anoying. I think it just takes some time to get used to Lemmy, so I hope a lot of people try it out and stay
- Welcome! This post might help https://lemmy.world/post/26409821

Haven't checked Reddit much since creating this account. Thought I might use both but Lemmy is genuinely much better. The only thing I haven't figured out is how to visit the original instance from within voyager and how to make my feed more diverse. Currently it's very politics heavy and I don't wanna unsub from those communities but other stuff kinda gets burried.
- The only thing I haven't figured out is how to visit the original instance from within voyager
  Top left of your feed, hit the arrow and at the top left you'll see the option to view only subscribed or all posts on your local instance (or all posts from all instances).
- I would use two accounts, one dedicated to non politics communities
  !communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help discover some of them

Just arrived. It seams great.

I like how Lemmy actually grew in size after i left it after the Reddit moderation problem of a couple years ago. All in all, it's all kind of overwhelming but maybe I'm too emotional.