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Welcome to our virtual third place, The Café.
Come on in and make a new human connection over a cup of coffee (or Teh Tarik). This is a casual community, do whatever you want, share your oyen pics, your frustrations, and even organize a weekend picnic with the community. The world is your oyster.
Rules are simple, be kind and civil with each other. As with any other café, rude patrons will be kicked out.
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is there anyone here who isn't/wasn't a regular reddit or fediverse user?
over the years, I have probably registered accounts on reddit to ask some questions (not on r/my as far as I remember), but never stayed for more than a month.
as for the fediverse, I remember registering a mastodon account during its early years to see what it was all about, but that too didn't last a month.
Hahahaha this is my first time lepak in a Malaysian subreddit and previously also never been on Reddit much. OTOH been on Fedi since Nov 22 daily hahahhahaha (it helps I'm not on actual mastodon and I've never been on a mega big instance)
nice, that means you most likely did not find this site from it being mentioned on reddit, so let me guess…was it through kbin?
at least, that's how I found it. due to the reddit protest saga giving an opportunity for more open platforms to be in the spotlight, I started looking for interesting communities on https://browse.feddit.de, but this site was not listed there yet.
I think I started hearing lemmy being mentioned around 2 years ago though I've never bothered to get (and keep) an account on it (like what happened to me with reddit and mastodon).
then as the reddit protests went on, I started hearing about kbin being another open source reddit alternative, and thought I'd try searching there, and I so happened to do that within a day or two of this site being created.
Yeah definitely through after setting a kbin account, and that's only after discovering kbin slurps posts based on the first tag in post to put in the various magazines, and automatically assigns a tag to track and fetch based on the name of the mag. someone set up a m/Malaysia, and someone else browsed thru the Microblog section and commented on my post, and that was that. Finding this comm out is via finding that first wave of this year's migration, and as it is a number of us SEAsian have been doing own little thing since November, so it's definitely been nice to bump into each other. Redditors certainly more rajin and committed about interacting and posting stuff to make their own corner of Fedi theirs, and less complaining about nothing to do* - felt like an overnight shift into meeting local faces and making local stuff.
*I'm always gonna have feelings about the Twitterjaya folks who paling bising in Nov, set up accounts, complained about no follows/action, didn't do anything to make their fedi space interesting, and left, lolllllll. And see what happens this week - twitter locking out even viewing content if not logged in. So much for reaching out and public advocacy - rip all the callout posts.
twitter needing you to be logged in to view content, now that explains https://nitter.net (which is sort of like a 3rd party app for twitter, but without login functionality, which I don't need anyway, not having a twitter account 😄) not working for me.
Yeah that's probably why lmao. I don't check in too often except only to go to search and see specific film twitter accounts. If I check my actual timeline I know my blood pressure naik seeing all those familiar accounts now pretty much isolated like on a defederated instance XD
I posted on Reddit once in a while & stalk quite a few subreddits but wasn’t a “regular” user. I’ve been pretty active on Mastodon since the twitter-to-fediverse exodus though (before that I was mostly a lurker on Twitter). The fediverse has been a lot more fun than mainstream social media for me because of the smaller & more tight-knit communities.
yeah, I guess the fediverse/threadiverse is attractive for people like us who have some reservations about mainstream social media.
now that twitter and reddit have caused a mass exodus of users from their platforms, I wonder if (and secretly hope) whatsapp (perhaps discord too?) could be next (it's becoming a pattern, haha, I try to avoid those 2 as well), so more users can move to other alternative open platforms.
Haha I wish for that too! WhatsApp is so entrenched in Malaysia it’s impossible not to use (and not to forget it’s owned by Meta). I don’t use Discord.
Would you stick around this time?
I don't see why not 🙂