I’m new but I like it so far 💪
Apps like Voyager per the meme help it feel more Reddity for me and that has boosted my adoption
@goldenquetzal I wish the browser experience was as good as Voyager’s. @Blaze
Lemmy’s originally Canadian just saying 🇪🇺🤝🇨🇦
I’m new to this app, how does it work
Instead of 1 big website like reddit, there’s a bunch of smaller websites like reddit. These sites are united in a way as users from one site can view, comment on, etc on other sites.
Something similar is Email. Even if you made your email address with Google to have @gmail.com at the end of your email address you can still send and receive emails from anyone.
Unless your community or community owner pisses off all the other communities or just community leaders.
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
It’s pretty close to Reddit, but it’s like a whole bunch of smaller Reddits that share posts between each other. The individual Reddits (instances) are generally grouped by hobby, political affiliation, or geographical location, but not always.
You can tell what instance something or someone is from by looking at their name or title. E.g. I’m from lemmy.zip, you can see it after my user name.
The reason that it can’t be bought by a billionaire is that even if one instance is bought out, compromised etc, it can just be removed from the group at large, and it continues like nothing happened. I’m simplifying a bit but I hope you get the general idea.
US billionaires aren’t even all American. All billionaires are bad.
y’all don’t have to boycot every american, just their economy, so if a based person hosts a lemmy server that helps the open free internet and should not be boycotted
Some Instances Allows Tor:
😎
-Comment posted on Tor Browser via the Tor Network
(Not sure how much good it does, since I kinda already revealed the city I live in through my personal anecdotes. But I suppose I can create another throwaway for more… spicy… stuff)
Some Instances Allows Tor:
Basically every instance except lemmy.world allows Tor
Shouldn’t this be posted on other socials instead of Lemmy?
Feel free to, but also be ready to see your post removed anc your account banned
I posted it to Reddit, let’s see how it goes
Please report back
12 views, no up-votes so far
Aaaaand it’s gone.
I haven’t had any issues posting this kind of content to BlueSky and Mastodon.
Already got banned for pro Luigi posting.
Me, too. You have my sympathies.
I have decided that nothing of value was lost
Sorry to hear
This actually got me pumped and Im American. Long live the resistance.
ヽ(°ω°)ノ
Can’t stop the signal.
Lemmy reminds me of Reddit when I first joined more than a decade ago. I just hope it doesn’t go to shit like Reddit has the last few years.
My oldest Reddit account was just one year shy of being able to vote (just rolled over to 17) and it stung a little to hit that delete button yesterday. Lemmy very much reminds me of the days when I joined. However, users here frequently point out not having any niche subs on Lemmy - that was exactly what we had to contend with on Reddit. Except making a sub became competitive and you had a lot of speculative sub creation etc. It was exciting because it was new, but that isn’t the case now. The attitude I see missing on Lemmy then is this desire to create communities, and instead lament they don’t exist. Be the change you want to see everyone.
I hope it won’t but I won’t be surprised if it does. The internet itself is decentralized, and that wasn’t enough.
Is the Sync app no longer being updated/maintained/developed? I am having problems with it. Upvotes/downvotes are no longer being showed. Shame because it is my fav Lemmy app.
What, didn’t even notice! Thought that I somehow disabled it myself.
I had a sync sub but since it got abandoned I just cancelled it. Most images or videos wouldn’t load, as well as some comments or some random shit. Using voyager now and won’t look back. It’s much better since the first time I tried it
Yeah, the dev took our money and bailed.
I don’t know if you used to use Sync for Reddit but it was pretty normal for him to go away for a while and then come back with a big update. I’m just assuming that’s what is happening at the moment.
Hopefully, it’d be nice if pics, gifs and vids would actually load.
Honestly same, i feel like pressing the random buttons sometimes causes it to just not want to load, especially if what its loading is videos/gifs
Shame it doesn’t remove Russian trolls, though.
Certain instances do, you can switch to them if you like
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I’m not aware of any big instance that blocks .ml
Thats because i was wrong
You cannot protect yourself from that without making substantial sacrifices.
It can be bought by a billionaire. I think we need to be careful thinking this risk doesn’t exist.
“We can just make another instance” - this won’t happen like people think it will. If all the content is on Lemmy.world and it gets bought, then people are going to be hesitant to move somewhere else, just like people are hesitant to leave Reddit now.
A instance or two can be bought yes, but many if the popular subs are distributed all over.
And if enshitification hits the biggest instances it will bleed users because it’s so easy to switch instances
people are going to be hesitant to move somewhere else
It is however much easier to move between fediverse instances than it is to move from commercial social media to the fediverse. Once you’re on the fediverse, moving is easier.
Also the communities are run by people who actually give a shit about FOSS and decentralization
If all the content is on Lemmy.world
Another reason to spread the content across instances
Decentralization is key
Even if people running instances are saints, a lot of money can not only buy, but bully them into submission. Bullshit lawsuits is one way to do so before they are financially crippled. We are safeguarded only by our irrelevance.
“We are safeguarded only by our irrelevance” it’s not just Lemmy. I’m thinking about the trans movement that progressed quietly without fanfare and the moment it was no longer “irrelevant “ for the majority it started getting massive pushback. Shocking how little it took to go from irrelevant to a danger to society.
same is for Linux.
everybody keeps advocating for linux; but i’m not a big fan of it. I’m worried that it will bring a ton of bullshit to the linux platform, and i don’t like that.
Instances can be bought by billionaires. The software can’t. And I don’t think many billionaires would buy a website running a software that they cant control tbh
The software can, but the price is likely too high. In the end money can pressure anyone to do virtually anything. Having 100 lifetimes of productive work pressuring you to do something cannot just be ignored.
The software is open source. Everyone owns it, and you can’t buy something that’s owned by everyone
Why won’t it? I think user accounts need federation as well, but switching hosts isn’t hard. Lemmy.ca went down a little while ago due to a power supply breaking. The admin has been great about it, moving away from the provider that took a day to fix the issue. But during the downtime I was able to use an account I has already set up on a different instance.
When reddit is down, it was really down. When a lemmy instance is down you can just use another. Don’t get tied into just one host.
It’s easy to say “don’t get tied down”, but people do. People like their online personas, their handles, their comment and post history. It’s a mixture of sunk-cost fallacy and FOMO. Reddit knows this, it’s why they still have 2000x as many monthly users as Lemmy.
This will be the same here: if a billionaire buys the biggest instance, yeah cool everyone can defederate, but then all the historical content is gone, most of the users are gone unless they move to you or an instance still federated to you, and you essentially alienate yourself.
That’s why mastodon pushed for account migration features. They made a bunch of them.
There is also bluesky that made their own protocol to handle identities diffretly than ActivityPub.
There is just not enough devs to code that stuff in Lemmy.
Mastodon still doesn’t allow account import
Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations, but your archive can be viewed by any software that understands how to parse Activity Streams 2.0 documents.
Your posts will not be moved, due to technical limitations. There is also a 30 day cooldown period in which you cannot migrate again, so be very careful before using this option!
It’s not that easy to implement. Any feature that lets you import posts would just be a bypass for any kind of spam protection or rate limit. You could just “import” thousands of spam posts at a time, without the server being able to prevent it, because it seems totally legitimate.
should def strive for it for lemmy aswell.
can’t find much info on the subject on github for it unfortunate
I have blocked content from lemmy.world altogether and have so much fun. Go try it, leave the bubble.
I’m on lemmy.world through Boost, but have lots of communities from fediverse and other Lemmy’s and whatnot (still learning how it all works).
What is wrong with lemmy.world and what do you recommend?
Be careful with letting someone else guide you in this way. Everyone has individual tastes.
I’m on dbzer0, which is an instance for pirates and anarchists. But I found it by having an account on a random instance and browsing lemmy for a long time before choosing to move here.
Just don’t get too attached to where your account is, feel out the fediverse, and then you can decide.
I’ll try to keep that in my mind. So far it feels like the “local” and “all” selections in Boost, which I guess come from world, are not very varied. Reddits’ r/all is just everything, which is great. It gives you a very varied, unfiltered (seemingly) feed
Local will just show content from the instance you’re logged into. In your case it’s lemmy.world. All means content from world and instances federated with world. All is everything, but all of lemmy is still tiny compared to reddit so it just doesn’t move that fast. I usually sort by active and that keeps things fresh. “Active last x hours” also works nicely.
I think that’s what I need to remember, Reddit is absolutely humongous compared to Lemmy.
Honestly the only thing wrong with world is it blocks db0’s piracy community. Beyond that it’s pretty inoffensive to the general fediverse.
Also blocks Tor and tried to push a Zionist “fact check” bot
Similar rules to Reddit. You can get busted for saying “eat the rich” because it’s supposedly a call for violence.
I highly recommend “boost for lemmy” don’t know if boost is european but lemmy is so gopd enough for me.
My only problem is lower userbase but I guess that will get better
Boost finally breaking for good on Reddit is why I’m here. Boost is simply the best.
Same!
Boost was my favourite Reddit client, but I prefer Voyager for Lemmy. Boost just had way too many ads, Voyager has none.
Ah yes, I will say that I didn’t have to deal with ads on boost for Reddit.
I may check out Voyager.
Boost just had way too many ads, Voyager has none.
Aaaand you’ve just sold me on Voyager
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
Also, no Spez
Fuck u/spez
