It’s much better here! It’s nice and cozy, kinda like Reddit circa 15 years ago.
For your memes we have [email protected] and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got [email protected] to scratch that itch, if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like [email protected], [email protected]and [email protected] and for a meme science combo there’s always the fantastic [email protected]
You can also drop a shit(post) off at [email protected] or hang out at [email protected] (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)
If you want to explore the world of PC Gaming on Linux check [email protected] or for more general Linux [email protected] and we even have a Linux meme comm at [email protected] (we like Linux around here lmao)
For news [email protected] is excellent and for US focused news [email protected] and [email protected]
Want to ensure your privacy in this crazy world? Checkout [email protected]
And of course, the best for last, the best comm on the Lemmy-verse, [email protected] !!! Just make sure to buy a krabby patty!
We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies, but here they’re mostly on what’s known as the Tankie Triad: lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. For the most part, grad and hex are widely defederated from (Users and content of those instances won’t be “synced” and you won’t see them) and you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. .ml tends to be more subtle opting for censorship of dissent before things get crazy on their threads and allowing certain propaganda to flourish (If you wish to see documentation of it, checkout [email protected] ) Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what’s known as the “modlog”
Obligatory, fuck Spez
It’s funny because I bet a lot of us that came on the API wave had/have 15+ year old accounts.
Mines 18.
I had a post from /r/teenagers show up on my homepage and I realized that my account is older than most people there say they are.
10y and 400k combined karma (mostly comment)
And I actually managed cold turkey, partially helped by my creating an entire instance which kind of made Lemmy a hobby I was invested in both time and money wise.
18, 17, and 10 year old main accounts.haven’t been there since the API fiasco, but I kinda hated it for a few years before that.
I was the primary character in a pretty huge event (fiasco) in Reddit history 16-18 years ago, that I wish I could talk more about without doxxing myself.
Basically when TIFU and AITA got popular, the site kinda went to shit. Welllll, when smart phones got popular and people started to refer to Reddit as an “app”, it went to shit, Eternal September-style.
when smart phones got popular and people started to refer to Reddit as an “app”, it went to shit, Eternal September-style.
I still hate seeing posts on websites where people are telling me to “swipe”.
Amen hahaha
Society (bottom text) can pry “click” and “scroll” and “program” out of my old, dusty hands!
Those were the very first subreddits I blocked when it was possible. Then thousands more. Now even with blocked garbage subreddits it feels like mostly fake AI content these days, it’s almost FB level bad.
That’s not even the reason I left, “Musk’s fumes are fatally toxic”. Permabanned for violence, like wtf? No way a human banned me.
Well make an anonymous account here and fudge some details, I’m sure we’d all be interested to hear.
Oh that’s you! I saw your post about your ban for musk fuming and my partner and I both had a chuckle about the ridiculoscity of it all.
Quick edit: yeah the creative writing (now AI slop) subs always made me upset. TIFU was always “I SEXED MY POOP” and AITA was always clickbait bullshit.
All I’ll say about the event I was in is rest in peace, Tynan (I_RAPE_CATS)
15yo ago: Someone monetized our prank, not cool! 15 min ago: You are the product.
Those were good times…
🙋10 year account for me, thousands of comments. 166k comment karma. It was a wild ride, but when they took Boost it was over for me. Fuck em.
Consequently, now that I’m here I post WAY more, I don’t even think my post count cracked a hundred and here it’s…4…thousand…fuck, I’m here too much 😅
Crazy how much more value there is here. 1/1000th the users, 1000x the engagement.
Definitely
You’re doing the lord’s work, sir.
12 years, and almost a million karma, and I was permabanned soon after the election for repeating an anti-HitlerPig post that I had repeated many times BEFORE the electuon.
I was bummed at the smaller crowds on Lemmy at first, then I realized I didn’t have to scroll through dozens of puns, bots, trolls, idiots, etc. on EVERY post.
The lack of karma farming is amazing. Not nearly the same amount of people frantically grasping at low-hanging-fruit puns.
The lack of the niche communities is the main difference for me, mostly. But that takes time. Otherwise I mostly like it here :D
Stick around. It’ll fill out with time. There’s plenty of low activity niche communities on here, try just making a post in one sometime. I’ve been on a campaign of doing weekly posts like stargazing Saturdays on mander.xyz’s astronomy community.
Same. I still find myself regularly going to old Reddit threads on extremely niche topics that only a few people on the internet seem to have talked about somehow, but a lot of what I want most of the time is already here on Lemmy, so that’s nice.
Your talents will be much more appreciated here, I guarantee it.
Mine is certainly near 15 years old, but for the life of me I can’t remember exactly when I made an account, nor how many fake internet points I’d rattled up - it just seems so insignificant now.
The best part of Lemmy is that if any instance starts becoming like Reddit is now, I can block it individually, or we can collectively decide to shun them! It’s not fool proof, but it’s a pretty large leap in the right direction.
I dare say I miss the niche communities, but frankly, the main niche that I filled was on the pony side of things, and that’s pretty dead now. RIP smol horses, you all get to live your best lives now as glue 🫡
how is lemmy diffrent then reddit other then mutliple servers and stuff like that? both is kinda the same reason you use it for and thats why they exist?
There is no central control, which means there’s no CEO to influence into doing ghastly shit to the users. It’s basically one step up from the non-federated Internet forums of old.
ah thats huge!
I hope it is one day.
In life, they brought as together. As glue, they’ll keep us together.
So we’re literally old reddit.
Works for me.
https://oldsh.itjust.works/ literally indeed
I came here on the API wave and went to Reddit from digg. I left digg after the Digg 2.0 fuck up.
I heard Kevin Rose purchased Digg again and plans to redo it again.
Kevin Rose (Digg founder) and Alexis Ohanian (Reddit co-founder) just acquired Digg together, so we’ll have to see how it goes. But I don’t need to wait for Digg to resurrect itself when Lemmy is already right here.
I’ll take some extra competition. It’ll help reddit burn faster.
Burn, baby, burn!
Whereas I’m one of the people who was annoyed at having all the Digg users come over and ruin Reddit. :)
Oh ya, we sucked. We did like the secret handshake. When does the narwhal bacon?
To find communities that you might not know exist, it’s great to check out [email protected] , [email protected] or [email protected] .
You can also visit the external website Lemmyverse.net for community discovery/search. Or sub.rehab for finding equivalent communities of subreddits.
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
Yay! More users for lemmy!
Uh so… does anyone know if Lemmy will scale to millions of users? Has an ActivityPub service ever gotten to that scale?
Mastodon.social has millions of users (and millions were active at some points in time):
Awww hell yeah this is amazing news! Thank you
(Also why didn’t I think about mastodon- I’m such an idiot)
Mastadon is awesome! I honestly spend more time on Mastadon than I do on Lemmy nowadays
I created my account on lemmy a couple of years ago for the same reason as most - tired of the enshittification, guerilla marketing, corporatization etc. I deleted my reddit account this week when I realized that even using hundreds of reddit enhancement suite filters wasn’t making the place palatable anymore. Disappointing to see all the negativity towards the lemmy instance I joined though, I’m not willing to make a new account so I guess it is what it is.
Disappointing to see all the negativity towards the lemmy instance I joined though, I’m not willing to make a new account so I guess it is what it is.
It’s not without cause (If you want to see documentation, you’ll need to use this workaround link because, ironically, .ml censors you from seeing the comm: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] )
But yea I get not wanting to move instances, but can I ask why? It seems as though your account doesn’t have any posts or comments, making moving instances very easy.
The biggest thing you can’t move is posts and comments, but comm subscriptions, block lists, tags, saved posts etc are all easily exportable and importable to another instance
The biggest thing you can’t move is posts and comments, but comm subscriptions, block lists, tags, saved posts etc are all easily exportable and importable to another instance
Some apps even have this built in directly. Voyager, for instance, has a Migrate option in the settings. Also, many people see the lack of post/comment migration as a bonus. I would burn my Reddit accounts every year or two, simply to avoid any accidental build-up of PII that could be compiled to dox me. Hell, I’ve been on Lemmy for about two years now, and this account was only created a few days ago because I just recently burned my old one.
So they’re finally admitting to be a propaganda machine for the us government.
Reddit is basically a ship with a captain and crew that hates all of the passengers and vice versa.
We just have to look nice for the ones who swim over to our ship.
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Deleted my Reddit account when I could no longer use Apollo, but still kept up with a few subs for certain info. Finally discovered Lemmy and after being here for a short while I’ve nearly stopped visiting. This news has given me the push to be done 100%.
Oh yeah, c’mon, give me some populated niche subs!
We’ll get there… eventually.
I have arrived
The prophecy has been fulfilled.
No, not again.
And my axe! Are we still doing that?
Ah the old Reddit switcheroo.
I finally said the thing.
Is that when instead of fucking the dog in the ass, the dog fucks spez in the ass and we sit on the sidelines with foam fingers cheering the dog on?
No it’s pre2015 Reddit reference
Wait so Reddit is taking action against moderators who block X links on their subreddits? Wow! That’s draconian as fuck!
I hope we get a big influx. There’s so many small subreddits I like which have no Lemmy equivalent!
I left after…one of the meme subs last year managed to mass ban bots. Went from one of the most active subs to nearly dead instantly, including upvotes and comments.
That was so disturbing I finally quit.
I would love it if reddit clamped down on free speech. Please reddit, just lay it out on what else you want to limit. Let the people know what else they can’t say. Or even better- force people on reddit to make mandatory posts praising billionaires. It would make my day. Please reddit, put more gas on your dumpster fire
Or even better- force people on reddit to make mandatory posts praising billionaires
I’m pretty sure they already have bots that do that.
We will eventually have bots like that on lemmy and other federated networks too. It wasn’t long between the advent of email and spam email. (spam predates email – the term is from the BBS era…)
They’re here, but they’re obvious when they post so they get buried. I’ve seen them make their own posts with built in upvotes, but real people just ignore it. It’s not that huge of a problem yet. I’m sure it will be when they build up enough accounts, that’s the only way they can get any traction at all.
They’ll have to split these accounts across many different instances for it to be effective. Else it’ll be too easy to defederate with instances that allow too many spam accounts.
Is this something on their radar yet? I would think it would be easier to do it here because you could have separate accounts on many instances with even the same email.
As a redfugee myself, welcome to all! Just please try to avoid making lemmy more like reddit. If you miss reddit please just go back, it’s still there.
Fuck that, I welcome most Redditors.
Lemmy cannot be made into Reddit, it’s simply not possible because the biggest problems of Reddit was because of Reddit the corporation
Everything else was just born naturally of what happens when millions of humans interact with each other
I agree but the fediverse doesn’t solve all issues, once it attracts mainstream attention we will have corporate advertising that subverts the system with bad advice to make sure you buy their sub-optimal products.
Reddit used to be a wealth of information for things like this and it was poisoned by those corpo-ghouls.
Obligatory fuck spez and fuck the botched knob job nazi who he kowtows too.
For you the biggest annoyance of reddit was apparently the actions of reddit executives. For me it was the overabundance of meme-addled high school sophomore personalities. In that way lemmy is already enough like reddit for my taste.
Same.
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That doesn’t seem like a very strong password 🤔
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What are you guys talking about, all I can see is *******
Aw yeah, any ex-Redditors who want to mess with the tankies can do the “lemmy.ml SpeedBan” game lmao
Thanks for making us from Reddit feel welcome I can se i am going to like it here
I got banned from Reddit because I made a suggestion on what should happen to a violent dog that attacked a family member
No free speech on Reddit
You’ll probably like it because we are all from reddit, at varying times in the past.
It’s really like OG reddit. Like the good ol’ days.
Well maybe not cause of the whole jailbait thing
And the racism
Yeah, it’s a bit more cleaned up
The jailbait and racism still exist, but any instance that doesn’t want to be defederated by the big ones defederates from it immediately.
