Just checking the place out after not being able to stand Reddit and its policies anymore. Their policing of Luigi posts was the last straw for me. Going public ruins companies.
Only issue you might find with signing up for world is you can’t get db0’s piracy communities. I’ve been too lazy to switch since coming from kbin though myself.
Plenty visible from sh
Weird part is the last announcement I can find from .world admins said those communities were going to be reinstated, but then here we are months later and they still seem busted.
Welcome, have a seat… remember when the narwal bacon or some shit like that… back then reddit is todays Lemmy.
Hah, I remember being a cringey teenager and spruiking Reddit to all my friends with the narwhal shit
Lemmy now definitely feels smaller than old reddit but has much better quality posts and posters
Welcome!
You’ll find that the volume here is much (much much MUCH!!!) lower than reddit. As frustrating as this can be, the only solution is to stand and create more content. More worthwhile posts, more comments, more interaction. At its height, that was exactly what made reddit successful.
Well, it also means it’s easier to comment and post without getting immediately buried.
I joined a few weeks after the Reddit API was made paid, but I left Reddit the day it happened. Better late than never, I guess. Welcome to Lemmy.
If you wanna delete your Reddit account, make sure you use PowerDeleteSuite to get rid of all of your posts and comments before clicking that delete button on your account. Not doing so will keep your contributions to the website live.
I’m glad you knew exactly the community to turn to first 😂
Welcome! We have furry porn
Been on Lemmy since the App/API ban. Haven’t looked back at reddit since, other than the occasional search result pointing to someone’s q&a.
Side note, anyone else tired of all the sanitized AI slop that pervades search results? The only websites worth visiting these days are user forums (incl. reddit/Lemmy) and wikipedia.
The AI slop isn’t the issue. AI could be a blessing. It’s the corpos that are ruining it, like they are ruining everything else
Kill all CEOs. Let’s see how different Lemmy is from Reddit.
You can make your own Lemmy iinstance and be your own censorship police, that’s the difference. Thats NOT an option on Reddit.
Hell, you don’t even have to be on Lemmy, Mastodon, any if the Bins etc can interact bacause they alo use ActivityPub.
There are plethora of instances people don’t federate with becase they don’t agree with them, that’s how it SHOULD be.
Welcome to Lemmy! I’m glad you joined. There are tons of tutorials out there for how to use the platform, but if it helps, here’s my advice:
I use the Android app Sync For Lemmy. Reminds me a lot of rif is fun from before Reddit shut down 3rd party API access about a year ago.
Lemmy.World is the name of the biggest instance on Lemmy. Think of it as a discord channel with different sub-channels except those are called communities here (and instead of r/ for subreddits we have c/ for communities).
There are still trolls here. What’s nice about Lemmy is that you can block individual trolls, communities of trolls, or even instances of trolls (if you deem them so). Conversely, if you get banned from any of the above, you can make a new account on any other instance (like dbzer0 or shitjustworks) and still have access to the content from those people/places. The same is true if certain communities/instances change their policies on things like Luigi, which happened on Lemmy.World recently. I switched over to dbzer0 to avoid that censorship and to also see stuff about pirating - that which is banned on Lemmy.World.
Lastly, we can see posts/comments from other people on the Fediverse, like from Mastodon (Twitter alternative) and others.
Hope you enjoy your stay here! Lemmy is primarily tech- and politics-focused rn, but a lot of people draw parallels to Reddit’s early days, which is good!
How do you do this? I was not aware this was possible
How do I do what
What i meant to ask is if i need to do anything special to see posts from mastodon
No I think they just show up randomly. You’ll have to look out for Lemmy posts to see if anyone from Mastodon comments. Next to their name is their instance, so if I were on Mastodon, my username would be something like: Resonosity@mastodon.social or something
See posts from Mastodon
Hey, welcome. Hope you find the places you like here. That’s all.
Welcome to Lemmy/The Fediverse! If you don’t like Lemmy, there’s also Mbin instances. They’re both good but I like Mbin’s interface a little more.
Don’t forget, there are also a ton of good mobile apps for Lemmy. I like Connect but there are a lot of good ones.
FYI - the admin of the instance you signed up for also censored similar posts
Was it the admin of the instance or an individual mod? I’m still trying to figure out the policies of each instance versus its communities. I mod a few communities on.world and have never had any admin come in and do anything there.
I’m not sure it’s good to condemn all of .world if it’s just a few mods doing this, especially since .ml is one of the main alternatives and thousands of times worse, removing anything remotely critical of China or Russia.
It was the admin, not some mod. They even said jury nullification posts were prohibited. It was all announced in an admin post.
Interesting. Any idea where to find the admin posts?
This is the update post for it at least: https://lemmy.world/post/22920690
The reasoning was ‘jury nullification when this was suggested in context of murder or other violent crimes’ potentially falling under ‘advocating for violence’. They decided to clarify the rules a bit and going forward, advocating for violence is still banned, but have been directed that the policy doesn’t apply to violence that has already happened.
Policy update seems reasonable at least. I’m curious where we could find the policies of other instances. Maybe I would move my communities if I found a better fit.
It ended up becoming more reasonable after it was pointed out that jury nullification is a real thing and restricting discussion about a legal term is… kinda nuts? The justification that they gave for restricting it was pretty flakey too: There are no legal cases where a website was held liable for not deleting jury nullification discussions (which is doubly ridiculous because, at least for now, website hosts are also protected as common carriers, which means they are 100% not legally responsible for what their users post, regardless of what it is outside of very specific circumstances where they would be obligated to remove it like a DMCA takedown notice.
I got banned for ‚racism‘ in some community when I said China is committing genocide against the Uyghurs. I also say Russia is doing it against Ukrainians and Israel against Palestinians, but it doesn’t matter. I thought .ml can’t be as bad as everyone says because I’m not exactly in the liberal camp but I had to learn that they are really bad…
Yeah it took me a few months to realize the extent of the problem too. I was getting modded for suggesting that Ukrainians should fight back against Russians.
I don’t participate in any .ml communities any more and I block the ones who leak out into others. It’s a real pity that so much of Lemmy is ruined by tankies.
Wait until you cone across MAGA’s who are runimg the entire fucking world :)
Not defending tankies (fcuk Russia!) but they’re a tiny minority. Normalising the appallingly repugnant behaviours of vast numbers is even more repellent. (Ttreatment of First Nations and refugees for example)
No fan of MAGA’s but interestingly I haven’t run into any here. Just tankies.
I’m not a liberal either, but ml and hexbear are tankie shitholes, 100%
D’ya like star trek, bub?
No? Well, you’re gonna!
I’ve been here for like a year and a half, and I’m still not interested in Star Trek all that much.
Check out the booty (no not that booty, treasure!)
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (blocked by lemmy.world instance)
But also check out the booty
If your experience is like mine when I ditched reddit, it’ll take a few months for the learned defensiveness and self-editing to wear off. People seem more mature here (except for our sense of humor) and I’ve found less trolling and sealioning.
The interface quality is down, but the quality of content is way, way up. It more than makes up the difference.
I’d say people are very defensive and aggressive still but the filters and blocking helps me a lot. Though I’ve been sassy I do want to try to make a better nicer place
Agreed. a block of a username or six does wonders. It wasnt as possible to do that on reddit.
This is true unless you use .world or .ml
More mature? Bro, we’re all reditors. It’s the same fucking crowd.
It feels like we are more the early adopter tech savvy redditors though. As user ~2000 of Reddit, Lemmy feels very much like Reddit did prior to the Digg migration (after which things seemed to dumb down considerably).
Nah I’m too cheap to be an early adopter unless it’s kitchen appliances
Lemmy is at least as cheap as the alternative.
I will pay you if you let me give you checkmarks. Please be my friend
I will gladly take your money.
It’s really hard for openly reactionary communities to get a hold here, because rather than being given free reign by fiat, they get defedded. Tye reactionaries are definitely here, and lemmy.world among other open instsnces are a bit of a haven for them, but even lemmy.world has to make concessions to the fact that if they become too mich of a shithole then the other onstances will make alternatives and render them irrelevant.
It turns out that without a big daddy institution to shelter them, reactionaries don’t thrive, their communities can’t metastisise, and they are super unpopular. That’s the big difference.
That’s the problem with being quick to block people is I can’t tell when they fall off
I think I’ve blocked like one or two obvious trolls in my time here, and it’s been relatively peaceful. I haven’t felt any need to block people for the most part.
Most of the people I blocked were heavy participants in hexbear and it was before instance blocking was exposed for users. But I agree, its pretty chill compared to Reddit. Although its way less friendly than Mastadon, so lately I’ve been a lot more active on Mastadon
Just calling it like I see it. I’m sure everyone’s experience is different.
Yeah but only people who didn’t find what they were looking for in reddit are here. Which is essentially a good thing haha
