It’s much better here! It’s nice and cozy, kinda like Reddit circa 15 years ago.
For your memes we have !memes@lemmy.world and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch, if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like !science@mander.xyz, !biology@mander.xyzand !astronomy@mander.xyz and for a meme science combo there’s always the fantastic !science_memes@mander.xyz
You can also drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or hang out at !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)
If you want to explore the world of PC Gaming on Linux check !linux_gaming@lemmy.world or for more general Linux !linux@programming.dev and we even have a Linux meme comm at !linuxmemes@lemmy.world (we like Linux around here lmao)
For news !world@lemmy.world is excellent and for US focused news !news@lemmy.world and !usa@midwest.social
Want to ensure your privacy in this crazy world? Checkout !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
And of course, the best for last, the best comm on the Lemmy-verse, !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world !!! 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 !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what’s known as the “modlog”
Obligatory, fuck Spez
I’ve been browsing Lemmy for 2ish months, went ahead and made an account just recently. Deleted my Reddit account last week and I’m chuffed.
Welcome aboard.
Here for The Great Reddit migration. People left Digg for Reddit for similar reasons. Although the issues with Reddit are magnitudes more concerning.
Reddit has magnitudes more inertia, unfortunately. And a predominant sentiment seems to be “we should stay on Reddit to counterbalance the bad parts."
Or even worse, move to Discord :/
Discord makes feel like an old man shaking my fist at the clouds. The UI is the worst, and I have no idea how anything works, but I have to be on it because my friends use it for in-game chat on multiplayer games.
I never feel dumber than when I’m trying to find something on Discord. Ugh.
I think its interface is pretty good, but it’s structure absolutely sucks for larger communities. It’s a deliberate information black hole for shooting the breeze, yet people treat it like a forum, wiki, or hub,.
Or even worse, move to Discord :/
reddit got worse faster after IPO.
Discord is now doing the same, so that’ll last a few months lol.
I’m sure you’re right, migration here won’t make much of a dent in reddit’s numbers. It’d be great to have more people to fill out some of the smaller communities but we don’t need the ones who don’t want to move.
This isn’t a full migration sadly, at least I don’t think so. It’s a welcome trickle of new users, but Reddit will need to do much worse to force a full on exodus. Though I have no doubt they will eventually. But I don’t think we’re getting another mass Rexit event until they turn off old.reddit.
I think more folks would come if they knew lemme.ee existed. I only found out it exists this morning.
I think part of the problem is if you post a lot about lemmy on reddit to recruit, you’ll get banned/shadowbanned eventually.
That’s what Twitter did to Bluesky.
Ugh. Humans ruin everything.😞
[ Removed by Reddit ]
When I first joined Lemmy there was hardly conversation to be found but now things are starting to really pickup. Next you will really start to see niche communities thrive and I’m all for it.
Welcome to our reddit refugees!
It was heart warming to see my new emulation community see some traffic _
I have arrived
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
The prophecy has been fulfilled.
No, not again.
Ive had this account for a while, but I’ve mostly lurked. I like it better here anyways.
Hell yeah
I got a temp ban for calling Usha Vance a class traitor. I said that when fascism progressed far enough she would likely not be safe from the overt racism and patriotism because she’s brown. 3 day temp ban. Reddit is shilling for the fascist and corporate overlords. That along with warnings just for upvoting posts. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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You won’t even remember you wasted years on there
Thanks for the welcome wagon. This was the first post I clicked on. I feel like a boomer (I am not one) trying to understand the Fediverse even though I can understand how email works, somehow I can’t apply that to how it works here. Like am I supposed to be able to see Mastadon or Pixelfed content on here? What would that look like? Ok also had some weed tincture so that probably has something to do with my confusion. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Welcome!
Yea, you’ll see mastodon stuff from time to time, there’s nothing really that tells you it’s a mastodon post, they just look kinda different. For a mastodon post usually the giveaway is hashtags in the post like #hashtag except they’ll be links.
Pixelfed is supposed to show up too, but federation with Lemmy has yet to “kick in” (at least as far as I’ve noticed)
Also on Lemmy you can do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ without any extra "" actually, here putting the extra 2 backslashes makes you lose your arm
It’s actually really nice, now I can ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ right from my phone keyboard lmfao ¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ok here’s another question. How does this exist financially, who pays for servers and whatnot? Believe you me I am so glad not to be assaulted by ads and whatnot but isn’t this expensive?
It’s not actually all that expensive to host websites, it never has been, sh.itjust.works a larger instance with something like 1.5k posts and comments/day only spends about $150/month
A bid cost saving is not using the “cloud”, cloud services do what they advertise (mainly allow one to “easily” scale up to millions of users), but its costly.
But the beauty of it is that because Lemmy is decentralized, not one person/org has to worry about scaling to millions of users as the Lemmy-verse grows so hosters can skip the cloud
Some pay out of pocket and some take the ways of the forums of ol, donations and small perks for donating. For example, having a db0 account and being a donator gains you voting rights. There’s been talk about private/VIP comms for donators as well
Donations for server costs. Apparently each user costs a little over 1 dollar a year, hosting-wise. Reminds me of how one site I use for checking stuff in pokemon sleep, how-many-more.com, said in a reddit post from the owner that they don’t even take donations because the cost of running it is absolutely miniscule and that you should absolutely question people who want upkeep money for largely text-based stuff like that.
We discuss costs here.
As long as you shop around for a good hosting deal you don’t need everyone to donate to cover the costs.
Ah I was wondering why that arm got amputated. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
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%.
Fresh from reddit here. What is the difference in subscribing and bookmarking a community and how do I find them after I subscribe/bookmark?
I’m using the Summit app if that makes a difference.
Subscribing is like Reddit, where your default frontpage view is only your subscribed communities. These communities could be from your server or a federated server, it just depends on what you subscribe to. You don’t really need to think about how federation works, it’ll just show up for you if you subscribe.
If you pick “Local” you’ll see a feed of the the popular posts from all communities hosted on your own server only. Some of your subscribed comms might be in there if they’re a local server comm. But it’s just a general feed from your server alone.
If you go to “All” then you get a feed from all federated communities, so you could be seeing posts from /c/linux from lemmy.ml as well /c/linux from another server (though it’s not likely to see posts from small communities unless you’re an incorrigible doomscroller). Generally you’ll run out of content on your subscribed only feed fairly quick due to the activity being relatively lower than Reddit, so browsing All gets you more content, but you’ll run into a lot of irrelevant shit in the process. But it can be a good way to find more things to subscribe to, as well.
In any case, welcome. I fled reddit after 15 years of contributing by posting and modding when they burned the app community and shit on the people that made Reddit what it was. At least here I don’t feel like my efforts to provide content and moderate is for someone else’s benefit, least of all a greedy little pigboy like spez.
Be the change you want to see.
If you go to “All” then you get a feed from all federated communities,
I’ve been here for a while and this is still unclear to me: Is All only the communities that are synced to my server? And syncing is dependent on a user on my server subscribing to it? So if I find a new community on a different server and subscribe to it, it will show up on my server’s All?
You got it.
Thank you so much for this!!
The one thing I’d add is that since you’re on lemmy.world, your “Local” feed is fairly heavy with content since some the most active communities are on .world. That’s not always the case if you’re homed on a small server that nobody subscibes to comms from.
And you can sub to multiple communities of the same name, but different servers.
And you can block individuals or entire server. Sometimes your own server defaultly blocks servers, for instance, lemmy.world (our home server) blocks lemmynsfw and hexbear (because tankies). You won’t see content or users from those servers with an account homed on lemmy.world. So if you want to browse porn, either manually browse to lemmynsfw.com and browse not logged in, or create an account if you feel the burning need to comment on porn posts.
Can I ask some questions if it’s no bother?
- What’s a server? I assume lemmy.world, but what others are there?
- Is a community local to only one server? Are two communities across two servers with the same name different communities or do they share something?
- Can you access a community that’s not hosted on the server you’re on from your server? like in your feed, etc.
- What the hell is Mastodon. Is Mastodon a server?
Actually, scratch all of this, is there an introduction somewhere
You are right, lemmy.world is a server that you can create an account on and participate in the fediverse through. Other servers can be found here: https://lemmyverse.net/?open=true
Yes a community is associated to a server, so you can have a Linux@lemmy.world and a Linux@lemmy.ml. They don’t share posts, they’re effectively completely separate.
Yes, if you search up communities it will list everything it can find from any servers your home server is federated with, which by default should be all of them. Usually you’ll see some counts of posts and users to give you an idea of popularity.
Mastodon is another application like Lemmy, and has it’s own servers just like Lemmy. But since lemmy posts and mastadon toots are effectively the same ActivityPub object, you will often see Lemmy posts being commented on by Mastodon users. If you see a lot of @username BS in a Lemmy post, that’s probably Mastodon users commenting
Really, all that Lemmy or Mastodon are is different interfaces and hosting platforms for the same ActivityPub objects. They’re just presented in a different way, one is more like Reddit and the other is more like Twitter. But there’s no inherent reason for a post to behave differently than a toot, they have the same thread flow, so they can interact seamlessly.
And idk about an introduction, seems like someone should make one. Maybe I’ll feed this thread into a jippity and see what it spits out later.
Thanks a ton, really. I’ve been aware of Mastodon, Lemmy and the fediverse as buzzwords, but I think I’m starting to understand what they mean for the first time.
If you still have time, can you stick around for some more?
- Can I find data anywhere about which server is federated with which, how many users they have etc.?
- I just googled ActivityPub. Is it true that I could technically interact with Threads and soon Tumblr without having an account there, because they use AP?
- Are servers literal servers, located on seperate computers, or does Lemmy host everything in the end? I understand that’s how Tumblr and Threads do it, so is Lemmy different and if yes, how?
- does instance/server mean the same thing?
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At one time I saw a federation map, idk if that’s still around. All that info is inherent in the backend server communication and wouldn’t be hard to get, but IDK if anyone is currently doing it.
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Perhaps, it’s been a standard for years. But I don’t think the Bluesky “federation” protocol is the same as ActivityPub, so from all I’ve heard it wouldn’t talk unless someone writes a bridge for it.
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The servers are literally servers, you could set one up today and register a user on it, and it would federate with all the other ones that allow random federations. I think your new server would go out to github or something to get the first list of federation targets, then after that it’ll probably update from other federated servers. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html
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yes
The way to think of these is more like an email server. You have a mail account with Gmail.com or hotmail, and those talk to each other to exchange messages. DNS is the glue that tells them where each other are. If a server blacklists another email server, then they don’t talk and you can’t get messages to a user on that server.
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“Bookmark” is not a term I’m familiar with. I think it might be an app feature.
I don’t know about the apps because I normally use Lemmy on the web. There might be an option in your app to just see posts from your subscribed communities though.
On the Lemmy.world website you can see posts from your subscribed communities by clicking the “subscribed” tab near the top of the page (the other tabs are “local” which shows you just posts from your instance - Lemmy.world in your case - and “all” which shows you the top posts from all Lemmy servers).
Also on the Lemmy.world website, if you scroll down on the main page, you can see your subscribed communities in a list on the right-hand side of the page. I sometimes use that list when I want to look at a particular community.
So they’re finally admitting to being 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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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/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works )
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.
Been here for a few weeks now and have not looked at Reddit since. Time to cut ties and delete my account there I think.
You can also use online tools to overwrite your post history so that Reddit don’t have all the content you provided anymore, even if thats just comments
Good point, forgot about that. Will do that as well. Thanks.
Oh yeah, c’mon, give me some populated niche subs!
We’ll get there… eventually.
8 year account. Started closing it down when the Luigi ban took effect but finally wipe it completely when this got announced.
Only really miss one group from there that isn’t here yet, which I suppose I should start but haven’t yet been inclined to do.
