I am new to this whole Fediverse stuff. Trying to privatize my life and break away from big tech.
But I have to ask, why are you guys here and not on Reddirt? Where the population us much larger and its basically the same? It appears a few instances dominate this landscape anyway?
Its not like this is unchecked social media, they still moderate these places right? So what’s the benefit?
That greedy little pigboy Spez decided to lock down the API and kill third party apps, and we all left.
It’s been only bots there for the last two years.
They shut down third party apps like Apollo. That was my last draw.
Fuck using that garbage official app.
Same for me as well. Voyager and lemmy instances are what filled that immediate reddit void for me.
Lemmy feels like the old Reddit that i love.
Reddit’s enshittification has been steadily getting worse for years. I moderated a large sub that took part in the blackout protests over the API changes, until the admins threatened us into reopening the sub. That was the point at which I decided I was completely done with this garbage fire of a website.
We’re in an era where every large social media platform is becoming increasingly awful, and all of this can be attributed to corporate ownership of those platforms. I believe that the only way forward is federated platforms that no one CEO can control, putting power back into the hands of communities. The Fediverse is the only capitalism-proof solution to everything wrong with the internet today.
Have you been satisfied here?
Yes.
It’s not a utopia, but it’s the better social media platform for my mental health and I genuinely like it here.
Mind expanding on that more. What is it about Reddit that you would say is worse for your mental state?
People are, on average, much nicer here.
Ads
That greedy little pigboy Spez. Admins. Mods. Bots.
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They blocked 3rd party apps so I left.
I’m a communist. I don’t mean to say I’m here because of the leftist population (though, that is nice sometimes, but as in any lefty heavy place there’s infighting and bullshit), but rather I have certain values that guide my decision making process, and one of them is not supporting massive corporations and shitty services when possible. Lemmy is an alternative to reddit that doesn’t benefit the same class of people as reddit, while actively benefiting the people who actually use it.
No ads, working third-party mobile apps, better community, better discussion, fewer farmers and bots and less spam, and people generally post a text synopsis when linking to a video
How do I learn how to use this place and how it works?
You’ve already gotten over the largest hurdle. What would you like to know?
Like, is there a FAQ somewhere that explains things. Like I see xxxxx@xxxx
But sometimes I see Cxxxxx@xxxx?
Thank you! So wait though, I can see Mastodon posts here?
Not using Lemmy, but there are other options that can do both thread/Reddit style and microblog/Twitter style like mbin. Personally, I find them so different that I’m happy to stick with different accounts on different sites.
Not using Lemmy
I think if you’re looking at a piefed or mbin/kbin community (magazine?) from lemmy you might be able to see replies from mastodon users through the magic of federation (mastodon —> piefed or mbin/kbin —> lemmy), and the other way around, even if mastodon and lemmy can’t directly federate with each other…
Okay, so Lemmy is federated meaning anyone can host their own server and connect with others doing the same. Most of us choose to register with one someone else has already made and maintains. I chose sh.itjust.works, you chose lemmy.zip, and this specific community we’re commenting on happens to be hosted on lemmy.world.
But federation means each instance “server” of Lemmy share everything between each other.
Is that what you’re asking?
The obvious example of lemmy-like federation is email.
There’s lots of email servers, but all of them can send emails to each other (unless blacklisted, which would be the equivalent of defederation), and their users can read emails regardless of which server the sender has their account on.
Each server has its own users and communities (but they still all talk and subscribe to each other!)
Usually I see usernames written in the form
@user@lemmy.zip, while communities!InterestingSubject@lemmy.zipThanks I am still trying to differentiate stuff
It sounds like you’re talking about communities versus user. In the same way Reddit had u/xxxx for users, and r/xxxx for subreddits, its u/xxxx for users and c/xxxx for communities (our subreddit equivalent.)
Welcome to the platform!
- You signed up for the lemmy.zip server (=“lemmy instance”), but you can see posts, post comments, and talk to users from any other server. Just like you can send email from your personal email to your work email, it’s still just email! Other than the fact that usernames have a i.e. “@lemmy.zip” part, you shouldn’t really need to think about it 😅 (But when you want to login to your account, you can’t login to another server, you need to login on lemmy.zip)
- No need to learn much more to get started, you just participate in any discussions you want etc 😊
- You can find some communities to subscribe to at https://sub.rehab/ and https://lemmyverse.net/communities . To subscribe to a community, you can search for the community’s full name on your server, lemmy.zip
- Here you can find a mobile app to download: https://join-lemmy.org/apps/ . You can download whichever you want! You can just try them and pick the one you like the most, and you can have a couple of them at the same time and they still access the same content
- Lemmy.zip also has a list in the sidebar, “Useful links”, these four are just alternative websites you can use to access the same thing; again you can just pick whichever you like the most!
When they shut down Apollo (the app) I walked. Ended up here
Same but sync
Same but 'Reddit is fun"
same but RIF
But why did you migrate entirely instead of just going to the main app or a browser with Ublock Origen?
because the official app is ad-infested bloatware without decent modtools that gobbles my data bucket and keeps trying to show me popular / all instead of just my subscriptions
and because reddit cancelled all my coins and then brought out a new microtransaction currency within the year
and because spez is a shill for the US President and his reactionary right-wing entourage
You think Reddit is right wing!? Its the most Liberal circle jerk Infested website on the internet!
Welcome to the Lemmy lol. Our scale for left and right will differ.
not what I wrote
Because:
• The official app sucks
• The new web interface is awful
• The old web interface is painful on mobile
• /u/spez is a piece of shit
• The way they treated their free labor was disgusting
• I have no desire to create content for them any longer (free or otherwise)
• etc, etc, etc…But why did you migrate entirely instead of just going to the main app or a browser with Ublock Origen?
It doesn’t feel good being herded into increasingly constrained solutions.
First they started charging for the API, then killed all free mobile apps, then killed various moderation tools, then started banning indiscriminately (probably using low quality AI)…
They just keep making the situation worse, intentionally, as much as they can get away with.
In contrast, this place keeps getting better, as features are added to the Fediverse.
Main reddit app and website user experience is garbage compared to 3rd party apps for lemmy.
I left for the same reason. I browse on mobile and I genuinely tried for years to find in the official app where to just type in a subreddit. Like if I just heard about and wanted to go to r/whatever, there was no field to type in ‘whatever’. You could search, there was a dropdown of pre approved subs, or subs that passed a subscriber count, very rarely did it include what I was looking for. On Apollo it would take you to the sub you typed in. If advertisers or shareholders demand an unusable website then great I won’t use it.
Because Reddit is run by a psycho who looks forward to owning slaves after the downfall of civilisation.
Because Reddit locked out third party apps and when asked for an explanation, their first instinct was to lie.
Because Reddit disguises its adverts as user posts.
Because Reddit is overrun with fake user accounts trying to control discourse on the internet.
Because Reddit’s real users will post Among Us jokes in threads about school shootings to farm karma.
The reddit admins got a little fashy for my taste. i got a 7-day ban for saying Luigi probably didn’t deserve to go to prison for what he did, they called it inciting violence. The ban was lifted on appeal of course, because it was bullshit, but not before I was then given a permanent ban for circumventing the temp ban with another account. It, too, was liftedo on appeal because it, too, was bullshit (I was on reddit for 14 years and never even made a throwaway, much less other accounts in general), but by that point I’d had enough.
Also it’s very not the same, as you will learn if you spend some time here. I find people are generally friendlier and a lot less hostile here.
Permabanned and not interested in circumventing it.
Where the population us much larger and its basically the same?
Larger population but also more bots, more cortent that’s irrelevant to me and more corporate bullshit. And it’s been getting worse and worse. I prefer it here. It’s a more focused experience but imo that’s not a bad thing.
Fuck spez
Banned for implying that Nazi’s need to die… In a wolfenstein thread
Well that makes sense because spoilers, duh
I got a temp ban for telling Elon is ‘follow his leader’ 🙄
I did nazi it coming.
Privately owned centralized platforms like Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc, are a recipe for disaster. So I left.
