• TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    9 days ago

    I came from the first reddit exodus and it’s been great over here. You’ll get used to it in no time, I promise.

    • Draces@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      9 days ago

      Wanted to say this too. It’s Lemmy’s biggest problem and keeps putting me off. I don’t recommend Lemmy to people in person anymore because of them. I don’t know if I would be more disturbed if they’re mostly state actors astroturfing or just deeply unwell real people

    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      134·
      8 days ago

      Agreed, also if you’re not a Neoliberal I would stay away from World (or if you’re Queer, a minority, or someone who isnt comfortable with seeing bigotry).

    • tomatol@lemm.eeEnglish
      62·
      8 days ago

      Oh don’t insult marxists leninists like that. I guess what you really mean is that those instances are for russia/china simps or nationalists. There’s nothing marxist about their views.

    • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      8 days ago

      Just recommend the biggest instance that isn’t federated with them. Anyone got a list?

      I do think it’s valuable to recommend the bigger instances. If they’re on a big instance, they don’t have to worry about federation at all at first. It takes no effort to slowly learn about federation, and later they have the option to move to a smaller instance.

      This lemmy.zip person didn’t have a good onboarding experience. @zombiegirl2010@lemmy.zip maybe?

      • Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        8 days ago

        That’s actually me. I simply didn’t want to carry over that username but I guess I should claim it too. Lol

        Yeah, I originally joined Lemmy during the first Reddit exodus. Then, I squirreled and did not spend the necessary time to learn much about it. However, this go around I’m here and I’m serious about learning it and using Reddit much much less (in hopes to abandoning it eventually).

        Some folks helped me to find apps. I’m using Avelon and I really like it. It makes figuring Lemmy out MUCH EASIER than simply bookmarking.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        Sorted by “most active”, these are the ones I recommend:

        sh.itjust.works [Users 28,811 total; 2,465 / month]

        lemmy.ca [Users 8,604 total; 1,138 / month]

        sopuli.xyz [Users 4,967 total; 496 / month]

        infosec.pub [Users 4,240 total; 325 / month] (this also defeds lemmy.ml, which the ones above doesn’t do, but this is kinda small)

        Edit: Also, if someone make an account on a small instance and just search and subscribe to everything, then it would make sure the communities are synched. (someone please go do that)

        • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          There’s also this one, [Users 172,000 total; 27,400 / month]

          That’s going to be the smoothest experience for people who “don’t want to deal” with federation. They can always move later.

          In EVE Online we refer to this as the Brave Newbies area, the biggest, zergiest group where you don’t need to know what you’re doing. It functions as a training ground and feeder group for the more elite groups.

        • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          Edit: Also, if someone make an account on a small instance and just search and subscribe to everything, then it would make sure the communities are synched. (someone please go do that)

          Lemmy Federate streamlines this.

    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      7 days ago

      I know right, ML Tankies are so much worse than fascist capitalist Nazi’s, they sure spoil everything amirite (watches a capitalist do a nazi salute at a presidential inauguration). Lets continue to ignore politics and see where this goes.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    9 days ago

    I’m out of the loop. What’s this “Reddit thread from earlier today”?

    Also, yes, welcome to former Reddit users. I’m also a former Redditor, but I left during the API pricing fiasco.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      161·
      9 days ago

      Nothing actually (for once (I’m sure el Spez’s hard right turn announcement will come soon though))

      A thread on r/technology about Decentralized Social Media actually got some good traction so a few of us logged back in to promote Lemmy a bit lol

  • Truupe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    8 days ago

    Finally took the plunge out of curiosity and a desire to dump reddit at some point.

  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    399·
    8 days ago

    If anyone’s wondering what you should do first, the first thing you should do is block hexbear, and the next thing you should do is join any instance other than lemmy.ml. lemmy.world is a good choice, but there’s probably one you’ll like better.

    If you want to know the most trans-friendly instance, it’s lemmy.blahaj.zone. There are people who will tell you it’s Hexbear. Those people are liars.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      8 days ago

      There is also a 196 community here on world, and a third community on blahaj, because the original mods are a little cray cray.

      • IngeniousRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        77·
        8 days ago

        Enforcement without exception of a rule that was created to protect a marginalized group is not “cray cray”, nevermind the use of ableist language there.

        The 196 on world is the original mods, who were unhappy with Ada’s enforcement of the rules on her server which she owns and decided that because of this they would migrate their community without consulting their members to .world, an instance which is known in the wider community to have moderation issues such as unfair or inconsistent application of rules (see /c/yepowertrippinbastards on Lemmy.dbzer0 for examples).

        The now 2 other 196 comms on blahaj are comprised of the original community’s members, now fractured into two groups. /C/onehundredninetysix was made while /c/196 was still privated by the original moderators.

        Edit: spelling

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          There can be enforcement without exception without banning all civil discussion which doesn’t vibe.

  • taermina@feddit.ukEnglish
    27·
    8 days ago

    I saw a mention of Lemmy on a random thread in r/politics so I’m tentatively having a poke about, since I’ve already tried to quit Reddit once (for Tumblr - it didn’t stick). I remember forums pre centralised internet, is it something like that?

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMEnglish
      16·
      8 days ago

      Yes, you can consider it like a web forum but with the default sort set to “new post” not “new comment” as is done on Reddit. This tends to favour new content over longer discussion, although you’ll get active threads like this quite often.

      And thank you for choosing feddit.uk, I hope you enjoy your time with us and if you have any other questions then fire away.

      • taermina@feddit.ukEnglish
        8·
        8 days ago

        Ah, thank you! I downloaded an app first, since I primarily use my phone for everything and apps are just easier. I think the one I’m using is called Boost? It is less confusing than I was worried it might be :)

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      8 days ago

      Think of it more like email addresses. Know how a Gmail account can send email to an iCloud account just fine, and both display the same content? Same basic concept. You can have [account]@domain1.com and [account]@domain2.com, and they’re entirely separate accounts. Even if they have the same username, they’re on different instances.

      Federation refers to how the instances share data with each other. One of the largest things to look for is what instances your instance federates with, because that will determine what kinds of users you end up interacting with.

      • taermina@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Ahh, okay, so if I wanted to go just looking at a specific subject it might be better to make a second account and join another instance, and keep up two accounts?

        • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
          6·
          8 days ago

          With an account at feddit.uk, it should be ok to navigated almost whatever community. The list of block instances is short and mostly block pedoporn.

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          Most instances will federate with a pretty wide variety of other instances. There are a few big instances to watch out for, but for the most part the instance choice is primarily about which admin team you prefer. As long as your home instance federates with a server, you’ll be able to see it.

          In particular, watch out for Hexbear and the .ml instances. Those will be some of the more extreme and/or brigade-y. There have historically been issues with brigading from some of the more extreme instances. Even calling them extreme is a sort of contentious statement, and I’ll likely get a few “how dare you, fascist, tankie, TERF, etc” types of comments if they stumble across it.

          Aside from brigading, the most common reasons for defederation are related to legality (like maybe a certain instance allows porn that would be blocked in your home instance,) or unmoderated trolling. Trolling from new instances used to be a big problem, where an admin would make a server as a side project and leave it to stew. Trolls would make bot accounts on that fledgling instance, and use them to troll other instances. And since that small instance’s admin is just doing it as a side project, they’re not keeping active tabs on anything and the troll accounts are able to run rampant. Bans didn’t federate by default, so every single instance would need to individually ban the trolls.

          Also, one particular quirk of federation is that federated instances can act as a proxy for defederated instances. For instance, you’re on feddit.uk, which defederates from Threads. So you won’t see Threads content normally. But maybe another instance does allow Threads, and feddit.uk is federated with them. If a Threads user posts on that second instance, you’ll also be able to see it. Because even though your home instance blocks Threads, that second instance allows it and you see it by proxy.

            • blind3rdeye@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              8 days ago

              I’d suggest that the short version is “don’t worry about it”.

              The slightly longer version is that the Lemmy equivalent of a subreddit will have a kind of home-base instance (eg. based on lemmy.world or aussie.zone or whatever else). For the most part, it makes no difference. But some lemmy instances might choose to block certain content. (For example, they might block all porn content or something); and so depending on where you signed up, you may see a slightly different selection of posts on your feed.

              You’re on aussie.zone. You can see a list of what is linked & blocked for you here.

    • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
      9·
      8 days ago

      Welcome! Great to see people choosing our instance :) Like Blaze said, feel free to ask any questions, it can be a bit overwheling at first!

    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      A bit between a forum and reddit. You don’t have to sneak away to subreddit, just comment wherever and whenever. There’s usually some good interaction. Much smaller places than reddit and less monkeying with comments and votes and such.

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    8 days ago

    I got sitewide banhammered from Reddit for my absent-minded use of the report button instead of using modmail

    Even though I was polite in the message Reddit claimed it was mod harassment

    It’s been over a week and they still haven’t responded to my appeal

    It won’t let me submit another appeal because it says I’ve already submitted one

    I’ve been on reddit for over 10 years, seems like an odd way to end it.

    I’ll have to admit though, Lemmy is pretty sweet. I even got Sync back!

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      8 days ago

      Yeah I left reddit when the API thing stopped me using sync. It was the final straw. Like you, I’d been involved for over ten years, but sometimes you gotta move on. I missed some subs, and Lemmy is definitely less active - but I waste less time here than I did on reddit and that’s a bonus.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        The biggest thing I miss from Reddit is how up to date the news on the front page was. Having said that, they changed the algorithm and it’s been dogshit for years anyway. I dont miss Reddit at all, been here for over a year.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      7 days ago

      Every trivial and throughless ban like that, creates another exile who becomes a regular on lemmy. This is a one-way street usually

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      I got banned for speaking out about Israel’s crimes and saying Netenyahu and his cabinet need to be hanged for their crimes.

      Since I am here, I will say that a trial is unnecessary.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      61·
      8 days ago

      Welcome aboard! I see you signed up to LW, here the worst of the “Tankie Triad” has been defederated from (hexbear and lemmygrad) though lemmy.ml is still fed’d so beware.

      • blind3rdeye@lemm.eeEnglish
        53·
        8 days ago

        Is that seriously how you greet new people? Literally the first thing you are saying is about sowing division. “Watch out for the boggieman instance!” How about you just give it a rest.

        • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          4·
          7 days ago

          Yea, I would do the same IRL to tell people visiting my city for the first time about the “bad parts of town” just the same

          It’s disingenuous otherwise to hide such info

  • Zlain@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    8 days ago

    Just got here from Reddit. Haven’t officially left it, but the concept of the fediverse intrigued me and wanted to check it out

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      8 days ago

      Welcome! I hope you have fun here!

      For me I dropped Reddit fully when I realized it was going down more than lemmy.world ever did lol

      • Zlain@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        Thanks! What are the least political meme communities I can join? Politics has seeped into just about every subreddit and I need a break. I see in “all” here that there’s also a lot of politics around here in the meme instances

  • wreckingball4good@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    8 days ago

    I left Reddit during APIGate and I tried lemme and it was full of racist nastiness so I closed my account and recently also left all meta apps and drasticallyreduced tiktok, and thought I might come check out how things are going and it’s nice and cozy here now, think I will stay. Been off of x for the better part of 3 years.

  • Master@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    8 days ago

    Id like to point out there are also some really good mobile apps for lemmy. I use sync for lemmy. Hopefully others will recommend there favorites. There are quite a few good ones!