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.😞
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 _
[ Removed by Reddit ]
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
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
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.
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.
I’m a reddit refugee! It’s better here anyway.
Welcome ex-Redditors, and please leave these at the door:
- confused/ sad $human noises
- $thing intensifies
- /s
Ok I can support the first 2
But “/s” is absolutely necessary and has predated Reddit by a LONG time. It should be mandatory actually because sarcasm is notoriously hard in text
Having made plenty of jokes that people have just not gotten, yeah. Without a gif or some visual cue that it’s a joke; you’re just not going to come across correctly.
I’m a fan of the old school “jk.” If necessary, “jk, obv.”
It does depend on the instance. We don’t use them for the UK one.
Do you think that you’re going to have to explain the joke, do you still tell it?
It’s the same thing with sarcasm. If you can’t do sarcasm by inference, then don’t do sarcasm at all.
No they’re right. A big part of sarcasm is tone. That’s obviously hard to convey over text.
“Dry” sarcasm doesn’t use tone. Take a look at British sarcasm, for example.
A lot can be done with context and inference. It’s how somebody can tell that an article is satire, even though there’s no tone to listen to.
I would much rather see ex-Redditors leave the word “you” at the door, as in, telling other Lemmings who they are, what they believe, or what they’re doing. Like, “you clearly think…”, “you don’t know…”, or “you believe…”
Even if those things may be true, that kind of phrasing leads to arguments and vitriol about 100% of the time, even if the initial difference of opinion was a misunderstanding. If somebody is really a nasty troll, or bot, or shill, or tankie, or whatever, block and move on.
you are clearly overreacting
This
^^^^^^/s
For news I like !world@quokk.au
.world is a bit too reddit-like
Yeah it’s not like the refugees from reddit will be looking for something that’s exactly like reddit. 🙄
They’d be idiots if they went back to what they just fled.
.world is the worst parts of reddit, the powermods.
Stop using reddit as much when the API ban happens (still used modded sync)
Completely quit reddit when Spez came out that he idolized Musk and wanted to turn reddit into X
That was a year and 8 months ago
I feel like a kid again calling BBSes and trying to use FidoNet.
It would be so amazing if we could get Lemmy running on something like !meshtastic@mander.xyz it really would be just like the ol dialup days
It’d be slow, but I’d still use Lemmy over it all the time even though I have a fancy pants 2.5 Gig fiber link lmaooo
Hahah. Yeah same. Obviously the fediverse needs to be more user friendly to gain traction, but I’m having a lot of fun with the more… technical(?)… knowledge required to wrap your head around it.
The Fediverse feels much more like the old internet.
Is that lemme.ee speak, or is my confusion just because I’m old and tech-stupid?
Why doesn’t lemmy have videos like reddit
Video is very intensive in both storage and bandwidth, we all basically took youtube for granted in that respect. It took Reddit a long time to support video natively, (actually, it also took Reddit a long time to support images natively lmfao) just a couple years ago iirc.
But video here is supported with the old Reddit way, uploading to imgur and posting the direct image url
Like here: https://lemmy.world/post/27402635
The domain I’m from does a cost breakdown of what it takes to run 1.28k traffic/day as of posting, if you’re curious:
