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.
Welcome to Lemmy,I hope you like this place!
I use the Android app Raccoon it looks nice + feature packed, On IOS you can use Mlem and Echo(Proprietary)
If you can you may also choose to spin up your own instance.
I got tired of The Toxic Redditors which what made me leave in about September 2023 and the companies weird and awful decisions.
Don’t forget, there’s https://lemmyverse.net/communities to help find communities across all Lemmy instances. You can set your home instance to lemmy.world and then click through to the subs you want to subscribe to. 👌🤗
Going straight to shitpost is certainly a choice, welcome anyway.
Tbf, the number of posts on shit post pretty much outnumber the other communities.
Even the Linux and Star Trek ones.
I’ve been here about a year now. Good times. Your voice counts on lemmy in a way it really really doesn’t on reddit. People will engage with you because you’re human and say human things. It’s much more welcoming for people who like to talk somehow than reddit ever was. Don’t know why.
By the way, people talk a lot about how lemmy.world censors luigi, but I use lemmy.world and see, upvote and sometimes comment on plenty of luigi stuff without mod intervention. Maybe it’s just one of two communities (subreddits) where it’s enforced.
If you’re a communist and don’t like to hear China (or sometimes for some weird reason Russia) criticised, and if you feel that the USA is the Imperialist power that needs to be broken first, you’ll feel most at home in lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, but also lemmy.ml if you want to keep access to stuff from lemmy.world.
If you’re progressive or liberal, you’ll be fairly happy here on lemmy.world. If you’re a conservative, I don’t know where to recommend you.
There are various country specific ones you might find suit you for other reasons.
All in all I’m not sure it matters a great deal as much as it sounds in my post. People from different instances turn up and say stuff anyway.
The best advice is that you don’t have to lurk as much as you used to on reddit, you can show up and engage and the conversation will start around you.
I would add that I think checking out and joining smaller instances is also a great opportunity. Distributes the user load across servers and being one of fewer voices in an instance means you have a bigger say in who you federate with. You also get to be a third party instance to most of the big drama and don’t get judged just for your instance as much
Edit: also, if you like your instance, contribute to it!
This is a really good point.
Thank you! This is actually quite helpful.
There’s also no rule or technical limitation that prevents you from joining several different instances, with the same (or different) username.
I’m also an old redditor who’s been here for 1.5 years after 3rd party apps died.
This place is much more human and less “dead internet theory” than reddit. Engage with people as much as you’d like and you’ll enjoy being here
Also for radical leftists who happily criticise Russia and China (anarchists), servers you might enjoy are: lemmy.dbzer0.com and slrpnk.net
By the way, people talk a lot about how lemmy.world censors luigi, but I use lemmy.world and see, upvote and sometimes comment on plenty of luigi stuff without mod intervention. Maybe it’s just one of two communities (subreddits) where it’s enforced.
That’s because the knee-jerk reaction for many of the mods/admins of .world communities, like news, was to massively censor and temp ban people for celebrating what Luigi did… for about 6 hours.
They were massively lambasted for this, they provided nonsensical explanations for the censorship with flimsy explanations based on their community and instance rules which they were very obviously selectively interpreting, were lambasted for these explanations, and then after about 6 hours they largely reversed course, stopped policing ao heavily and undid a bunch of the 24 hour instance wide temp bans.
You can find a few threads/posts on the yepowertrippinbastards community of lemmy.dbzero about this, or check their own modlogs, if they haven’t scrubbed or obfuscated them.
Seems more or less accurate. Partly it’s that we’re all learning this together. Partly it’s that we have a variety of mods that are different for each major community. Partly I think it was an overreaction to legal obligations. Partly it’s that when you have a hammer (mod/admin tools), the tendency is to think that you should use them.
Not an excuse, of course. But people really easily love to criticize any kind of leadership with a broad brush without much willingness or understanding of how things should be led. You wouldn’t believe the number of people who say they “don’t have time” to moderate a community that likely takes less than five minutes of work a month.
Ah that all makes sense now, thank you for explaining.
I’m pretty liberal and haven’t had much issue with lemmy.ml. Stay away from lemmygrad.
Try saying that labor conditions in China should be better.
Hello fellow lemming. Welcome aboard!
here’s a tip:
- subscribe to communities, then browse by “subscribed” and “new”
- when you run out of new posts on your subscribed communities, browse by “all” and “new”, and look for more communities to subscribe to
I also like “all” and “top 6 hours” to mix it up
That’s my default bookmark.
I’m more of a “all”/“subscribed” & “top day” dude, but it probably won’t take too much experimentation to find a mode that fits well
At least here we can choose how we’re browsing without an algorithm shoving posts at us
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
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
Yeeeeess. I need to install something that auto-removes google’s AI answer at the top of every page.
I’m glad you knew exactly the community to turn to first 😂
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.
More mature? Bro, we’re all reditors. It’s the same fucking crowd.
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. The 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 much of a shithole then the other instances 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
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.
Yeah but only people who didn’t find what they were looking for in reddit are here. Which is essentially a good thing haha
Just calling it like I see it. I’m sure everyone’s experience is different.
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
What’s your favourite linux distro?
Why did they not call it uwubuntu it was right there
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.
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%
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?
It’s on Lemmy.world’s announcements community but here is a direct link:
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.
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.
