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Fediverse memes

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Memes about the Fediverse

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It's much better here! It’s nice and cozy, kinda like Reddit circa 15 years ago.

For your memes we have [email protected] and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got [email protected] to scratch that itch, if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like [email protected][email protected]and [email protected] and for a meme science combo there's always the fantastic [email protected]

You can also drop a shit(post) off at [email protected] or hang out at [email protected] (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)

If you want to explore the world of PC Gaming on Linux check [email protected] or for more general Linux [email protected] and we even have a Linux meme comm at [email protected] (we like Linux around here lmao)

For news [email protected] is excellent and for US focused news [email protected] and [email protected]

Want to ensure your privacy in this crazy world? Checkout [email protected]

And of course, the best for last, the best comm on the Lemmy-verse, [email protected] !!! 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 [email protected] ) Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what's known as the "modlog"

Obligatory, fuck Spez

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Can anyone recommend any other places? Ones where mods aren't overzealous and biased *****.

(The stars represent a word I would probably be banned for saying).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

@[email protected] Do you like reading, or even marvel at libraries and stuff? The last time I checked literature.cafe, the atmosphere (as well as the instance (I call it "online raft", for one) mods there) seems to be typical of a small town library. It also has comms for fanfics in general, and genre-specific ones.

I bet there's also even-smaller fedi-rafts out there that cater to a specific creative interest/hobby, or an entire fandom; time and effort will tell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Welcome aboard.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Ah I was wondering why that arm got amputated. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yee let's go

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

It was heart warming to see my new emulation community see some traffic ^_^

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why doesn't lemmy have videos like reddit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/31922118

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For news I like [email protected]

.world is a bit too reddit-like

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it's not like the refugees from reddit will be looking for something that's exactly like reddit. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

They'd be idiots if they went back to what they just fled.

.world is the worst parts of reddit, the powermods.

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