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Good luck admins! And if you're fresh from Reddit, welcome! (lemmy.world)
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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] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For news I like [email protected]

.world is a bit too reddit-like

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ive had this account for a while, but I've mostly lurked. I like it better here anyways.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Hell yeah

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Welcome ex-Redditors, and please leave these at the door:

  • confused/ sad $human noises
  • $thing intensifies
  • /s
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No they're right. A big part of sarcasm is tone. That's obviously hard to convey over text.

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

It does depend on the instance. We don't use them for the UK one.

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

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I feel like a kid again calling BBSes and trying to use FidoNet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Is that lemme.ee speak, or is my confusion just because I'm old and tech-stupid?

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

It would be so amazing if we could get Lemmy running on something like [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Here for The Great Reddit migration. People left Digg for Reddit for similar reasons. Although the issues with Reddit are magnitudes more concerning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

I think more folks would come if they knew lemme.ee existed. I only found out it exists this morning.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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 :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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?

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

You got it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for this!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can I ask some questions if it's no bother?

  1. What's a server? I assume lemmy.world, but what others are there?
  2. 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?
  3. Can you access a community that's not hosted on the server you're on from your server? like in your feed, etc.
  4. What the hell is Mastodon. Is Mastodon a server?

Actually, scratch all of this, is there an introduction somewhere

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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 [email protected] and a [email protected]. 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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?

  1. Can I find data anywhere about which server is federated with which, how many users they have etc.?
  2. 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?
  3. 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?
  4. does instance/server mean the same thing?
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

awesome, thanks a lot!!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

"Bookmark" is not a term I'm familiar with. I think it might be an app feature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

I’m a reddit refugee! It’s better here anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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