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Finally deleted my reddit account after the AI news. What communities do you recommend on lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ive been on reddit for more than a decade. Kinda bittersweet, but its not the first time I have moved on from an internet site. I just cant support reddit and sucking up all my posts for AI purposes. Feels terrible and spammy. Ive been a reddit premium holder for many many years.

Anyways, what communities do you recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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its just silly pictures but is fun.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Just wanted to thank everyone recommending communities to subscribe to. I thought I had a good mixture already. Discovered a dozen new ones just based on the comments here!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

I think that hobby communities here can all benefit from having more members. If you have interest in starting out in any of these communities I am always around, and I know there is a small but dedicated base here.

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The Star Wars community is a place I have a personal interest in making somewhere positive to talk about the parts of Star Wars people really enjoy. I’m happy to see that it has started to take off more over time.

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Communities about history and oddities are also places where kids and core members have really done a lot to make the community a place with a foundation.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Just go to communities and select all… go shopping!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

Do you like synthesizers? My synthesizer community is mostly me talking to myself about them. [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

It's honestly still small enough that anything with a few upvotes shows will appear in the main feed. I've just scrolled through and followed as I saw things I'm interested in, and blocked things I don't ever want to see.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If you want something to laugh at, check out the following.

General

Text Based

Video Based

Movie and TV Show

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

Thank you!

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

You're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's pretty easy to curate to what you like, ban communities you definitely don't like and subscribe to communities you really like while switching between all and subscribed based whether or not you want to discover new communities. You may also want to play around with what instance you use based on who they're federated with or if you want multiple accounts but that's not usually necessary.

If you're a pirate I'd recommend a lot of communities from lemmy.dbzer0.com if you're into Linux there is a fuck ton of Linux communities I'm sure you'll come across. Lemmy is full of techy and political topics mostly but there's some great memes too. I recommend the [email protected] personally bc it matches my personal politics more closely. If you used r/196 you may feel more at him in lemmy.blahaj.zone

Mostly you'll find that Lemmy lacks the hyper niche and fandom communities you'd find on Reddit but everything else is generally here. You can always make a niche community your self but you'll likely end up being the one posting 90% of the time unless you find some people really interested beforehand. Good luck 👍

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

I use lemmy like twitter, like reddit 15 years ago : I view everything, then block communities I’m not interested in.

Lemmy is still small enough to that without too much garbage- especially if you like a broad range of content,

The only chore was blocking tons of anime

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The only chore was blocking tons of anime

Oh my god do I know this pain. It takes forever.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I made the switch a few days ago too and I’m already loving it. The people saying sort by all and subscribe/block as needed are on the money, really easy to curate a selection of good stuff. Content and engagement is more organic here it seems.

I’m about to delete the rest of my social media and jump on mastodon/pixelfed/peer tube etc. good luck and welcome to the federation!

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

https://lemmy.zip/c/interestingshare

Interesting share, just posts of stuff people thought was interesting.

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

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

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

Your posts are public. Your lemmy data can be pulled to train AI too.

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

Of course, it's just less likely since Lemmy isn't owned by a (now) publicly traded company that is a shadow of its former self.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s likely less likely because the user base and SEO isn’t at Reddit’s level. That said, it’s ripe for the picking. Freely available data for Gen AI, and the admins don’t have a legal team like Reddit.

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

I think it's also a smidge less likely in the sense that the data would have to be accessed/scraped from many different instances, as opposed to the sort of bulk data reddit seems to be selling. So I'd say protection from AI is much the same as lock protection. Someone can almost always pick the lock, but if you deter folks they'll look for easier targets. If you want to ensure none of your words are used by AI, post nothing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't an AI company simply set up their own instance to have all content federated to it? I don't see any barriers to hoovering up the content here.

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

Bingo. No need to ask for permission, no rate limits, documentation/source accessible. I would have zero surprise to find out some engineer from an AI corp had made some pull requests to fix bugs or performance issues that would be mutually beneficial for us users and their collectors.

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