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.
I’m glad you knew exactly the community to turn to first 😂
Welcome to Lemmy! I’m glad you joined. There are tons of tutorials out there for how to use the platform, but if it helps, here’s my advice:
I use the Android app Sync For Lemmy. Reminds me a lot of rif is fun from before Reddit shut down 3rd party API access about a year ago.
Lemmy.World is the name of the biggest instance on Lemmy. Think of it as a discord channel with different sub-channels except those are called communities here (and instead of r/ for subreddits we have c/ for communities).
There are still trolls here. What’s nice about Lemmy is that you can block individual trolls, communities of trolls, or even instances of trolls (if you deem them so). Conversely, if you get banned from any of the above, you can make a new account on any other instance (like dbzer0 or shitjustworks) and still have access to the content from those people/places. The same is true if certain communities/instances change their policies on things like Luigi, which happened on Lemmy.World recently. I switched over to dbzer0 to avoid that censorship and to also see stuff about pirating - that which is banned on Lemmy.World.
Lastly, we can see posts/comments from other people on the Fediverse, like from Mastodon (Twitter alternative) and others.
Hope you enjoy your stay here! Lemmy is primarily tech- and politics-focused rn, but a lot of people draw parallels to Reddit’s early days, which is good!
How do you do this? I was not aware this was possible
How do I do what
What i meant to ask is if i need to do anything special to see posts from mastodon
No I think they just show up randomly. You’ll have to look out for Lemmy posts to see if anyone from Mastodon comments. Next to their name is their instance, so if I were on Mastodon, my username would be something like: Resonosity@mastodon.social or something
ah, ok! I’ll do that. I’m mostly using lemmy.world, so hopefully i’ll see it, but i wanna read through all that is said here and see if i could take advantage of more of what lemmy has to offer
See posts from Mastodon
They just show up in comments or posts on Lemmy. Usually you’ll see people use a lot of @'s and #'s but they show up from time to time. I’m not sure if there’s a way to see comments from Mastodon specifically
Hello fellow lemming. Welcome aboard!
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.
Welcome! Always happy to see new faces showing up.
This place is significantly smaller than Reddit, and also significantly more spread out. It grows on you, but it’s important to look beyond the similarities between how lemmy.world and Reddit look. Under the hood, these are very different spaces.
“Lemmy” is actually a large network of independently operated Lemmy-based (or not… more on that later) websites. Each website has their own rules, and their own “communities” (AKA sublemmies, magazines, groups, etc.). You’re using one of, if not the, largest website in the network, and the one that is probably most Reddit-like (pre-IPO) in terms of rules and policies. It’s a general purpose content aggregator.
There are quite a few other medium-to-large general purpose content aggregator sites on the network. lemm.ee comes to mind, as does sh.itjust.works. And, of course, lemmy.ca, which is where I’m commenting from. Each of these websites has its own communities, and houses mirrors of remote communities that their users have subscribed to. Remote communities with local subscribers synchronize with the host website every so often (it can be quite frequently, but usually isn’t instantaneously). This makes the whole thing kind of like being on a web forum, but being able to follow topics from other web forums.
As you can imagine, this means there are some niche websites on the network. ttrpg.network is dedicated to table top gaming; startrek.website is focused on… I don’t know, some tv show or something; programming.dev hosts a bunch of communities focused on software engineering; lemmy.kde.social is focused on the KDE desktop environment for linux. These are often low-population sites, but they can see a lot of off-site engagement. Focused sites like that are great sites to use if your primary interest is the topic at hand; it really makes the Local feed super valuable.
If you remember that we’re not all using the same website, and that the different websites are, in fact, different websites, with their own rules, cultures, and norms, it helps grok the space a lot more. It also makes it easier to understand why there might be 8 different politics communities, and that c/politics on lemmy.world might be very different, both in terms of who is posting there, and also what they’re interested in discussing, from c/politics on lemmy.ca, or on aussie.zone.
Now, one thing that’s not obvious from lemmy.world (or any Lemmy-based website, really), is that not every website you have access to here is actually running Lemmy. kbin.earth and rimworld.gallery both run mbin, which is a different content aggregation webserver. community.nodebb.org runs nodebb, a web forum server.
People have access to Lemmy communities from an even wider range of website types. Users from Mastodon-based websites, Friendica-based websites, Hubzilla-based websites, and probably quite a few more.
We’re all on different websites. Some of those websites are significantly more different than others. That shapes this space in ways we haven’t even begun to truly explore yet. And it adds a little jank.
But the jank is worth it, as far as I’m concerned.
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
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.
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.
Thank you! This is actually quite helpful.
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
There’s also no rule or technical limitation that prevents you from joining several different instances, with the same (or different) username.
Also for radical leftists who happily criticise Russia and China (anarchists), servers you might enjoy are: lemmy.dbzer0.com and slrpnk.net
or join the dark side like me.
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.
What’s your favourite linux distro?
Why did they not call it uwubuntu it was right there
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.
Removed by mod
You can make your own Lemmy iinstance and be your own censorship police, that’s the difference. Thats NOT an option on Reddit.
Hell, you don’t even have to be on Lemmy, Mastodon, any if the Bins etc can interact bacause they alo use ActivityPub.
There are plethora of instances people don’t federate with becase they don’t agree with them, that’s how it SHOULD be.
Yeah, that’s the one we don’t allow. You found it.
Do not encourage violence.
(User was banned for 3 days.)
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
Only issue you might find with signing up for world is you can’t get db0’s piracy communities. I’ve been too lazy to switch since coming from kbin though myself.
Plenty visible from sh
Weird part is the last announcement I can find from .world admins said those communities were going to be reinstated, but then here we are months later and they still seem busted.
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.
