Not completely convinced by the format, but worth a try

I’m new but I like it so far 💪

Apps like Voyager per the meme help it feel more Reddity for me and that has boosted my adoption
- @goldenquetzal I wish the browser experience was as good as Voyager's. @Blaze
  
  https://phtn.app/ ?

Lemmy’s originally Canadian just saying 🇪🇺🤝🇨🇦

I'm new to this app, how does it work
- Instead of 1 big website like reddit, there's a bunch of smaller websites like reddit. These sites are united in a way as users from one site can view, comment on, etc on other sites.
  Something similar is Email. Even if you made your email address with Google to have @gmail.com at the end of your email address you can still send and receive emails from anyone.
  
  Unless your community or community owner pisses off all the other communities or just community leaders.
- Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
  !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
  !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- It's pretty close to Reddit, but it's like a whole bunch of smaller Reddits that share posts between each other. The individual Reddits (instances) are generally grouped by hobby, political affiliation, or geographical location, but not always.
  You can tell what instance something or someone is from by looking at their name or title. E.g. I'm from lemmy.zip, you can see it after my user name.
  The reason that it can't be bought by a billionaire is that even if one instance is bought out, compromised etc, it can just be removed from the group at large, and it continues like nothing happened. I'm simplifying a bit but I hope you get the general idea.

US billionaires aren’t even all American. All billionaires are bad.

y'all don't have to boycot every american, just their economy, so if a based person hosts a lemmy server that helps the open free internet and should not be boycotted

Some Instances Allows Tor:
😎
-Comment posted on Tor Browser via the Tor Network
(Not sure how much good it does, since I kinda already revealed the city I live in through my personal anecdotes. But I suppose I can create another throwaway for more... spicy... stuff)
- Some Instances Allows Tor:
  Basically every instance except lemmy.world allows Tor

Shouldn't this be posted on other socials instead of Lemmy?
- Feel free to, but also be ready to see your post removed anc your account banned
  
  I posted it to Reddit, let's see how it goes
  
  Already got banned for pro Luigi posting.
  
  I haven't had any issues posting this kind of content to BlueSky and Mastodon.

This actually got me pumped and Im American. Long live the resistance.
ヽ(°ω°)ノ
- Can’t stop the signal.

So it wasn't Reddit bots after all.
There is plenty of manufactured consent without it.
Same horrible views -Trump.
Europe can continue going down the drain with the US.
Deserved.
- If you don't enjoy the left environment Lemmy has to offer, there are plenty of right wing echo chambers wating for you. I prefer it over the pure hate I read on those, even if I agree to a certain degree about manufactured consent. Maybe jfs just the nature of the Internet these days.
  I see hate here too. And hate is nothing that I personally endorse. But I understand where it is coming from, and whom it is directed to. On the right it's just directed towards the hate group of the day©, be it communists, migrants, refugees, gays or trans folk. It's just hate to have a enemy. At least here it's hate against a class that has systematically made 99 % of people suffer for their own gains.
  
  Same horrible views -Trump.
  You clearly don't get my comment.
  I said Lemmy is equally right except there are no Trump fanboys.
  If that's why you feel the need to call it 'left' is laughable.
  Possibly from american standards and view, who haven't got a clue what 'left' is and think their Bernie or even their right wing Dem party is 'left'.
  Despite there being less horrible bots and banning or whatever, it looks like most views correspond to american ones.
  Since Europe in in their sphere of influence and colors our news.
  Somehow I was hoping it was only the MSM but when I see all the comments and views here it looks like the population has also shifted further to the right and think what they are told to think.
  Many incapable of discussion, parroting MSM narrative and when asked for sources they start name-calling bcs they can't back it up.
  Only difference with Reddit is I (mostly) don't get banned if I then return the favor.

Lemmy reminds me of Reddit when I first joined more than a decade ago. I just hope it doesn't go to shit like Reddit has the last few years.
- My oldest Reddit account was just one year shy of being able to vote (just rolled over to 17) and it stung a little to hit that delete button yesterday. Lemmy very much reminds me of the days when I joined. However, users here frequently point out not having any niche subs on Lemmy - that was exactly what we had to contend with on Reddit. Except making a sub became competitive and you had a lot of speculative sub creation etc. It was exciting because it was new, but that isn’t the case now. The attitude I see missing on Lemmy then is this desire to create communities, and instead lament they don’t exist. Be the change you want to see everyone.
- I hope it won't but I won't be surprised if it does. The internet itself is decentralized, and that wasn't enough.

Is the Sync app no longer being updated/maintained/developed? I am having problems with it. Upvotes/downvotes are no longer being showed. Shame because it is my fav Lemmy app.
- What, didn't even notice! Thought that I somehow disabled it myself.
- I had a sync sub but since it got abandoned I just cancelled it. Most images or videos wouldn't load, as well as some comments or some random shit. Using voyager now and won't look back. It's much better since the first time I tried it
- Yeah, the dev took our money and bailed.
  
  I don't know if you used to use Sync for Reddit but it was pretty normal for him to go away for a while and then come back with a big update. I'm just assuming that's what is happening at the moment.
- Honestly same, i feel like pressing the random buttons sometimes causes it to just not want to load, especially if what its loading is videos/gifs

Shame it doesn't remove Russian trolls, though.
- Certain instances do, you can switch to them if you like
- I'm not aware of any big instance that blocks .ml
- You cannot protect yourself from that without making substantial sacrifices.

It can be bought by a billionaire. I think we need to be careful thinking this risk doesn’t exist.
“We can just make another instance” - this won’t happen like people think it will. If all the content is on Lemmy.world and it gets bought, then people are going to be hesitant to move somewhere else, just like people are hesitant to leave Reddit now.
- A instance or two can be bought yes, but many if the popular subs are distributed all over.
  And if enshitification hits the biggest instances it will bleed users because it's so easy to switch instances
- people are going to be hesitant to move somewhere else
  It is however much easier to move between fediverse instances than it is to move from commercial social media to the fediverse. Once you're on the fediverse, moving is easier.
  
  Also the communities are run by people who actually give a shit about FOSS and decentralization
- If all the content is on Lemmy.world
  Another reason to spread the content across instances
  
  Decentralization is key
- Even if people running instances are saints, a lot of money can not only buy, but bully them into submission. Bullshit lawsuits is one way to do so before they are financially crippled. We are safeguarded only by our irrelevance.
  
  “We are safeguarded only by our irrelevance” it’s not just Lemmy. I’m thinking about the trans movement that progressed quietly without fanfare and the moment it was no longer “irrelevant “ for the majority it started getting massive pushback. Shocking how little it took to go from irrelevant to a danger to society.
- Instances can be bought by billionaires. The software can't. And I don't think many billionaires would buy a website running a software that they cant control tbh
  
  The software can, but the price is likely too high. In the end money can pressure anyone to do virtually anything. Having 100 lifetimes of productive work pressuring you to do something cannot just be ignored.
- Why won't it? I think user accounts need federation as well, but switching hosts isn't hard. Lemmy.ca went down a little while ago due to a power supply breaking. The admin has been great about it, moving away from the provider that took a day to fix the issue. But during the downtime I was able to use an account I has already set up on a different instance.
  When reddit is down, it was really down. When a lemmy instance is down you can just use another. Don't get tied into just one host.
  
  It’s easy to say “don’t get tied down”, but people do. People like their online personas, their handles, their comment and post history. It’s a mixture of sunk-cost fallacy and FOMO. Reddit knows this, it’s why they still have 2000x as many monthly users as Lemmy.
  This will be the same here: if a billionaire buys the biggest instance, yeah cool everyone can defederate, but then all the historical content is gone, most of the users are gone unless they move to you or an instance still federated to you, and you essentially alienate yourself.
- I have blocked content from lemmy.world altogether and have so much fun. Go try it, leave the bubble.
  
  I'm on lemmy.world through Boost, but have lots of communities from fediverse and other Lemmy's and whatnot (still learning how it all works).
  What is wrong with lemmy.world and what do you recommend?

Also, no Spez
- Fuck u/spez

I highly recommend "boost for lemmy" don't know if boost is european but lemmy is so gopd enough for me.
My only problem is lower userbase but I guess that will get better
- Boost finally breaking for good on Reddit is why I'm here. Boost is simply the best.
  
  Same!
  
  Boost was my favourite Reddit client, but I prefer Voyager for Lemmy. Boost just had way too many ads, Voyager has none.
  
  Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
  !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
  !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

Lemmy seems interesting. Though instances, federations etc, meta stuff is confusing.
- It really isn't once you get used to it, give it a little bit of time and feel free to ask stuff.
- It’s not that confusing. The simplest way to explain it, I think. Is that instances are like email servers. Defederating is like a spam blocker. If you don’t like your “email server’s” “spam blockers” you can chose another.
  No need to worry about the inter-instance drama.

In a perfect world...

I don’t think he’s interested.

Is somebody gonna post this over on reddit?
- To the account:
  o7 f

You've been on a roll with these lately. Keep em coming! :)

It also works with Mbin and Piefed 💪
- And mastodon to certain extents
  
  Anyone know if the integration documented somewhere?

stupid question, but anyway: does it have admins? so is Lemmy less censored than Reddit?
- Every instance has an admin. They are listed at the bottom of the sidebar of the instance.
  The good thing is that every team of admins can manage their instance and the communities hosted as they want.
  So if an admin wants to censor a certain topic on their instance, people will just move the community to another instance that would accept it.
  A good example if !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, which cannot be accessed from lemmy.world.
  
  how cool, i like lemmy more and more. thx
  
  The piracy is specifically why I moved to db0. I'm not even a pirate anymore but the information should be visible and easily accessible.
  
  And can be accessed from Fedia.io. I don't know where the nazis fucked off to, good riddance, sez I.
- Lemmy has admins in the way that email providers do.
  Another example: my instance blocks porn. Those who agree with this policy may enjoy this instance, but it doesn’t impose its rules on anyone using other instances who can access that content freely.
  It’s kind of like email. They are all connected, but the rules are set by your provider and those who are willing to communicate with you. There is no one person who can set the rules for everyone.

Also has barely any community, is leaning deep into praising authoritarian countries, is gloryfying violence and has huge moderation issues. You can make everything sound good, but lemmy will never be a true alternative. It will grab a wave of people, lose it till the next controversy pops up and the cycle will repeat. Till there is an actual alternative that becomes available. Same as with Mastodon and Bluesky
- leaning deep into praising authoritarian countries,
  Like... more than Reddit? Do you have some examples so we can see which countries you think are authoritarian? Some... groups... believe Canada is authoritarian.
  
  This user has always been very negative towards the platform, not sure why
  
  Praising Russia, praising China is a norm here. We don't need to point to people who go "no you"
- Fair take there.
  will never be
  Heyy we’re Lemmy let’s be nice to each other please
  
  You're saying that as if it means anything. There is no "better" userbase. Reddit had this weird superiority complex too.

Lol, I feel like I've heard those words before.
If there's a market, the billionaires will come. And wherever there's people, there's a market.
- Which billionaire owns email?
  
  Email? I don't even know how many addresses are owned by Google.
  I'm just saying, The internet may still have a small piece of "nomansland" left, but it's shrinking by the second.