4mo ago

Good luck admins! And if you're fresh from Reddit, welcome!

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

For your memes we have !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch, if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like !science@mander.xyz, !biology@mander.xyzand !astronomy@mander.xyz and for a meme science combo there's always the fantastic !science_memes@mander.xyz

You can also drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or hang out at !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)

If you want to explore the world of PC Gaming on Linux check !linux_gaming@lemmy.world or for more general Linux !linux@programming.dev and we even have a Linux meme comm at !linuxmemes@lemmy.world (we like Linux around here lmao)

For news !world@lemmy.world is excellent and for US focused news !news@lemmy.world and !usa@midwest.social

Want to ensure your privacy in this crazy world? Checkout !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

And of course, the best for last, the best comm on the Lemmy-verse, !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world !!! 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 !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) 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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Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what's known as the "modlog"
Saying it again to everyone in the back. The modlog is a great feature. Instance Mods and admins can't just disappear people and communities without a trace, and trolls can't make up stories of unfair moderation without bringing receipts and their old account name.
- Couldn't an instance admin just disable modlogs or spoof them, though
  
  Yes, but the backlash would be undoubtedly intense, everyone here loves the modlog (well probably not the trolls/tankies LMFAO)
  
  For their own instance, sure.
  But it won't alter the modlogs of other Instances, which also have a copy if the community is federated to them.
  
  Because of federation the lock-in is much lower and we could move to a new instance due to a rogue admin.
  
  If modlogs were disabled, it would get noticed pretty quickly. If some mod decided to waste a lot of time coming up with an elaborate scheme to try to mess with things unfairly, that instance would lose a lot of trust if it gets revealed.
  On a related note, one funny thing that occurred recently: Mod sets up community with an automated moderator, automod boots the mod soon after.
- Eh, you say that.
  Here's a post I participated in 8 days ago on !asklemmy@lemmy.world
  
  When I click on the link for that post it says the post was deleted.
  When I look at the ModLog for AskLemmy@lemmy.world, there's nothing there in that time period
  
  So either there's some funny shenanigans going on at lemmy.world, or more likely maybe the modlog isn't completely visible across instances, or...?
  
  People are still able to delete their own posts, that wouldn't appear in the modlog
  
  The main thing you need to know the username of the OP who posted it. Chances are they were banned, had their account deleted or deleted the post themselves. The comments in the post is collateral damage in deleted/removed posts. It has happened to me and it does feel bad a bit since comments of deleted posts and children of deleted comments do not appear in the modlog. The idea though, is that the main OP who has been actioned against has recourse. The process certainly can be improved but its still several steps above Reddit in transparency.
  
  maybe the modlog isn't completely visible across instances
  The modlog is vulnerable to the same federation issues that all Lemmy content can suffer from.
  Because I've noticed the same thing with comments removed by .ml admins, I can see the modlog entry when looking on .ml itself, but when viewed from .worlds modlog it's missing in some cases
  But also, like all federated content, you won't see modlog entries on your Instances modlog if they've defederated from an instance. So you won't see hex/grad modlog entries on .world but you can from .ee for example
- Instance Mods and admins can’t just disappear people and communities without a trace, and trolls can’t make up stories of unfair moderation without bringing receipts and their old account name.
  That actually isn't true, they can disappear it for normal users. I've had things disappear at LW and when I called it out, the shitty admin dude went after me. Also, if you delete a thread, it disappears. That's the one thing the bad place did correct up until I left, it might be different now though. They kept the threads up even if they shut down the thread. Now, it just disappears.
  
  There are instances where deleting content permanently is a good feature, like for illegal content and spammers.
  A way to list what was disappeared entirely and the reason for it would be good for transparency. Like if a comment/thread is deleted for illegal images just having a note in the modlog that it was deleted for illegal content would be good even though the images won't show. .
  Spammers might still clog up the modlog though, but there could probably be a way to consolidate them or something.
So of course Spez rolled over like a bitch
- Rolled over so fast it’s like he’d been just waiting for a reason to ban content he didn’t like.
  
  I don't think he was waiting. There's a reason so many of us came here two years ago.
  
  they did that when musk complaing WHITEPEOPLETWITTER.
- Spez has been rolling over like a bitch, his whole fucking life. fucking punchable face that little cunt.
- I made an account after I got a warning for upvoting criticism of musk on a post about Teslas being attacked. I was warned for upvoting violent content. I purposely avoided upvoting such content after admin sub posted about it.
- Fuck Spez ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
- Didn’t this happen since 2020 for the censorship? Because I got my account banned/kicked out.
It's funny because I bet a lot of us that came on the API wave had/have 15+ year old accounts.
Mines 18.
I had a post from /r/teenagers show up on my homepage and I realized that my account is older than most people there say they are.
- 🙋10 year account for me, thousands of comments. 166k comment karma. It was a wild ride, but when they took Boost it was over for me. Fuck em.
  Consequently, now that I'm here I post WAY more, I don't even think my post count cracked a hundred and here it's...4...thousand........fuck, I'm here too much 😅
  
  Crazy how much more value there is here. 1/1000th the users, 1000x the engagement.
  
  You're doing the lord's work, sir.
- 12 years, and almost a million karma, and I was permabanned soon after the election for repeating an anti-HitlerPig post that I had repeated many times BEFORE the electuon.
  I was bummed at the smaller crowds on Lemmy at first, then I realized I didn't have to scroll through dozens of puns, bots, trolls, idiots, etc. on EVERY post.
  
  The lack of the niche communities is the main difference for me, mostly. But that takes time. Otherwise I mostly like it here :D
  
  The lack of karma farming is amazing. Not nearly the same amount of people frantically grasping at low-hanging-fruit puns.
  
  Your talents will be much more appreciated here, I guarantee it.
- 18, 17, and 10 year old main accounts.haven’t been there since the API fiasco, but I kinda hated it for a few years before that.
  I was the primary character in a pretty huge event (fiasco) in Reddit history 16-18 years ago, that I wish I could talk more about without doxxing myself.
  Basically when TIFU and AITA got popular, the site kinda went to shit. Welllll, when smart phones got popular and people started to refer to Reddit as an “app”, it went to shit, Eternal September-style.
  
  Those were the very first subreddits I blocked when it was possible. Then thousands more. Now even with blocked garbage subreddits it feels like mostly fake AI content these days, it's almost FB level bad.
  That's not even the reason I left, "Musk's fumes are fatally toxic". Permabanned for violence, like wtf? No way a human banned me.
  Well make an anonymous account here and fudge some details, I'm sure we'd all be interested to hear.
  
  when smart phones got popular and people started to refer to Reddit as an “app”, it went to shit, Eternal September-style.
  I still hate seeing posts on websites where people are telling me to "swipe".
- 10y and 400k combined karma (mostly comment)
  And I actually managed cold turkey, partially helped by my creating an entire instance which kind of made Lemmy a hobby I was invested in both time and money wise.
- Mine is certainly near 15 years old, but for the life of me I can't remember exactly when I made an account, nor how many fake internet points I'd rattled up - it just seems so insignificant now.
  The best part of Lemmy is that if any instance starts becoming like Reddit is now, I can block it individually, or we can collectively decide to shun them! It's not fool proof, but it's a pretty large leap in the right direction.
  I dare say I miss the niche communities, but frankly, the main niche that I filled was on the pony side of things, and that's pretty dead now. RIP smol horses, you all get to live your best lives now as glue 🫡
  
  In life, they brought as together. As glue, they'll keep us together.
  
  how is lemmy diffrent then reddit other then mutliple servers and stuff like that? both is kinda the same reason you use it for and thats why they exist?
- So we're literally old reddit.
  Works for me.
  
  https://oldsh.itjust.works/ literally indeed
- I came here on the API wave and went to Reddit from digg. I left digg after the Digg 2.0 fuck up.
  I heard Kevin Rose purchased Digg again and plans to redo it again.
  
  Kevin Rose (Digg founder) and Alexis Ohanian (Reddit co-founder) just acquired Digg together, so we'll have to see how it goes. But I don't need to wait for Digg to resurrect itself when Lemmy is already right here.
  
  Whereas I'm one of the people who was annoyed at having all the Digg users come over and ruin Reddit. :)
- 12 year account here, but was accountless for many years before that. Pretty much a lurker on reddit. Here, I don't post much, but I've been trying to add to the conversation as much as possible. I find I get genuine responses from folks, even if we disagree with each other. By the time I left Reddit for the API changes, it had been either jokes, trolls or bots on the biggest subreddits for years, no real genuine discussion anymore.
  Not to say it's perfect in the comments around here, but it's a lot better than reddit has been for like, 8+ years
- 10yr old account, was mostly a lurker. I am actually active on here since I don’t need to comment on a post 5min after it’s been created for my comments to be seen. It feels refreshing.
Wait so Reddit is taking action against moderators who block X links on their subreddits? Wow! That’s draconian as fuck!
I hope we get a big influx. There’s so many small subreddits I like which have no Lemmy equivalent!
- I left after...one of the meme subs last year managed to mass ban bots. Went from one of the most active subs to nearly dead instantly, including upvotes and comments.
  That was so disturbing I finally quit.
Reddit has turned into a real fuck of a fuck over the last few weeks. It was a bad omen when they started charging for API access, but that was just a preview. They're in full-on enshittification mode now.
You get shadowbanned for unspecified reasons, without apparently breaking any rules. They do cute shit with vague error messages rather than tell you what's up. Zero actual communication.
They're also busting people for upvoting super mario kart jpegs for some reason, but when they do that they actually tell you.
- I up voted a Mario Bros Luigi jpg and a few days later my login doesn't work.
  That's actually the outcome I wanted, this is a celebration not a rant 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
- I moved across the country and lost my pristine 12-year old reddit account a few years back because at least one of the mods of the local city subreddit here is a psychopath who followed me across multiple subs harassing me, seemingly for being too vocal about homeless advocacy, eventually getting me permabanned from the site by literally making up a report where there was no mechanism for me to protest.
  Since then I'd been making burner accounts to use the site, but they'd been surviving fewer and fewer weeks until a few months back they started getting immediately shadowbanned. So I said fuck it, why do I even want to be wallowing in a cesspit like that? It's way past fediverse time.
- Shadow ban shouldn't be a thing anywhere. That's some bullshit.
  
  Only in Yu-Gi-Oh should the shadow realm be allowed
- Is it possible to be shadowbanned on Lemmy?
  
  Theoretically, but it would only work on one instance (server), and that would put an instance in such bad odor that other instances might not want to peer with them anymore.
  Ironically, it would be likely to get that instance isolated from much of the network, if not all of it. That behavior is detestable to many who came here.
- Error messages on Reddit: "Oh no, there's something wrong!"
  Error messages on Lemmy: "Haha, I accidentally stopped docker, sorry!"
  We even have a community for talking about what goes on behind the scenes: !backend@feddit.uk
  
  That's the transparency you can only have when revenue isn't in the front seat.
Here for The Great Reddit migration. People left Digg for Reddit for similar reasons. Although the issues with Reddit are magnitudes more concerning.
- 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 :/
  
  Discord makes feel like an old man shaking my fist at the clouds. The UI is the worst, and I have no idea how anything works, but I have to be on it because my friends use it for in-game chat on multiplayer games.
  I never feel dumber than when I’m trying to find something on Discord. Ugh.
  
  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.
  
  Or even worse, move to Discord :/
  reddit got worse faster after IPO.
  Discord is now doing the same, so that'll last a few months lol.
- 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.
  
  I think more folks would come if they knew lemme.ee existed. I only found out it exists this morning.
I remember Reddit after I started using it, around the time of the Digg exodus. It was a fun community of nerdy people. Just doing some things because it was cool.
A few years later, I had the weirdest feeling that that vibe was gone. That both behind the scenes, and more overtly, they had to be prepping for accommodation of corporate interests. A little bit of officially sanctioned promotion here, a dash of ignoring guerrilla marketing there.
And for several years now, it's not even subtle anymore. Reddit does what some dude with money bags says must be done, users be damned.
- by 2016, the enshittification was appearing, because of trump 17 is when the bannings of accounts for the slightest disagreement became noticible, around the same time illicit subs became a target of bans, because GOP complained.
[ Removed by Reddit ]
Woo! Thanks for the mander.xyz shout out. Come for the science memes, stay for the top-tier science discussions.
- based based based based
Refugee crisis on lemmy?
Wir schaffen das
- Sry just testing how everything works on here Ignor this masage
  
  Oh no no, my friend. Newcomers are obligated to provide massages for their first week. We will not ignore...
  
  Welcome!
Mr. Free Speech Absolutist strikes again.
- Yup he is so free speech he bans anyone that hurt his fees fees.
Thanks for making us from Reddit feel welcome I can se i am going to like it here
I got banned from Reddit because I made a suggestion on what should happen to a violent dog that attacked a family member
No free speech on Reddit
- You'll probably like it because we are all from reddit, at varying times in the past.
  It's really like OG reddit. Like the good ol' days.
  Well maybe not cause of the whole jailbait thing
  And the racism
  Yeah, it's a bit more cleaned up
  
  The jailbait and racism still exist, but any instance that doesn't want to be defederated by the big ones defederates from it immediately.
I would love it if reddit clamped down on free speech. Please reddit, just lay it out on what else you want to limit. Let the people know what else they can't say. Or even better- force people on reddit to make mandatory posts praising billionaires. It would make my day. Please reddit, put more gas on your dumpster fire
- Or even better- force people on reddit to make mandatory posts praising billionaires
  I'm pretty sure they already have bots that do that.
  
  We will eventually have bots like that on lemmy and other federated networks too. It wasn't long between the advent of email and spam email. (spam predates email -- the term is from the BBS era...)
By total accident I found out that Digg is resurrecting, backed by Alexis Ohanian, a founder of Reddit (and husband of Serena Williams), and Kevin Rose, who originally founded Digg.
Maybe all the former Digg refugees that fled to Reddit will go right back to Digg.. Continue the cycle.
- I was part of that migration and I won't be as it looks like Digg is going to be pre-launch enshittified via AI slop.
  
  I did see a headline mentioning AI, so yeah, I doubt I'll be coming round those parts again. I too switched to reddit around that time. But I was looking for a way out when I read the news that demonstrating would no longer be possible, and I'm glad lemmy fulfills that 'out'.
  
  What's dead can never die. 🧟
- Still centralized, I assume, so even if it managed a revival it would inevitably fall to the same enshittification.
- Kevin Rose
  He's another techbro idiot, it'd be more of a sidegrade.
I have arrived
- And my axe! Are we still doing that?
  
  Ah the old Reddit switcheroo.
  I finally said the thing.
- The prophecy has been fulfilled.
  
  No, not again.
- https://youtu.be/JOnRNQK5IZE
I'm glad I left Reddit good riddance. Much better here tbh.
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!
- It was heart warming to see my new emulation community see some traffic ^_
I got a temp ban for calling Usha Vance a class traitor. I said that when fascism progressed far enough she would likely not be safe from the overt racism and patriotism because she's brown. 3 day temp ban. Reddit is shilling for the fascist and corporate overlords. That along with warnings just for upvoting posts. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- You won’t even remember you wasted years on there
That explains the mountain of bans.
- I was seeing pretty normal-looking accounts disappear in greater and greater numbers in the couple of weeks before they zapped my account. Couldn't figure out why, just a lot of comments or threads only hours old, and the users were already gone. Couldn't figure it out at the time.
Ive had this account for a while, but I've mostly lurked. I like it better here anyways.
- Hell yeah
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Reddit is now uninstalled on all of my devices
I was reminded of this place because of a comment chain about what the next reddit was.
Deleted my Reddit account when I could no longer use Apollo, but still kept up with a few subs for certain info. Finally discovered Lemmy and after being here for a short while I’ve nearly stopped visiting. This news has given me the push to be done 100%.
- That doesn't seem like a very strong password 🤔
- Aw yeah, any ex-Redditors who want to mess with the tankies can do the "lemmy.ml SpeedBan" game lmao
- Say 消滅中共，解放中國 (Make sure it's in Traditional)
  Ez
- Be the change you want to see in the community. I'm sure there is at least one instance that will allow it.
- Why not make one?
- If you find or create one, let me know.
  
  +1
  
  I don't know what instance to do it on and would have to make an account just for that as I'm SURE there would be blocking or defederation if I made one. My own instance would be cool but also a hassle.
A stupid fuckface called a greedy pig boy…
- Fuckface is putting it lightly limo. he is much much worse.
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.
- 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.
  
  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?
  
  Thank you so much for this!!
- "Bookmark" is not a term I'm familiar with. I think it might be an app feature.
- 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.
So they're finally admitting to being a propaganda machine for the us government.
- Reddit is basically a ship with a captain and crew that hates all of the passengers and vice versa.
  We just have to look nice for the ones who swim over to our ship.
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)_/¯
- 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⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
  
  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?
  
  Ah I was wondering why that arm got amputated. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
I created my account on lemmy a couple of years ago for the same reason as most - tired of the enshittification, guerilla marketing, corporatization etc. I deleted my reddit account this week when I realized that even using hundreds of reddit enhancement suite filters wasn't making the place palatable anymore. Disappointing to see all the negativity towards the lemmy instance I joined though, I'm not willing to make a new account so I guess it is what it is.
- Disappointing to see all the negativity towards the lemmy instance I joined though, I'm not willing to make a new account so I guess it is what it is.
  It's not without cause (If you want to see documentation, you'll need to use this workaround link because, ironically, .ml censors you from seeing the comm: https://lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works )
  But yea I get not wanting to move instances, but can I ask why? It seems as though your account doesn't have any posts or comments, making moving instances very easy.
  The biggest thing you can't move is posts and comments, but comm subscriptions, block lists, tags, saved posts etc are all easily exportable and importable to another instance
  
  The biggest thing you can't move is posts and comments, but comm subscriptions, block lists, tags, saved posts etc are all easily exportable and importable to another instance
  Some apps even have this built in directly. Voyager, for instance, has a Migrate option in the settings. Also, many people see the lack of post/comment migration as a bonus. I would burn my Reddit accounts every year or two, simply to avoid any accidental build-up of PII that could be compiled to dox me. Hell, I’ve been on Lemmy for about two years now, and this account was only created a few days ago because I just recently burned my old one.
Oh yeah, c'mon, give me some populated niche subs!
We'll get there... eventually.
Was this before or after I got banned sight wide in December for posting diy Luigi Mangione prayer candles on witches vs patriarchy?
.ml users is somewhat problematic, they behave like the shills on reddit, the right wingers, often using the same talking points and buzzwords. ml is probably mostly populated the rejects/bans from reddit for the right reasons(posting disengious and offensive posts, misinformation.
- The biggest issues with .ml isn't even the users, it's the admins who are hardcore tankies and use their power and influence (Because they're the "flagship" instance and main "support hub" most instances are hesitant to defed from them) to push their agenda.
8 year account. Started closing it down when the Luigi ban took effect but finally wipe it completely when this got announced.
Only really miss one group from there that isn’t here yet, which I suppose I should start but haven’t yet been inclined to do.
I wanna be optimistic but I think those who are there and have held through the last few, they’ll all likely be getting used to it by now and not caring.
- Not true. I'm pretty recent. We all have a different bar for how much shit we'll take I suppose.
As a redfugee myself, welcome to all! Just please try to avoid making lemmy more like reddit. If you miss reddit please just go back, it's still there.
- Fuck that, I welcome most Redditors.
  Lemmy cannot be made into Reddit, it's simply not possible because the biggest problems of Reddit was because of Reddit the corporation
  Everything else was just born naturally of what happens when millions of humans interact with each other
  
  For you the biggest annoyance of reddit was apparently the actions of reddit executives. For me it was the overabundance of meme-addled high school sophomore personalities. In that way lemmy is already enough like reddit for my taste.
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.
- 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
  
  Good point, forgot about that. Will do that as well. Thanks.
I came here a while back from reddit and it rocks. Thanks for having us.
I’m a reddit refugee! It’s better here anyway.
How do I change instances please. I want my home to be feddituk.
- Go to lemmy settings on desktop (not sure about app support) and export them. Then create an account on feddit.uk and import them.
  
  Ah ok will have a play over the weekend
Typo in your !biology@mander.xyz ref. Takes me to manner.xyz which redirects to GoDaddy...
- Thanks lol, corrected. That's what I get for manually typing shit lmaooo
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.
- Welcome aboard.
Welcome ex-Redditors, and please leave these at the door:
confused/ sad $human noises
$thing intensifies
/s
- 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
  
  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.
  
  It does depend on the instance. We don't use them for the UK one.
  
  I’m a fan of the old school “jk.” If necessary, “jk, obv.”
  
  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.
- 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.
  
  you are clearly overreacting
- This
  ^^^^^^/s
Yay! More users for lemmy!
Uh so… does anyone know if Lemmy will scale to millions of users? Has an ActivityPub service ever gotten to that scale?
- Mastodon.social has millions of users (and millions were active at some points in time):
  https://mastodon-analytics.com/
  
  Awww hell yeah this is amazing news! Thank you
  (Also why didn’t I think about mastodon- I’m such an idiot)
Remember the block function!
For news I like !world@quokk.au
.world is a bit too reddit-like
- Yeah it's not like the refugees from reddit will be looking for something that's exactly like reddit. 🙄
  
  They'd be idiots if they went back to what they just fled.
  .world is the worst parts of reddit, the powermods.
To find communities that you might not know exist, it's great to check out !communitypromo@lemmy.ca , !communities@ponder.cat or !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl .
You can also visit the external website Lemmyverse.net for community discovery/search. Or sub.rehab for finding equivalent communities of subreddits.
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
Yup, looks like @shadow@lemmy.ca is going to be busy again ❤️
I never noticed before nowjch Ned Stark looks like he's holding a karaoke microphone in this image.
"Why they hate me, are they sick in the brain?" sad emoji Anyway, yeah I'm here already dipping my toesies and getting confy since my first reddit "scare" anyway so- just waiting the the time I really have to delete that bookmark like I've done with other virtual social gatherings before when I don't identify with the values of place anymore. By the looks of it it's bound to happen to everything big out there away from the fediverse, either by greed, simping for power, or caving to coercion/ oppression/ roman saluters (and I don't mean the food in case there is a dish with that name)
I feel like a kid again calling BBSes and trying to use FidoNet.
- It would be so amazing if we could get Lemmy running on something like !meshtastic@mander.xyz 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
- Is that lemme.ee speak, or is my confusion just because I'm old and tech-stupid?
- 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.
Why doesn't lemmy have videos like reddit
- 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
- 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
Yee let's go
- @NotLemming@lemm.ee 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.
Lemmy.ml living rent free in this person mind lmao. If you spent half the time you spam post crying about them developing a fork of Lemmy you would have actually be free from them now. At this point I'm starting to think you're actually getting paid for spewing brain rot
- I don't think they are getting paid, but they are from lemmy.world. They are known for open signups that invite trolls, power mods, conservatives, etc. The instance has a lot of US people, the kind that think democrats are leftists. I see a lot of what I didn't like about reddit in lemmy.world.
  Tankies are the biggest problem, even though most instances have defederated from them, and here we have a community dedicated to screenshots of their community where we can dunk on them even though dunking is actually really bad since tankies do it /s. By that logic shouldn't the CSAM instances be the biggest problem? Sure most instances defederated them but they exist, along with far right instances.
  EDIT: Nevermind, OP has spent weeks complaining about tankies. There is no getting through to that. I think lemmy has more worse problems than tankies. Also meanwhile on grad welcomes conservatives but it's all good because at least they aren't tankies right.
- Apparently, it's the other way around, i seem to live in davel's head rent free since they went out of their way to un-siteban me to reissue the ban as individual comm bans instead so they could brigade/dogpile on my posts LMAO
  In any event, I'm not just making memes either, I have documented their censorship:
  https://lemmy.world/post/26783983
  https://lemmy.world/post/26730734
  https://lemmy.world/post/26416571
  https://lemmy.world/post/26047186
  https://lemmy.world/post/25811271
  And their Authoritarian support
  https://lemmy.world/post/26683568
  https://lemmy.world/post/25933288
  https://lemmy.world/post/25280256
  https://lemmy.world/post/25129246
  And the propaganda they allow to proliferate
  https://lemmy.world/post/27416097
  https://lemmy.world/post/27012640
  And even what they think of other non-Tankie instances
  https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
  And that's not only just a sampling of what I've posted, everything I've collected on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works the past couple weeks is a mere fraction of what they've been doing for years, if I actually did a deep dive into the modlog id probably find MUCH MUCH more
  I do this because I consider Tankies to be an ongoing threat to the reputation of the Lemmy-verse and it's health, I've already seen expressions by others elsewhere like Reddit along the lines of "I tried Lemmy, but it seemed to be a bunch of tankies so I left".
  
  Yes that what I said they live rent free in your head get a life please, and accept that people on the internet might have different opinions than yours. Do you realize their might be people of different nationalities on Lemmy that have grown with their national narrative which might be different than yours ? Can you let them discuss and interaction with others without harassing them and spamming your narrative, which we can already find everywhere on internet especially on reddit ? We understood China and Russia bad thanks for the memo I hadn't had it yet.
- It is funny because you see yourself as a freedom of speech defender against the bad tankies that censors opinion, yet you're on a crusade to silence them because can't stand them having discussion and opinion you cannot censors.
- Yea, no, we'll be just fine without right-wingers. We have no desire for r/conservative users to migrate here, they can stay on Reddit.
  I'd rather deal with 10 tankies than one of y'all any day of the week.
  
  Making assumptions, stereotyping, and generalizing. You are the worst.
  Im not the strawman you seek.
- Let us know when you start contributing to 'making this place better'
  
  You'll be the first one I alert.

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