I just discovered this site when looking for an alternative to Reddit...

Welcome to the world of tomorrow!

Folks might want to check this moron's profile before welcoming them with open arms. This "person" is a troll of the first order.
- Yeah, forget this loser. Here's the second comment of his when I viewed his profile:
  If Canada was truly a God-fearing & righteous nation, they'd force women to be accountable for their PROMISCUITY and keep them from killing their HUMAN babies that they have living and growing inside of them because of their unwillingness to keep their legs together. As far as I'm concerned, when they CHOSE to spread their legs and took that dick up into their snatches, they made their CHOICE! Hence, their whole freakish lie-beral commie traitor degenerate mantra of, "my body, my choice" is totally bogus! Don't be fooled, Canada, God's righteous wrath still abides on you! And God's people say, AMEN!
  
  What a gross loser...
- Oh yikes. Yeah I want more users, but not that kind of person
- That's more red flags then when Hexbear decides to have a parade.
- can you not? it's one comment, probably sarcasm. tasteless sarcasm, but an easy block either way
  I am just glad people are finding lemmy. can you knock off the profile stalking for literally one fuckin second? honestly the worst part about this site is people like you who do that shit, esp if you plan on following him around.
  
  I didn't follow anybody around. And profile stalking is not necessary when he posted that tripe in the Canada community which is part of my default subscribed list.
  You can be happy that trolls are finding Lemmy. I don't have to agree with you.

Agreed! I don't use it as extensively as I probably could, but it feels clean and simple.
It also feels like you have a voice that people can hear instead of being drowned out. It may not last, but it's nice.
- It also feels like you have a voice that people can hear instead of being drowned out.
  You know I think a lot of us get so wrapped up in the lack of traffic on this site that we overlook this particular benefit. There are several usernames on Lemmy that I can, not only recognize, but also associate a bit of a personality with from the interactions I have seen and had on the fediverse. I think that's a pretty neat thing to experience amongst the huddled masses of the Internet in 2024.
  
  That's why I feel pressure to add to conversations or content. I'm so used to no one giving a shit.
  I also don't always feel like I have anything worth saying, but I suppose maybe other people could find worth in it.
  
  This is exactly why I love it here, which is weird because it's exactly what I hate about living in a small town irl 🤷‍♀️
- Overall I agree, unless of course that voice of yours has an opinion that the lemmy hive mind has decided is bad (Israel, cars, capitalism, renting/landlords, non Linux operating systems)
- It'll probably falter once their advertisers start pressuring them to start censoring more what people post on this site. Reddit was the exact same way. It started out all good, but became shit over time after advertisers started pressuring them to censor more and more. The same cycle will repeat itself on this site eventually. It's all about the good ol' money!
  
  You may have fundamentally missed how the fediverse works.
  Lemmy isn't one big site, it's a collection of independent federated servers that share content, with users able to interact across the network regardless of what server hosts their account.
  The servers are funded by their owners/users, and can run themselves however they like.
  One server going down or going bad would be a loss, but the network as a whole doesn't depend on any one server/server owner.
  Unless you host your account on an instance or use an app that advertises, the only ads you'll see on Lemmy are spambots. And if you do see ads because of the first two reasons, you can simply switch your instance/app. (I recommend Thunder for the latter)
  Lemmy is open source, it doesn't have an "owner" that could unconditionally inject advertising into any part of how it works.
  The hope is that instead of having to ditch the whole thing when it goes bad, going forward, we can ditch only the parts that go bad, and thereby keep the good going instead of having to set up a whole new thing.
  
  Oh no, the Fediverse runs a bit differently since there are dozens of servers running independently, all sharing information across the network. I don't think advertisers could exert any sort of rules beyond the instances that get paid. That said, the overwhelming majority of instances seem to run on donations.
  
  That's unlikely to happen. The fediverse is supposed to be non-commercial, it's entirely run by volunteers and donations like the old internet. If an admin ever tries to squeeze money out of their users, they can all just move to a different instance and defederate the bad one.
  
  Don't take downvotes close to your heart, I don't think it's appropriate to expect you to have vast knowledge about the site you've just stumbled upon.
  But indeed, the model Lemmy runs on is a lot different, and even if some parts will decide to run ads (which I hope they will not), this will be an issue that can be solved on the instance you have an account on.
  
  Have you seen any adds yet? 🙂
  '*Apps may add adds I guess
  
  The fediverse was made so no one person or group could completely control it
  
  There are no advertisers here. Any ads you see are app specific, not part of the website.

Welcome to Lemmy! Hope you like Star Trek, beans and jeans!
- And linux
- Do you know the origin of the jean thing? Was it similar to the old photoshop battles but with AI?
  
  Nope I have no idea how it started.

Just so you’re aware, there’s hundreds of different Lemmy/kBin/etc sites you can join and still communicate with everyone else.
So even if your site isnt maintained to a good job, you can just hop to another and carry on.
But you’re on .world, one of the larger instances so there’s little worry about it not being maintained.
- (Psst, he's on lemmy.ca)

Hiya! Check out all the ways you could make lemmy look different: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/
Automatic link switcher also helped me get started faster: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher
https://lemmy.world/post/12531572 this is why we won't falter due to advertiser demands!
- I didn't know this was a thing. I shall check it out, thanks! :)

Welcome to Lemmy!
Whenever I use the Reddit app now, I feel physically sick from all of the ads and sponsored content. It's basically like Instagram at this point, you have to scroll through the posts one at a time with advertisements and "community suggestions" heavily interspersed. Yuck.
People will continue to naturally trickle over to Lemmy, because Reddit has created such a frustrating user experience while trying to make a profit.