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Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by hutzlibu »

dang wrote: post #310
hutzlibu wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is quite ironic, that people flagged your post. Meaning apparently, no your opinion, that people don’t want to be confronted with controversial opinions all day long was a unwanted opinion from the local hivemind. Or was I missing something here? Because I also think, that it is fine, if people do their thing in their groups. There are enough other public (online) places, where you do get confronted with other peo…

No one flagged the post. It was killed by a software filter until users vouched for it.

I suppose because of the words used, like "circlejerks"? Another "crude tool" then, I suppose .. as I think in this context the use of that word was alright.

Vouching somewhat works, though.

edit: confirmed, as this comment is now also dead.

Small suggestion: if a bad word is enclosed by "", it likely is not used in a bad way.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by hutzlibu »

arp242 wrote: post #305
hutzlibu wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is quite ironic, that people flagged your post. Meaning apparently, no your opinion, that people don’t want to be confronted with controversial opinions all day long was a unwanted opinion from the local hivemind. Or was I missing something here? Because I also think, that it is fine, if people do their thing in their groups. There are enough other public (online) places, where you do get confronted with other peo…

> It is quite ironic, that people flagged your post. Flagged or downvoted? Downvoting stuff is fine; it's actually a bit more nuanced as I mentioned in my previous post because if you spend all your life in a "circlejerk" then that's perhaps a bit of an issue. That's been a concern with e.g. "The filter bubble" and things like "FOX News media bubble" and stuff. But none of that applies to e.g. Lobsters, so I didn't b…

See the reply from dang above, it was apparently a simple word filter in action, meaning "circlej**" is not allowed to say.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by derbOac »

rjh29 wrote: post #34

I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…

I don't know. I'm skeptical about lemmy taking off but for a different reason — there's a sort of chicken and egg problem with content. It's tough to attract users without attractive users. Bluesky has tried to address that with selective invites and whether or not it happens organically with lemmy who knows.

Using lemmy though, it seems a lot more intuitive to me than mastodon. I can find topic communities on other servers easily, and the community-server match issue seems like a better fit than mastodon in some ways. Mastodon never has quite clicked with me, but lemmy does, maybe even more so than reddit itself.

The limits to me using lemmy right now are content not ux. Mostly I use reddit for relatively obscure topics.

But already I'm seeing cat photos of the sort I'd see on the main page of reddit so maybe it's a time thing.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by Nasreddin_Hodja »

bhouston wrote: post #85
rjh29 wrote: post #34

I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…

Mastodon's issues are: (1) poor discovery (2) if I am on one mastodon site, I can not just retweet that post, I have to go to my server and then cut-and-paste a link to that other site. (3) no quote tweeting, important for vitality. (4) and most importantly, no ranked/AI-managed feed. Thus it is filled with noise. In many ways, Mastodon is a purposely janked product because people don't want to make things easy to go…

> Mastodon's issues are:

Fediverse isn't just Mastodon. There are other implementations of ActivityPub compatible with each other. For example I can use Friendica and comment or retrweet posts from Mastodon and vise versa.

> if I am on one mastodon site, I can not just retweet that post, I have to go to my server and then cut-and-paste a link to that other site.

It was simpler in past versions of Mastodon but they removed that feature for some reason. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19306 Previously it was "remote interaction" dialog. Other implementations like Pleroma may have kept it.

> no quote tweeting, important for vitality.

Twitter can not do like this https://telegra.ph/file/9ea3a6f4f0e3a5c5fa06e.png

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by freediverx »

rjh29 wrote: post #34

I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…

> Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit

Nobody wants a first party Reddit app with a terrible user interface, algorithmic timelines, and obnoxious advertising.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by maltfield »

Because Lemmy is federated, it may be difficult for reddit users migrating to lemmy to find their subreddits.

Here's a guide to help reddit users find popular lemmy communities and subscribe to them across different instances

* https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-...

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by maltfield »

rjh29 wrote: post #34

I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…

Because Lemmy is federated, it may be difficult for reddit users migrating to lemmy to find their subreddits.

Here's a guide to help reddit users find popular lemmy communities and subscribe to them across different instances

* https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-...

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by stevenhubertron »

dbzer0 wrote: post #313
sam-uk wrote: post #252

Kbin seems better IMHO https://kbin.social/ https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/src/branch/develop/src

Can you explain why? I'm trying to decide between lemmy and kbin and I can't figure out how to judge them.

Kbin is the better option if you want a reddit clon
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