Have they not considered how lemmy sounds like lame-ey?
Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
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#62>Don't overthink this. It doesn't matter which instance you use. Nah. Disagree and I don't even know why is this highlighted. It really does matter what you choose. Same with Mastodon. Each instance has an admin who can do whatever they want (eg delete the instance and permaban you) and on top of that each topic has a mod too. Plus your instance can be de-federated by others (what if your instance end up being a far…
It's not a problem of federation, it's a problem with ActivityPub or at least the networks built on it. The current system is echo-chambery in nature because your instance owner does not only control your own speech being hosted there, but also who you're allowed to read from your feed and who you're allowed to talk to. It may be intentional, it may be due to a byproduct of how the federation details are implemented,…
Having run a Mastodon solo instance for a while now, I disagree on several points...
Mastodon has very few federation blocks built-in. Truth Social and Gab are about it. In both cases, the defederation is mutual, because even those two cesspools don't wanna mix effluence with each other, never mind the rest of the "libtards" in the wildly diverse and worldly Fediverse. They've chosen to be siloed.
So that pretty much demolishes the idea that even Mastodon is somehow intrinsically "echo-chambery". There are, again, no other built-in domain blocks.
If Mastodon is "echo-chambery" it's because the alternative is to remain federated with absolute cesspools. I made it 3 months running my instance before I had to start banning whole domains. There's multiple websites to help Mastodon admins curb the incessant shitstorm that exists in the Fediverse. Whole troll farms do nothing but pump out juvenile invective at innocent users... hundreds of posts with nothing but the N-word, K-word, F-word and detailed rape threats.
Again... this is happening on ActivityPub, right now.
You tell me... is it creating an echo chamber to ban Nazi scum?
Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
#63Does lemmy has somethings like /r/all? Across all instances? I'm not interested in subscribing to specific communities. The way I used reddit most of the time was browsing on /r/all using RIF and then I blocked all subreddits I didn't want to see again (a feature of RIF, you don't even need an account).
Yah it does. Pretty fast too! Mastodon I think suffers from running on RoR. Lemmy is written in Rust.
Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
#64Oh my god this sounds just like mastodon. Having a social media site dependent on a manual to use and understand just sounds like the worst idea.
I just love it when people at HN complain about a freaking web site being too difficult to use. Quite some hackers we are! Took me less than an hour to register and get comfortable with Lemmy.
Same. And since I chose the SDF instance, I went ahead and finally got myself an sdf.org shell. A new toy to me, though it's been around since 1987.
Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
#65>Don't overthink this. It doesn't matter which instance you use. Nah. Disagree and I don't even know why is this highlighted. It really does matter what you choose. Same with Mastodon. Each instance has an admin who can do whatever they want (eg delete the instance and permaban you) and on top of that each topic has a mod too. Plus your instance can be de-federated by others (what if your instance end up being a far…
it's not actually clear to me who mods the communities. I created a couple, but don't see any tools to do any moderation, and looking at the docs, it seems it's the instance mods who would do it, and low-level stuff (reporting, blocking) can be done by any user
I haven't investigated too thoroughly though. I really have no interest in investing that kind of time, which is a problem in growing a new place in and of itself
Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
#66Please use kbin instead - It's not run by literal Chinese state apologists.
seemed on a brief look that kbin had a bunch of crypto nonsense associated with it, and I noped right out
Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
#67I (sadly) doubt Lemmy will be it in terms of a reddit replacement (if reddit is to actually lose it's users). I just really hope it's not discord who will replace it but I fear they have a good shot. And while discord is great for real time communication with others passionate about a topic, it's worse at sorting, ranking and finding old information.
Discord will probably piss off their userbase in a similar way to Reddit soon enough.
Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
> New user experience is very confusing. You have to learn a bunch of dorky sounding terminology right away (instance, fediverse/federated, etc), and there are a whole bunch of instances to choose from, but none of them may be particularly appealing or relevant to you specifically. For technical discussions, this is a feature not a bug. Having a small technical hurdle to get over before contributing is a filter when…
Agree. It’s a nice barrier to entry . Like the fee to shop at bulk stores, expensive grocers, or professional certifications. I’m getting distracted less without Reddit and two notifications per day at a chosen time from email/slack/etc.
How is a fee for a certification "a nice barrier to entry"? I get an argument about funding the body in question, but the barrier thing?
Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
#69Please use kbin instead - It's not run by literal Chinese state apologists.
What do you mean by that? Isn't Lemmy one of those projects where anyone can run an instance? Or are you referring to the developers? And could you please also elaborate what you mean by Chinese state apologists?
Anyone can run an instance but the main one is run by people who actively support states like China. You just go on there and read it for like 10 minutes and you'll find it.
Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
#70Please use kbin instead - It's not run by literal Chinese state apologists.
It really doesn’t matter, I don’t think. You can avoid the official-ish servers run by developers and join another, or host your own. At the end of the day, Lemmy’s just server-software. Whatever the developer’s politics are, it doesn’t magically poison the software.
It matters deeply when the people who run and develop the platform support something that simply shouldn't be supported, and at the end of the day even if they don't control the federation they do control a significant chunk of the direction and policies of the federation.
It would be like encouraging everyone to move to a place like voat. Don't give random extremists to the opportunity to control media or any form of narrative.