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Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by guraf »

karmakurtisaani wrote: post #60
bjornasm wrote: post #33

Oh 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.

> Took me less than an hour to register and get comfortable with Lemmy.

Do you really not see the problem? For Lemmy to face any hope of becoming mainstream your statement should be "less than 5 minutes".

Maybe that barrier to entry is a pro to you, and that's fair, but surely you understand the criticism that a social network should be usable without reading a guide, yes?

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by malicka »

bioemerl wrote: post #78
malicka wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just don't see how they could manipulate, outside of their own servers?

Software updates. The fact that they own the main domain and the main server means they can choose who to federate with cut off large parts of the network at a whim. The fact they own the software means they can make it easier or harder to surprise or spread certain messages, and do so in very subtle ways. Do not confuse open source with safe, something can be open source and be abused even if it's able to be self-ho…

> The fact they own the software means they can make it easier or harder to surprise or spread certain messages, and do so in very subtle ways.

I just can’t imagine how, honestly! It’s not exactly trivial to programmatically hinder certain messages in a way that others won’t notice and complain about — as they did when Lemmy had hard-coded blacklists for slurs.

If anything, they'd abuse their control of the Lemmy.ml server, like you said.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by jtode »

the_third_wave wrote: post #43
unpopularopp wrote: post #5

>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…

> what if your instance end up being a far right honeypot? Why does it have to be a honeypot ? Agree on the importance of choosing a server, they tend to have a distinct couleur locale . It is far more likely that you'll end up on a far-left server when you're using Lemmy. The most popular server is Aspiring to be(e) a safe, friendly and diverse place , under that lies one which proclaims itself to be A collection of…

The right is not known for their meme talent.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by bioemerl »

malicka wrote: post #82
bioemerl wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Software updates. The fact that they own the main domain and the main server means they can choose who to federate with cut off large parts of the network at a whim. The fact they own the software means they can make it easier or harder to surprise or spread certain messages, and do so in very subtle ways. Do not confuse open source with safe, something can be open source and be abused even if it's able to be self-ho…

> The fact they own the software means they can make it easier or harder to surprise or spread certain messages, and do so in very subtle ways. I just can’t imagine how, honestly! It’s not exactly trivial to programmatically hinder certain messages in a way that others won’t notice and complain about — as they did when Lemmy had hard-coded blacklists for slurs. If anything, they'd abuse their control of the Lemmy.ml…

All you have to do is do something like sneak in telemetry, add some sort of back door, who knows.

There are near infinite opportunities for a bad actor to sneak bad code in, so when you're dealing with a bad actor you just don't trust anything they do.

Running code from people who are tied to an authoritarian government is not something you should be doing ever.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by ryapric »

jackewiehose wrote: post #72
joseph8th wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yah it does. Pretty fast too! Mastodon I think suffers from running on RoR. Lemmy is written in Rust.

Sorry, but I'm too stupid to find it by myself. Would you give me a hint?

Click on the "All" toggle on the top of the page.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by karmakurtisaani »

guraf wrote: post #81
karmakurtisaani wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Took me less than an hour to register and get comfortable with Lemmy. Do you really not see the problem? For Lemmy to face any hope of becoming mainstream your statement should be "less than 5 minutes". Maybe that barrier to entry is a pro to you, and that's fair, but surely you understand the criticism that a social network should be usable without reading a guide, yes?

So just to be clear on a few things:

* This "less than one hour" I'm talking about includes really being familiar with the UI, concept and new terminology.

* I'm not really concerned if Lemmy becomes truly mainstream. I just find it funny that the crowd in HN of all places is so helpless that reading a FAQ and learning a few new names for basically old concepts is so bad that it needs to be constantly complained about. How on earth would these people have survived the pre-2010 internet?

* I did not need to read a guide, just a short FAQ and some fiddling around to understand the concept.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by venusenvy47 »

I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to aggregate all the programming forums into a single view. Does anyone know if that is possible? I think the first app that implements this will be a leader in the "Lemmy Revolution". As it stands I have to separately visit redundant forums to see what's going on in the community.

https://beehaw.org/c/programming

https://lemmy.ml/c/programming

https://programming.dev/c/programming

Asking a question seems like it has the same problem. I have post my question/article in multiple places to interact with different people that have the same interests.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by ang_cire »

deruta wrote: post #68
aSockPuppeteer wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

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Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by BeFlatXIII »

csallen wrote: post #25
davewritescode wrote: post #20

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> 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…

Reddit is a massive social website. The vast majority of the value of Reddit comes from the fact that it's humongous. A niche community that tries to filter out most people isn't a Reddit replacement.

People aren't asking for a replacement for all of reddit; they want to replace their favorite subreddits. Being niche is an advantage.
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