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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 sureglymop »

bioemerl wrote: post #69
sureglymop wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I guess I don't understand that criticism. I'll just host my own instance, why would I care about the "main" instance. It's a criticism of the people on that platform and not of the platform itself...

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by jackewiehose »

ryapric wrote: post #85
jackewiehose wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thank you. That inspired me to try out the lemmy android app. But that was quite underwhelming. We'll see where that goes.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by _thisdot »

maltfield wrote: post #57

I'm the author of this post. I originally posted it here, but it didn't get a single upvote. This isn’t my first time getting on the frontpage of hackernews, but it always happens when someone else reposts my link. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36282351 Can anyone tell me how the fuck hackernews’ algorithm works to where I can’t ever get traction but someone else does after me?

How does it matter? Your post was interesting and it did cause the intended discourse. Don’t bother trying to find ways to “game” the HN algorithm

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by Encrypt-Keeper »

ronsor wrote: post #67
Tenoke wrote: post #55

I (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.

Discord is already a megacorporate nightmare, it really is only a matter of time. It's also just... nothing like Reddit at all

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by nickzelei »

jordiburgos wrote: post #87

What is the difference between Lemmy and Mastodon? I am very confussed at the moment. I am trying to understand how Lemmy works and then there is people saying that you can read stuff from Mastodon on Lemmy. Please help.

To use a simple analogy, Lemmy is like a federated reddit while Mastodon is like a federated twitter. They are both built ontop of ActivityPub, which is the messaging protocol that enables these technologies.

I'm still reading and understanding the topics myself as I continue to deeper my understanding of these platforms. It helps to also poke around and use them a little bit. This helps me gain an understanding of how they work.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by lal »

incogitor wrote: post #80
RobotToaster wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my biggest issue with current federation implementations, your ability to communicate with people on other instances depends entirely on the whims of your (and their) local BOFH.

As opposed to your nonlocal corporate BOFH and his MBA masters at Reddit?

frankly, yes? the reddit admins didn't care about anything, really, and very rarely went on banning sprees. when they did it was just deleting subreddits that were regularly posting about wanting to kill people. and in those cases it didn't require thousands of other random people who just happened to be using an instance but weren't part of that stuff to create a new account on a different website, it just got rid of that one community.

the real problem isnt always your local bofh, it's the other bofhs, and it's the fact that your friend's local bofh who has a tiny fiefdom of a few thousand users can unilaterally cut off access between those users and the few thousand people on your instance.

i'm not going to go so far as to say "centralization is good", but in a centralized system, a personality clash between a couple internet janitors might lead to a new subforum being made that a few users might choose to go to. in a decentralized system, a personality clash between internet janitors leads to platform-wide technological incompatibilities for thousands of users who have nothing to do with it.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by dvlsg »

I think the main thing I'm missing from Lemmy is the ability to work backwards to find a community.

For example, a less-mainstream band I liked posted a new pair of songs last night. With reddit, I could search (via Google most likely) to find a subreddit where this news was posted, and use that to determine that yes, I would like to join this subreddit.

Is there a way to do this with Lemmy?

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by mrlyc »

maltfield wrote: post #57

I'm the author of this post. I originally posted it here, but it didn't get a single upvote. This isn’t my first time getting on the frontpage of hackernews, but it always happens when someone else reposts my link. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36282351 Can anyone tell me how the fuck hackernews’ algorithm works to where I can’t ever get traction but someone else does after me?

Thank you for writing the "How to Find Lemmy Communities" guide. It was very helpful.

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

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by pythonaut_16 »

mariusor wrote: post #59
talhah wrote: post #3

My personal gripe with lemmy is the lack of decent mobile clients.

Which is somewhat ironic seeing that the reason for everyone abandoning reddit is that they're being assholes to devs using their APIs.

Wonder the Apollo dev or one of the other Reddit 3rd party apps would be willing to migrate or create one.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by WalrusOperator »

venusenvy47 wrote: post #88

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/prog…

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