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It's much better here! It’s nice and cozy, kinda like Reddit circa 15 years ago.

For your memes we have !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch, if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like !science@mander.xyz!biology@mander.xyzand !astronomy@mander.xyz and for a meme science combo there's always the fantastic !science_memes@mander.xyz

You can also drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or hang out at !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)

If you want to explore the world of PC Gaming on Linux check !linux_gaming@lemmy.world or for more general Linux !linux@programming.dev and we even have a Linux meme comm at !linuxmemes@lemmy.world (we like Linux around here lmao)

For news !world@lemmy.world is excellent and for US focused news !news@lemmy.world and !usa@midwest.social

Want to ensure your privacy in this crazy world? Checkout !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

And of course, the best for last, the best comm on the Lemmy-verse, !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world !!! Just make sure to buy a krabby patty!

We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies, but here they’re mostly on what's known as the Tankie Triad: lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. For the most part, grad and hex are widely defederated from (Users and content of those instances won't be "synced" and you won't see them) and you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. .ml tends to be more subtle opting for censorship of dissent before things get crazy on their threads and allowing certain propaganda to flourish (If you wish to see documentation of it, checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what's known as the "modlog"

Obligatory, fuck Spez

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[–] Trilobyte@feddit.uk 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've been browsing Lemmy for 2ish months, went ahead and made an account just recently. Deleted my Reddit account last week and I'm chuffed.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

Welcome aboard.

[–] stonkingwind@lemm.ee 39 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Here for The Great Reddit migration. People left Digg for Reddit for similar reasons. Although the issues with Reddit are magnitudes more concerning.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Reddit has magnitudes more inertia, unfortunately. And a predominant sentiment seems to be “we should stay on Reddit to counterbalance the bad parts."

Or even worse, move to Discord :/

[–] TheOgreChef@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Discord makes feel like an old man shaking my fist at the clouds. The UI is the worst, and I have no idea how anything works, but I have to be on it because my friends use it for in-game chat on multiplayer games.

I never feel dumber than when I’m trying to find something on Discord. Ugh.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I think its interface is pretty good, but it's structure absolutely sucks for larger communities. It's a deliberate information black hole for shooting the breeze, yet people treat it like a forum, wiki, or hub,.

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[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago

[ Removed by Reddit ]

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

When I first joined Lemmy there was hardly conversation to be found but now things are starting to really pickup. Next you will really start to see niche communities thrive and I'm all for it.

Welcome to our reddit refugees!

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

It was heart warming to see my new emulation community see some traffic ^_^

[–] Burninator@lemm.ee 25 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] AlexLost@lemm.ee 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)

And my axe! Are we still doing that?

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[–] squishy@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The prophecy has been fulfilled.

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[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I remember Reddit after I started using it, around the time of the Digg exodus. It was a fun community of nerdy people. Just doing some things because it was cool.

A few years later, I had the weirdest feeling that that vibe was gone. That both behind the scenes, and more overtly, they had to be prepping for accommodation of corporate interests. A little bit of officially sanctioned promotion here, a dash of ignoring guerrilla marketing there.

And for several years now, it's not even subtle anymore. Reddit does what some dude with money bags says must be done, users be damned.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

by 2016, the enshittification was appearing, because of trump 17 is when the bannings of accounts for the slightest disagreement became noticible, around the same time illicit subs became a target of bans, because GOP complained.

[–] DrunkenLullabies@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ive had this account for a while, but I've mostly lurked. I like it better here anyways.

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[–] Washedupcynic@lemm.ee 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I got a temp ban for calling Usha Vance a class traitor. I said that when fascism progressed far enough she would likely not be safe from the overt racism and patriotism because she's brown. 3 day temp ban. Reddit is shilling for the fascist and corporate overlords. That along with warnings just for upvoting posts. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

[–] tacobellhop@midwest.social 10 points 6 days ago

You won’t even remember you wasted years on there

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Refugee crisis on lemmy?

Wir schaffen das

[–] Moonshadow@feddit.org 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Sry just testing how everything works on here Ignor this masage

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago

Oh no no, my friend. Newcomers are obligated to provide massages for their first week. We will not ignore...

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[–] macncheese@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the welcome wagon. This was the first post I clicked on. I feel like a boomer (I am not one) trying to understand the Fediverse even though I can understand how email works, somehow I can't apply that to how it works here. Like am I supposed to be able to see Mastadon or Pixelfed content on here? What would that look like? Ok also had some weed tincture so that probably has something to do with my confusion. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Welcome!

Yea, you'll see mastodon stuff from time to time, there's nothing really that tells you it's a mastodon post, they just look kinda different. For a mastodon post usually the giveaway is hashtags in the post like #hashtag except they'll be links.

Pixelfed is supposed to show up too, but federation with Lemmy has yet to "kick in" (at least as far as I've noticed)

Also on Lemmy you can do ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ without any extra "" actually, here putting the extra 2 backslashes makes you lose your arm

It's actually really nice, now I can ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ right from my phone keyboard lmfao ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] macncheese@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Ok here's another question. How does this exist financially, who pays for servers and whatnot? Believe you me I am so glad not to be assaulted by ads and whatnot but isn't this expensive?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

It's not actually all that expensive to host websites, it never has been, sh.itjust.works a larger instance with something like 1.5k posts and comments/day only spends about $150/month

A bid cost saving is not using the "cloud", cloud services do what they advertise (mainly allow one to "easily" scale up to millions of users), but its costly.

But the beauty of it is that because Lemmy is decentralized, not one person/org has to worry about scaling to millions of users as the Lemmy-verse grows so hosters can skip the cloud

Some pay out of pocket and some take the ways of the forums of ol, donations and small perks for donating. For example, having a db0 account and being a donator gains you voting rights. There's been talk about private/VIP comms for donators as well

[–] Chocobofangirl@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Donations for server costs. Apparently each user costs a little over 1 dollar a year, hosting-wise. Reminds me of how one site I use for checking stuff in pokemon sleep, how-many-more.com, said in a reddit post from the owner that they don't even take donations because the cost of running it is absolutely miniscule and that you should absolutely question people who want upkeep money for largely text-based stuff like that.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

We discuss costs here.

As long as you shop around for a good hosting deal you don't need everyone to donate to cover the costs.

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[–] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Deleted my Reddit account when I could no longer use Apollo, but still kept up with a few subs for certain info. Finally discovered Lemmy and after being here for a short while I’ve nearly stopped visiting. This news has given me the push to be done 100%.

[–] lavamushlam0287@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Fresh from reddit here. What is the difference in subscribing and bookmarking a community and how do I find them after I subscribe/bookmark?

I'm using the Summit app if that makes a difference.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (10 children)

Subscribing is like Reddit, where your default frontpage view is only your subscribed communities. These communities could be from your server or a federated server, it just depends on what you subscribe to. You don't really need to think about how federation works, it'll just show up for you if you subscribe.

If you pick "Local" you'll see a feed of the the popular posts from all communities hosted on your own server only. Some of your subscribed comms might be in there if they're a local server comm. But it's just a general feed from your server alone.

If you go to "All" then you get a feed from all federated communities, so you could be seeing posts from /c/linux from lemmy.ml as well /c/linux from another server (though it's not likely to see posts from small communities unless you're an incorrigible doomscroller). Generally you'll run out of content on your subscribed only feed fairly quick due to the activity being relatively lower than Reddit, so browsing All gets you more content, but you'll run into a lot of irrelevant shit in the process. But it can be a good way to find more things to subscribe to, as well.

In any case, welcome. I fled reddit after 15 years of contributing by posting and modding when they burned the app community and shit on the people that made Reddit what it was. At least here I don't feel like my efforts to provide content and moderate is for someone else's benefit, least of all a greedy little pigboy like spez.

Be the change you want to see.

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[–] CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That explains the mountain of bans.

[–] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago

I was seeing pretty normal-looking accounts disappear in greater and greater numbers in the couple of weeks before they zapped my account. Couldn't figure out why, just a lot of comments or threads only hours old, and the users were already gone. Couldn't figure it out at the time.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

So they're finally admitting to being a propaganda machine for the us government.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 10 points 6 days ago

Reddit is basically a ship with a captain and crew that hates all of the passengers and vice versa.

We just have to look nice for the ones who swim over to our ship.

[–] LongDog@feddit.uk 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Been here for a few weeks now and have not looked at Reddit since. Time to cut ties and delete my account there I think.

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[–] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago

Oh yeah, c'mon, give me some populated niche subs!

We'll get there... eventually.

[–] FIbynight@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago

8 year account. Started closing it down when the Luigi ban took effect but finally wipe it completely when this got announced.

Only really miss one group from there that isn’t here yet, which I suppose I should start but haven’t yet been inclined to do.

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