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NOT_RICK_SANCHEZ@lemmy.world · 224 pts · 1y (37 replies)

People getting sick and tide of Reddit. TBH I’m still salty over them killing 3rd party apps and I’m so glad they did because that drew the line for me, also fuck spez.

frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml · 93 pts · 1y (8 replies)

They've basically banned anonymous accounts. Their whole thing was anonymity.

jaybone@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 1y (3 replies)

They seem to be blocking access from certain IPs and VPNs (if not logged in?) Which is funny because some of these VPNs are not really hiding anything. Like my work VPN which I would think makes it pretty obvious which company I work for. Annoying when search results link to reddit content.

Hubi@feddit.org · 23 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You can use this script with a browser addon like Tampermonkey to get around the sign-in requirement:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         reddit - unblock (create cookie and reload)
// @namespace    Violentmonkey Scripts
// @match        *://*.reddit.com/*
// @grant        none
// @version      2024-01-08
// @noframes
// @license      MIT License
// @description  for "Blocked" "whoa there, pardner!" cowboy bs
// ==/UserScript==
/* thanks: https://www.reddit.com/r/mullvadvpn/comments/18jbxb2 */
if (document.title === "Blocked") {
  document.cookie="reddit_session=;Domain=.reddit.com;Path=/;Expires=;Secure=true;SameSite=None";
  window.location.reload();
}
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y

Why should the user have to fix reddit to make it functional?

thal3s@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y

This what infuriates me the most.

I use a VPN (because my government is insane) and i get a “security warning” if I visit any Reddit post (even old Reddit).

All they’re doing is building a moat around OUR content we created.

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Wait first I'm hearing of this one. What happened now?

biscuit@lemdro.id · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I think they're referring to the fact that you no longer can create accounts without using an email address. You were able to use a UI loophole to do it before via Old Reddit, but no more.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

Woah, it's finally gone? Guess I haven't been back in a while

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y

Without anonymity it is in fact pointless. Pseudo anonymity is extremely useful I basically won't go anywhere without it. That's definitely a feature we should advertise to people, you can actually be anonymous

mesamunefire@piefed.social · 53 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Reddit has become very strange.

Shadowbanning sucks when your on the other side of it.

Forever mods that have hundreds of default subreddits act like dictators. Banning people from all their collections of subreddits without anyone knowing.

Removing the ability for users to see actual number of votes up/down.

And now with the whole "don't upvotes certain content or you will get a strike". Never mind that isn't how the site works at all.

They haven't come out with a feature that people have wanted in the last couple of years.

GreatDong3000@lemm.ee · 21 pts · 1y

Getting rid of coins/rewards just to empty everyone's stock and then bringing them back again without 1:1 compensation and forgetting everyone who gave their coins away before they would vanish

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y

It's been a while since I've been on and everything I'm hearing is that it just keeps getting worse. Eventually it'll be completely unusable and probably shudder but by then the real conversation will have moved elsewhere

cm0002@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y (14 replies)

Same, it was over for me when they took Boost away thankfully Boost pivoted to Lemmy lol

PrimeErective@startrek.website · 12 pts · 1y (12 replies)

Is Boost dead though? I love it too, but it hasn't updated in a while

cm0002@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y (10 replies)

I have no idea, Boost has always been one to go long periods between updates, but it is getting pretty long since the last one

CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y (9 replies)
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PunkiBas@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

You can have gestures disabled on voyager and just use the buttons

TIN@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y (6 replies)

I'm using Thunder and really enjoying it

PrimeErective@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Does it save your position in the comments of a specific post? That's my #1 criterion for an app. Boost is the only one that I've found that does it

TIN@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y

Not that I can see

USSMojave@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y

Like if you visit a link or go to someone's profile, then go back to return to the comments, will your scroll position be remembered so you can see the comment you were just looking at? If so, yes

CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
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leapsy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I use voyager and don't use any gestures. Looks like I turned them off in settings. And they have a ton of options for things you can adjust in the settings. I was a reddit is fun app user and am completely happy with voyager. But I'm also almost always just lurking. So more active users might have more problems but with how much you can adjust it I doubt it.

drewski@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y

Mine stopped working completely this week. It then linked to boost for lemmy. Now I'm here.

Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y

Boost gang!

Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 1y (8 replies)

I'll still check sometimes on Reddit when I'm at my desk if I feel like it and I've got time, so like barely anymore.

When 3rd party apps died I moved here.

After them saying that if you upvote enough banned content you'll get banned, I'm just waiting to catch ban over there.

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y (5 replies)

i still lurk a lot. i have a rule against posting there though... which admittedly i did break recently, but only to plug lemmy. otherwise no posts/comments there in two years

Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I think since coming over here I've done like 2 dozen comments and a handful of posts (on Reddit), but considering I used to post and comment as much as I do here but over there I'd say that's a lot of progress.

I've done over 3k comments and over 3 hundred posts here since joining in June of 2023.

imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one · 8 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Thank you for your service 🫡

I'm the same as the other guy, my rule is that I only post/comment about Lemmy when I use my reddit acount.

I used to only comment a few times per month when I used reddit but as soon as I started using Lemmy I started making hundreds of comments per month. Especially in the first few months, I got to 1k comments super fast. Since then I've slowed down a bit but still way more active than I was on reddit. This is my alt account btw.

It's so much more rewarding to participate on Lemmy for a multitude of reasons, but mostly because it feels like people actually care enough to read my comments and respond. On reddit it often seemed like shouting into the void. Plus, it's a great feeling to be a part of something that's community based and not just soulless corporate slop. Every time I check reddit, it feels so miserable and I wonder how I ever tolerated that site for so long.

Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

It feels more human over here (if that makes sense lol)

And yeah after my initial break from Reddit it definitely feels more insufferable over there.

This is also one of my alts, I've a few but none are used as much as this one by a long shot.

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The thing is for a good solid decade using one of those corporate websites actually it wasn't so bad, I was right user since 2012 and it used to be good. It's slowly degraded over the years since then and at this point I think I'm fine never going back, except if I am reading some several years old post that has information but even then the internet archive can do that for you and it might be the only place to get that information from Reddit

imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 1y

Yeah that's true, I was also a user since 2012 and it was much better back then. It slowly got worse through the 2010s and then really fell off a cliff after 2020

MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Use Reddit Enhancement Suite. You'll thank me later.

makes red it much more usable and easy on the eyes.

Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y

I used it for awhile (I've been on Reddit for about 13 years)

Honestly though pulling more away from social media is good for my mental health. And making the experience more abrasive so it's less of a passive thing is good.

Zidane@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

I'm more oxi clean of reddit myself

Zenodyne@lemmy.world · 120 pts · 1y (27 replies)

Joined up yesterday and have been pretty happy so far. Have been looking for an alternative so i could ditch reddit since the API changes and had no idea this place existed until i saw a random thread yesterday

Hammerjack@lemmy.zip · 48 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Welcome!

If you're new, I definitely recommend checking out https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding new communities to subscribe to, rather than just browsing "all". There are a lot of weird communities out there when you just browse "all"...

RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 1y (2 replies)

https://sub.rehab/ is also good.

rglullis@communick.news · 24 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Sub.rehab is super outdated and https://fediverser.network/ is easier and crowdsourced.

RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y

Thanks, hadn't seen that one before

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 1y

Block the weird communities if you dislike them so much.

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 20 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Welcome! It's a great, homely place that still feels a little bit like the old internet.

In addition to the already mentioned Lemmyverse, two other great ways of finding active communities are !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y

The old internet never went away, not on a technical level for sure. What changed is that big corporations had dominant positions from control over user bases and then they squeezed us for profits so hard that it's no longer worth it to use them. This process seems to have accelerated since the end of the era of easy money in 2022 which is why we're seeing things pop off more than it used to.

whatevercomeon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

still feels a little bit like the old internet.

Yes! I miss it.

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 1y

Welcome!

mesamunefire@piefed.social · 11 pts · 1y

Welcome!

There's a ton of good apps that use the API.

cm0002@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 1y (16 replies)

Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.

We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .world account so 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. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

Kirk@startrek.website · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

We have an entire instance dedicated to popular 1960s television show Star Trek (don't go there)

FoD@startrek.website · 3 pts · 1y

There are dozens of us!

Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y

In terms of sorting the "tankie triad" least bad to worst though it's definitely: ML, Grad, then HexBear. At least I sometimes have decent interactions with people from ML, can't say the same about the other 2 though.

Edit: Actually put this as a reply to the correct comment this time. :/

I deleted the other one as I replied to the wrong comment.

coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 1y

!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.

Keep in mind that subscribing to this community means that it'll take over your feed.

/j, but it's also true

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided against each other!

feudposting is cringe

Diva@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 1y (10 replies)

the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear.

aka where the good posts are hidden, if you want news outside of the mainstream liberal echo chamber a lemmy.ml account works well

cm0002@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (7 replies)

^ one of the bigger Tankies around, "good posts" aka anything pro-CCP, pro-Russia, pro-NK and nothing not

Anything otherwise is considered "liberal"/Western propaganda/"CIA something or another"

Just wait till they break out the random blog links and YT videos lmao

Diva@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 1y
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kuato@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 1y (4 replies)

And you’re the biggest anti-communist “leftist” around.

NOoo TAnKiES AREN’t CoMmUNISt They’RE AuthoritArIan. Every time you say that you only show your ignorance. Read an actual book, or stop talking nonsense. Stop trying to fabricate a pacifist communism, and just admit that you are anti-communist full-stop.

cm0002@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Stop trying to fabricate a pacifist communism

Ah ok, so if authoritarian communism is the only form of communism that exists then eroding human rights ever further in the pursuit of it is A-OK then?

Sorry, I don't subscribe to that, I personally would love to see the fall of capitalism in my lifetime, but not at the sacrifice of basic human rights like freedom of speech and inviting even worse censorship.

kuato@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Skill issue, I would simply choose liberal reforms, despite their never succeeding.

He’ll never read a book.

Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

cm0002@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Hmm yes, century+ old books that predate the CCP coming into power by like 25 years and well before modern age concerns like the power of the internet could even be imagined

Y'all keep arguing theory with books that are incredibly dated and blog posts based on that dated info when most of us are talking about what the Chinese and Russian governments are doing today.

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 1y (1 reply)

so basically a right wing propaganda/astroturf instances, no thanks had enough of that on reddit.

Diva@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 1y

They're actually mostly anarchists/communists, so left wing

Jimius@lemmy.ml · 83 pts · 1y (66 replies)
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PNWKid@lemm.ee · 44 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Just got so sick of reddits smarminess. It’s also just astroturfed corporate BS at this point anyway.

I’ve been boycotting Amazon for over a year (and quite frankly won’t ever stop), won’t shop at Target and won’t visit super corporatized social media.

Reddit has proven time and time again they’re just a whipping boy for corporate interests.

whaleiam@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y

Yeah I knew it was bad but this last round of suppression was the final straw.

Cephiroth@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Are you me from the future? This is literally my mindset right now. Just started boycotting Amazon, Target, etc.

Irelephant@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y (59 replies)

just a heads up, the instance you're on is pretty controversial.

Jimius@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y (41 replies)
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Irelephant@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y

So, the no matter what instance thing isn't really true. Moderation is different per instance, mods can remove comments locally. Account migration is planned, but not there yet.

EddoWagt@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 1y (20 replies)

Well it doesn't, but that instance has a... reputation... So some people might have that entire instance blocked. You'd have to create a new account elsewhere to move over

roguetrick@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (19 replies)

Every instance has a reputation. A lot of .ml posters think that .world posters are libs and crypto fascists(if they distinguish between the two). And some folks accuse feddit.nl users of being... Well... Dutch.

EddoWagt@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

And some folks accuse feddit.nl users of being... Well... Dutch.

I suppose they're not wrong. But I hope I'm not blocked by some people for it

roguetrick@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Likely only Austin Powers father.

Rawdogthatexe@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y (11 replies)

Does shitjustworks have a rep? So far so chill, I don't think I've heard any controversy about this one.

Cowbee@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 1y (10 replies)

Every instance has a "rep," sh.itjust.works is generally seen as right-wing.

cm0002@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y

Cowbee is a known Tankie, everything to them is right-wing, they think I'm right-wing LMAOOOOO

SJW is not seen as right-wing outside the Tankie Triad, for an actual right-wing instance see hilariouschaos.com

cm0002@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Lol nahhh .ml says we're all CIA shills and .world is a CIA front full of bots! Lmao

Diva@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I haven't heard that one before, hallucinating again?

You do seem more obsessed with people to your left than anyone to your right, not really beating the crypto fascist allegations

cm0002@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

I could have sworn I had a screenshot of it, but I'm still looking. But please enjoy this other one I grabbed of .world and .ee users being called bots in the meantime

Diva@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y (14 replies)

people peer pressuring over instances can be disregarded, they're almost always shit-stirring

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y

Feudposting is cringe

wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y (12 replies)

It's seriously getting old at this point. I've noticed there's been an uptick in hostility towards lemmy.ml over the past year. I can only assume it's related to the reddit migration. Unfortunately I only forsee it getting worse as more people migrate over.

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

At a certain point it becomes harassment and should be moderated accordingly. Something that we're going to need to do as we grow in order to be a functional social spaces that harassment needs to be something you get banned for because a lot of the negative experience people have on the corporate crap is because of widespread normalized harassment. If an instance isn't so bad it gets defederated users probably shouldn't be given shit for merely using it

kuato@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

The .world admins allow this to continue, which I see as tacit endorsement for it.

Dil@is.hardlywork.ing · 4 pts · 1y

Theres a community about ml drama "meanwhileongrad" thats blocked from ml so youd never see it

cm0002@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Have you considered that people just generally don't like supporting the authoritarianism that plagues China, Russia and NK

It's the authoritarian part of being a Tankie that a lot of us hate

wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y (4 replies)

There's a difference between support and pointing out blatant US propaganda. Like I said above, many people across the fediverse don't get the nuance of being critical of US narratives does not equal supporting the regimes that are on the recieving end of that propaganda. If you really spent any amount of time on .ml you'd see there is plenty of criticism of Russia/China, just not to the extent where everyone unquestioningly takes any criticism by US sources at face value.

cm0002@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 1y

Did you open the link at all? That user literally just said that Drump would be the dumbest president ever, even dumber than NK dictators and caught a 14 day ban from /c/memes for it. That is not ban worthy whatsoever, but on .ml it is for the sole reason of it speaks ill of NK.

There's plenty more on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works but ironically .ml blocks you from seeing it, so you'll need to use this roundabout link instead http://lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I got permabanned from politics on shitjustworks for calling out the mod for being a hypocrite, so 14 days ain't so bad in comparison. Gonna go see what rule 1 over there is tho.

InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1y

LPT: Maybe don't start comments with "Go fuck yourself", people might take you more seriously or be more receptive.
🤷

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y

You have to make a new one.

I've been on .ml for half a year and it's a good one. Not many defederations, so I can pick what instances i want to see and not have some faceless admin pick for me.

If you really struggle with certain users who are passionate about certain topics, just block them. This is true for any instance. Don't forget to block me to. Thanks.

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y

The reason it doesn't matter is because they all interoperate, unless one of them is a problem and needs to be cut off. Yours isn't the worse but some people do have a negative opinion of it. If anyone decides to de-federate you won't be able to see posts from there but this probably doesn't matter a whole lot unless the instance you are on is a total pariah

ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

Yeah it doesn't matter - don't listen to drama fiends. .ml is fine. Lots of people decry it as being a tankie instance. The whole point of federation is you aren't limited to the content on your instance - just by which instances yours is federated with.

If people or your instance bother you, make another account. Otherwise, just ignore the haters

cm0002@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works or actually because you're on .ml, they block that comm instance wide

So you'll need to see it through another instance, like so lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

You get banned for dissent against Russia or China or even NK on .ml comms

SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y

very good way to put it

PNWKid@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Is lemm.ee chill or should I be making a new account?

Irelephant@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

Oh yeah, lemm.ee is great.

phoenixarise@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Controversial? How come? I’m new to the Fediverse so I’d love to learn as much as I can. 🙂

EddoWagt@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Lemmy.ml is very pro Russia/pro communism

phoenixarise@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Oh that sucks. Thanks for letting me know!

Irelephant@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I explained a bit here: https://lemm.ee/post/58018253/18825295

But I'll go into more detail : )

lemmy.ml is the instance run by the lemmy developers, who are tankies. Tankies are people who support authoritarian regeims such as the soviet union, or north korea.

As such, they sometimes remove anti-china or pro-ukraine posts/comments.

They also sometimes bridgade threads.

As an example, check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

phoenixarise@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I gotcha. Thanks so much for the explanation!

espressdelivery@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Why?

Irelephant@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y (7 replies)

It has some censorship problems, the devs (who run the instance) are tankies, and pro-russia/china

espressdelivery@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Alright where next? I’m not invested in this space

Irelephant@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y (5 replies)

lemm.ee, the instance you are on, is fine. In fact, the admins are great people.

espressdelivery@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I’m so sorry but you have to spell this out to me

What is the difference between lemmy and lem.ee? And I suppose I should ask “where am I?”

Is this like people individually hosting their own reddits?

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y

You can browse by "local" and "all" with the tab at the top of the page. Local is posts from just your instance, all is everything not defederated with your instance.

That's why I suggest people go to a instance with as few deferations as possible. You can block instances, communities, and users. You know what you want to see. You don't need a admin to tell you what you want to see.

I'm glad instances with tons of defederations exist for those who want that, but that's not for me.

Irelephant@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

So, lemm.ee is a lemmy instance, its like its own mini-reddit. lemmy.world is another instance. You can follow communities accross instances though.

Dil@is.hardlywork.ing · 2 pts · 1y

Its ppl copying the content on each others servers and all hosting frontends/backends that serve the same content. The site is where your content is hosted, like if you upload a pic its to that instance and based on their upload rules for size. I think lemm.ee has like a 50mb limit while some have much higher limits. All of your posts/comments originate from your site and then get coppied to any site that hasnt blocked it and has communicated with it before. (Me subscribing to a lemmy.world community from my instance would count as communicating so they would federate and posts from that community and other communiteis on that instance would show up on mine in the future)

Like if you hosted a site that was an exact clone of mine that copied or linked content over everytime it was posted to match the other.

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

You can read this, hopefully it will help: https://lemm.ee/post/54947321/18643464

wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Don't worry about the other posters trying to dissuade you from lemmy.ml. It's a very chill instance. It gets flack because it is run by and has a majority leftist base, but that shouldn't be an issue if you consider yourself a progressive. The "tankie" slurs are frankly b.s. and disingenuous. I wouldn't call the sub "pro-Russia/China" by any means, the users are anti-imperialist and realistic in the nature of US propaganda depicting other states as bogeymen. Just because you question the mainstream US-centric narrative doesn't mean you're shilling for China/Russia etc. There's a lot of liberals and centrists, that despite their progressive sentiments they may hold, are still very beholden to the narrative of American exceptionalism in a lot of ways.

Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Guessing it's coming from shitjustworks people. Politics mod over there doesn't like anyone pointing out the Dems weak ass "resistance" even if you are lauding another Dem(Rep Green) at the same time lol.

wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y

Wherever it stems from it's getting annoying to deal with the influx of "enlightened centrists" that have the idea that anyone left of Biden/Harris is a secret Russian/Chinese disinfo agent :/

Justnotoverthink@lemmy.wtf · 72 pts · 1y

A lot of folks here are talking about Reddit being shitty but I switched because I'm in Europe and I don't want to enrich especially US Companies off of my personal data.

meldrik@lemmy.wtf · 72 pts · 1y (11 replies)

2025 is the year of the Lemmyverse!

AloneYogurt@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The more people that transition over here the better it'll be (outside of some of some subs). I'm hopeful to see more community engagement.

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

the more and more reddit increasing thier filters to ban or remove comments we will see more. it going to take permabans for people to come here in large numbers. sooner or later reddit is just a clone of FACEBOOK.

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 1y (8 replies)

*threadiverse, we don't want to exclude other software

meldrik@lemmy.wtf · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

True, but this graph only shows Lemmy users, right?

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y

Yeah

Snoopy@piefed.social · 5 pts · 1y

Correct. However with ActivityPub protocol those number are irrevalent : any increase of users from (Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed) will benefit Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed.

And to a certain extend, on Mbin and later Piefed, they will also reach microblogging plateform as iceshrimp and mastodon. Then pixelfed, peertube, loops...

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I'm excited to see where software development is going to go. It seems like every major microblogging platform has a few different flavors and there are multiple platform choices available. What were using is just the beginning, the software can only ever get better really. It's not like the corporate world where they make shit worse on purpose to make more money. And as the software gets better than use might increase as well since you can do more and do it easier and more elegantly

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

It seems like every major microblogging platform has a few different flavors

Do you mean every major social media platform?

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I haven't seen any lemmy forks yet

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

They're not forks, but we have piefed and mbin (fork of kbin) and a couple more that have shut down

Snoopy@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1y

You should definitly try them. :)

  • Mbin : you can connect to mastodon account, they support flair, filter by content type. I don't use it a lot but enjoy it.
  • Piefed : a good moderation board, flair, multi-community (feed), peertube support...
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 57 pts · 1y

Greeting new Lemmings!

Please wipe your feet, we don't want anyone tracking in any spez.

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mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml · 52 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Subjectively, Lemmy's communities are much more robust and have a lot more content than they did during the Reddit API exodus. I imagine there will be more people who choose to stay this time around.

beanstalk@lemm.ee · 30 pts · 1y

Yep, I discovered let me during the API Exodus, and then came back recently with this last wave. They're definitely feels like there's a lot more here than last time!

Also finding a lot of value in reading and actually interacting with comments and content, on Reddit I just felt kind of drowned out and a lurker

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fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

The problem is that communities feel dead if they're below a certain critical mass of users and the resulting content. If we can hit that critical mass it will take off on its own

CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Yep we all need to get posting and chatting to encourage others

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I'm trying to do my part

CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al · 4 pts · 1y

Love your name BTW its adorable

dontbelasagne@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 1y (14 replies)

Woo more people to join our cult. Everyone will get their robes in the mail

cm0002@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y (12 replies)

Wait, I've been here almost 2 years, where's my robes‽

dontbelasagne@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y (6 replies)

You know what you did

nexguy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (3 replies)

My guess is robe crimes

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Namely disrobing at inopportune times.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

He is a chronic feudposter and tankies live rent free in his basement.

nexguy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

So... he is a good landlord?

cm0002@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

>:( you know too much now

Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I cut the sleeves off of mine, that was probably my crime. Sleeves are like pants; the fewer you wear the better your day is.

aceshigh@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

You and I will be considered the early adaptors. People will guess as to why we migrated so early.

nodiratime@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

What's the password?

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Fidelio gets the Pianist into trouble :::

Psaldorn@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

The real robes were the Caroline's we got DMed by along the way.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Is Caroline like the new Nicole? The site's moving too fast already, I can't keep up!

Psaldorn@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

No, I'm just terrible with names.. blew it again..

BigDiction@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Well at least Nicole from Toronto in their inbox.

SirBobboIV@lemm.ee · 37 pts · 1y

Left Reddit as soon as Boost stopped working

Snoopy@piefed.social · 36 pts · 1y (9 replies)

2025 is also the year of Piefed. :)

squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de · 19 pts · 1y (5 replies)

The year of PielemmbinBB

mesamunefire@piefed.social · 22 pts · 1y (2 replies)

The entire fedi is going up with new users. We keep having wins.

Kinda easy when traditional keeps hitting itself over and over.

pennomi@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y

The thing is no one is actually forced to use their websites, we can all leave at any time when it's no longer worth it. This means that we have all the power since those websites are nothing without their users and the content they post. You are also right that the diversity and quality of software offerings can only go up and we see this happen even with rather low user numbers. Imagine what the world could look like when corporations are unwelcome nuisances

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Year of the Verse

Snoopy@piefed.social · 9 pts · 1y

Nice word, i tried to find a similar word to microblogging (masto/IceShrimp) Sadly, threads was already taken, and i do want to promote Meta.

So, Verse as competitive, verse as poem, verse as conversation...i think it fit lemmy/mbin/nodeBB/piefed perfectly :)

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Is there a mobile app yet? I made an account because I was interested in the new Feeds feature, but I spend 100% of my time on the Threadiverse using my phone.

Snoopy@piefed.social · 7 pts · 1y

No. However there are two mobile app in WIP :

  • a fork of Thunder : Pferd. (only for testing and i love its logo)
  • Interstellar, they want to support Piefed

I use daily Piefed as an app. The mobile website works well :

  • you open https://piefed.social with your browser.
  • Then click on add a shortcut and it will work as an app.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

Our year comrades.

callisto@lemm.ee · 36 pts · 1y
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houstoneulers@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 1y

What happened 2/12?

WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y

Speaking of users, whatever happened to Flyingsquid?

mimavox@lemm.ee · 33 pts · 1y

Reddit's auto moderation has gone haywire. You can't say anything bad about nazis now.

ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y

I gotta say, I respect what Lemmy does and hope it succeeds, and I think it's a good place for discussions and such (and I will remain), but good god if this place isn't unfunny as hell. I'm struggling real hard to find some place with actually funny content on here, which leads to me getting exceedingly riled up by politics.

MindlessHunter4@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 1y

Hopefully even more people will join as Reddit gets shittier and shittier.

maplebar@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y

THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!!

But seriously this is good news and I'm glad to have you all here. Lemmy is in a pretty good position right now in terms of having a critical mass of users and decent traction within popular communities. At the very least it feels self-sustaining here.

SausageWallet@lemm.ee · 28 pts · 1y

Is anyone else just enjoying seeing people create actual user names again and not just using the automatically generated ones reddit has done for awhile?

TranslateErr0r@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y

And I am glad I am one of them. Not because of an anti-US sentiment (as in: towards American citizens) but as more pro-Europe move.

Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y

This is my first time here. I do not abide thought policing. Fuck Reddit, fuck Spez.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 1y

I will shitpost harder.

I'm doing my part!

b1rb@lemm.ee · 26 pts · 1y (12 replies)

I’ve had enough of reddit

cm0002@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 1y (11 replies)

Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.

We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account so 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. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

hey cm0002 why are you on lemmy.cafe now?

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y (7 replies)

What happened around the middle of February that caused that slight but sharp drop-off?

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 45 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Hexbear going down, !fediverselore@lemmy.ca

Delvin4519@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one · 4 pts · 1y

Nice, I didn't know fedecan hosted graphs like this. The fediverse.observer graph has a weird scale and Fedidb has also been weird lately, so this is a good alternative.

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

i wonder if those jumps are due to Reddits ban waves?

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Ahh okay. Thanks.

Snoopy@piefed.social · 15 pts · 1y

For the story, if i recall correctly, part of hexbear admins were aways so they got a paiement problem.

Their domain reseller put a bid for hexbear.net domain. It skyrocketed to 2500$. I'm glad they didn't have to pay those corpothieve.

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

thats about the time when reddit was upping thier ban purges, my hunch is people who have lemmy mightve stop using temporarily to find out what was going on/repealing thier bans on reddit?

for a several days i dint immediately go to LEMMY after my permabans, but trying to find out the reason behind all these purges ? some people have multiple reddit accounts

lorski@sopuli.xyz · 25 pts · 1y

I am ready to give up Reddit, we need more communities to move here!

Kirk@startrek.website · 24 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I am pretty convinced these stats are low because I remember the early years of Reddit feeling much less active than the Threadiverse does now and I have to assume Reddit's MAUs in 2008-9 were at least above 100K.

Regardless, this is nice to see and I recommend everyone check out !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com if they are interested in helping to promote Lemmy instances on Reddit.

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I am pretty convinced these stats are low because I remember the early years of Reddit feeling much less active than the Threadiverse does now and I have to assume Reddit’s MAUs in 2008-9 were at least above 100K.

On the other hand, Reddit's reported users numbers are way too high for the actual activity on the website. I follow /r/BuyfromEU quite closely since the sub blew up, and it's definitely not that active for a place with supposedly 150k subs

Kirk@startrek.website · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Great point, absolutely! I don't subscribe to the "dead internet theory" but my time on the Fediverse has also convinced me that all of the corporate platform's traffic numbers are almost certainly heavily inflated (probably to justify higher ad prices).

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y

Investor fraud is basically the entire business model of well basically everything anymore. I also wouldn't put them past it to have ai generated comments.

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's possible that early adopters (ie: the current Lemmy population) as a population subset don't fully conform to the 90-9-1 rule.

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1y

I would imagine that we're all more motivated than average considering we've made the conscious choice to travel the path less taken because we have standards

Corno@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 1y

Always happy to see the Fediverse getting more popular! 😃

diamat@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 1y

If you are here and want lemmy to succeed, please consider donating. The devs used to get by mostly on nlnet foundation grants but are trying to shift to a more sustainable donation based model. You can see how they are doing on the join-lemmy website when you scroll down to the bottom, there are also links to their liberapay (preferred option) paetreon, etc.

taxiiiii@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y

Just noticed that it shows how many days ago I joined. The babies are taking over this thread. This is a baby-thread now.

Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 1y

I just really wish there was more active communities for things I like.

I made the Path of Exile community which is currently empty.

There's no Burning Man community yet for SOME UNKNOWN REASON

All the EDM communities are dead including the one I made.

Send Help!

stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 1y

Been checking and commenting on Lemmy everyday since I made my account. Its my new first opened app of the day now

kane@femboys.biz · 19 pts · 1y

One of my largest pain points with Lemmy is that there are multiple active communities for the same topic, causing quite a few duplicate posts to show up in my feed that is difficult to filter. Hopefully there comes some kind of solution, outside of userbase, this is (what I believe) one of the larger issues compared to Reddit.

However, I still switched over to Lemmy for my primary 'Reddit'-needs.

CaJoasca_Baloon@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 1y

This is probably active ones too, so the ones that don't comment (like me) don't count.. except this time. I would say it would be around same size as the active ones, but I have no data to prove that.

Extras5023@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 1y

Hi I’m new! Finally created an account

little_beefy@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 1y

I’ve been trying all the open social options and Lemmy is by far the most entertaining and active.

europeanfan122@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 1y

Lets make this a new reddit but better!

killeronthecorner@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y

Reddit, when the walls fell

jjjjm182@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 1y

I created an account a while back now, but it’s been mostly inactive since then. I’m liking it a lot more here!

Mee@reddthat.com · 16 pts · 1y
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MOARbid1@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

I just deleted my 12yo account over the censorship. Reddit has become a draconian shit hole and I no longer want to be a part of it. I'm happy to be here.

AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space · 15 pts · 1y

Ha, I knew setting up my own server would attract more people!!! /s

But it is a great development, happy to see it 😀

IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 1y
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tamman2000@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 1y

What happened around February 12?

neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 1y (4 replies)

What is the reddit drama this time?

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 1y

Getting in trouble for upvoting restricted material. If you continually upvote stuff that reddit deems not allowed on the site you get banned.

kamenlady@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

It's the ever enduring brain melting Enshittification... I heard you can now buy decorations or something similar for your sub. I don't have a source for this, but afaik they have been adding new features for reddditors to spend their money on.

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 10 pts · 1y
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nodiratime@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Tension over there is huge. After I turned a little more political in my comments, it took me only 2 months or so to accrue 3 temp bans. The appeals were not heard, they are wrong and don't care. The last appeal got me booted forever. Prepare for way more users.

Pete2R@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 1y

Greetings everyone

erytau@programming.dev · 14 pts · 1y

I'm one of the new users. Hi. Reddit suspended my account after I posted my indie game. No reply to my appeals for 3+ months. Gonna give Lemmy a try now

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

Shaddow Banned from Reddit for making some Luigi Mangione prayer candles got thousands of likes and bam old high karma account banned forever. No response from Reddit. Noticed on the shadow ban page that tons of people getting these bans everyday and no response from Reddit . Suggested we protest at Reddit headquarters in SF and now I’m banned from Shadow page ban lol. Nice to be here though

toxygen@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

I can't remember one instance of a company being bought out and then made better by investors. That's why I came here. I just don't like people like that. I hate how everything is about money.

StudioGloom@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Really happy to see. I need to start posting more.

squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y

That's the spirit.

RaptorBenn@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

Hey look! I'm a statistic! Not the one I expected.

kwr112233@feddit.dk · 13 pts · 1y (7 replies)

New guy here. Signikg up was a bitch but glad to be here :)

meldrik@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 1y (6 replies)

What made it a bitch? Genuinely curious.

kwr112233@feddit.dk · 8 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Instances - what are they and how does it work together. Also slow password reset emails. I have three accounts now.

I still don’t really understand but i am in 🤷‍♂️

meldrik@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Think about instances as email providers. You pick a provider (feddit.dk, feddit.uk, lemmy.wtf etc.) to access everything from all the other Lemmy providers + the rest of "the Fediverse", which fx consists of Mastodon, PeerTube and Pixelfed.

Was it on Feddit.dk you had issues with slow emails? That might be something the admin, @SorteKanin@feddit.dk should look into.

kwr112233@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Thank you for the reply. The thing is, and I think this will apply to others too, I’m just a casual user. Unknown boxes scare me.

Couldn’t they be hidden away on signup (prefilled) and only visible when you click ‘advanced’.

Also, I have a mastodon account too. Are they now the same thing?

SorteKanin@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 1y

Måske det hjælper hvis man skifter til dansk, så vi ikke bliver forvirret af sprogbrugen :)

Som @meldrik@lemmy.wtf siger så er fediverset decentraliseret - det vil sige at i stedet for at der kun er en udbyder (fx Reddit), så er der mange udbydere af sociale medier som hænger sammen. Man plejer at kalde hver udbyder en "instans", altså Feddit.dk er en instans, lemmy.world er en anden instans. Så man vælger en udbyder/instans, ligesom man vælger om man går i Netto eller Rema (selvom de jo tit har de samme ting).

Mastodon fungerer på samme måde, dvs. der er mange instanser der kører Mastodon-softwaren som alle hænger sammen. Faktisk hænger Mastodon og Lemmy også sammen, da de bruger samme underliggende protokol. Det er der hvor det bliver rigtig fedt for så kan man begynde at skrive fra Mastodon til Lemmy eller den anden vej. Det ville svare til at skrive fra Twitter til Reddit eller den anden vej, noget man aldrig kunne forestille sig i de traditionelle kommercielle sociale medier.

Jeg forstår godt at meget af det her er anderledes end hvordan de traditionelle centraliserede sociale medier virker, og jeg er sikker på du ikke er den eneste der er forvirret. Jeg tror faktisk det ville være rigtig fint hvis du stillede dine spørgsmål og forundringer som et indlæg i !spoergsmaal_og_svar@feddit.dk, så kunne andre på Feddit.dk også måske få glæde af forklaringerne :)

meldrik@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 1y

What "boxes" are you talking about here, when signing up on a Lemmy provider?

Mastodon and Lemmy is different software, serving two different functions, but they are connected. So it is possible for a user on Mastodon to create and comment on posts from Mastodon, on Lemmy.

If you follow this link to Mastodon.social, you can see this post and our comments.

OpenStars@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1y

If it helps, you can check out PieFed.social - the topic areas are at the top, no need for an account until you have decided to become active with voting, comments, or posts, and in that case there's a sign-up wizard offering to subscribe you to topic areas of your choice, and put up keyword filtering for "Trump" or "Musk" or some such, to either see that content never, only a little, or not filter it at all.

Maybe you don't need all that anymore, perhaps you've already found an app that you like that does similarly (Sync or Connect?), but I thought I'd mention just in case:-).

Wilco@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y

Reddit is being crazy and censoring/banning people.

Kaisar@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

Just joined in too!

PokerChips@programming.dev · 13 pts · 1y

I didn't realize that was only 50 thousand users. Muddy have been only 5000 in 2023 during the API Exodus.

aceshigh@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What’s that dip on 2/12? What happened?

Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 1y

The hexbear.net instance went down, because the admins forgot to renew the domain name

(Technically the server was still running, but federation lemmy-stats-crawler works via domain names)

cm0002@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

Hexbear went offline as the domain expired, went to auction and the domain admin was MIA. They've been restored as the domain admin (unfortunately) came back and reclaimed it

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y

Made a similar post yesterday on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com , nice to celebrate again!

UrMomsSweetAss@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y

Lets just have each of us 50k post about Lemmy over on Reddit.

SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social · 12 pts · 1y

Yesterday was the first day that Lemmy activity tipped over the threshold, and there were too many overnight posts for me to read all of them over breakfast.

trans_Sophie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 1y

Just randomly found this searching something unrelated, and suddenly I have an account. I've been a reddit user since it took over from digg. Which sort of took over from things like /.

Well now I feel old. Thanks 😮‍💨

Padit@feddit.org · 12 pts · 1y

What does "active" mean in this context? Is giving an upvote or opening the app enough, or do I need to write a comment/post?

bignate31@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

What's an "active user"? Can I just up vote things I like, do I need to leave comments like this, or must I get involved in senseless flame-wars?

CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y

Sync for Lemmy is a good app' if anyone is looking for RIF like experience. Sync

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 1y

We need bigger servers, and exponential growth good enough to reach 5 orders of magnitde more

john_lemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y

What constitutes an active user? Is a new lurker like myself counted or is there a threshold of minimum action needed to be counted?

jaybone@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (7 replies)

Big uptick last few days. I’ve heard there were more redditors coming over after more dumb stuff occurred recently. There was the Luigi hat thing recently.

Hippyintraining@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I had previously used lemmy a while ago, but wasn't too impressed. Then after getting frustrated with reddit time and time again, I tried again, but couldn't find a simple way to get back here. The other day, a post on reddit detailed a very simple way to get here. And now I'm here. (and loving it very much so far)

jaybone@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Just curious, what was difficult about finding a way to get back here?

Is it because the various instance names are hard to remember?

My theory is that’s why so many new people end up on Lemmy.world. Many of the other popular instances have host names / domain names that are more difficult to remember and to tell someone about verbally.

Hippyintraining@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Yeah it was definitely partly due to the domain names. But a big part of it is that I'm kinda a dumb ass when it comes to this stuff sometimes. I think I went on the playstore and searched lemmy? I honestly can't remember. But the guide I followed was pretty much tailor made to dumbasses/lazy people. I'm so glad I saw it

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Can you link the guide? I want to spread it around we need more guides

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

When I joined I first went to lemmy.world because I didn't know you could see other instances stuff.

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y

Luigi is insanely popular among basically everyone even right wingers. Being firmly anti Luigi is a choice for sure, a bad one

tehn00bi@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

I’ve enjoyed it. Doubt I’m using it to its fullest ability. Only on two instances.

arifinhiding@feddit.org · 10 pts · 1y

Happy to be here! I'm looking forward to my new home in Lemmy!

Cocopanda@futurology.today · 9 pts · 1y
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firepal@jlai.lu · 9 pts · 1y

I'm glad to be part of this renaissance of the forum.

LONG LIVE THE THREAD!! LETS GOOOOOOOOO

Thom@discuss.online · 9 pts · 1y

This is what happened when I joined obviously

Shogun@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I created an account a while back and I'm back after receiving a warning from reddit for upvoting certain content. I was going through the communities looking for stuff to subscribe to and I was a bit surprised by the number of communities with a couple thousand users and the last post being half a month or more out.

I hope people's suggestions about making the instances and navigation more seamless is being taken seriously because there hasn't been much change there from what I'm seeing.

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Even though 50k is a nice number of MAUs and allows for active discussion in the bigger communities, it's still not enough to fuel niche communities - at least presuming the 90-9-1 rule applies even to early adopters such as us. While I agree that discoverability could be a lot better, I think what's holding back the smaller communities right now is lacking critical mass more than anything else.

OpenStars@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1y

I think the Threadiverse offers a much higher rate of commentors to lurkers than that. Posting itself might be the same though.

meldrik@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 1y

A bunch of communities were created at the last Reddit exodus and left to die. Buuut some of the communities might have moved to another Lemmy server or simply died out because the same community exists on another Lemmy server.

astrisk@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

I'm more of a lurker, but just recently joined also

bluewing@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y

That's really good to see. But it will be far more interesting to see what the numbers are a month and longer are from now. If they don't stick, it's pretty meaningless.

MyOpinion@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

Lemmy is fantastic!

vala@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Do people using RSS readers contribute to these stats at all?

Billybob22@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 1y

Step up Lemmy, cometh the hour cometh the platform!

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Neat

Flamangoman@leminal.space · 4 pts · 1y

🥔

Winterfrost@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

Glad to be here!!

turtl@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

woot woot happy to be here

MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

I totally understandable i'm actually using a timer app timer now so i can keep track of how much i'm using it and try to lower it each month.

Reddit is a tough one because your brain loves new information. It devours it. It wants it.

sunset@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 1y

Cool the user count is going up, just hope it's not going to be all bots and trolls 😆

wabafee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

One of us one of us!

sasquatch7704@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Probably we can thank king Trump and the magnificent 7 horseman.

all4one@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y

Welcome all

Redditsux@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That can't be true. we only have 466 judging by the upvote count. xD

OpenStars@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1y

(check again:-)

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
espressdelivery@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

You know it’s so simple to just click a different app and go back to infinite scrolling the way I’m used to.

I’m not a fussy user, I don’t get all up in arms over changes in functionality or whatever. It’s also nice not to see orange man on the internet whenever I scroll

CAVEMAN_VOICE@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Just got here and started a regional community for the American Midwest. Come on down!
https://lemmy.world/c/midwest

el_eh_chase@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y

The new front page of the internet is upon us

Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 1y

Obligatory hiiii

Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

Let's go!

xc2215x@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Glad it is increasing.

ray1992xd@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y
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Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y

Let's nooooooootttt!

phoenixarise@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I’m one of those 50k. Glad to be here!

noot_noot@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y

Hopefully theres more growth in the next days and weeks. I'm absolutely hooked to migrate from reddit to lemmy, it just feels a little lonely here for now. When the time comes, my reddit is gone..

woelkchen@lemmy.world MOD · 3 pts · 1y

I'm locking this because too many people are shouting at each other here because of moderation practices.

This is not a complaints forum. See pinned post.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I'd be here more if I didn't need to re-log in every few pages. It's annoying, and I haven't found a solution.

"What?! Logged out again?! Well, screw it, at least Reddit doesn't log me out every time I refresh a page."

qx128@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

$20 says it’s all AI bots 🥲

pineapplelover@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Astronomical

PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

This graph doesn't make sense to me. The drops on the two graphs shouldn't line up, right? Make me sus

Kualdir@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 1y

Lemmy is the only federated service I actually enjoy using. Just missing being able to block an entire @something instead of having to block every single community of it

and no I do not want to "choose another host that does block it", it should be a user choice.

Cypher45@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

I just hope this place doesn't become another reddit, it's already becoming one because of all you redditors moving here with your redditry.

Sosemira@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 1y

How many people use reddit

FreddyNO@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Ready for this

Alpha71@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Is this something that should be really celebrated? I mean, the reason I joined is because it's not reddit. And I feel that this place will turn into reddit 2.0 if we're not careful.

rhinoceros@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

!196@lemmy.world