Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
I’m loving it. I’m following a lot (about 500 communities) so I’m always seeing new content. It did take a while to find everything I wanted to see though.
I’m not going to be fully optimistic, I’ve struggled to get one community active and can feel myself slowly giving up. I moved from Reddit using the website as 80% image sharing and 20% discussion and it feel like Lemmy’s content is 20% image sharing and 80% discussion so it’s feeling rough
All of the apps I’ve tried have problems. Most communities have a spam problem. None of the communities I’m interested in exist. I feel like there’s almost a fundemental problem with the way that the fediverse works that makes it incompatible with this format, as almost all communities will be focused on generic instances as that’s where people will create their accounts. I made my account on feddit.uk but I wouldn’t make a community for something that wasn’t UK focused, therefore the community doesn’t get started.
Honestly, I’ve loved it. I recommend Alexandrite for desktop and Voyager for mobile.
I’ve had rich discussion within various communities, and I’m excited to see Lemmy grow, even if it takes some pitfalls and time.
I comment and post more than on Reddit partially because it feels more personal, partially because I want the platform to grow
The two problems I have that I can think of right now are there aren’t as many communities/they’re smaller/fractured across instances, and the classic internet hivemind dogpile on topics and stances
I like it but it’s missing the low-quality ‘non-fiction’ relationship post porn I loved to binge on.
I gotcha
“My partner is being completely unreasonable and her family hates me and wants us to fail just because I have a secret second family I keep locked in the basement.”
Heh. Man, do such posts dominate reddit these days. They can be entertaining on occasion, but god damn are they absolute drivel.
I’ve only been active on Hexbear really since the cth sub got banned and we built that space, but I really like how federation has gone and the influx of new slop and occasional lost libs/chuds.
This post is making me want to add hexbear to a word filter. Specially the blatant 4chan lingo such as “slop”.
Yeah, it’s ironic. Cause the slop is for US
WE consume the slop, it’s not an insult for the posts it’s an ironic insult towards ourselves for being too online
Is ‘slop’ from 4chan? I thought that was one of our originals?
It’s their way of saying “low quality”, usually thrown at things they deem forced by a marketing team. Always gave me some anti-semitic vibes when I used to see it used in context but I’m not sure why off the top of my head.
This might be why. I hate that I’ve seen this stuff before.
That’s gross (thank you for sharing the link, I haven’t heard of that one) but it is 100% not what hexbears mean as they refer to their own forum posts as “slop”. They just mean low effort “content” in the more generic English slang sense.
Yes you’re right (though I am not familiar with hexbear). The chan slang was just derived from the standard slang and once you learn about them it can taint your interpretation of it because dogwhistles can sometimes be subtle.
It’s absolutely not a 4chan thing, “slop” has been used for aaaaaaaages.
I’d say it’s just an american thing, possibly specifically new york? idk
I don’t believe there is any 4chan connection - instead slop is used in the sense of
sometimes in the plural) Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
Synonyms: hogwash, swill
“If I encounter a word I do not know used by communists, it must be from 4chan because I am the most highly educated and professional person ever to walk the Earth.” — liberals
(I am Jewish and have been terminally online for years and have never heard that ‘slop’ is anti-semitic. Sounds like libs are just using anti-semitism as an empty accusation to silence communists to me, especially heinous when you consider who funded the Nazis in the first place and who rescued the Nazis after the Soviets destroyed them.)
Once you understand the kind of people who are on hexbear, things will become more clear. Just go to some of their profiles and have a look at what they post
I think a considerably chunk of them are bots
It’s not impossible, but I doubt it…
I hadn’t heard of them until I saw lemmy.ca blocked them earlier. If Canadians are blocking you for being hateful that might be saying something.
They’re one of the oldest instances around 3 years old but only recently federated with other instances.
Hexbear: the 3rd or so biggest instance on lemmy and by far the most active. It’s where all the people with pronouns next to their names come from. We’re a left unity trans positive community that’s been around for 3 years, mostly made up of Marxists and Anarchists. We were just recently federated with the rest of lemmy about a week ago.
slop: Food for the hogs. Content. Posts. Discussion. Drama. Romance. Danger!
cth: a podcast no one really cares about. A community of leftists outgrew a forum that used to be about them. It got banned from reddit and the refugees turned into Hexbear.
libs: Liberals. From our perspective this includes about 65-75% of the American political landscape. This includes all democrats and about half republicans. These are people who support capitalism. Bernie Sanders is a lib. They are annoying and will betray you in the end but they’re usually the people who can be reasoned with so it’s extra frustrating.
chuds: Fascists. The other 25-35%. Confederate flag waving people who eat burgers as a protest against global warming. Kyle Rittenhouse stans. Coal rollers. The people who will kill you first if you have good politics. They believe above all else in natural hierarchies so the capitalists will turn to them when the left challenges theirs. That’s how Hitler happened.
cth: a podcast no one really cares about. A community of leftists outgrew a forum that used to be about them. It got banned from reddit and the refugees turned into Hexbear.
what do you mean? people definitely care about citations needed.
thanks for the detailed description. feels like my online vocabulary expanded significantly
Have you tried browsing another instance’s All feed to see if yours is missing any communities? I started using Lemmy on a really small instance but switched to lemmy.world as my main because it could see a lot more content. My new alt runs a federation helper to fix this too.
My only real complaint with Lemmy is that instances, by default, only know about their own communities and the remote communities that their users have specifically subscribed to. Some smaller instances run federation helpers that scan other instances for communities. Manually initiating a federation request is not intuitive either.
Hexbear looks like exploding-heads but for liberals
Also, you can ask your instance admin to run this tool to have more communities in All: https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs
I feel the opposite, posts have more comments than ever, even when the migration started
Pretty good, it’s my Reddit replacement (except for Google searches where I still put site:reddit.com, searching Lemmy doesn’t work that well…).
Choosing an instance sucked though.
I went like:
- sh.itjust.works: Found out they’re Canadian, the latency was too much for Europe
- lemmy.ml: Overall pretty good, I liked that NSFW instances were defederated, so I could browse All without seeing porn. Till I realized there is a slur filter that censors your comments and others. So if someone calls you a ‘bitch’ on the Fediverse everyone can read it, except you. You see ‘removed’
- lemmy.world: Largest instance, plenty of local content, good policies overall, but the stability was awful (due to DDOS)
- lemmy.zip: Smaller instance, full federation, super fast and in the EU, I’m staying there for now and moved all my subscriptions and blocked communities (mostly porn, again, I like to browse All) over
I saw “yarrrr” and chose a great one hahaha
I run a tiny eu instance and am open to registrations
The problem with tiny instances is reliability and trust.
If you lose the motivation to run it tomorrow it’s gone. If you run out of money? Gone. If you’re the only admin and you die? Gone.
In addition to that you can read everything I do on your instance. Like all my “private” messages.
If an instance admin is scummy they could even modify the Lemmy code running and save away all passwords and emails in plaintext. Not an issue for me as I use a custom email and random passwords for every service, but it can fuck over random people.
So professional bigger instances do have their benefits too.
dude, all I ask for at registration time is a nickname and a captcha… reddit, twitter, fb and google all read your shit and train ai models and make billions of dollars every month
I’m sure your shitposts are top secret but idk, what’s your threat model?
Losing all my comments and posts?
embrace the ephemeral bro, I had a 15y/o reddit account (still do but fuck em)
also, you can just export them?
I own a domain, for example xyz.com, which means I can create whatever email I want, like lemmy@xyz.com.
The mail server I set up forwards all emails to one inbox. Which means I still get an email if you send it to reddit@xyz.com or whatever@xyz.com and so on, you get the idea.
So when I sign up for an account I don’t use a general email (except for banking stuff, taxes, etc.). If I sign up for Facebook (good riddance) I’d use facebook@xyz.com. That way I also know when I suddenly get a lot of spam who lost my email or sold it off :)
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In my case it’s self-hosted, but maybe there are email providers where you can use your own domain that enable the same feature (it’s called wildcard usually).
Once I found Liftoff, I’ve used Lemmy exclusively. It’s fantastic, I don’t feel as intimated about commenting (even though this is my first on this account) I’ve found most of my interests again in different communities. There are still a few I don’t have, but that will sort itself out in time.
Yep Liftoff is my favorite Lemmy app as well! For reference, Relay for Reddit is my favorite Reddit app (it’s still working for now), and I tried most of the Lemmy Android apps.
I never used relay. I was a RiF fan, I had that for years… so long that I actually forgot Reddit had ads!
I tired mastodon on the mobile web, but that just didn’t gel for me, the few times I’ve logged on to Lemmy on the PC it’s also just felt so much easier to scroll and read.
It has a nice vibe, easy to get engaged and I don’t spend as much time on it as previously which is a win-win.
So far so good. In a smaller community I feel more responsible for contributing to discussions. Others seem to be engaging too with thoughtful comments (not just karma-farming inside jokes).
This is helped by the fact that new interesting threads are not immediately buried in heaps of new content, so you actually have time to think of an answer that someone might actually read and reply to. I realize that this is mostly a function of the current scale of the Fediverse and that the more it grows, the more it might just turn into Reddit.
I find I tend to get more replies here.
Reddit is dead. Lemmy is
ALIVEEE!!!
A bit annoyed about defederations and community blocks. If an instance wants to be an island by itself, fine, but you shouldn’t have to stay up to date with random announcements from each instance to figure out all the places you need to have an account to access all the content you want to.
I feel that in the end there will be 3 main clusters
- vanilla, family-friendly content
- piracy
- porn
People who would want to have the whole experience would need 3 accounts, but that should be it
my predictions are:
- explicit freeze-peach a la exploding heads (the so-called “alt fedi” over on mastodon)
- reddit-style free-for-all with just enough moderation to not be voat 2 (the current default of the threadiverse)
- strictly moderated “traditional fediverse with proper groups”
- porn
of course there will be parts that overlap, but i absolutely expect a split to occur between the “reddit migratees” and “people who want a mastodon with threading” groups, if the second half hasn’t given up on the threadiverse and returned to mastodon already
Definitely
Quiet?
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
How’s that?
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
It’s very quiet but it’s so much more personable in the comments.
