As usual, a few pointers
I have to confess. I still scroll Reddit from time to time (no longer use my account), and the front page just has a lot more variety. There’s still a lot of bot content from the occasional AITA that’s purely clickbait to the reposts.
I do like that comments and conversations are better here. I’m seeing familiar names and I like it.
Learned lemmy exsisted recently. How I’m doing? I’m getting through the days well enough to keep going with an even pace. Trying to focus on my family and my health, rather than the burning world around me. I check my news sites and scroll through the fediverse, hoping looking for good news. I get some of that, but a lot of it is bad news. But going through the fediverse has shown be like minded people, and people who feel just as frustrated and helpless as I do.
Knowing I’m not crazy Seeing that there are people trying to do good It gives me hope.
Welcome!
yeah, dont focus too much on the news. I have tried doing exactly same, scrolling and hoping to find good news. There are some there but you have to really ignore the bad ones so they dont get to you too much.
You can hide posts so they dont appear again, i do that on some that i keep noticing over and over and dont want to.
I feel like this is the right time to move to Lemmy… I lost faith in Reddit and it is starting to feel like everything is either an ad or a bot… I feel like the community heee is more genuine and real (we can only hope). And if more people feel like the big tech sites (Facebook/google/reddit) is now in the US Gov’s pocket then maybe it’s time to find alternatives. Blue sky is rocketing on that front but men I prefer the Reddit style discourse. Lemmy checks all those boxes. I’m hoping in time more communities pop up and more users follow.
Welcome!
Thank you!
Definitely better at navigating this week than last
Good to hear!
What happened last week?
Reddit “accidentally” banned a lot of nsfw subreddits.
It’s going okay! Still trying to decide which instance to call home. I still find myself on reddit probably equal amount to Lemmy though, unfortunately
The particular instance doesn’t matter too much as long as it hasn’t defederated from other instances you care about - since you can still see, post, & interact with content from other instances. I made accounts on .ml and .dbzer0.
It matters significantly. Depending on the users the all feed is totally different. US politics are almost non existent on szmer.info
Defederation is a secondary point.
You mean local feed. Right?
No. All feed.
Local on szmer is in polish. All feed exluded for a while [email protected] as no one was subscribed.
I see. It’s a big advantage for peace of mind but a disadvantage for discoverability.
For discoverability I use http://lemmyverse.net/ and an alt on different instance with different all feed.
All is dependent on what instances your home instance is federated with. Federation/defederation by your home instance determines what you see in All.
Szmer.info is federated with lemmy.world, so you would be able to see [email protected], which has US politics. Unless you’ve filtered things out of your feed, but that’s different.
A year ago [email protected] wasn’t federated as no one subscribed to it on szmer. Sadly there are now 4 subs to it.
I made an account on .ml as well but noticed a bunch of comments weren’t showing up when I was viewing posts on .ml which is unfortunate
ml is better to be avoided unless you’re an extremist or want to become one. Well, Lemmy as a whole is very extremist, which is my biggest issue with it, so… still here.
Huh. Comments shouldn’t be affected, as I understand it, just posts from defederated instances won’t show up. For instance, .ml is defederated from any and all porn instances - so porn doesn’t show up in my feed. I wonder if it could be a delay in the comments showing up, not actually an absence of those comments?
Either way, plenty of good instances to join that are less defederated than .ml
Yea, I thought the same thing. But take a look at this comment I made to see what I have been seeing. Not sure what the explanation could be
Whoa that’s really odd. You might submit an issue on github, if you want: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
The Voyager app is really what made me investigate because on every post i see there are replies that cannot be expanded. I’ll submit an issue
Working on it. Little lonely since most of communities from reddit don’t seem to be here but still searching so we’ll see.
Definitely feeling like I need to install linux on my mac though, perhaps as some sort of initiation?
The peer pressure (and stupid broken updates from MS) finally got me to install linux about 8mos into using lemmy. It’s pretty great, though - wish I’d done it sooner.
Went with mint right after the announcement of tpm 2.0 since I’m running an off lease decade old office box.
What’re you running?
Ah, the good old hackintosh routine!
Wouldn’t recommend linux on a mac unless it’s an old model (like ~2012)
M1 not old enough? I can already feel Apple trying to kill it.
There’s Asahi linux for M1 but the dev that runs it is a bit of a nutter. Also apple software just works best with its hardware (until the planned obsolesence of your hardware happens and suddenly nothing works).
Well that saves me a bit of work for now then. I’ve got all my old phones/ipads though so perhaps it’s time to try tinkering with things there
I encourage you to create them and foster them.
Let me get through the welcome newcomers stuff first! :)
[email protected] can help!
When I joined I felt like I moved to a village after living in a metropolis. There’s positives and negatives to that, but in the end Lemmy satisfies my doomscrolling needs so I’m never coming back to reddit.
When you need to doomscroll.
Why not scroll wikipedia?Oh wow I love that!
Amazing!! I can click on something with some algorithm now shoving 1,500 similar thing down my throa. Also, feeds are not choked with people trying to farm “engagement” be any means neciesary.
Good to hear!
Enjoying it. I’m loving the filters I can use to limit some of the political spam.
Did something happen on the alien site last week?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrlep5xpmzo
Since then, quite a few subs are looking for alternatives. [email protected] lists them.
lol, they ban subs based on billionaire tears now? damn.
For what it’s worth, there is a long history of banning subreddits once they get negative mass-media flak, even if they were well-known on reddit beforehand. The site is a business nervous about its reputation.
good thanks I’ve sucked 4 dicks already
You’re gonna need to get those numbers up.
Not wasting any time? One more dick and you get custom flair on all your posts. Welcome.
Don’t forget to get your card punched!
The fifth is free!You guys are getting paid?
Rookie Numbers
Four?? But I’m literally right here
I miss the drama to feed my schadenfreude I got from reading boru and the like. But besides not able to feed my bad vice, I think I can survive here.
Is that instance defederated from .world ? The link gives me the “couldn’t_find_community” error. I searched for the community via Duckduckgo and was able to see it, but was logged out. When I logged in, all the posts disappeared.
Huh, interesting. It very well might be - I am on the dbzero instance, which generally does not defederate like .world or beehaw. Couldn’t tell you why .online is defederated from that community instance, although I assume there is some record of that somewhere.
For schadenfreude about internal drama there is [email protected] and [email protected]
Trying to make a doc for migrants. Just the overview. Got the cold shoulder from one of the small web guys equating Lemmy to heroine. Essentially ‘either do it like me or you are wrong’
Same as it ever was online.
As for me? Missing a few communities. Kinda head scratching at things over all, but it could be worse.
Both want to make a few instances and have no energy to babysit them.
I want to hear more about how Lemmy is like heroin.
Still trying to figure this all out.
It sucks to prepare for a new social media home. I am still on Reddit, but I know it’s only a matter of time before some broligarch decides to take it down or do a TikTok reboot.
If you browse on PC, I found that the Alexandrite UI (https://a.lemmy.world/) made the transition easier for me. If you try it out use the drop-down at the top left to bounce between “subscribed”, “local”, and “all”. “All” will help you find communities you like to subscribe to. Welcome and good luck.
are also good options!
Thank you.
Welcome, feel free if you have any questions!
Thank you.
Trying to gt used to it - slowly. I like it so far! Still super pissed that Reddit can just arbitrarily ban accounts, basically without recourse, and shut you out from any community you were in. Lots of niche queer ones I was in… just can’t participate anymore.
Welcome!
