Welcome new members! Please take a second to read the rules located in the community sidebar.

We are doing our best to appeal the Reddit ban. In the meantime, we thought it might be nice to have a new safe space to snark and have made lemmy.ca our new home.

Please bear with us while we figure the new site out and please let any former TBP Reddit users know we are here!

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
    24·
    6 months ago

    Hey all, long-time Lemmy user who spotted this community on my All feed.

    So, first of all, welcome to the fediverse! I hope this isn’t information overload, but I thought it’d be useful for you if I went over a few basic terms here, what they mean, and a big overview of how all this works.

    First of all, your “instance” is lemmy.ca. An instance is kinda analogous to how an email server works. A Gmail user can email a Yahoo user just as easily as another Gmail user: same idea here. I’m on sh.itjust.works, a different instance run by a different admin, different mod team, different rules. But that doesn’t stop me seeing communities (the equivalent of subreddits) and being able to post/comment/reply/vote in any of your stuff!

    The fediverse takes this concept one step bigger. Mastodon users can see/reply/post/etc into Lemmy as well from their own accounts on very different platforms. Same with Friendica, Kbin, Diaspora, Soundstorm, Peertube, etc. All of these different platforms with different features and focuses, but we’re all connected via an underlying protocol that allows us to all talk to eachother.

    And the best part? Because of the separation of instances, no one person or organization can single-handedly make gigantic platform ruining decisions. A hypothetical Lemmy version of Spez would just end up killing their own instance as everybody migrates their user accounts to instances that aren’t run by crazy people. There’s even quite a few people who run their own tiny one person instances so they are quite literally their own admins.

    As someone who put in many many hours answering questions and getting people acclimated during Reddit’s APIocalypse, please don’t hesitate to ask if there’s something you’d like to know about Lemmy or the fediverse as a whole.

    • douevengohere@lemmy.caM
      11·
      6 months ago

      This has been such a warm welcome to unfamiliar territory. Thanks for having us! Will do our best to keep things in line.

      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        6 months ago

        I’m just a random lemming who saw this community, would you mind returning the favour and explaining what a birdpapaya is?

          • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            6 months ago

            I have. Who is this person? What does she do? Why is she worthy of an online community? What reason does the internet have to dislike her?

            • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
              5·
              6 months ago

              Got some more info from that comment: https://lemmy.ca/comment/9669464

              We are a group of concerned consumers who are having public discourse over an internet influencer who is scamming her followers by posting filtered photos and by denying her obvious physical enhancements such as lip fillers and passing it off as natural and unfiltered. She also sells products on her platform that she does not disclose are sponsored content and that she makes kickbacks from the sales. In Canada, this is illegal under the Competition Act. She has also been caught plagiarizing BIPOC creator and has never addressed this, nor apologized for it, and she certainly has not compensated the BIPOC creators foe the “borrowed” content, either. She also exploits her 3 yr old for content, which is extremely concerning because the child cannot legally give consent for their image and likeness to be used for commercial gain. She also posts so much private information about her children that we know where they work, live, go to school and take part in their hobbies. This is extremely concerning from a safety perspective.

              If you want to have a look at plagiarism: https://lemmy.ca/post/22735011?scrollToComments=true

              Post where the lemmy.ca admins affirm that they don’t see a problem with the community as long as it follows the instance rules: https://lemmy.ca/post/22638028?scrollToComments=true

              To me the main interest in the community is seeing people who are completely out of the usual Lemmy demographic learning how to use the platform (and they seem to adapt quite well). If you don’t care about this or about the topic itself, it’s probably better to block the community and call it a day.