Kick your feet up and drop a shitpost off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world, meme in !memes@sopuli.xyz or chill with the cats of !cat@lemmy.world
If you saw my comment about the pitch fork, here you go: ------E (deluxe upgrades are extra)
Welcome aboard!
ETA Context: https://lemmy.world/post/24558150
Just got a nearly 10 year old Reddit account permabanned because someone I share my computer with commented on a sub that banned me.
The admins didn’t even have a look at my first appeal, sending an automatic message instead and won’t have a look at any further appeal, so here I am.
Welcome, good choice with Jlailu, it’s a great instance! !forumlibre@jlai.lu for chill discussions
I got sitewide banhammered from Reddit for my absent-minded use of the report button instead of using modmail
Even though I was polite in the message Reddit claimed it was mod harassment
It’s been over a week and they still haven’t responded to my appeal
It won’t let me submit another appeal because it says I’ve already submitted one
I’ve been on reddit for over 10 years, seems like an odd way to end it.
I’ll have to admit though, Lemmy is pretty sweet. I even got Sync back!
Yeah I left reddit when the API thing stopped me using sync. It was the final straw. Like you, I’d been involved for over ten years, but sometimes you gotta move on. I missed some subs, and Lemmy is definitely less active - but I waste less time here than I did on reddit and that’s a bonus.
The biggest thing I miss from Reddit is how up to date the news on the front page was. Having said that, they changed the algorithm and it’s been dogshit for years anyway. I dont miss Reddit at all, been here for over a year.
Welcome aboard! I see you signed up to LW, here the worst of the “Tankie Triad” has been defederated from (hexbear and lemmygrad) though lemmy.ml is still fed’d so beware.
Is that seriously how you greet new people? Literally the first thing you are saying is about sowing division. “Watch out for the boggieman instance!” How about you just give it a rest.
I left Reddit during APIGate and I tried lemme and it was full of racist nastiness so I closed my account and recently also left all meta apps and drasticallyreduced tiktok, and thought I might come check out how things are going and it’s nice and cozy here now, think I will stay. Been off of x for the better part of 3 years.
Welcome back!
Oh damn, I too initially left reddit during the API BS, but I didn’t see any of that.
What instance was that? (Was it one of the Tankie Triad?(Hexbear, Lemmygrad or Lemmy.ml?))
Bro has a bone to pick💀
Just got here from Reddit. Haven’t officially left it, but the concept of the fediverse intrigued me and wanted to check it out
Welcome!
Welcome! Any questions so far?
Welcome! I hope you have fun here!
For me I dropped Reddit fully when I realized it was going down more than lemmy.world ever did lol
Lemmy.world sure seems full of the “Reddit Mod” types that killed reddit, but there are other options in the verse.
I see your point, but it wasn’t really the reddit mods that killed reddit, it was the admins selling out to corporate greed
Admins are the main culprits, but mods removing posts organizing migration to Lemmy also have a share of responsibility in the situation.
Did something new happen on reddit?
Nothing new in particular. People are sick of power tripping mods. Also people that joined Reddit many years ago are sad to see it’s turned into something else in many ways. I’m brand new here, I am over Reddit as I just got banned for “threatening violence”. I appealed to no avail. I got angry regarding a post about an adult purposely running down a 12 year old. I expressed what I “would feel like doing” to that driver if he knocked one of my sons over on purpose. I didn’t actually threaten a real person, it was based on a hypothetical scenario. But no apparently that’s threatening violence. So yeah, I’m here.
Lol I got an account banned in reddit for threatening violence too - my comment was a direct quote from the US president!
A post of an article calling for federated social media got big. A comment on said post pointing to Lemmy got 100s of upvotes. Reddit mods deleted the comment.
ah. I thought they did some new, fresh BS and caused another exodus.
It’s meta and x that are causing interest in the fediverse again. Pixelfed has gained a lot of users.
I know that, but the title of this post references redditors.
Well I just got here and I don’t know what the title was referencing in regard to an earlier thread. I’m learning how to navigate this thing currently. I understand where you’re coming from though. Maybe that earlier post explains it ?
General interest in fediverse includes Lemmy.
Would you mind telling me what “Fediverse” is please. I had a bit of a read about this new place/thing/situation/blogsite or whatever it’s called. I’m an old Troglodyte and lucky that I even discovered Reddit 12 years ago. It was great for many years but I’ve grown tired of the same old comments and the insecure mods. Well anyway, happy newish year.
!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca should give you a few pointers!
THATS ME!!!
Your account age is 4 months tho?
Time passes differently between universes.
Enjoy, take a poke around, drop some comments.
Newish to Lemmy, but left due to Reddit terrible mods.
How do you enjoy public modlogs? !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com if you want to see power tripping called out
If you hated the power reddit mods wielded, the open fediverse is not for you.
Howso? The Fediverse literally gives you the option to choose from among several different instances. It’s trivial to migrate to an instance you find better suited to you, if you don’t like this one.
Eh, at least it’s way easier for everyone to move on somewhere else (still on Lemmy)
Or to start a better version of a community with blackjack and hookers.
I’ve started a community, can I have my blackjack and hookers now please?
You seem to have misunderstood, it’s the person who started the community who is supposed to provide the blackjack and hookers 😅
But by that logic, you started the instance. Where’s the instance-level blackjack and hookers? I demand a refund!
Lol nah it was TheDude who started the instance, I’ll have to check with him about that and get back to you
Bah, the 196 drama was entertaining
Finally took the plunge out of curiosity and a desire to dump reddit at some point.
Come on down to !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
Welcome here! Here are a few pointers to get you started
Holy cow this is me!
Welcome! Here are a few pointers to get you started
If anyone’s wondering what you should do first, the first thing you should do is block hexbear, and the next thing you should do is join any instance other than lemmy.ml. lemmy.world is a good choice, but there’s probably one you’ll like better.
If you want to know the most trans-friendly instance, it’s lemmy.blahaj.zone. There are people who will tell you it’s Hexbear. Those people are liars.
There is also a 196 community here on world, and a third community on blahaj, because the original mods are a little cray cray.
Enforcement without exception of a rule that was created to protect a marginalized group is not “cray cray”, nevermind the use of ableist language there.
The 196 on world is the original mods, who were unhappy with Ada’s enforcement of the rules on her server which she owns and decided that because of this they would migrate their community without consulting their members to .world, an instance which is known in the wider community to have moderation issues such as unfair or inconsistent application of rules (see /c/yepowertrippinbastards on Lemmy.dbzer0 for examples).
The now 2 other 196 comms on blahaj are comprised of the original community’s members, now fractured into two groups. /C/onehundredninetysix was made while /c/196 was still privated by the original moderators.
Edit: spelling
There can be enforcement without exception without banning all civil discussion which doesn’t vibe.
If anyone is looking for an unpopularopinion sub here, check out opinionhavers which I’m trying to get going.
There is also this one but mods took it offline for a while to protest something or other, so I figure it’s good to have alternatives. The mod drama over there if you care.
!unpopularopinion@lemmy.world is open, people created threads yesterday, so not sure what you mean?
It was shut down for around a week to a week and a half, and now it’s back. That’s what I meant.
The point was: now that it’s been shown that the mod is willing to take the sub offline in protest of various stuff, maybe it would be good to support an alternative as well so eggs can be in several baskets instead of just one.
LW reverting that policy is a sign the blackout was justified
Not relevant to this.
It is the first time I see myself as a hiring manager. It’s not that displeasing though… Welcome everyone!
I saw a mention of Lemmy on a random thread in r/politics so I’m tentatively having a poke about, since I’ve already tried to quit Reddit once (for Tumblr - it didn’t stick). I remember forums pre centralised internet, is it something like that?
A bit between a forum and reddit. You don’t have to sneak away to subreddit, just comment wherever and whenever. There’s usually some good interaction. Much smaller places than reddit and less monkeying with comments and votes and such.
Think of it more like email addresses. Know how a Gmail account can send email to an iCloud account just fine, and both display the same content? Same basic concept. You can have [account]@domain1.com and [account]@domain2.com, and they’re entirely separate accounts. Even if they have the same username, they’re on different instances.
Federation refers to how the instances share data with each other. One of the largest things to look for is what instances your instance federates with, because that will determine what kinds of users you end up interacting with.
Ahh, okay, so if I wanted to go just looking at a specific subject it might be better to make a second account and join another instance, and keep up two accounts?
The only reason you’d need a secord account to view content is because we don’t allow NSFW material.
Most instances will federate with a pretty wide variety of other instances. There are a few big instances to watch out for, but for the most part the instance choice is primarily about which admin team you prefer. As long as your home instance federates with a server, you’ll be able to see it.
In particular, watch out for Hexbear and the .ml instances. Those will be some of the more extreme and/or brigade-y. There have historically been issues with brigading from some of the more extreme instances. Even calling them extreme is a sort of contentious statement, and I’ll likely get a few “how dare you, fascist, tankie, TERF, etc” types of comments if they stumble across it.
Aside from brigading, the most common reasons for defederation are related to legality (like maybe a certain instance allows porn that would be blocked in your home instance,) or unmoderated trolling. Trolling from new instances used to be a big problem, where an admin would make a server as a side project and leave it to stew. Trolls would make bot accounts on that fledgling instance, and use them to troll other instances. And since that small instance’s admin is just doing it as a side project, they’re not keeping active tabs on anything and the troll accounts are able to run rampant. Bans didn’t federate by default, so every single instance would need to individually ban the trolls.
Also, one particular quirk of federation is that federated instances can act as a proxy for defederated instances. For instance, you’re on feddit.uk, which defederates from Threads. So you won’t see Threads content normally. But maybe another instance does allow Threads, and feddit.uk is federated with them. If a Threads user posts on that second instance, you’ll also be able to see it. Because even though your home instance blocks Threads, that second instance allows it and you see it by proxy.
You won’t see much Threads content on the Threadiverse, blocking them is more a gesture of solidarity for our micro-blogging cousins.
Yeah, I used it as an example because I knew feddit.uk defederated from it.
Thanks for all this info but I have to say, I am soooo confused.
I’d suggest that the short version is “don’t worry about it”.
The slightly longer version is that the Lemmy equivalent of a subreddit will have a kind of home-base instance (eg. based on lemmy.world or aussie.zone or whatever else). For the most part, it makes no difference. But some lemmy instances might choose to block certain content. (For example, they might block all porn content or something); and so depending on where you signed up, you may see a slightly different selection of posts on your feed.
You’re on aussie.zone. You can see a list of what is linked & blocked for you here.
With an account at feddit.uk, it should be ok to navigated almost whatever community. The list of block instances is short and mostly block pedoporn.
You don’t need another account. Example to access a community on lemm.ee:
https://feddit.uk/c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
Which is the same content as https://lemm.ee/c/casualconversation
Yes, you can consider it like a web forum but with the default sort set to “new post” not “new comment” as is done on Reddit. This tends to favour new content over longer discussion, although you’ll get active threads like this quite often.
And thank you for choosing feddit.uk, I hope you enjoy your time with us and if you have any other questions then fire away.
Thank you!
Welcome! Yes, it is something like that.
You chose the UK as your instance, so the local communities could already interest you: https://feddit.uk/communities
On top of that, here is a selection of 20 non-political communities: https://feddit.uk/post/22376629
App can be found on https://www.lemmyapps.com/
Finally, there is also !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
Feel free if you have any questions!
Ah, thank you! I downloaded an app first, since I primarily use my phone for everything and apps are just easier. I think the one I’m using is called Boost? It is less confusing than I was worried it might be :)
A lot of us use voyager, modeled after apollo, but any lemmy UI is a good UI in my book.
There is also the lemmy explorer out there to help you find communities. https://lemmyverse.net/communities
/best
Boost is a good one, enjoy!
Welcome! Great to see people choosing our instance :) Like Blaze said, feel free to ask any questions, it can be a bit overwheling at first!
Careful not to step in the Tankies on your way in.
Tankies almost made me quit day one until I learned what instances were and how to block them. With Hexbear and .ml gone from my feed, Lemmy is a lot more normal.
Or, you know, do step on them, but don’t forget to wipe your boots afterwards.
No… They’re into that shit.
