I want the fediverse to be a success, and I’ve long wanted a reddit alternative based on the fediverse, so I found this very exciting. I also think it’s chance for a new and better culture than what reddit has, and I wanted to be there early to do what I could to contribute value and help it succeed.
This, plus no adverts (they hurt)
I think ads are the worst part of the web. Also of TV, but I can live without TV
I stopped watching TV about 10 years ago and it’s blissful. If 5 people or more recommend me a series I just download it and watch it. I can’t justify lapping up 20minutes of ads per 1hr of content - It’s sickening.
Try 7 day stints without TV, each time you come back you will notice the adverts more that’s the conditioning being undone, eventually you just cant face going back - you are now cured.
Its wild going over to someone’s house who has cable after you haven’t watched it for a while. Every year the commercials get longer and more unbearable. Same thing happened to radio, magazines, etc… these are ad mediums to sell to boomer audiences now.
Agreed. NPR radio is a nice exception
I don’t watch TV as well.
Oh, my mistake I read it as “…can’t live without TV” Do you feel sad for people glued to TV, even though its by choice? I do it’s kinda weird (I don’t hassle them about it)
Not really, because I too like being glued to screens.
Also I feel like judging others isn’t very helpful and often says more about the person judging than the person being judged.
because I really like the technology and because it is a niche thing that feels like internet of many years ago, no coorporations, no one tries to sell me shit, it’s just about the community
Not corporately owned and thus I assume I am less of a data point for ad revenue.
I grew to love the idea of mastodon and other fediverse platforms, and I hope to see lemmy take over the hole that reddit currently fills. Reddit, with its independent communities, already seems like prime pickings for a fediverse platform.
Because I like the concept of federation.
Saw the words “reddit alternative written in Rust” and didn’t need anything else to be sold on it.
I think federated networks are the future. Lemmy is a shining example of that.
My ISP authorities forcibly redirect reddit to lemmy in internet connections. They must be communists! 🤬
based
Based on what?
you’re mother
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Baste
Trying to live a more private life. So I deleted reddit and joined Lemmy because it doesn’t spy on you.
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it’s not a new concept though. it is the way the internet was designed and everything used to work up until the point corporations managed to hijack the ecosystem so they could harvest data and make billions. the open and federated part of the internet is still here (IRC is still alive and well, for example, and open source is still a thing), the vast majority of people just don’t know about it because they weren’t around pre-corporate era, and all they know is what corporations tell them through anti-competitive moves stifle competition and isolate users.
i hope we will reclaim the internet one day, but governments don’t seem to care about keeping up to date with corporate abuse laws. i mean, point me towards one government that isn’t using Windows, for example; and the fact that nearly all governments depend on Windows is both unethical and in many cases illegal, since the tax money paid for infrastructure and IT development should ‘go back’ to the local population, not paid to a foreign corporation, especially not for decades, due to legacy issues.
Browsing FOSS reddit alternatives on AlternativeTo
I am a software developer, and find distributed and federated technology to be very interesting.
Because I saw lemmur on f-droid if I remember correctly ! One of the best discoveries made there !
(Edit : typo)
I wrote about my reasons in detail here.
Yes. Wemust own pour tools ans data.
We must own our tools ( & more )
in fact this is the title and the essence of his five pages text.
I like this little write up.
thanks!
reddit’s code is closed source now. it was time to move on.
This is so interesting since I never thought of reddit as some kind of hacker website with open-source code and good standards. For me it has always been a big corporate social media site. Maybe this is because I joined pretty late.
I was on Digg before, which was created a year before reddit (2005). Digg start to go down hill in (2009?) which is when I switch to reddit.
lemmy is nott the last stop either. We have no exit here
