• uhN0id@programming.devEnglish
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      4 months ago

      My friends seem to prefer tolerating the official Reddit app because “there is more on Reddit”. I’d rather have less for the time being and not lose my mind with that POS app not to mention fuck Reddit for what they did to 3rd party devs and users alike with that API change.

      I refused to install the Reddit app out of principle other than just to check it out one time out of morbid curiosity. Without the 3rd party app creators that made apps long before Reddit did, back when Reddit wouldn’t, Reddit probably wouldn’t be anywhere as big as they are today. They brought new users in that likely wouldn’t have used Reddit anywhere except on a mobile device and certainly not in a browser when even retail stores had their own apps.

      When my 3rd party app (Boost) officially stopped working the other day I officially stopped being a Reddit user in the process. Not doing another hacky workaround to make the app work again. Time to make Lemmy my new social/forum and ditch Reddit except for when I need to do a Google search because Reddit is still a great archive of knowledge.

      • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        You’re not wrong. I do have the app because the mobile site shits on my browser (I have anti tracking, cookie blocking, ad wiping defences), and there are a few niche communities I find important that stick around (and r/sysadmin, while not exactly niche, is really useful for me)

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’ll never stop complaining about Y axis that don’t start at zero.

    If that means the change isn’t noticable, then the change isn’t noticable.

  • TIN@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’ve been here since the API changes at Reddit and the sub blackouts that followed, and I think it’s becoming more interesting all the time. Back in the early days there was no point in refreshing the /all feed more than once every 4 hours as it just wouldn’t have changed, now it’s much more than that. The number of posts with actual discussions are increasing, and other than a few blocked users, communities and one instance, I like the people I’m sharing space with.

    • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I also greatly prefer the people on Lemmy and I hope that continues even as more and more redditors show up. Without a spez calling the shots, perhaps instances will tend to ban and defederate from far-right radicalization chambers instead of promoting them to the front page.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Pretty much all of the far-right instances are defederated from the major servers, except lemm.ee, which intentionally lets users block instances they don’t like.

  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    it was nice seeing some gardening stuff pop up in my feed the other day rather than just a constant stream of facebook tier memes and tankie vs non-tankie arguing

    • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It won’t. Some instances will get close, like Lemmy.world, but federation makes Lemmy fundamentally different.

  • Lexam@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I think more people are coming here for my comments and delusions of grandeur.

  • u/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    That’s nice. Hopefully thanks to this outcome. More niche hobbyist community’s will appear on lemmy And hopefully less auth left tankies I would like to see more posts and communities that bring more people together and not apart. Arts and crafts,Gaming,music,History,Exercise,Cooking,foraging Essentially the world’s the oyster. There’s a million hobbies out there I would hope there’s a good amount of Lemmy communities based upon those hobbies

  • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I think it’s much less intimidating to new users now compared to when I joined last year. The barrier to entry has been reduced significantly.

    There are tons of active communities now, mobile apps that work great (this is a big one), and many more tools to block content that you don’t want to see.

    • Got_Bent@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I still have no clue how instances work but whatever I’m doing has been working fine for nearly a year

      • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        From an end user perspective there’s not that much to think about, thankfully.

        Basically, it’s like having two websites that mirror each other’s content. You can sign up for Forum A and be able to read and write posts that users on Forum B can also see. People’s names are tagged with the name of the forum they are registered at, but otherwise everything you do and see happens on your own site of choice and there’s no difference where it comes from.

        If Forum A doesn’t like Forum C, but Forum B doesn’t mind, Forum A can choose to disconnect from Forum C and hide their users and posts, while Forum B can still see both. It only gets tricky when someone from Forum B makes a post that people from both Forums A and C are in, but all of the posts from C users are invisible to A users.

      • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        It’s like how there’s loads of different email providers but they can all still email each other.

        Just like Gmail can send mail to Outlook and any other @EmailProvider.com, lemmy.world can populate it’s feed/comments from lemm.ee and any other @LemmyInstance.com

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I still have no clue how instances work but whatever I’m doing has been working fine for nearly a year

        You have a user account “Got_Bent”, on an instance (you can think of this as a “server”), lemmy.world. That’s your home instance. Thus, you are @Got_Bent@lemmy.world.

        You can view communities on that instance. This post, in fact, is on a community on the lemmy.world instance, !fediverse@lemmy.world.

        You can also view communities on any other other instances that lemmy.world is federated with (which is most of them). For example, !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk. By-and-large, you can use them the same way you can communities on your home instance.

        Reddit is pretty similar, just that with Reddit, there’s only one “instance”, Reddit.

        Instances might go down (so users with that instance as their home instance can’t log in and communities on that instance aren’t accessible. Some have certain rules about what users who use that instance as their home instance can do. Others have certain rules about what communities on their instance are allowed to do. For example, my home instance, lemmy.today, wants to avoid defederating with other instances (which means that people with that home instance can see all other content). Some instances, like beehaw.org, want to keep some content that might be objectionable to their users out, and will tend to defederate with other instances if they consider them to be problematic. Some instances allow hosting communities that have pornography (like lemmynsfw.com) and some do not (like sh.itjust.works). Same thing for communities dealing with religion or extreme political views, and so on.

        In general, it’s helpful to have a home instance in the same rough part of the world as you, as it’ll make things more-responsive.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      there is also more diverse content than the crap that was on here six months ago.

      when 50% of the frontpage is linux memes… you’re not going to gain the interest of most new users. now it seems to be down to about 20%

  • The Soca Vault @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    People have to be willing to give things a try, so I think it will definitely grow. I was never a Reddit user, I tried this on a whim, just to try and have conversations with different people. The one good thing is that there are many functional apps, and you will only see things you are interested in, and when you don’t, you down vote it.

    But ultimately it’s still the same echo chamber that all social media is, but without ads.

    • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Don’t downvote stuff just because you’re not interested in it! There’s no algorithm you’re training, you’re just being rude to people.

      Downvotes should be for worthless content and people being dicks.

  • Mereo@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I think we are now in a positive cycle:

    • More and more useful comments are posted,
    • Which means more people get interested,
    • which attracts more and more people to the platform
    • That increases the quality and quantity of posts/comments/etc.
    • etc.
    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Hey, ya get what ya pay for. Pay a little money, get a little quality. Pay a LOT of money, get a LOT of quality.

      Well, I didn’t get paid ANYTHING to be here, so you can imagine the quality of MY posts!

      Hey, why did the poop walk into the poop?

      To poop to the other poop! :D

      See? Just zero quality…

      • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        This is fun but partially incorrect; yes, more money is better quality, however zero money means infinite quality. Prove me wrong, exhibit A is “the other site”.

  • SeveralAnts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I just found out Lemmy is blocking and removing users for having varied political opinions that don’t line up with their forceful left ideals. So I’m out. This was a waste of time.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Can you say where you got this idea? I see a lot of conservative opinions considering the entire idea behind this platform was conceived and executed by far-leftists.

    • set_secret@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      This is true but I’ve found I’ve been blocked on world news for posting comments againts fascist ideas. I’ve been shadow banned from world news for posting comprehensive evidence of china’s crimes against humans aka their concentration camps. It wasn’t opinion i linked to studies, and it wasn’t inflammatory. My comments were removed and now i can’t like or comment.

      It’s really disturbing ngl.

      • SeveralAnts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Thank you so much for commenting this. I thought I was going crazy. World News seems to be the culprit. It isn’t fair to the users to deny information. I think I’m going to leave, it is too disturbing. I don’t need this.

        • set_secret@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Yeah i just blocked that community, but really shit we have dickheads like this ruining lemmy with arbitrary censorship.

          • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Really no different than Reddit in that regard. At least we don’t have people automatically banning you for having ever interacted with specific other communities yet, at least I don’t think we do yet.

            EDIT: Shit, somehow I forgot the don’t. Teach me not to proofread.

      • SeveralAnts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Would it be much better do you think? I’ve heard others are worse, but I am not sure of them all. I can look into it. I just want people to be able to have open, civil conversations without being silenced by biased mods.

        • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          4 months ago

          If you have an issue with a given community, find or start an alternative one on another instance. If you have an issue with how your instance deals with anyone, sign up for a different instance.

          I urge you to consider this before giving up on Lemmy entirely, it’s kind of the beauty of the federated services.

          • meep_launcher@lemm.eeEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Agreed, there are lots of instances, and that may be one thing that allows Lemmy to actually have space for different political leanings. As I understand, conservative circles are not very large here, but that can change, and smaller communities generally are healthier. Check those out and recruit your pals- be the change you want to see in the world!

  • Netrunner@programming.devEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Still hang around both. But I’ve noticed I’ve had more to engage with on Lemmy lately, which is great.