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Good luck admins! And if you're fresh from Reddit, welcome! (lemmy.world)

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It's much better here! It’s nice and cozy, kinda like Reddit circa 15 years ago.

For your memes we have !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch, if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like !science@mander.xyz, !biology@mander.xyzand !astronomy@mander.xyz and for a meme science combo there's always the fantastic !science_memes@mander.xyz

You can also drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or hang out at !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)

If you want to explore the world of PC Gaming on Linux check !linux_gaming@lemmy.world or for more general Linux !linux@programming.dev and we even have a Linux meme comm at !linuxmemes@lemmy.world (we like Linux around here lmao)

For news !world@lemmy.world is excellent and for US focused news !news@lemmy.world and !usa@midwest.social

Want to ensure your privacy in this crazy world? Checkout !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

And of course, the best for last, the best comm on the Lemmy-verse, !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world !!! Just make sure to buy a krabby patty!

We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies, but here they’re mostly on what's known as the Tankie Triad: lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. For the most part, grad and hex are widely defederated from (Users and content of those instances won't be "synced" and you won't see them) and you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. .ml tends to be more subtle opting for censorship of dissent before things get crazy on their threads and allowing certain propaganda to flourish (If you wish to see documentation of it, checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what's known as the "modlog"

Obligatory, fuck Spez

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[-] NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Can anyone recommend any other places? Ones where mods aren't overzealous and biased *****.

(The stars represent a word I would probably be banned for saying).

[-] jwphinia@fedia.io 2 points 2 hours ago

@NotLemming@lemm.ee Do you like reading, or even marvel at libraries and stuff? The last time I checked literature.cafe, the atmosphere (as well as the instance (I call it "online raft", for one) mods there) seems to be typical of a small town library. It also has comms for fanfics in general, and genre-specific ones.

I bet there's also even-smaller fedi-rafts out there that cater to a specific creative interest/hobby, or an entire fandom; time and effort will tell.

[-] Trilobyte@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

I've been browsing Lemmy for 2ish months, went ahead and made an account just recently. Deleted my Reddit account last week and I'm chuffed.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 14 hours ago

Welcome aboard.

[-] stonkingwind@lemm.ee 34 points 2 days ago

Here for The Great Reddit migration. People left Digg for Reddit for similar reasons. Although the issues with Reddit are magnitudes more concerning.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Reddit has magnitudes more inertia, unfortunately. And a predominant sentiment seems to be “we should stay on Reddit to counterbalance the bad parts."

Or even worse, move to Discord :/

[-] TheOgreChef@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Discord makes feel like an old man shaking my fist at the clouds. The UI is the worst, and I have no idea how anything works, but I have to be on it because my friends use it for in-game chat on multiplayer games.

I never feel dumber than when I’m trying to find something on Discord. Ugh.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

I think its interface is pretty good, but it's structure absolutely sucks for larger communities. It's a deliberate information black hole for shooting the breeze, yet people treat it like a forum, wiki, or hub,.

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[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago

When I first joined Lemmy there was hardly conversation to be found but now things are starting to really pickup. Next you will really start to see niche communities thrive and I'm all for it.

Welcome to our reddit refugees!

[-] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

It was heart warming to see my new emulation community see some traffic ^_^

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

[ Removed by Reddit ]

[-] macncheese@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the welcome wagon. This was the first post I clicked on. I feel like a boomer (I am not one) trying to understand the Fediverse even though I can understand how email works, somehow I can't apply that to how it works here. Like am I supposed to be able to see Mastadon or Pixelfed content on here? What would that look like? Ok also had some weed tincture so that probably has something to do with my confusion. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Welcome!

Yea, you'll see mastodon stuff from time to time, there's nothing really that tells you it's a mastodon post, they just look kinda different. For a mastodon post usually the giveaway is hashtags in the post like #hashtag except they'll be links.

Pixelfed is supposed to show up too, but federation with Lemmy has yet to "kick in" (at least as far as I've noticed)

Also on Lemmy you can do ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ without any extra "" actually, here putting the extra 2 backslashes makes you lose your arm

It's actually really nice, now I can ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ right from my phone keyboard lmfao ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[-] macncheese@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Ok here's another question. How does this exist financially, who pays for servers and whatnot? Believe you me I am so glad not to be assaulted by ads and whatnot but isn't this expensive?

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 14 hours ago

We discuss costs here.

As long as you shop around for a good hosting deal you don't need everyone to donate to cover the costs.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

It's not actually all that expensive to host websites, it never has been, sh.itjust.works a larger instance with something like 1.5k posts and comments/day only spends about $150/month

A bid cost saving is not using the "cloud", cloud services do what they advertise (mainly allow one to "easily" scale up to millions of users), but its costly.

But the beauty of it is that because Lemmy is decentralized, not one person/org has to worry about scaling to millions of users as the Lemmy-verse grows so hosters can skip the cloud

Some pay out of pocket and some take the ways of the forums of ol, donations and small perks for donating. For example, having a db0 account and being a donator gains you voting rights. There's been talk about private/VIP comms for donators as well

[-] Chocobofangirl@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Donations for server costs. Apparently each user costs a little over 1 dollar a year, hosting-wise. Reminds me of how one site I use for checking stuff in pokemon sleep, how-many-more.com, said in a reddit post from the owner that they don't even take donations because the cost of running it is absolutely miniscule and that you should absolutely question people who want upkeep money for largely text-based stuff like that.

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[-] DrunkenLullabies@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Ive had this account for a while, but I've mostly lurked. I like it better here anyways.

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 180 points 3 days ago

Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what's known as the "modlog"

Saying it again to everyone in the back. The modlog is a great feature. Instance Mods and admins can't just disappear people and communities without a trace, and trolls can't make up stories of unfair moderation without bringing receipts and their old account name.

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[-] Burninator@lemm.ee 23 points 2 days ago

I have arrived

[-] AlexLost@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

And my axe! Are we still doing that?

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[-] squishy@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

The prophecy has been fulfilled.

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[-] Washedupcynic@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago

I got a temp ban for calling Usha Vance a class traitor. I said that when fascism progressed far enough she would likely not be safe from the overt racism and patriotism because she's brown. 3 day temp ban. Reddit is shilling for the fascist and corporate overlords. That along with warnings just for upvoting posts. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

[-] NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

I got the same ban here for reporting someone who called me dumb. Apparently asking where someone is from isn't allowed here.

[-] tacobellhop@midwest.social 10 points 2 days ago

You won’t even remember you wasted years on there

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 85 points 3 days ago

It's funny because I bet a lot of us that came on the API wave had/have 15+ year old accounts.

Mines 18.

I had a post from /r/teenagers show up on my homepage and I realized that my account is older than most people there say they are.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 42 points 3 days ago

12 years, and almost a million karma, and I was permabanned soon after the election for repeating an anti-HitlerPig post that I had repeated many times BEFORE the electuon.

I was bummed at the smaller crowds on Lemmy at first, then I realized I didn't have to scroll through dozens of puns, bots, trolls, idiots, etc. on EVERY post.

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[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago

🙋10 year account for me, thousands of comments. 166k comment karma. It was a wild ride, but when they took Boost it was over for me. Fuck em.

Consequently, now that I'm here I post WAY more, I don't even think my post count cracked a hundred and here it's...4...thousand........fuck, I'm here too much 😅

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[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 93 points 3 days ago

So of course Spez rolled over like a bitch

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[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago

I remember Reddit after I started using it, around the time of the Digg exodus. It was a fun community of nerdy people. Just doing some things because it was cool.

A few years later, I had the weirdest feeling that that vibe was gone. That both behind the scenes, and more overtly, they had to be prepping for accommodation of corporate interests. A little bit of officially sanctioned promotion here, a dash of ignoring guerrilla marketing there.

And for several years now, it's not even subtle anymore. Reddit does what some dude with money bags says must be done, users be damned.

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[-] Goldholz 27 points 3 days ago

Refugee crisis on lemmy?

Wir schaffen das

[-] Moonshadow@feddit.org 16 points 3 days ago

Sry just testing how everything works on here Ignor this masage

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

Oh no no, my friend. Newcomers are obligated to provide massages for their first week. We will not ignore...

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[-] lavamushlam0287@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Fresh from reddit here. What is the difference in subscribing and bookmarking a community and how do I find them after I subscribe/bookmark?

I'm using the Summit app if that makes a difference.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Subscribing is like Reddit, where your default frontpage view is only your subscribed communities. These communities could be from your server or a federated server, it just depends on what you subscribe to. You don't really need to think about how federation works, it'll just show up for you if you subscribe.

If you pick "Local" you'll see a feed of the the popular posts from all communities hosted on your own server only. Some of your subscribed comms might be in there if they're a local server comm. But it's just a general feed from your server alone.

If you go to "All" then you get a feed from all federated communities, so you could be seeing posts from /c/linux from lemmy.ml as well /c/linux from another server (though it's not likely to see posts from small communities unless you're an incorrigible doomscroller). Generally you'll run out of content on your subscribed only feed fairly quick due to the activity being relatively lower than Reddit, so browsing All gets you more content, but you'll run into a lot of irrelevant shit in the process. But it can be a good way to find more things to subscribe to, as well.

In any case, welcome. I fled reddit after 15 years of contributing by posting and modding when they burned the app community and shit on the people that made Reddit what it was. At least here I don't feel like my efforts to provide content and moderate is for someone else's benefit, least of all a greedy little pigboy like spez.

Be the change you want to see.

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[-] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 49 points 3 days ago

Reddit has turned into a real fuck of a fuck over the last few weeks. It was a bad omen when they started charging for API access, but that was just a preview. They're in full-on enshittification mode now.

You get shadowbanned for unspecified reasons, without apparently breaking any rules. They do cute shit with vague error messages rather than tell you what's up. Zero actual communication.

They're also busting people for upvoting super mario kart jpegs for some reason, but when they do that they actually tell you.

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[-] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

Welcome ex-Redditors, and please leave these at the door:

confused/ sad $human noises
$thing intensifies
/s

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Ok I can support the first 2

But "/s" is absolutely necessary and has predated Reddit by a LONG time. It should be mandatory actually because sarcasm is notoriously hard in text

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[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago

Wait so Reddit is taking action against moderators who block X links on their subreddits? Wow! That’s draconian as fuck!

I hope we get a big influx. There’s so many small subreddits I like which have no Lemmy equivalent!

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[-] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Deleted my Reddit account when I could no longer use Apollo, but still kept up with a few subs for certain info. Finally discovered Lemmy and after being here for a short while I’ve nearly stopped visiting. This news has given me the push to be done 100%.

[-] LongDog@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago

Been here for a few weeks now and have not looked at Reddit since. Time to cut ties and delete my account there I think.

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[-] AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz 28 points 3 days ago

Woo! Thanks for the mander.xyz shout out. Come for the science memes, stay for the top-tier science discussions.

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[-] Mouette@jlai.lu 10 points 3 days ago

Lemmy.ml living rent free in this person mind lmao. If you spent half the time you spam post crying about them developing a fork of Lemmy you would have actually be free from them now. At this point I'm starting to think you're actually getting paid for spewing brain rot

[-] YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't think they are getting paid, but they are from lemmy.world. They are known for open signups that invite trolls, power mods, conservatives, etc. The instance has a lot of US people, the kind that think democrats are leftists. I see a lot of what I didn't like about reddit in lemmy.world.

Tankies are the biggest problem, even though most instances have defederated from them, and here we have a community dedicated to screenshots of their community where we can dunk on them even though dunking is actually really bad since tankies do it /s. By that logic shouldn't the CSAM instances be the biggest problem? Sure most instances defederated them but they exist, along with far right instances.

EDIT: Nevermind, OP has spent weeks complaining about tankies. There is no getting through to that. I think lemmy has more worse problems than tankies. Also meanwhile on grad welcomes conservatives but it's all good because at least they aren't tankies right.

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