Actually just got here based on that post. Knew about the fediverse before, but was hesitant to take the plunge
Once you populate your homepage with the right communities (and block all the furries/tankies) you'll love it here
Or add additional furries because they’re mostly just silly little guys.
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Just block the fascists and you're good to go, tbh. The tankies are a very small community here.
Furries are pretty wholesome -- whether they and queer people are there, I use as a miner's canary to see if a place has a welcoming and chill atmosphere.
People can like what they want, I just dont personally enjoy seeing that myself. In my experience I havent seen any fascists, just Authoritarian advocates.
Sure, people can like what they want. Though I don't think we should encourage inaction against the far right. Unfortunately, I've seen a few, but indeed very few. Personally I feel divided on tankies, but in my perspective, the greater foe is the fascist. That said: AAAB (All Authoritarians Are Bastards), and if we can combat both effectively, then great!
But also, to put it as a metaphor. If I had to pick my battles -- and had three bullets, and there were a fascist and a tankie in the room with me, I'd shoot the fascist immediately, and keep two to safeguard against tankies - so that if I shot, I still have a credible threat afterward.
A tankie is an ally against a fascist, and can turn into a fiend - so let us make sure that they have to stay our friend. And while they are our friend, then let us treat them with at least kindness. They don't need to like us and we don't need to like them; but we need to band together against the storm.
Welcome To Lemmy! (Immediately starts bickering over the various pros and cons of furry vs. tankie)
Thanks, working my way through that now
One thing you'll see here is that it's a lot more human than Reddit. People here are wayyyy more willing to ask questions and understand instead instead of just assuming. People here are also more willing to actually provide links and supporting documentation.
Of course, I'm not saying that always makes people right, but people are also more willing to accept when they're mistaken and also give people the benefit of the doubt.
It's a breath of fresh air on the internet.
Yeah, me too. I was getting tired of the Reddit bubble I have been pushed in to for a while now. This here is such a refreshment...
Welcome!
Bob Dylan once proclaimed that who is not busy being born is busy dying. You'll probably find us busy being born over here, but I consider that to be a good thing. We're very happy to have you here helping us out with it. :)
Welcome! Most of us came over during the Reddit API fiasco a couple years ago. It's a lot nicer here. You'll notice the difference the more you post or comment. It's not like screaming into the void, like you get on Reddit.
Outstanding choice.
Just keep in mind, the instances are all made up, you can see everything from everywhere and if you don't like limits or administration on one instance, you can always move to another.
My best newbie tip is to use https://lemmyverse.net/ to find new communities.
Just set your home instance (in your case lemmy.world) with the house icon and all links will refer you to the right place for you.
Discoverimg new stuff isn't always straight forward, but lemmyverse.net makes it a little easier.
Then there are communities for promoting other new communities as well.
Have fun, amd welcome!
Brand new to Piefed here - i'm clueless about what you're suggesting here. Why is there no piefed-app, and why do i need to use another service to make Piefed useful?
I feel like everytime there's a european alternative to anything, it's always unnecesarily complex and extremely unintuitive..
You don't need the other service. I personally strongly oppose pitching stuff about federation and so on (this is something for a user to look into if they are interested).
If you are looking for communities, click the all Communities -> All Communities button:
https://piefed.social/communities
And then type a keyword to find a community.
Voyager works for mobile:
https://f-droid.org/packages/app.vger.voyager/
You can also just use the mobile website (that's what I prefer).
If you have any questions, just post them here:
PieFed also solves this natively better than Lemmy, so people coming in from Lemmy tends to give advice that is not all that useful for PieFed users.
Highly recommend lemmy. Yes, it doesn’t have all the communities that Reddit has and engagement isn’t as high, but its general content is overall good and it doesn’t feel littered with bots and spam like Reddit. It’s also much easier to access than it was when it first came out and the available clients are light years better than the garbage Reddit app.
Thank you for the suggestion, will definitely check that out!
We're glad you're safe now!
Thank you, happy to be here!
Welcome, I've been here two years and it's been great. At first you might miss some content but that's just your dopamine receptors resetting from the slot machine effect of reddit.
The "algorithms" here are simple and honest and all the Russian/Chinese bots are on lemmy.ml. Be careful though, you might end up switching to Linux if you stay here (which I recommend).
Welcome!
This place is not quite as active as Reddit, simply by virtue of the userbase being a lot smaller. But I've quite enjoyed the past three years I've been on this platform.
My first recommendation would be to subscribe to some communities (equivalent to subreddits) you are interested in.
The main communities are mostly covered, but if they are particularly niche they might either be rather quiet or simply don't exist yet. At that point the only real way is to get them going is to contribute yourself.
Also, small piece of potentially unsolicited advice:
spoiler
If a community is hosted on a domain that ends in .ml, they are likely a "Marxist-Leninist" (authoritarian communist, aka "tankie") community. The same holds for individual users.
The moderation in tankie communities (e.g. lemmy.ml) is generally not very great, in my experience.
They tend to not be particularly accepting of any criticism of their beliefs, so these places tend to turn into an echo chamber.
Personally I blocked lemmy.ml, and the overall Lemmy experience has been better for it.
Enjoy your stay :)
Ah alright, thanks for the heads-up! :)
Welcome!
It takes a bit of fiddling and customization to get your blocklists and filters set up, but that’s true to a lesser degree for Reddit anyways. There’s tons of people that should be willing to point you in the right directions, though, should you have questions.
For all redditors and elsewhere who have come to PieFed or Lemmy, welcome! Don't forget to contribute to the devs every now and then.
Lemmy/PieFed works like if you had multiple reddits ("instances") talking to each other, and also to other non-reddits that are linked, like Friendica, Mastodon (this is "federation").
What Instance to Pick?
If you wanna find a good instance, my recommendation is: don't go for the biggest one. Pick a mid-sized or smaller one, or find one yourself. This is a great guide on Github giving some pointers, including a "idc, just give me some instances" at the top.
If you still wanna pick yourself but there's a bit too much, I recommend going for the instances with 20-1000 people. The smallest are either self-hosted or probably just friends/classrooms, and if it's too big, might get issues with hosting costs.
Apps
For Lemmy interfaces/apps, see here. I personally like Voyager, Mlem, and Thunder, but a lot of them are great. There's even an old reddit-like look if you want. Here's a list for the PieFed ones.
Pro-tip: Block Some Stuff
Don't be scared! Unlike with Reddit, the block options are a bit better. The following is a list of keywords I've put up to block. It's pretty useful so far.
List of keywords
Trump
Kirk
ICE
Elon
Musk
rapist
Republican
pedophile
GOP
Israel
Hamas
Block Sites
These will block the ones that pop up as links. I'm not going to directly link them, but either way here you go.
Fox News
Breitbart
Sputnik
Russian Today
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Threads
Very nice comment
Came here directly from this reddit post. Totally new here - is Piefed only a browser-based alternative? Why is there no Piefed-app ? The only thing i can find is "Blorp for Lemmy and Piefed... sounds weird.
Welcome!
I know Piefed is supported by Interstellar, Summit, and Thunder, and probably others that I forgot
I believe Boost also supports Piefed but I haven't checked ( it does per @mrsilkworm@piefed.social )
You can browse https://www.lemmyapps.com/ and see if the apps listed there also support Piefed:
Blorp dev here. Sorry for the silly name, but I assure you I’ve spend hundreds of hours making Blorp the best app I possibly can. It’s totally free, fully open source, and it doesn't log any of our data. I would love for you to give my app a try!
"The sweetspot is using both at the moment" - the sweetspot is siphoning knowledge from shitty platform into the fediverse
Honestly I haven’t touched Reddit since the API exodus. I just went without whatever wasn’t over here.
Honestly, even as an American (from California - a rare state of sanity in this damn country), I've been moving to de-google and move away from stuff like reddit for months now at this point. Especially since user data requests by our federal government (and likely other world governments) are an open secret that these companies can't really refuse.
Glad to see y'all on the same path :)
Yeah, YouTube and Google Earth are my main holdouts. I use PeerTube and OSM but there are still gaps
I deleted my google account and moved all of my youtube activity onto Grayjay (since it doesn't require any account and any saved "subscriptions" are stored on your device locally), maybe that could be an option for you? They even have a desktop client now :)
I use FreeTube on my computer. I also have some YouTube channels that I download to my computer and host there to download / watch on my phone through Jellyfin (and use Patreon to give money to those channels). I I still end up on YouTube from my phone.
I still have a few issues with apps like Freetube / Grayjay though:
The tankie stuff turns out to still remain a hard sell, who could've imagined... (block lemmy.ml if you can, if you can't, switch platforms and then block .ml)
One unfortunate limitation of the fediverse is that blocking undesired categories of content is harder than on reddit: when you block a subreddit, it doesn't exist on 50 other instances. None of the fediverse stuff handles that gracefully, the "subreddit" approach was just not a good choice for this kind of thing.
I'd rather block fascists. That's the real hard sell, tbh, and fortunately Lemmy does not really have them so far.
Tankies are facists. More I see of them more I realize they are non US MAGA. Both leaning towards being ultranationalists with love for cult of personality leaders, authoritarian governments, and one party.
Only real difference is healthcare, but the shared love of preferring to trust in what they hope is a benevolent dictator to tell them what to do and get rid of their enemies is a common goal. Neither seems to actually want a government that fears the people that can easily replace leaders they dislike or abuse their power.
You can set up keywords on piefed to filter out.
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Rules:
Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.
Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism. This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that. For other topics the following might be of interest:
Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.
No russian suggestions.
Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:
Useful Websites
General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
European Instances
Lemmy:
Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
🇧🇪 Belgium: https://0d.gs/
🇧🇬 Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
🇩🇰 Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
🇪🇺 Europe: https://europe.pub/
🇫🇷🇧🇪🇨🇭 France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇱🇮 Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
🇫🇮 Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
🇮🇸 Iceland: https://feddit.is/
🇮🇹 Italy: https://feddit.it/
🇱🇹 Lithuania: https://group.lt/
🇳🇱 Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
🇵🇱 Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
🇵🇹 Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
🇸🇮 Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
🇸🇪 Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
🇹🇷 Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
🇬🇧 UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
🇦🇹 Austria: https://friendica.io/
🇮🇹 Italy: https://poliverso.org/
🇩🇪 Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
🇫🇷 Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
🇵🇱 Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
🇬🇧 UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
🇫🇷 France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
🇩🇪 Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, envs.net, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
🇳🇱 Netherlands: bark.lgbt
🇦🇹 Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
🇫🇮 Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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