A community to organize and discuss the growth of the fediverse as a whole
Lemmy is nonsensical fediverse bullshit.
Lemmy will never take off due to their idiotic federalism approach.
See those muppets looking for the next Digg / Reddit 10 years from now, after their alternative "with no federated bullshit" gets enshittified the exact same way as Reddit did. 🍿
It’s crazy how lazy people are.
“FeDErAtIOn iS CoFUsInG”
Welp, enjoy continuing to be at the mercy of the whims of the board of directors. God forbid you have to learn something new
Its like dude. Just make an account on a big server and pretend federation doesn't exist. You'll barely notice the difference. It's not as if you have to understand federation to use Lemmy.
I bring it up every time, but I've seen people just install Voyager or Sync and use it. They don't even know what their instance is
That works.
just install Voyager or Sync and use it
Do they automatically pick an instance? If so, which/how?
Voyager uses lemm.ee as default instance it recommends. I do not know what sync does.
Voyager uses lemm.ee as default instance
A decent choice. Glad it's not ml or world.
It’s the least controversial. They don’t really defederate anybody, they are big and fast, but they aren’t super centralised like world, or abusing mod powers like ML.
anyone who doesn't understand lemmy after using reddit must be a real pea brain
Not necessarily a pea brain, but certainly clueless on why Reddit, Digg, Slashdot etc. went downhill.
I mean the most often expressed complaint I see there is that the fedivwrse is "fractured" as if joining one instance won't let you see content from another instance. They are missing the crucial element that they are all still connected to each other, and Reddit also kinda works this way, with content hosted across a plethora of servers. Those servers are just controlled by a single entity and you probably won't notice when you move from one to another unless one is down.
It just seems fractured at first and sorta is with some instanced banning some instances, but its not bad, just seems bad
It's a mess, but organized
I think it's just that reddit looks like everything else now (Pinterest/Instagram/ect) with their UI so the general public expects certain elements to do certain things. They don't remember the old interface nor the free-wheeling link madness reddit had in the beginning.
Reddit only became popular relatively recently.
Bet they are the ones who browse the internet without an ad blocker.
Translation: my views are abhorrent and I fear no one will view them
I think instead of telling people what Lemmy is in words, maybe just give them a link and let them decide.
Who cares what "instance" they land on or the "correct" way of doing activityhub. Let them go down the rabbit hole if they want to. Just give them an in.
For the longest time, reddit got popular despite its UI (that I grew to love as old.reddit). Let them explore a bit and point them over to a front page. Just my 2 cents.
agreed
The comment mentioning lemmy only has 268 votes. The one it's responding to has over 1000.
Indeed, fixed!
It so nice to be able to edit titles.
Imagine being on a platform that doesn't allow you to do that ;)
Imagine being on a platform without public modlogs
Saw a brother printer related post with the title striked out. Regardless of whether you agree with the edit or not, that felt kinda nice. Poor man's community notes. Hated reddit news titles that became misinformation because crucial details came out after they were posted, and many people don't read beyond the headline.
Welp, time to dust off the old reddit account. There's people showing interest, asking genuine questions, and many opportunities to practice that rusted thing called kindness while answering them.
dust off the old reddit account
If they're good for anything, they're good for this, right?
Until they ban me, at least. I'm quite fine with that, though.