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Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
- greek_sven 3y agoReddit strike has begun: https://reddark.untone.uk/ https://reddark.untone.uk/
- jodrellblank 3y agoWhat's to stop Reddit employees just ... reopening all these subreddits tomorrow?
- multjoy 3y agoNothing, but they would have to also moderate them because it would turn into an absolute hellsite in about five minutes.
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y agoWhat's to stop Ford from not paying their workers? Reddit mods already work for free and are mostly in it for the minute power they get. Admins overriding that would cause an exodus and then the quality of the subs would tank overnight.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoAs others have said, nothing, which is why it is important to those seeking to maintain some sort of online community to both stand up alternatives and backup as much of Reddit as possible for future reference and possible backfill capabilities. Digg didn't go away, its audience left, for example. The value is in the ongoing community activity and participation.
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- RobotToaster 3y agoReddit already has a process for anyone to claim subs who's admins are inactive. Usually they have to be inactive for several months, but I wouldn't be surprised if they made an exception in the near future.
- talhah 3y agoMy personal gripe with lemmy is the lack of decent mobile clients.
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- mariusor 3y agoWhich is somewhat ironic seeing that the reason for everyone abandoning reddit is that they're being assholes to devs using their APIs.
- pythonaut_16 3y agoWonder the Apollo dev or one of the other Reddit 3rd party apps would be willing to migrate or create one.
- WalrusOperator 3y ago[dead]
- unpopularopp 3y ago>Don't overthink this. It doesn't matter which instance you use. Nah. Disagree and I don't even know why is this highlighted. It really does matter what you choose. Same with Mastodon. Each instance has an admin who can do whatever they want (eg delete the instance and permaban you) and on top of that each topic has a mod too. Plus your instance can be de-federated by others (what if your instance end up being a far right honeypot?) The usual reply is that "but but then you can just move to another instance" but this is basically where the federated system fails for average people. Just like with Mastodon the only way to use a federated system is self hosting a single user instance for your own profile.
- htag 3y agoAll of the same arguments can be made for SMTP, and hosting your own server there.
- bscphil 3y agoAnd those would be good arguments, if the SMTP landscape looked different. I think the OP's views would be best summarized by "either host your own server, or go back to Reddit". Similarly, you shouldn't be using random-joe.biz as your SMTP host. You should use Google, Fastmail, or a handful of other reputable providers you can probably count on one hand. Or host your own server.
- teddyh 3y agoReputable does not mean large, and (more importantly), large does not mean reputable.
- lolinder 3y agoThe difference is that email is private. The contents of your email are not seen as being endorsed by Google just because you have an @gmail.com address, so Google doesn't have an incentive to ban you just because they find your politics odious. In the fediverse calls to defederate happen pretty regularly, and the reasoning is sound—your instance will be publicly mirroring any content on a federated instance, so if you don't want to publicly host extremist views (from either wing) your only option is to defederate from instances that allow them.
- bioemerl 3y agoPlease use kbin instead - It's not run by literal Chinese state apologists.
- Kye 3y agoThe neat thing about federated social media is you don't have to federate with tankies even if you use their software. kbin appears to have some trouble working with Mastodon. My experience so far is boosts and replies on Mastodon are the #1 driver of new signups to the Lemmy instance I'm on, so it matters.
- Semaphor 3y agoKbin works better with mastodon, but the software is also newer, and the main instance is run by the single dev. They are currently behind cloudflare which disturbs federation.
- Kye 3y agoI'm basing that on this: https://pawb.social/comment/20112 https://pawb.social/comment/20112 Which seems to be more a fundamental implementation issue than a CDN issue. I don't think they're talking about the main instance.
- Semaphor 3y agoI don't really understand what they are saying. > and posts from Mastodon to Kbin didn’t work either (they were all classified as microblog). The beginning seems to contradict the end?
- bioemerl 3y agoYou don't have to, but bye joining and supporting the platform you're joining and supporting the developers.
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- toomuchtodo 3y agoTLDR https://browse.feddit.de/ https://browse.feddit.de/ (Lemmy Community Browser)
- icapybara 3y agoI think we all want a viable Reddit alternative (and Twitter alternative), but the “fediverse” isn’t it. Why? 1. New user experience is very confusing. You have to learn a bunch of dorky sounding terminology right away (instance, fediverse/federated, etc), and there are a whole bunch of instances to choose from, but none of them may be particularly appealing or relevant to you specifically. 2. At least on Lemmy, I’m actively discouraged from signing up. And even if I ignore that, I have to fill out an application for an account that includes a personal statement on why I want to join Lemmy. Great, Lemmy can do whatever it wants, but it’s not a Reddit killer with a process like this.
- lolinder 3y agoPoint #1 is accurate, but #2 is actually just you getting confused by #1—lemmy.ml is discouraging new signups by encouraging you to use one of the many other instances. I agree that the whole federation thing is way more confusing than insiders understand.
- davewritescode 3y ago> New user experience is very confusing. You have to learn a bunch of dorky sounding terminology right away (instance, fediverse/federated, etc), and there are a whole bunch of instances to choose from, but none of them may be particularly appealing or relevant to you specifically. For technical discussions, this is a feature not a bug. Having a small technical hurdle to get over before contributing is a filter when it comes to having technical conversations that aren’t immediately shit up by low effort content. The somethingawful forums are STILL around despite not being relevant in popular internet culture for almost 2 decades. Paying a one time $10 fee to post kept out people who weren’t really interested in contributing to the conversation.
- csallen 3y agoReddit is a massive social website. The vast majority of the value of Reddit comes from the fact that it's humongous. A niche community that tries to filter out most people isn't a Reddit replacement.
- hackandthink 3y agoGithub's Language analysis: Rust 79.7% PLpgSQL 14.0% TypeScript 4.6% Shell 1.6% Other 0.1% It' easy to port (built it maybe 2 years ago (Fedora)), lightweight and fast. Kind of Anti-Mastodon technically.
- CodeCompost 3y agoAs soon as I have the time I'm gonna install my own instance.
- bjornasm 3y agoOh my god this sounds just like mastodon. Having a social media site dependent on a manual to use and understand just sounds like the worst idea.
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoI just love it when people at HN complain about a freaking web site being too difficult to use. Quite some hackers we are! Took me less than an hour to register and get comfortable with Lemmy.
- joseph8th 3y agoSame. And since I chose the SDF instance, I went ahead and finally got myself an sdf.org shell. A new toy to me, though it's been around since 1987.
- guraf 3y ago> Took me less than an hour to register and get comfortable with Lemmy. Do you really not see the problem? For Lemmy to face any hope of becoming mainstream your statement should be "less than 5 minutes". Maybe that barrier to entry is a pro to you, and that's fair, but surely you understand the criticism that a social network should be usable without reading a guide, yes?
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoSo just to be clear on a few things: * This "less than one hour" I'm talking about includes really being familiar with the UI, concept and new terminology. * I'm not really concerned if Lemmy becomes truly mainstream. I just find it funny that the crowd in HN of all places is so helpless that reading a FAQ and learning a few new names for basically old concepts is so bad that it needs to be constantly complained about. How on earth would these people have survived the pre-2010 internet? * I did not need to read a guide, just a short FAQ and some fiddling around to understand the concept.
- WalrusOperator 3y ago
- jackewiehose 3y agoDoes lemmy has somethings like /r/all? Across all instances? I'm not interested in subscribing to specific communities. The way I used reddit most of the time was browsing on /r/all using RIF and then I blocked all subreddits I didn't want to see again (a feature of RIF, you don't even need an account).
- joseph8th 3y agoYah it does. Pretty fast too! Mastodon I think suffers from running on RoR. Lemmy is written in Rust.
- jackewiehose 3y agoSorry, but I'm too stupid to find it by myself. Would you give me a hint?
- ryapric 3y agoClick on the "All" toggle on the top of the page.
- jackewiehose 3y agoThank you. That inspired me to try out the lemmy android app. But that was quite underwhelming. We'll see where that goes.
- Tenoke 3y agoI (sadly) doubt Lemmy will be it in terms of a reddit replacement (if reddit is to actually lose it's users). I just really hope it's not discord who will replace it but I fear they have a good shot. And while discord is great for real time communication with others passionate about a topic, it's worse at sorting, ranking and finding old information.
- ronsor 3y agoDiscord will probably piss off their userbase in a similar way to Reddit soon enough.
- Encrypt-Keeper 3y agoDiscord is already a megacorporate nightmare, it really is only a matter of time. It's also just... nothing like Reddit at all
- maltfield 3y agoI'm the author of this post. I originally posted it here, but it didn't get a single upvote. This isn’t my first time getting on the frontpage of hackernews, but it always happens when someone else reposts my link. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36282351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36282351 Can anyone tell me how the fuck hackernews’ algorithm works to where I can’t ever get traction but someone else does after me?
- _thisdot 3y agoHow does it matter? Your post was interesting and it did cause the intended discourse. Don’t bother trying to find ways to “game” the HN algorithm
- mrlyc 3y agoThank you for writing the "How to Find Lemmy Communities" guide. It was very helpful. https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/ https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-...
- _8j50 3y agoHave they not considered how lemmy sounds like lame-ey?
- foogazi 3y ago“If you need a guide they blew it” - foogazi
- jordiburgos 3y agoWhat is the difference between Lemmy and Mastodon? I am very confussed at the moment. I am trying to understand how Lemmy works and then there is people saying that you can read stuff from Mastodon on Lemmy. Please help.
- nickzelei 3y agoTo use a simple analogy, Lemmy is like a federated reddit while Mastodon is like a federated twitter. They are both built ontop of ActivityPub, which is the messaging protocol that enables these technologies. I'm still reading and understanding the topics myself as I continue to deeper my understanding of these platforms. It helps to also poke around and use them a little bit. This helps me gain an understanding of how they work.
- venusenvy47 3y agoI'm trying to figure out if there is a way to aggregate all the programming forums into a single view. Does anyone know if that is possible? I think the first app that implements this will be a leader in the "Lemmy Revolution". As it stands I have to separately visit redundant forums to see what's going on in the community. https://beehaw.org/c/programming https://beehaw.org/c/programming https://lemmy.ml/c/programming https://lemmy.ml/c/programming https://programming.dev/c/programming https://programming.dev/c/programming Asking a question seems like it has the same problem. I have post my question/article in multiple places to interact with different people that have the same interests.
- WalrusOperator 3y ago[dead]
- dvlsg 3y agoI think the main thing I'm missing from Lemmy is the ability to work backwards to find a community. For example, a less-mainstream band I liked posted a new pair of songs last night. With reddit, I could search (via Google most likely) to find a subreddit where this news was posted, and use that to determine that yes, I would like to join this subreddit. Is there a way to do this with Lemmy?
- WalrusOperator 3y ago[dead]