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https://lemmy.ml https://lemmy.ml OR https://lemmy.world https://lemmy.world and https://kbin.social https://kbin.social and are quite nice. Been posting there
by bhouston 3y ago
https://lemmy.ml https://lemmy.ml OR https://lemmy.world https://lemmy.world and https://kbin.social https://kbin.social and are quite nice. Been posting there myself and it is great.
Lemmy is having some stability issues across its instances because of this growth curve: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/693866c7-8f65-4046-8781-58aee709cdf1.webp https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/693866c7-8f65-4046-8781-58aee70...
- mderazon 3y agoMoving entire communities there is going to be challenging
- bhouston 3y agoThe trick is to both (1) promote equivalent communitie to existing Reddits - let them know there are alternaives to being a serf -- and (2) start posting on there. Be the change you want to see! The federated future for social is coming, albeit slowly in fits and starts. What is nice is that many of the communities on these two are shared because it is the fediverse. EDIT: Downvoted why?
- mderazon 3y agoWhat about migrating historic data from Reddit ? Is that possible?
- bhouston 3y agoFrom a technical standpoint: Archive.org is archiving Reddit data. So someone just needs to write an importer for that data. I would have suggested reading from Reddit's APIs directly but they are shutting those down. From a legal standpoint: I am unsure.
- toyg 3y agoDo they archive nsfw too? Edit: I checked, and Archive.org seems to be snapshotting once per quarter or less. Not a realistic strategy for any sub with even modest traffic.
- codeslave13 3y agoOr legal?
- Applejinx 3y agoI'm certain you got downvoted over the word 'serf'. I upvoted because my reaction to that framing is more positive, but it's not a framing I would use, myself, because I would expect to get some flak for it.
- hiccuphippo 3y agoI think the communities would benefit from becoming smaller. I avoided any large subreddits because the noise ratio was awful. The smaller ones were much better.
- criddell 3y agoI don't really think anybody expects that to happen. As long as a large enough number of people move, it can succeed.
- n3m4c 3y agoBut people don’t care. Homelab subreddit created a forum and after 5 days, the number of registered users on that forum is 18. Selfhosted subreddit did the same thing and activity on their forum is similarly low. If people on “selfhosted” subreddit don’t want to move to a selfhosted alternative, I don’t know if there is any hope for other communities.
- bhouston 3y agoThese things tend to not work until all of a sudden they do.
- CodeBytes 3y agoThe selfhosted community on Lemmy (https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted) is up to 12.5k subscribers and seems fairly active so it's possible there might be enough people who care this time for it to work.
- http-teapot 3y agoI am unavailable to sign up on lemmy.world; the websocket connection closes and reconnects, no error, any ideas?
- bhouston 3y agoWhat browser/OS? Maybe try a different combination.
- http-teapot 3y agoI am using Google Chrome on Mac, and it literally crashes when I click on the submit button, so I assumed the server crashes. Tried about 5 times across multiple days, and I have never been able to sign up.
- rozap 3y agoIt's tough to read as a lurker. The page keeps scrolling around and re-rendering. I think the "realtime" promise is pretty misguided.
- jug 3y agoIt’s known and this “feature” will be removed in an update.
- sabellito 3y agoIt seems to be down right now. It grew 50% from yesterday to today, so... well, growing pains. edit: it's back up.
- DelightOne 3y ago~~Doesn't support Safari.~~ edit: Nevermind Safari works. 1Blocker blocks comments with the "Block Comments" ruleset. Usually it is supposed to hide comments where they are not the primary focus. So some rule should probably be adapted for Lemmy instances to work. edit2: Reported it to 1Blocker.
- kimbernator 3y agoI'm trying really hard to like Lemmy, but whenever I'm reading through posts on "active", "hot", etc. it will initially load with the correct content. But then, I get about 10 seconds before the entire list frantically reflows and fills with brand new posts from all over the place. Extraordinarily annoying. I get that creating a new post is itself "activity" which is probably why it does that, I don't think posts of that nature meet the description of "hot". Maybe I just need to be going by Top->Day
- kelvie 3y agoI've been sorting by "new comments" -- which brings us squarely back to the "bump old threads" style phpbb forums. Which I suppose is okay.
- bhouston 3y agoI look at the subscribed communities I am part of. I find that just looking at all communities a little overwhelming.
- kimbernator 3y agoI used to primarily browse /r/all because I like to see when niche communities produce things exceptional enough to hit it (and I'd just filter subreddits I didn't want) Especially now, there are a -lot- of new Lemmy communities popping up so I like to be able to see that kind of activity.
- mostlysimilar 3y agoThis has to be a bug, right? I experience the same thing and just wrote it off as broken, deciding to try again in a few days when they figure things out.
- Saris 3y agoI believe hot is currently bugged, I use recent comments as sorting and I find that nice.
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- EMCymatics 3y agoI would sign up for lemmy but it requires an email
- InCityDreams 3y agoDid you manage to sign up for reddit without one?
- omgmajk 3y agoYes, this used to be a feature of Reddit, not sure if it still is.
- junon 3y agoIt used to be a feature of the entire internet, really. Email based signups weren't common in the infancy.
- johnnyanmac 3y agospam/bots grew out of control. You need to do something to curtail that, and email verification seems to be the most seemless solution. That said, I've had a burner email for as long as my personal email for this very reason. I even have 2 burner gmails. It's not exactly a huge invasive measure like a phone number (which I'd never give to a site that isn't trying to take payments. Hell, still haven't given Amazon my phone number).
- junon 3y agoI agree with you, just was an observation about how things changed.
- omgmajk 3y agoYeah, I remember. I was born in the eighties. In my opinion this should still be a feature of the internet, remembering your username and password should be enough for a lot of things. Protection against bots can be achieved in any number of ways and there already exists ways to use temporary emails so I don't really get why most places still require you to use an email. Edit: I mean, I do get it, I just don't like it.
- roflyear 3y agoI am going to try and use lemmy, but it's tough giving up old content in Reddit. I guess we can start posting old content.
- SpaceManNabs 3y agoWhat are the differences? Who runs these instances? Is there any moderation, or is it just the messy wild west?
- ooterness 3y agoAn instance is a server. Server administrators set the policy for creating new user accounts and new communities. This is the equivalent of a Reddit admin. Since it's part of the Fediverse, a user on one instance/server can subscribe to a community on any federated instance, and make posts/comments/etc. You don't need a separate account on every instance. Communities are typically moderated by the user(s) who created them, much like moderators of a specific subreddit.
- 634636346 3y agoCan someone explain why all of these federated services are so left-wing? Don't these people have enough of the normie internet catering to them already?
- SpecialistK 3y agoIn Lemmy's case, it may be because the creators were banned from the left wing Reddit communities for genocide denial and promoting neonazi literature. It's a textbook case of horseshoe theory, and I won't go near that service with a 10 foot stick. By all accounts they seem to be awful people.
- bhouston 3y agoLeft leaning people are more open to new experiences and thus are often early technology adopters just like they are often early social practice early adopters. Citation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656619300455 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00926...
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- bbotond 3y agoA really nice instance that might be interesting to people here is http://programming.dev http://programming.dev
- volongoto 3y agoI think these instances that serve a "family" of topics has a great chance of shining within fediverse. I'm rooting for programming.dev to bring together the programming community.