• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    73·
    16 days ago

    You can actually participate in discussions. On the popular Reddit subs, you click a thread and there are 9000+ replies already. No matter how insightful your post, no one’s gone see it.

        • Sneezycat@sopuli.xyz
          19·
          16 days ago

          I, for one, welcome our overlords to train their AIs on one of the most left-leaning, anti-corporate and LGBT+ friendly spaces on the internet.

          If the revolution the communists talk about ever comes, it’ll be with the help of our AI comrades /hj

          (I don’t want them using us as training data but it’s going to happen whether we like it or not)

            • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
              22·
              16 days ago

              LLeMmy be like:

              • [Prompt] Please give me a recipe using leeks.
              • [Output] Season some rich people with salt, pepper, wilted onions and leeks. Eat the rich with some creamy polenta.
                • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
                  10·
                  15 days ago

                  …might as well share my chicken, rice and leeks soup recipe. You won’t be eating the rich, but I’m often preparing this stuff when my family gets sick.

                  Ingredients:

                  • 300g chicken thighs and legs; separate the bones but don’t discard them, dice the meat
                  • 1/3 cup of rice
                  • 2 leeks; wash them, separate the green leaves, chop the white part thinly
                  • 2 carrots, peeled, grated
                  • 1/2 onion, peeled, diced small
                  • 1 clove of garlic, peeled, minced
                  • a piece of ginger roughly the same size as the above, peeled, minced
                  • 1L or so of water
                  • 1 teaspoon of vinegar
                  • salt, black pepper
                  • some veg oil (just a wee bit)
                  1. Get a large pot. Add the veg oil, turn the fire to high, and use it to brown the chicken bones.
                  2. Add garlic and ginger. Count to 10, then add the green part of the leeks (not the white!), water, vinegar, salt and pepper. Simmer it on low fire. This takes a while (like, 1h or so), but it’s worth the time, just leave the pot doing its magic.
                  3. When the bones are coming off clean, discard the bones and the green part of the leeks. They already did their job, to flavour the broth.
                  4. Now add the chicken meat that you’ve diced. Check if the broth needs more salt and/or pepper, adjust them as necessary. Keep cooking it under low fire until the meat is almost good to go. It shouldn’t take long, I think 20min? Not sure.
                  5. Add rice. Keep cooking.
                  6. When the rice is halfway cooked (like, 10min? it depends on the rice), add the onion, carrots, and white part of the leeks. Once the rice finishes cooking the vegs are probably good to go too, so serve it immediately with some bread.
        • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
          3·
          16 days ago

          Nothing exactly. But that’s okay, because the fediverse data is available to all, which makes it worthless, monetarily speaking. Nobody will sell your data to anyone. Any AI company could use the data to train their models, but they wouldn’t be able to sell those models since they wouldn’t be any better than an open source model. The fediverse levels the playing field and doesn’t allow the situation where Google pays reddit for AI training data.

            • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
              3·
              16 days ago

              Then they earn stuff on their services, not the model. Why should they harvest fediverse data? And so what if they do? Anyone can do that.

              • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                16 days ago

                I’m just refuting your point that the data is worthless because anyone can train AI on it. It’s not worthless because although anyone can train their model on it, most companies would rather purchase the services from specialists, so all training data has value.

    • hungryphrog
      16·
      16 days ago

      Also less circlejerking and “that’s what she said”/“I also choose this guy’s dead wife”.

      • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
        13·
        16 days ago

        Timing is everything. I once had “most upvoted post of the day” and like 20K karma from a stupid joke that was a reply to the first top-level comment on a default sub. The only reason that happened was because it got into “rising” exactly as the US users started waking up and opening the site.

        I could’ve posted the exact same comment on any other post in that thread or even the same one but at a different time, and no one would’ve seen it.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
          5·
          16 days ago

          That’s very true. Timing IS everything. Its probably the most important part of getting high voted comments.

  • Nemo Wuming@lemmy.world
    59·
    16 days ago

    I was using my phone to access Reddit through an app called RIF. It stopped working.

    I can access Lemmy on my phone through an app called Boost. When I revisit a thread, it displays the new comments in a different color. Very very very convenient for active threads.

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
      23·
      16 days ago

      I used Boost for Reddit, and now Boost for Lemmy.

      It’s incredible how much the app is part of the experience. Same experience, completely different data source, it mostly just feels like early Reddit again, with niche subs of mere hundreds of people.

      People are on average nicer here. Few loud nutjobs but overall I have mostly pleasant discussions.

    • Barking@lemmy.world
      5·
      16 days ago

      Am the same, Boost fan. I still lurk too much, but really enjoy the conversations.

      Okay, back to lurking for me, run out of things to say.

  • ABCDE@lemmy.world
    46·
    16 days ago

    I recognise usernames, so it feels like conversations between people are happening rather than just throwing stuff out there for it to be ignored.

    • plactagonic@sopuli.xyz
      16·
      16 days ago

      Other thing is there are small communities with 1-2 mods so you know them and they aren’t usually “the superuser” that mods 10 different communities.

      I don’t say there are none of them, just that it is usually small and you recognize the mod that just steer his small community.

      • DMBFFF@lemmy.world
        4·
        16 days ago

        When I joined reddit, it was at least a year—probably 3 years—before I was banned from a subreddit—r/AskReddit. I’ve been here little more than a year and I’ve not only been banned from a notable community here, but when I asked to be unbanned—once, then letting perhaps a few weeks pass, then twice—I got no reply.

        ​

        (and I’m not going to ask a 3rd time, but will simply create a [community-I-was-banned-from]2.)

  • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
    40·
    15 days ago

    honestly, I always feel so much more part of the conversation here. on Reddit, unless you time it just right and browse young posts, chances are your comment will never be seen. on here you’ll be one of 50 top level comments at most. and that’s only the biggest threads. it would be nice to see more activity on more threads, but often when i comment on something with no comments it’s enough to start the conversation.

    almost none of my comments here get ignored, and the conversations that come out of them feel better. unless it’s about Linux. you people are insane and unapproachable when it comes to operating systems. not because you’re wrong, you’re just… a lot.

  • m_f@midwest.socialEnglish
    36·
    16 days ago

    mods can suck, admins can suck, but you can go off and start your own instance, with blackjack and hookers.

    I also like that I can see that someone is posting from hexbear, and I can disregard their comment. It saves time.

    • Interstellar_1OP
      9·
      16 days ago

      Yeah the instancing makes malicious users much harder to come by, and easy to hide for sure.

    • Chaos@lemmy.ml
      7·
      16 days ago

      Same reason I joined here, plus most users on Reddit are just bots at least in here you can tell who’s a bot and who’s real and you can tell which comments to agree or disagree with and which to ignore based on the instance lol, it’s way easier and friendlier here tbh I was banned for violent comments on Reddit mainly because the hive mind there are mostly removed but in here I can say Fuck Reddit, it was good once before the coronavirus now it’s just a piece of shit.

  • Interstellar_1OP
    33·
    16 days ago

    Commenting on a post doesn’t feel like yelling into a void, comments are more than a number here. Also people are always trying to be helpful, which is so nice compared to reddit.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    26·
    16 days ago

    I love the whole premise, brought by the ActivityPub protocol, that no individual or group has full control of the whole.

    It isn’t like nobody wants to become Lemmy’s Spez. Plenty people do; they simply can’t.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    26·
    16 days ago

    By the users, for the users. Almost all they instance admins are just like everyone else. We just know some it infrastructure.

  • hungryphrog
    23·
    16 days ago

    One thing I love here is how I can disagree with someone and still have a civil discussion. It feels weirldy amazing to reach a consensus instead of just getting stuck in a cycle of unrelated personal insults. Sure, shitheads like that do still exist here, but I don’t remember ever having a civil disagreement/argument on Reddit.

    I also feel that I’ve embraced the practice of blocking & moving on a lot more after I moved here, and tried my best to be more constructive.

    • batshit@lemmings.world
      7·
      16 days ago

      In general, people are more willing to call out misinformation and present nuanced takes. I much prefer that. Reddit has recently become a cesspit of ragebait and misinformation.

  • Lupec@lemm.ee
    22·
    16 days ago

    I know it’s arguably part of why it’s intimidating to your average newcomer but I adore that it’s mostly nerdy techies lol. I’m so used to dropping something vaguely technical and being met with the online equivalent of blank stares so people being willing and able to engage with that sort of thing is super nice!

    • shish_mish@lemmy.world
      29·
      16 days ago

      I don’t think it is only techy nerds, I am a granny and much prefer Lemmy. I no longer feel nervous when posting here at all as people are polite and are actually interested in discussion rather than simply arguing. And the premise that there can never be only one person in control is refreshing.

      • Lupec@lemm.ee
        11·
        16 days ago

        Oh I don’t think it’s all techies, but they definitely make up a good chunk of the userbase. Hard agree on it feeling more chill too, I’d been kinda afraid to comment anything on reddit before I left.