• wreckingball4good@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    1 hour ago

    I left Reddit during APIGate and I tried lemme and it was full of racist nastiness so I closed my account and recently also left all meta apps and drasticallyreduced tiktok, and thought I might come check out how things are going and it’s nice and cozy here now, think I will stay. Been off of x for the better part of 3 years.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      35 minutes ago

      Oh damn, I too initially left reddit during the API BS, but I didn’t see any of that.

      What instance was that? (Was it one of the Tankie Triad?(Hexbear, Lemmygrad or Lemmy.ml?))

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    32 minutes ago

    I got sitewide banhammered from Reddit for my absent-minded use of the report button instead of using modmail

    Even though I was polite in the message Reddit claimed it was mod harassment

    It’s been over a week and they still haven’t responded to my appeal

    It won’t let me submit another appeal because it says I’ve already submitted one

    I’ve been on reddit for over 10 years, seems like an odd way to end it.

    I’ll have to admit though, Lemmy is pretty sweet. I even got Sync back!

  • Zlain@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    3 hours ago

    Just got here from Reddit. Haven’t officially left it, but the concept of the fediverse intrigued me and wanted to check it out

    • DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      Nothing new in particular. People are sick of power tripping mods. Also people that joined Reddit many years ago are sad to see it’s turned into something else in many ways. I’m brand new here, I am over Reddit as I just got banned for “threatening violence”. I appealed to no avail. I got angry regarding a post about an adult purposely running down a 12 year old. I expressed what I “would feel like doing” to that driver if he knocked one of my sons over on purpose. I didn’t actually threaten a real person, it was based on a hypothetical scenario. But no apparently that’s threatening violence. So yeah, I’m here.

  • Truupe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    11 hours ago

    Finally took the plunge out of curiosity and a desire to dump reddit at some point.

  • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
    7·
    8 hours ago

    It is the first time I see myself as a hiring manager. It’s not that displeasing though… Welcome everyone!

  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    34·
    12 hours ago

    If anyone’s wondering what you should do first, the first thing you should do is block hexbear, and the next thing you should do is join any instance other than lemmy.ml. lemmy.world is a good choice, but there’s probably one you’ll like better.

    If you want to know the most trans-friendly instance, it’s lemmy.blahaj.zone. There are people who will tell you it’s Hexbear. Those people are liars.

  • taermina@feddit.ukEnglish
    24·
    13 hours ago

    I saw a mention of Lemmy on a random thread in r/politics so I’m tentatively having a poke about, since I’ve already tried to quit Reddit once (for Tumblr - it didn’t stick). I remember forums pre centralised internet, is it something like that?

    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      A bit between a forum and reddit. You don’t have to sneak away to subreddit, just comment wherever and whenever. There’s usually some good interaction. Much smaller places than reddit and less monkeying with comments and votes and such.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      11 hours ago

      Think of it more like email addresses. Know how a Gmail account can send email to an iCloud account just fine, and both display the same content? Same basic concept. You can have [account]@domain1.com and [account]@domain2.com, and they’re entirely separate accounts. Even if they have the same username, they’re on different instances.

      Federation refers to how the instances share data with each other. One of the largest things to look for is what instances your instance federates with, because that will determine what kinds of users you end up interacting with.

      • taermina@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        9 hours ago

        Ahh, okay, so if I wanted to go just looking at a specific subject it might be better to make a second account and join another instance, and keep up two accounts?

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Most instances will federate with a pretty wide variety of other instances. There are a few big instances to watch out for, but for the most part the instance choice is primarily about which admin team you prefer. As long as your home instance federates with a server, you’ll be able to see it.

          In particular, watch out for Hexbear and the .ml instances. Those will be some of the more extreme and/or brigade-y. There have historically been issues with brigading from some of the more extreme instances. Even calling them extreme is a sort of contentious statement, and I’ll likely get a few “how dare you, fascist, tankie, TERF, etc” types of comments if they stumble across it.

          Aside from brigading, the most common reasons for defederation are related to legality (like maybe a certain instance allows porn that would be blocked in your home instance,) or unmoderated trolling. Trolling from new instances used to be a big problem, where an admin would make a server as a side project and leave it to stew. Trolls would make bot accounts on that fledgling instance, and use them to troll other instances. And since that small instance’s admin is just doing it as a side project, they’re not keeping active tabs on anything and the troll accounts are able to run rampant. Bans didn’t federate by default, so every single instance would need to individually ban the trolls.

          Also, one particular quirk of federation is that federated instances can act as a proxy for defederated instances. For instance, you’re on feddit.uk, which defederates from Threads. So you won’t see Threads content normally. But maybe another instance does allow Threads, and feddit.uk is federated with them. If a Threads user posts on that second instance, you’ll also be able to see it. Because even though your home instance blocks Threads, that second instance allows it and you see it by proxy.

        • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
          5·
          9 hours ago

          With an account at feddit.uk, it should be ok to navigated almost whatever community. The list of block instances is short and mostly block pedoporn.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMEnglish
      17·
      13 hours ago

      Yes, you can consider it like a web forum but with the default sort set to “new post” not “new comment” as is done on Reddit. This tends to favour new content over longer discussion, although you’ll get active threads like this quite often.

      And thank you for choosing feddit.uk, I hope you enjoy your time with us and if you have any other questions then fire away.

      • taermina@feddit.ukEnglish
        9·
        12 hours ago

        Ah, thank you! I downloaded an app first, since I primarily use my phone for everything and apps are just easier. I think the one I’m using is called Boost? It is less confusing than I was worried it might be :)

    • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
      8·
      12 hours ago

      Welcome! Great to see people choosing our instance :) Like Blaze said, feel free to ask any questions, it can be a bit overwheling at first!

  • Master@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    15 hours ago

    Id like to point out there are also some really good mobile apps for lemmy. I use sync for lemmy. Hopefully others will recommend there favorites. There are quite a few good ones!

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    133·
    22 hours ago

    I came from the first reddit exodus and it’s been great over here. You’ll get used to it in no time, I promise.

    • kittenzrulz123English
      12·
      14 hours ago

      Agreed, also if you’re not a Neoliberal I would stay away from World (or if you’re Queer, a minority, or someone who isnt comfortable with seeing bigotry).

    • tomatol@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      Oh don’t insult marxists leninists like that. I guess what you really mean is that those instances are for russia/china simps or nationalists. There’s nothing marxist about theur views.

    • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      Just recommend the biggest instance that isn’t federated with them. Anyone got a list?

      I do think it’s valuable to recommend the bigger instances. If they’re on a big instance, they don’t have to worry about federation at all at first. It takes no effort to slowly learn about federation, and later they have the option to move to a smaller instance.

      This lemmy.zip person didn’t have a good onboarding experience. @zombiegirl2010@lemmy.zip maybe?

      • Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        12 hours ago

        That’s actually me. I simply didn’t want to carry over that username but I guess I should claim it too. Lol

        Yeah, I originally joined Lemmy during the first Reddit exodus. Then, I squirreled and did not spend the necessary time to learn much about it. However, this go around I’m here and I’m serious about learning it and using Reddit much much less (in hopes to abandoning it eventually).

        Some folks helped me to find apps. I’m using Avelon and I really like it. It makes figuring Lemmy out MUCH EASIER than simply bookmarking.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        12 hours ago

        Sorted by “most active”, these are the ones I recommend:

        sh.itjust.works [Users 28,811 total; 2,465 / month]

        lemmy.ca [Users 8,604 total; 1,138 / month]

        sopuli.xyz [Users 4,967 total; 496 / month]

        infosec.pub [Users 4,240 total; 325 / month] (this also defeds lemmy.ml, which the ones above doesn’t do, but this is kinda small)

        Edit: Also, if someone make an account on a small instance and just search and subscribe to everything, then it would make sure the communities are synched. (someone please go do that)

        • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          There’s also this one, [Users 172,000 total; 27,400 / month]

          That’s going to be the smoothest experience for people who “don’t want to deal” with federation. They can always move later.

          In EVE Online we refer to this as the Brave Newbies area, the biggest, zergiest group where you don’t need to know what you’re doing. It functions as a training ground and feeder group for the more elite groups.

    • Draces@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      19 hours ago

      Wanted to say this too. It’s Lemmy’s biggest problem and keeps putting me off. I don’t recommend Lemmy to people in person anymore because of them. I don’t know if I would be more disturbed if they’re mostly state actors astroturfing or just deeply unwell real people