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As long as it doesn’t become Reddit 2.0.
It will if Lemmy becomes successful. It will have to stay tiny and very niche. Or else all communities have to deal with Eternal September if they start getting a lot of users. Then communities will gravitate towards the same lowest common denominator content and comments seen elsewhere.
Nah, that’s the whole point of federation. To keep it from becoming Reddit. The problem with Reddit isn’t that it’s big, it’s that it’s highly censored on a wide variety of topics that aren’t anywhere near offensive but simply counter to Western hegemony.
It won’t. Some instances will get close, like Lemmy.world, but federation makes Lemmy fundamentally different.
What’s a “green server”?
I’d assumed it was servers running on renewable power, although I’m not sure how they measure that. I know some hosting companies and CDNs have that as an option, but I don’t see how you’d know if each server chose that option so I guess it’s more like “servers with green hosting companies”.
Still hang around both. But I’ve noticed I’ve had more to engage with on Lemmy lately, which is great.
Beside what is said, sometimes Lemmy appears in search results. It’s a factor of growth.
No way really? That would be great. Can the Google crawlers reach Lemmy ? I always wondered
There was a post about it. And, I get Lemmy as result in my Google search multiple times.
I converted 3 friends. I’m doing my part.gif
My friends seem to prefer tolerating the official Reddit app because “there is more on Reddit”. I’d rather have less for the time being and not lose my mind with that POS app not to mention fuck Reddit for what they did to 3rd party devs and users alike with that API change.
I refused to install the Reddit app out of principle other than just to check it out one time out of morbid curiosity. Without the 3rd party app creators that made apps long before Reddit did, back when Reddit wouldn’t, Reddit probably wouldn’t be anywhere as big as they are today. They brought new users in that likely wouldn’t have used Reddit anywhere except on a mobile device and certainly not in a browser when even retail stores had their own apps.
When my 3rd party app (Boost) officially stopped working the other day I officially stopped being a Reddit user in the process. Not doing another hacky workaround to make the app work again. Time to make Lemmy my new social/forum and ditch Reddit except for when I need to do a Google search because Reddit is still a great archive of knowledge.
You’re not wrong. I do have the app because the mobile site shits on my browser (I have anti tracking, cookie blocking, ad wiping defences), and there are a few niche communities I find important that stick around (and r/sysadmin, while not exactly niche, is really useful for me)
Given the tech-oriented nature of Lemmy users, I’m surprised r/sysadmin doesn’t have a Lemmy equivalent yet.
probably because reddit just broke the api clients again (including their own app).
This is fucking hilarious.
The entire time since that announcement last year dropped I have been using the modified Infinity for Reddit client that has my own API code in it.
I told myself if that stops working, whatever, I will not try to keep the app up to date and I will not switch apps. Lemmy works well enough for me now.
Up to this day the few times I have been accessing reddit through it I have no issues whatsoever. Amazing. Then again I never tried while they had issues with their official app, I suppose. Unless that is right now as I type this, because right now my app is still working fine.
Yes, I just noticed that on !boostforlemmy@lemmy.world
They are also using automation to review comments that might harm their advertising partners. After 15 year a joke about Boeing got my account suspended. I deleted my top comments and closed it after that. Fucking trash. Now I only got to the site if Google search takes me there and with ad block enabled. Spez can suck it.
There’s an adage about fixating on popularity as a measure of worth.
I’ve found I’ve been blocked on world news for posting comments againts fascist ideas. I’ve been shadow banned from world news for posting comprehensive evidence of china’s crimes against humans aka their concentration camps. It wasn’t opinion i linked to studies, and it wasn’t inflammatory. My comments were removed and now i can’t like or comment.
It’s really disturbing ngl. I mean reddit was trash too but i expected some freedom of information here.
I linked to a lot of other studies im a separate comment too share that if we’re being transparent
There have been many times I’ve been blocked by subreddits just for posting an opinion that the moderators disagreed with. Moderators have way too much control over the website.
At least modlogs are public, so people can call them out about it
Not really any different on lemmy, sadly
For reference:
He linked https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
That’s not allowed on lemmy.ml
New person here. What isn’t allowed on Lemmy.ml? The linking of wikipedia?
Anything that speaks poorly of China, especially Wikipedia.
How did Lemmy.ml become the dominant userbase with those policies?
Lemmy.world is bigger, but Lemmy.ml.is the developers’ instance, and gets the newest versions of Lemmy first.
It’s also the oldest instance, I believe.
Why don’t you post my other comment that linked to several other studies? Is itbecause it makes you look like a supporter of human rights abuse?
Yes? Thought so.
Why are you attacking somebody who’s backing you up? Sheesh
Yeah i misunderstood. My bad
What? If you have context, let us know. I just posted what I found on the modlog over there.
Oh sry i thought you were the admin justifying your censorship. I apologise.
So my other comment was just straight up deleted?
Use a porn/incognito window to go to https://lemmy.ml/c/worldnews click modlog and search for your name.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !worldnews@lemmy.ml
Lemmy.ml and world news, name a more iconic duo
Kind of sad how many communities are on .ml. Would like to block the entire server but lose too much content.
A new post has been created about this issue: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417
I guess we’ll start people moving from that instance more and more as time passes
I love how they assume im a he. Says it all really.
Was it the .ml or the .world instance? I had comments deleted for “misinformation” on .ml. It’s why I migrated away from .ml because it was only a matter of time before my account was banned.
it was.ML yes .
That makes sense there. A lot of marxist leninist crazies there.
.ml is run by tankies. There’s no freedom of ideas or speech on that server.
I understand that now
You’ll probably be happier at !world@lemmy.world instead.
I generally avoid communities on lemmy.ml where there are options elsewhere.
Yeah, I just blocked the .ml worldnews community. It isn’t worth the effort trying to discuss politics with them. The .world instance has been fine for me so far.
Already mentioned below, but for better visibility: !world@lemmy.world has better moderation.
I just found out Lemmy is blocking and removing users for having varied political opinions that don’t line up with their forceful left ideals. So I’m out. This was a waste of time.
What Lemmy? Lemmy is not a central authority.
Couldn’t you just move to another lemmy instance? or host your own?
Can you say where you got this idea? I see a lot of conservative opinions considering the entire idea behind this platform was conceived and executed by far-leftists.
SeveralAnts is upset that eight copy-paste comments of theirs were removed by a mod from one comment section on !worldnews, each containing the exact same misinformation which implied that Mexican drug cartels had 37 presidential candidates assassinated in order to leave one lone candidate, a Jewish leftist scientist, as the cartels’ preferred candidate. This is a lie. While a few dozen Mexican politicians have been assassinated this election cycle, none of them were presidential candidates.
What SeveralAnts is upset about is that their attempts at spreading lies in order to promote their anti-leftist agenda failed. To that, I say to them good fucking riddance. Go back to Twixxer.
Switch instances?
Would it be much better do you think? I’ve heard others are worse, but I am not sure of them all. I can look into it. I just want people to be able to have open, civil conversations without being silenced by biased mods.
If you have an issue with a given community, find or start an alternative one on another instance. If you have an issue with how your instance deals with anyone, sign up for a different instance.
I urge you to consider this before giving up on Lemmy entirely, it’s kind of the beauty of the federated services.
Agreed, there are lots of instances, and that may be one thing that allows Lemmy to actually have space for different political leanings. As I understand, conservative circles are not very large here, but that can change, and smaller communities generally are healthier. Check those out and recruit your pals- be the change you want to see in the world!
This is true but I’ve found I’ve been blocked on world news for posting comments againts fascist ideas. I’ve been shadow banned from world news for posting comprehensive evidence of china’s crimes against humans aka their concentration camps. It wasn’t opinion i linked to studies, and it wasn’t inflammatory. My comments were removed and now i can’t like or comment.
It’s really disturbing ngl.
Your situation is different from that of the person to whom you are replying. SeveralAnts is upset that eight copy-paste comments of theirs were removed by a mod from one comment section on !worldnews, each containing the exact same misinformation which implied that Mexican drug cartels had 37 presidential candidates assassinated in order to leave one lone candidate, a Jewish leftist scientist, as the cartels’ preferred candidate. This is a lie. While a few dozen Mexican politicians have been assassinated this election cycle, none of them were presidential candidates.
What SeveralAnts is upset about is that their attempts at spreading lies in order to promote their anti-leftist agenda failed. To that, I say good fucking riddance. Go back to Twixxer.
Interesting – me too. OP misunderstood you and thought you’re a conservative. lol
Thank you so much for commenting this. I thought I was going crazy. World News seems to be the culprit. It isn’t fair to the users to deny information. I think I’m going to leave, it is too disturbing. I don’t need this.
Yeah i just blocked that community, but really shit we have dickheads like this ruining lemmy with arbitrary censorship.
Really no different than Reddit in that regard. At least we have people automatically banning you for having ever interacted with specific other communities yet, at least I don’t think we do yet.
I would suggest rather than entirely leaving the Threadiverse, just leaving that community and joining the !world@lemmy.world community.
Lemmy will achieve infinite growth. Invest now.
Hi I’m new here. My friend has been trying to get me in for ages. The reason I am here is because my Reddit account of 10 years and one of 3 years got permabanned. And it was really for no reason. I tried to make a new account and that also got instantly permabanned. That’s when I found out that my 10year account also got banned. So yeah fuck what happened on Reddit.
I’m really liking lemmy and my iOS app (mlem) and enjoying the community. The only thing I miss from Reddit is the video integration.
Sup J ;)
Welcome!
There are a few GitHub issues on the Lemmy repo to integrate video support:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2318
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2249Welcome! Hopefully you know about Lemmy Explorer, I’ve found it very useful in finding communities of interest to me.
What I don’t miss from reddit is the bot comments. Not the novelty bots that reply if your comment is in alphabetical order or something like that, but actual chat gpt responses to regular posts or comments.
I have no idea what the point of them is, but they’re awful.
Running such a bot with an intentionally underpowered language model that has been trained to mimic a specific Reddit subculture is good clean absurdist parody comedy fun if done up-front and in the open on a sub that allows it, such as r/subsimgpt2interactive, the version of r/subsimulatorgpt2 that is open to user participation.
But yeah, fuck those ChatGPT bots. I recently posted on r/AITAH and the only response I got was obviously from a large language model… it was infuriating.
First rule of AITAH:
If the story isn’t completely made up, no one will believe it’s true.
They’ll sooner or later appear here too, that’s sadly a reality all social media will suffer from now on. No filter can detect AI replies for long.
Do you think users, moderators, and admins on Lemmy could be more equipped (or at least more incentivized) to combat malicious bots compared to Reddit?
Those were getting so out of hand.
u/OP: “What’s a good mouse for a mix of productivity and gaming”
u/DefinitelyNotABot: “A good mouse for a mix of productivity and gaming is something you should be looking for if you need a mouse that is good for work and play. A good mouse for productivity and gaming will have a good balance of performance and features. Fortunately, finding a good mouse for a mix of productivity and gaming is not difficult due there being plenty of mouse options available to you[…]”
What’s the point of those types of bots, though? I guess they’re just trying to have vaguely genuine looking accounts to use for some future purpose, maybe political or advertising related.
My best guess is karma farming so they can sell them off. Probably create hundreds of accounts they can sell off. If some brand buys an account that looks reputable for $20-$100 to use it for astroturfing then that’s a pretty good deal for both sides. Shitty deal for everyone else.
That and building convincing personas for propaganda and PR. An account agreeing with pro corporate policies is more convincing if it has a long post history.
That’s wild, I’ve said so much zeisty stuff with my account but it’s still not banned.
What I said wasn’t zesty at all. The only thing I can think of is someone went to all my comments and reported me. I’ve been temp banned from communities before but never banned from Reddit and would never expect to get permanently banned from Reddit the site along with my other Reddit accounts.
Welcome!
I would like to see a participation per capita breakdown. IOW who posts the most per person relative to the number of participants.
I think we are now in a positive cycle:
- More and more useful comments are posted,
- Which means more people get interested,
- which attracts more and more people to the platform
- That increases the quality and quantity of posts/comments/etc.
- etc.
Hey, ya get what ya pay for. Pay a little money, get a little quality. Pay a LOT of money, get a LOT of quality.
Well, I didn’t get paid ANYTHING to be here, so you can imagine the quality of MY posts!
Hey, why did the poop walk into the poop?
To poop to the other poop! :D
See? Just zero quality…
This is fun but partially incorrect; yes, more money is better quality, however zero money means infinite quality. Prove me wrong, exhibit A is “the other site”.
It’s beans worthy quality content.
I’ve been spending my time both here and on Reddit recently, and I’ve honestly been enjoying it more here. Though I mostly lurk.
The enshittification will make the numbers rise eventually
