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Just checking the place out after not being able to stand Reddit and its policies anymore. Their policing of Luigi posts was the last straw for me. Going public ruins companies.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Don't forget, there's https://lemmyverse.net/communities to help find communities across all Lemmy instances. You can set your home instance to lemmy.world and then click through to the subs you want to subscribe to. 👌🤗

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Going straight to shitpost is certainly a choice, welcome anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm glad you knew exactly the community to turn to first 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Welcome to Lemmy,I hope you like this place!

I use the Android app Raccoon it looks nice + feature packed, On IOS you can use Mlem and Echo(Proprietary)

If you can you may also choose to spin up your own instance.

I got tired of The Toxic Redditors which what made me leave in about September 2023 and the companies weird and awful decisions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Their policing of Luigi posts was the last straw for me.

Meanwhile on lemmy

Welcome!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Welcome! Always happy to see new faces showing up.

This place is significantly smaller than Reddit, and also significantly more spread out. It grows on you, but it's important to look beyond the similarities between how lemmy.world and Reddit look. Under the hood, these are very different spaces.

"Lemmy" is actually a large network of independently operated Lemmy-based (or not... more on that later) websites. Each website has their own rules, and their own "communities" (AKA sublemmies, magazines, groups, etc.). You're using one of, if not the, largest website in the network, and the one that is probably most Reddit-like (pre-IPO) in terms of rules and policies. It's a general purpose content aggregator.

There are quite a few other medium-to-large general purpose content aggregator sites on the network. lemm.ee comes to mind, as does sh.itjust.works. And, of course, lemmy.ca, which is where I'm commenting from. Each of these websites has its own communities, and houses mirrors of remote communities that their users have subscribed to. Remote communities with local subscribers synchronize with the host website every so often (it can be quite frequently, but usually isn't instantaneously). This makes the whole thing kind of like being on a web forum, but being able to follow topics from other web forums.

As you can imagine, this means there are some niche websites on the network. ttrpg.network is dedicated to table top gaming; startrek.website is focused on... I don't know, some tv show or something; programming.dev hosts a bunch of communities focused on software engineering; lemmy.kde.social is focused on the KDE desktop environment for linux. These are often low-population sites, but they can see a lot of off-site engagement. Focused sites like that are great sites to use if your primary interest is the topic at hand; it really makes the Local feed super valuable.

If you remember that we're not all using the same website, and that the different websites are, in fact, different websites, with their own rules, cultures, and norms, it helps grok the space a lot more. It also makes it easier to understand why there might be 8 different politics communities, and that c/politics on lemmy.world might be very different, both in terms of who is posting there, and also what they're interested in discussing, from c/politics on lemmy.ca, or on aussie.zone.

Now, one thing that's not obvious from lemmy.world (or any Lemmy-based website, really), is that not every website you have access to here is actually running Lemmy. kbin.earth and rimworld.gallery both run mbin, which is a different content aggregation webserver. community.nodebb.org runs nodebb, a web forum server.

People have access to Lemmy communities from an even wider range of website types. Users from Mastodon-based websites, Friendica-based websites, Hubzilla-based websites, and probably quite a few more.

We're all on different websites. Some of those websites are significantly more different than others. That shapes this space in ways we haven't even begun to truly explore yet. And it adds a little jank.

But the jank is worth it, as far as I'm concerned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

here's a tip:

  • subscribe to communities, then browse by "subscribed" and "new"
  • when you run out of new posts on your subscribed communities, browse by "all" and "new", and look for more communities to subscribe to
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Welcome to Lemmy! I'm glad you joined. There are tons of tutorials out there for how to use the platform, but if it helps, here's my advice:

I use the Android app Sync For Lemmy. Reminds me a lot of rif is fun from before Reddit shut down 3rd party API access about a year ago.

Lemmy.World is the name of the biggest instance on Lemmy. Think of it as a discord channel with different sub-channels except those are called communities here (and instead of r/ for subreddits we have c/ for communities).

There are still trolls here. What's nice about Lemmy is that you can block individual trolls, communities of trolls, or even instances of trolls (if you deem them so). Conversely, if you get banned from any of the above, you can make a new account on any other instance (like dbzer0 or shitjustworks) and still have access to the content from those people/places. The same is true if certain communities/instances change their policies on things like Luigi, which happened on Lemmy.World recently. I switched over to dbzer0 to avoid that censorship and to also see stuff about pirating - that which is banned on Lemmy.World.

Lastly, we can see posts/comments from other people on the Fediverse, like from Mastodon (Twitter alternative) and others.

Hope you enjoy your stay here! Lemmy is primarily tech- and politics-focused rn, but a lot of people draw parallels to Reddit's early days, which is good!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do you do this? I was not aware this was possible

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What i meant to ask is if i need to do anything special to see posts from mastodon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

No I think they just show up randomly. You'll have to look out for Lemmy posts to see if anyone from Mastodon comments. Next to their name is their instance, so if I were on Mastodon, my username would be something like: [email protected] or something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Check out the booty (no not that booty, treasure!)

[email protected] (blocked by lemmy.world instance)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

But also check out the booty

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've been here about a year now. Good times. Your voice counts on lemmy in a way it really really doesn't on reddit. People will engage with you because you're human and say human things. It's much more welcoming for people who like to talk somehow than reddit ever was. Don't know why.

By the way, people talk a lot about how lemmy.world censors luigi, but I use lemmy.world and see, upvote and sometimes comment on plenty of luigi stuff without mod intervention. Maybe it's just one of two communities (subreddits) where it's enforced.

If you're a communist and don't like to hear China (or sometimes for some weird reason Russia) criticised, and if you feel that the USA is the Imperialist power that needs to be broken first, you'll feel most at home in lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, but also lemmy.ml if you want to keep access to stuff from lemmy.world.

If you're progressive or liberal, you'll be fairly happy here on lemmy.world. If you're a conservative, I don't know where to recommend you.

There are various country specific ones you might find suit you for other reasons.

All in all I'm not sure it matters a great deal as much as it sounds in my post. People from different instances turn up and say stuff anyway.

The best advice is that you don't have to lurk as much as you used to on reddit, you can show up and engage and the conversation will start around you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

or join the dark side like me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thank you! This is actually quite helpful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Also for radical leftists who happily criticise Russia and China (anarchists), servers you might enjoy are: lemmy.dbzer0.com and slrpnk.net

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

There’s also no rule or technical limitation that prevents you from joining several different instances, with the same (or different) username.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If your experience is like mine when I ditched reddit, it’ll take a few months for the learned defensiveness and self-editing to wear off. People seem more mature here (except for our sense of humor) and I’ve found less trolling and sealioning.

The interface quality is down, but the quality of content is way, way up. It more than makes up the difference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I’d say people are very defensive and aggressive still but the filters and blocking helps me a lot. Though I’ve been sassy I do want to try to make a better nicer place

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Welcome!

You may already have it handled but just in case here's a post with some resources to help you find communities and migrate from reddit. I hope you find Lemmy more to your liking!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

what about https://lemmyverse.net/ ! (I see your post did mention it 😁, serves me right for skimming your post)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only issue you might find with signing up for world is you can't get db0's piracy communities. I've been too lazy to switch since coming from kbin though myself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

FYI - the admin of the instance you signed up for also censored similar posts

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Was it the admin of the instance or an individual mod? I'm still trying to figure out the policies of each instance versus its communities. I mod a few communities on .world and have never had any admin come in and do anything there.

I'm not sure it's good to condemn all of .world if it's just a few mods doing this, especially since .ml is one of the main alternatives and thousands of times worse, removing anything remotely critical of China or Russia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was the admin, not some mod. They even said jury nullification posts were prohibited. It was all announced in an admin post.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Interesting. Any idea where to find the admin posts?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Btw, Lemmy.world also censors Luigi posts. I would switch to ML or mine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Dbzer0, good. ML, bad. Their admins are trigger happy with instance-wide bans against users who criticize them or argue with them directly about their beliefs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Did not know! I did choose DB0 for its more anarchist rules

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“I don’t like censorship, you should check out ML”

Troll or least aware fediverse user?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I meant it as better than lemmy.world in censoring in a neolib bias and thinking it’s not hexbear or lemmygrad. I have less bad experience with ML, so I guess least aware user lol ;)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

From my experience as an anarchist user who ended up volunteering to moderate in these spaces, most of the censorship happens when people are either being racist or aggro/sealioning. While users definitely tend to be more positive when it comes to China in places like hexbear than in more heavily pro-west spaces they are still critical of its shortcomings.

An example here: >80 up voted post with one of the highest comments criticizing the poor standard of care for trans youth in China

Here's a thread criticizing Russia for being a cringe misogynist capitalist oligarchy and lamenting that the progress for women's rights and LGBT rights that happened under communism wasn't preserved. Again it's a positive orientation because they are opposed to the west but also one of deep disappointment in their failures on social issues.

To me at least this type of commentary is a valuable perspective and is also stuff which often gets filtered entirely under the more advertiser-friendly moderation styles.

At the end of the day I value being able to at least hear dissent, I'm surrounded by the mainstream narrative in my daily life already anyways.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sorry but unfortunately it’s two sides of the same coin, at least from my experience.

I’m shitting on US and Western imperialism and their love for the Gaza genocide day in day out, had no problem to call the old senile fuck Genocide Joe and I argued against everyone who shilled for Kamala or the “lesser evil“ thing.

I got a lot of hatred for the latter part on .world and I often disagree with their liberal views. I criticized liberal media for fabricating certain narratives and some users thought I’m some MAGA brain damaged idiot. Some users really aren’t the smartest or at least very much stuck in their bi-partisan world view.

Anyway so now that you know all of this about me, I’m also criticizing Chinese and Russian imperialism + genocide the same way. I got banned after like 1 comment on .ml for that and they said it’s for “racism“.

I honestly don’t see any difference, it’s just that .world and .ml users picked different teams. And I got banned faster in .ml lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

the Winnie the Pooh comments are racist though, it's not hard to have substantive critiques of China without constantly falling back on trying to equate the president with a yellow cartoon animal (or in your case, calling a moderator that). We don't have to get into it, but they almost always hand out temp bans for that. For example yours is already expired.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah I love the modlog, convenient that I can see again what happened.

The whole Winnie thing became forbidden in China partly because the meme went super viral on Weibo and they didn’t want people in China to ridicule the supreme leader. Ban me for trolling the mod by equating them to Xi Jinping, I’m fine with that. I will think you should have a thicker skin but whatever. Using racism as a reason to ban me in this context is just censorship.

To provide the context for those too lazy to check the modlog, the comment I’m answering to is straight genocide denial. The Uyghurs are being held in concentration camps, sterilized and their language, religion, and heritage are being wiped out and .ml mods are denying that because it doesn’t fit in their world view.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm aware of where the meme came from, personally I think it's bad taste to be yapping about uyghurs in a thread about the Gaza genocide.

If people were gleefully calling Obama "Tigger" after that, and constantly doing that instead of having a real argument or something to say I think that would start resulting in bans for racism too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They can call Obama a piece of shit as far as I’m concerned.

The mod was kinda right to remove the comment before that because that user is some Hasbara shill and was mentioning the Uyghurs as a deflection.

My issue isn’t with that, my issue is with the formulation “the Uyghur genocide narrative“. That’s literally the same shit that liberal media is saying about Gaza. So that’s what I mean, I’ll always be “yapping“ about the Uyghur genocide the same way I’m “yapping“ about the Ukraine & Gaza genocide. I don’t care who does it, it’s wrong.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They can call Obama a piece of shit as far as I’m concerned.

The issue is the application of a thinly veiled racist caricature though. Call Xi a dictator, piece of shit, whatever, but evidence it and don't rely on racist tropes and I doubt you will catch a ban for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Meh it’s fine, the mods can insist that it’s racist and they can insist there’s no genocide happening in Xinjiang, and I won’t be there to argue with them. My ban may be expired but I won’t be back. I’ll keep calling them out on other instances tho, and even though the lemmy dev are tankies themselves I respect them for making such a concept possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You might want to check the modlogs, bud. .ml HEAVILY censors posts and comments to the point that the admin will override mods and remove posts and comments that don’t even break rules.

.world just doesn’t allow people to promote and encourage violence. Maybe learn the difference.

And while you’re at it, how about you scroll through .world and take note of the shit-tons of edgy Luigi memes posted. They’re everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

dont forget to checkout mbin. its slightly less fugly than lemmy with access to all the same content/functionality and more.

ex. https://moist.catsweat.com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's quite the url