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Kick your feet up and drop a shitpost off at [email protected], meme in [email protected] or chill with the cats of [email protected]
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ETA Context: https://lemmy.world/post/24558150
For new people
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?
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.
Lemmy.world sure seems full of the "Reddit Mod" types that killed reddit, but there are other options in the verse.
I see your point, but it wasn't really the reddit mods that killed reddit, it was the admins selling out to corporate greed
Admins are the main culprits, but mods removing posts organizing migration to Lemmy also have a share of responsibility in the situation.
Agreed. I highly recommend choosing a different instance for your account.
The mods on [email protected] and other communities routinely ban posters that don’t violate the rules, just because they don’t like their political opinion.
See [email protected] for some discussion around mods‘ abuse of power.
Careful not to step in the Tankies on your way in.
If anyone is looking for an unpopularopinion sub here, check out opinionhavers which I'm trying to get going.
There is also this one but mods took it offline for a while to protest something or other, so I figure it's good to have alternatives. The mod drama over there if you care.
We've definitely seen an upswing in registrations this week, we usually have 1 a day and we are already on 8 today.
what did the greedy little pigboy do this time?
An article titled "Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy" hit the front page of r/technology and the top comment mentioned lemmy as a reddit alternative. Although the comment was removed when the OP later edited it to include a direct link to join-lemmy.org. Which probably indicates those mods have automod configured to automatically remove links to that site. But the good news is, it still got a lot of attention. It'll be interesting to see if any instance admins will be able to verify an uptick in account registrations over the next few days.