• TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    2 months 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.

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 months 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!

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Yeah I left reddit when the API thing stopped me using sync. It was the final straw. Like you, I’d been involved for over ten years, but sometimes you gotta move on. I missed some subs, and Lemmy is definitely less active - but I waste less time here than I did on reddit and that’s a bonus.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        The biggest thing I miss from Reddit is how up to date the news on the front page was. Having said that, they changed the algorithm and it’s been dogshit for years anyway. I dont miss Reddit at all, been here for over a year.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Every trivial and throughless ban like that, creates another exile who becomes a regular on lemmy. This is a one-way street usually

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I got banned for speaking out about Israel’s crimes and saying Netenyahu and his cabinet need to be hanged for their crimes.

      Since I am here, I will say that a trial is unnecessary.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      61·
      2 months ago

      Welcome aboard! I see you signed up to LW, here the worst of the “Tankie Triad” has been defederated from (hexbear and lemmygrad) though lemmy.ml is still fed’d so beware.

      • blind3rdeye@lemm.eeEnglish
        53·
        2 months ago

        Is that seriously how you greet new people? Literally the first thing you are saying is about sowing division. “Watch out for the boggieman instance!” How about you just give it a rest.

        • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Yea, I would do the same IRL to tell people visiting my city for the first time about the “bad parts of town” just the same

          It’s disingenuous otherwise to hide such info

  • Zlain@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    2 months 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

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Welcome! I hope you have fun here!

      For me I dropped Reddit fully when I realized it was going down more than lemmy.world ever did lol

      • Zlain@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Thanks! What are the least political meme communities I can join? Politics has seeped into just about every subreddit and I need a break. I see in “all” here that there’s also a lot of politics around here in the meme instances

  • wreckingball4good@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    2 months 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.

  • Truupe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

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

  • Taewyth@jlai.luEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    Just got a nearly 10 year old Reddit account permabanned because someone I share my computer with commented on a sub that banned me.

    The admins didn’t even have a look at my first appeal, sending an automatic message instead and won’t have a look at any further appeal, so here I am.

    • DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zoneEnglish
      121·
      2 months 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.

        • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          It’s meta and x that are causing interest in the fediverse again. Pixelfed has gained a lot of users.

            • DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zoneEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              Well I just got here and I don’t know what the title was referencing in regard to an earlier thread. I’m learning how to navigate this thing currently. I understand where you’re coming from though. Maybe that earlier post explains it ?

              • DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zoneEnglish
                2·
                2 months ago

                Would you mind telling me what “Fediverse” is please. I had a bit of a read about this new place/thing/situation/blogsite or whatever it’s called. I’m an old Troglodyte and lucky that I even discovered Reddit 12 years ago. It was great for many years but I’ve grown tired of the same old comments and the insecure mods. Well anyway, happy newish year.

                • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMEnglish
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  It’s the constellation of federated web services all communicating with each other through a shared protocol.

                  Imagine if Web 2.0 had dawned with someone inventing a way for all the blogs, forums, wikis and social media to talk to each other, instead of Big Web tempting people into walled gardens. Well we’re now back on that better timeline and making up for lost time.

                  See: https://jointhefediverse.net/

                • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  Federated Universe, or open social web as some have come to call it. It refers to many services that use the same protocol ActivityPub for their backend. Different software uses it a little differently but a shared backend is how for example you can get people commenting here from their Mastadon or Mbin account.

                  It can be tough to describe without getting too much into unnecessary details. Other big things is instances. Basically anyone can download the hosting software for one of these sevices such as Lemmy. Once it’s run it becomes and instance of the Lemmy software and then connects to the broader network of Lemmy servers.

                  Hope that didn’t make things more confusing. The main benefit for you is if you find you disagree with the admins where you signed up you don’t need to abandon the platform as whole, you can just look around for an instance that’s run in a way that more aligns with your views.

                  My instance, while one of the biggest, is small enough that I can directly chat with the the handful of admins if I have any concerns or questions. This works for me. Plus it being hosted close to me is good for latency.

                  Edir: and happy new year to you too! Hope you enjoy the time you spend it here.

    • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
      24·
      2 months ago

      Reddit mods have less power to remove unwanted speech than Lemmy admins do. If you are upset because mods would not let you say something in their communities, Lemmy is not going to be more accommodating for that.

      • Meursault@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Howso? The Fediverse literally gives you the option to choose from among several different instances. It’s trivial to migrate to an instance you find better suited to you, if you don’t like this one.

        • VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Mods and admins are connected across instances on Lemmy. I have seen someone get banned from their own instance for posting something, that wasn’t even against the rules, on another instance. These power structures are not transparent and can bite you any time.

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Eh, at least it’s way easier for everyone to move on somewhere else (still on Lemmy)

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    I’m out of the loop. What’s this “Reddit thread from earlier today”?

    Also, yes, welcome to former Reddit users. I’m also a former Redditor, but I left during the API pricing fiasco.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      A thread on r/technology about Decentralized Social Media actually got some good traction so a few of us logged back in to promote Lemmy a bit lol

    • tomatol@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      2 months 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 their views.

    • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months 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?

      • Da Cap’n@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        2 months 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.

        • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Glad to see you here!

          The reason I push people to Lemmy.World is that you mostly don’t need to learn anything about federation. It’s obvious enough over time what the @ symbols are, and you basically pick it up through osmosis.

          If you start on a really small instance, your people might not subscribe to many foreign communities. If nobody subscribes to a foreign community, it doesn’t get pulled over and doesn’t show up in ALL. That can make Lemmy look pretty barren, and you have to go out and find communities (somehow) on your own.

          If you start at Lemmy.World, the all tab just works. The local tab is even a fine experience, though I wouldn’t use it here. Similar arguments with lemmy.ca and sopuli.xyz for Canada and Europe. Their all tabs might be slightly worse, but for those people the local tab should be better (actually more local), balancing it out.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 months 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·
          2 months 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.

        • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          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)

          Lemmy Federate streamlines this.

    • Draces@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      2 months 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

    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      I know right, ML Tankies are so much worse than fascist capitalist Nazi’s, they sure spoil everything amirite (watches a capitalist do a nazi salute at a presidential inauguration). Lets continue to ignore politics and see where this goes.

    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      12·
      2 months 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).