Feels like they promote lemmy the same way microsoft promotes linux
Basically yes. The alternatives passively become better simply because of the mainstream option becoming worse over time. I think it’s still going too slowly in general but I’m not complaining, better slow than not at all.
Better slow than too fast too. Lemmy feels like a nice fairly small community. I’m not sure that’ll continue once it’s the size of Reddit. We’ll get more content and niche communities will be better served though, so there’s pros and cons.
Once you hit a certain size you become a tempting target for bots, spammers and trolls. Managing that is going to be a challenge.
i think the most realistic way will be to examine unusual patterns in the IP addresses used for the accounts.
Not quite… It’s easiest to game on Windows still. I’d love to move to Linux, though. But, alas, this year is not your year still. Crucify me if you wish, but this is the truth. So say a simple gamer that knows more than you do if you’re peddling Linux as the best option in early 2025.
Having not been using this place as regularly for the last couple of weeks, it definitely looks like there’s more upvotes on posts now in general compared to when I started up here about two months ago. Even just before this latest Reddit fuck up, it looks a lot to me like there’s been a steady influx lately. Like suddenly noticing that the grass has got longer.
Welcome back!
Haha thanks! I’ve been lurking a fair amount. Just a little more distracted currently.
When I made my Lemmy account (the day reddit put a paywall on the API) most posts didn’t even have comments (sorting by hot/popular). And it would be common to run out of new posts after a bit of scrolling. Now it looks about the same level of activity as reddit 10-something years ago.
Oh yeah, I’ve only been on Lemmy a few months but I’ve noticed it. I was one baby face emoji (is that just a Voyager thing?) in a sea of old accounts, but recently I’ve been seeing more and more of those baby emojis
I think it is just a Voyager thing, on Thunder I see a pink name & cake if a user joined today
Watch this: Luigi is a hero
Just made an account here ten minutes ago. The format feels weird but it’s nice to be able to continue talking like sensible people without getting banned for it. Feels good, man.
Check out lemmyapps.com for different apps and webUIs. There is even sm old reddit style clone like old.lemmy.world for example.
Happy you could join! You’ll find that not only are bans much more reasonable, but conversations are frequently downright pleasant. Aditionally, there are communities built just for calling out mods that abuse power or are heavily biased. The system here is working much better from a user perspective.
Welcome!
The Voyager app is almost exactly like Apollo was before Reddit shut it down. There are others you can try out too and Lemmy will look and function however you want it too.
If you used to use the Apollo app for Reddit then I strongly recommend Transit. It looks and feels a lot like Apollo, but for Lemmy.
And for former Relay users, Summit will feel pretty familiar.
If it’s any help, I use the sync app on android. I also used sync for reddit prior to the API thing which finally made me leave, so my experience is pretty much the same in terms of format. I agree it can feel weird in a browser but there’s a bunch of good mobile apps that might feel more familiar.
.world mods would be very upset if we didn’t bully them into submission 😔
I’m an exodusee as well, just a minnow at this point.
I just got sick of the right wing bullshit, the censorship, the shills, the morons, the bootlickers…
Hello all
Right here with you. Posted a brief goodbye on my sub and jumped over here. Luigi.
That was one of the last straws, not being able to say Luigi.
welcome in! insert obligatory ‚dozens of us‘ meme here.
Thank you!
Where is the door in case I get scared
The door is located after you click your username in the upper-right corner, and choose “Settings” from the drop-down. Scroll to the bottom of the page. On the left, in red, is a button to delete your account.
I’m not sure what really happens after that, though - I’ve never gone out that door. IIRC a deletion can take time, since various servers have to sync that information.
-Takes a bong hit-
So in a way, a recently-deleted account continues to exist across the Fediverse for a while. It is temporarily trapped to this plane of existence, until it can complete its final mission (deleting itself) across every corner of its known Fediverse. Then, and only then, can an account truly experience deletion.
-Passes to the left-
Accepts pass, bogarts
I’m glad I took a hit literally directly before reading this.
Oh, i approved your application a couple of hours ago. Hello! Welcome to lemmy and dbzer0. I hope you like it here :)
Dragon ball zero?
Divisions by zero x) but we do call db0 “dragon ball zero” in the matrix chat, lol
Lol ok. Thanks now I can say in quietly in my head and not feel stupid lol
;_; I can’t see any kitty pic
Ty, ty. No talking about pets without paying the pic tax. One back for you.
Such a sweet kitty! Looks ready to fuck up some decorations tho!
She does look concerned, I’ll give you that!
I shall also pay the tax:
Welcome! Glad you made it over. Any way I can clear thing up or make it more smooth?
Coke and a ciggie and I’ll be right as rain
Welcome, it’s nice to have you!
The bots! They were getting really bad.
We’re witnessing the second reddit wave now, just like we always knew it would come eventually when reddit crossed another enshitification threshold.
Welcome all!
Next one will be when the kill old.reddit.
You know that’s coming
Facts, it’s already happening when most of the perfectly fine comments are collapsed in any interesting topic. Like yesterday when twitter was down. Every comment under the top level memes were collapsed so you have to click the + in front of it and get bored quickly and just give up. Same today with Musk post about being all weird about his empire.
nothing to see here move along type of thing
I’m pretty sure my account ban is coming, the fact it isn’t banned already is likely an oversight of the fascist running the place.
Most of my accounts are banned or suspended now.
Maybe it’s the fact I have only one? There are a couples places that would be a lot quieter if I stopped commenting and I’m guessing they don’t really want to bite the many hands that feed. Once comments die it’s just a graveyard of links.
FWIW, there were also a few smaller waves before the big API one, but they were mostly individual communities migrating (/r/piracy, /r/genzedong, …)
These last few messups are too silly that I can’t even guess what they’ll do next. Surely they won’t force ID registration…
Enshitification complete!
Happy to be here… I think. Doesn’t seem too weird so far.
What was the post, though?
Anyone know? Super curious.
Went to find the removed post. The comments are not locked, lol. So everyone is discussing Reddit censorship and how they are upvoting it after it was removed.
Anyway, someone in the comments said this: “Musk doing a Hitler salute with a target on his head. Text “Make Nazis dead again” Very nice sticker”
We’re hereeeee! Also Luigi is a national treasure.
Mods remove a post from /r/worldnews about Musk pushing for the US to leave NATO because it’s “not the appropriate subreddit”…? Excuse me, what the fuck???
Mod decisions always baffled me, both on Reddit and Lemmy. We aren’t immune to it.
But here it’s a lot easier to set up a new home.
[email protected] is still very popular but I saw the writing on the wall and jumped to make an alt [email protected] because people had gripes with the Midwest admin and I wanted to prevent an inevitable Lemmy.world alternative from appearing.
And now we happily co-exist. Theirs tends to focus more on the political while I like to also post the more mundane, slice-of-life, articles
Man goes to the doctor.
He says “Doctor, I am miserable. I have been banned from one of my favourite Lemmy instances for no good reason.”
Doctor says “Treatment is simple. db0 runs a community for disputing wrongful bans. Go argue with strangers. That should pick you up.”
“But, Doctor…” says the man, “I was banned by db0.”
Absolutely. I’m here after a decade+ over there.
I’ve been here since they killed third-party apps. I regret nothing, this place is my home now.
I still go sometimes, but I use the RDX app and don’t contribute
Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
Wait a minute, this hot cocoa cup is just full of beans
Well…
You need to compile your own cocoa from the source.Heres the conch, the cocoa beans are in your cup, a bit of sugar and a bit of milk.
If you need help compiling all ingredients, call the farmer.
And lots of gay
And cookies.
The dark mode cookies in particular ;)
I came from reddit due to overt censorship, so yeah. I hope this place gets more populated, reddit definitely has the userbase advantage for now.
I’ve been here for a while now. The userbase can be seen as an advantage, but it’s also a negative. Things move so fast in reddit and everyone is just passing by each other. You can have actual conversations here though. It feels more communal.
I want more users so niche communities can thrive, but I’m also worried about it becoming too much like Reddit has been for a while now.
Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
Aren’t we getting fancy! When I moved over after the api changes all we had was potatoes. Lemmy is definitely improving with each new wave.
Also beans. Can we bring back the beans, you know, for the newbies?
You must have been on a fancy server, where I was it was only potatoes.
Welcome!
Gonna? My fellow user of Linux, it’s already happening.
All are welcome and check this out: Cisgender
Truely amazingwatch out! you just killed 5 cis people 🥺
Reddit full bore banned me for saying “I should have a legal right to punch nazis” and declined my appeal.
Reddit is unironically nazi aligned and that’s not a joke it’s terrifying.
Most people agree punching nazis is fine, very few people agree on who is and isn’t a nazi.
It is precisely because useful clueless idiots are constantly being classified as nazis that no one is taking accusations of actual nazis seriously. Within society the meaning of the word has degraded to “mean people I don’t like”.
what a cop out. there’s no functional difference between an idiot that works to advance nazi ideologies and the same but they have a swastika tattoo on their neck. to resist fascism means to confront ALL fascists. it’s not about disagreement or people you dont like, most people are using ur-fascism as their default definition and umberto eco has a fucking 14 point checklist we’re using. to act like it’s so arbitrary is completely out of touch.
I haven’t been full banned yet but have grown tired of the amazing levels of stupidity. I caught a temp ban for incivility for writing “Your mother should have gone through with her Planned Parenthood appointment.”
