Happy to be here! I love finding alternative platforms to the big ones, I’m a forum nerd and soon I’m thinking about moving one from phpBB 3 to either Discourse or Node.bb and having it join ActivityPub. I hope more people will join lemmy soon!
That would be cool!
BuT WherES aLL My KaRMA?!? /s
fucking happy to be here!
Maybe I’ll updoot, maybe I’ll downdoot who knows? You don’t have to worry about internet points here
Here. You’ve got four of it.
happy to be here~~
One more sailor on your ship of freedom! I hope I can bring something useful too
Hello!
Welcome. I think you will like it here. We’re kind of like reddit except we aren’t trying to make money from you, or your content. And we are more likely to follow the golden rule. And swear. Lots of swearing.
and we don’t limit or kill 3rd party app support, but rather support them, and even have a page about apps for lemmy which are, 3rd party
Welcome to the fediverse everyone
It’s like our own Reddit but with blackjack and hookers
and without fascist rules like banned keywords nazi Luigi etc, fuck reddit
DOZENNNNNSSSSSS
Be mindful of the smug “Lemmy Culture” hipsters, they’ll eventually weed themselves out or self segregate though as more normies flow in.
I welcome the masses.
If you want lemmy to look like the comments under any post on /r/funny then why even come here. Those users can go to threads or something
nazis can stay the fuck out, though.
That’s right! Don’t be coming in here and bringing no f****** culture.
Same!
There might even be scores now
A veritable smorgasbord
I like to read this word the same American way Louis Rossmann once said it if it’s written like this. If it’s written smörgåsbord my inner voice gets a Swedish accent.
I wish I had used that spelling instead lol
Certainly a number of us
glad to be here!
How come theres been an influx of users recently? Did reddit shit the bed again?
say luigi and get warned
what did luigi do to you, reddit?
I got a warning today about upvoting violence. The only thing I have upvoted in the last little while is pro-Canada stuff like elbows up. If that gets me kicked off Reddit then fuck them and fuck spez the little pig boy.
I was just assuming it was all the censorship because any post with Luigi automatically gets deleted for violence even in the Nintendo subreddits talking about Luigi’s Mansion
For some people, Trump has shit the bed (invasion threats, trade wars etc) and has stimulated a number of people to move away from US-controlled services and products.
For me I left Reddit recently and switched because Reddit made a change that broke the Boost app.
Yes they started banning thousands of active users for “inciting violence” if you say things like “fuck Elon musk” or “my favorite character in super Mario bros is Luigi”
I still don’t understand this whole Luigi thing…
They seem to think if they censor hard enough that people will stop hating murderous billionaires.
Well i can understand that - the best character in super mario bros is Yoshi
Tru
Reddit recently started doubling down on far-right actions. Like making it so you can be banned for just upvoting a post that breaks the rules, or banning you for saying the name “Luigi.”
Personally, I recently got permabanned for being truthful about fascists.
Hey, does anyone know when a new user can upload an avatar? I’m still being denied.
As someone who’s been on Lemmy for a year, TIL avatars are a thing lol
Pfft!
Why not ? I little personalization is not bad.
Very true, I just didn’t know about it, maybe due to the app I use.
It take a few week on Lemm.ee IIRC. Most people wait for a bit, if that’s really important for you you can have a look at https://lemmy.zip/.
You can export and import your settings from your settings account using the default UI
Dozens? More.
Can some people who are willing to post something other than American politics and Reddit bashing posts join lemmy soon, I’m sick of my entire feed being nothing but all these negative topics
You could either block a few communities or make your following feed your main one. I prefer the first case as it allow community with less trafic to reach the top of the page.
There is a lot animal pictures, some fantasy genre conversation and plenty of renewable energie discussion somewhere hidden behind the very detailled and commented biographie of the trump/musk duo.
Big things are happening in the world right now. I know that it sucks.
Use an app with filter lists. Add american political terms to filter. Experience gets muuuuuch better.
For those of us using Firefox there was a post on !youshouldknow@lemmy.world on how you can use uBlock Origin to create word filters.
To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)
For example:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)
I think Lemmy is a bit too complicated to attract the kind of light-hearted users that made Reddit shine. It’s daunting unless you have nowhere else to go.
False we have :
!animalswithjobs@lemmy.world
!crows@lemmy.ml
!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
!TwoGoobers@lemm.ee
!taneggs@lemmy.ca
!relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun
!bats@lemmy.world
!Dullsters@dullsters.net
!bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org
!hydrohomies@lemmy.ml
!nolawns@slrpnk.net
!foraging@lemm.ee
!succulents@midwest.social
!houseplants@manyplace
!zombiesurvival@sopuli.xyz
!vampires@lemmy.zip
And we might get a revival of !frogs@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAll this is news and linux free. Enjoy!
Idk, I came here with no idea about the instance system, I joined one that was near the top of the list, realised it was entirely Tankies, and made an account on the instance this account is on. I think people are likely to have a similar experience.
Hear about Lemmy -> join one of the first instances they see -> realise how things actually work -> make an account on an instance that’s properly researched and more aligned with the person
People on
- !gardening@lemmy.world
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee
- !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz
- !askouija@lemmy.world
Seem to be doing fine.
There is a pinned post with non-political communities on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Blocking all of the political and news communities can help
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca has a pinned post without active non political communities
I had a discussion the other day, where people were not happy with lemmy instances not handing data over to google. They argument was that we should do everything so lemmy can be found more easily, as the only goal is to “win” against reddit.
Unfortunately in that discussion people were not interested in using Lemmy and the Fediverse at large to create a positive vision of the internet. They just wanted to stick it to one corporation they don’t like. I don’t like reddit either, but i think we should thrive for a Fediverse that upholds decentralization, open source and non commercialization of social interactions. All the large Internet corporations want to create the opposite and have been quite successful so far.
I agree with you. It’s short sighted to give in to a separate corporation to “beat” the first. The only way to beat Reddit is to stop using it and forget about it.
The goal should be to remove the ability for a single entity to control the public flow of discourse.
I’m off to buy a Lemmy sticker to put on my thinkpad
More Star Trek memes!
Right there with you, it’s going to be a long four years…
Just block the subs. Or subscribe to communities that interest you and stick to your subscribed feed.
Hi :) it’s a niche community but I’m doing what I can