I leaved Google and Reddit in last two days. Continue my devalleyzation (Silicon Valley).
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2022
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Social media is "winner takes all". People go to where other people are. It's very hard to break out of that.
I hope at some point regular users like you would help us to churn out enough content for the whole day. So far, thank you for your post, don't forget to explore other instances and global feed.
Thank you. You made my day :'D I'm definitely going to
Also I think not having a huge amount of content is a drawback. Users are looking for that (including me).
Yea dude same. Even when I sort by new, they are the same posts
I sort by "top day", that seems to work fairly well for me... but I'm not very active either.
For the same reason a lot of people prefer cities over towns.
Very nice analogy
- Lemmy is newer than Reddit. Reddit has been up for over 15 years.
- Lemmy is a Reddit clone but less well known, thus, whatever advantages it has over Reddit, you can pretty much assume anyone who comes to Lemmy is someone who was on Reddit and saw some reason to leave. Or even still uses Reddit but is trying their hand here too. At least for now.
- Thus, the Lemmy userbase will, at least within the near future, be a small subset of current or former Redditors.
filter by All, but if you don't like communism, do not do that
More like if you dont like the 4 prolific posters' personal take on communism. Lemmygrad gets so much hate because a few peoplewithj nothing better to do post 80% of the political content. Every collective (reddit) have their hive minds but Lemmygrad is like a small town church that prescribes exactly what you're supposed to see and think. It's pretty gross.
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This should be posted on the main page; it would help resolve people's culture shock after leaving walled media gardens
exactly
All instances (mostly lemmy and lemmygrad) are experiencing a steady increase in usership.
Is lemmy like or the same thing as mastodon? Like ok, I LOVED reddit. However there are so many crazy, Whitney, and totalitarian moderators who shut you down for defending your position or saying anything that goes against the echo chamber. I always had this 'feeling' of pressure to watch what I say. So at that point, it kills the experience. If I say you're an ass kisser, I'm permanently banned? How can anyone last on there? The internet is the wild west, you should be able to say what you want
Is lemmy like or the same thing as mastodon?
It's a weird question. Like 'are grapes like oranges'.
Mastodon is a federated ('Fediverse' due to use of ActivityPub protocol) microblogging (think twitter) software, same with Pleroma and some others. Admins can host their own website and set their own rules, those websites can interact with other sites.
Lemmy is also a federated (Fediverse) software, but it's a link aggregator (think reddit). We're on the lemmy.ml instance, which has its own topic and rules. There are some other ones that aim to be more liberal, and a few that try to be 'free speech', but are inevitably flooded by its own echo chamber of the kind of people other places don't want around.
The internet is the wild west
Yes*. Although not each site on that net wants to be wild. If I'm having a serious discussion on a site where that's expected (like a science topic forum), why should we tolerate someone with no idea what they're talking about spamming unconstructive rambling about them hating us? So you inevitably do get communities and social circles that do make restrictions and enforce them in order to function, even on alleged 'free speech' sites. It's all about finding the right sites, rather than expecting every site to have to listen to everything.
As one of the moderators on a subreddit with a tight, strongly enforced civility policy, it really is one of the few things keeping the sub from chaos. So much of political discourse these days is either in echo chambers or has degraded discourse. Sure you can say whatever, but the whatever slowly becomes worth less. We've been told by multiple users that the culture our rules foster has made it so that the users have a place to have serious political discussions with a broad range of people in a way that they haven't in a long time. That's important because many people have given up on political discussions with people who aren't like-minded.
Alternatively, I'll put it this way: it's possible to thoroughly discuss a political matter without touching personal insults. When there is nothing stopping personal insults, Internet discussions tend to be "won" by the trolliest trolls and the loudest yellers, not the best ideas. The people with the best ideas give up as they get drowned out.
Chicken or the egg problem. Many people want a lot of (quality) content and diverse content comes from many people.
To be honest Reddit shows more tits and big asses than Lemmy. Maybe people have some issue to leave that Paradise. ๐คญ
Damn, we need an NSFW instance.
How would you make one? What exactly is an instance? I think a dm or chat room and voice chat room sound good to
Instance is a website running Lemmy. Most of such websites connected with each other in such way so users can chat and see posts without reregistering on each separate instance. That's how I (registered on beehaw.org) can see your posts and chat with you.
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We all were using reddit at some point without thinking about alternatives. Once thinking about alternatives, there are a lot of reddit alternatives out there.
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Clarifying question: what do you consider a lot of people?
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