Fair, I suppose because the US tends to be belittled so often online so I never made the connection to those sizable facts. It’s a bit too much still though, don’t you think? News about the US somehow always taking over headlines? The world always looks at the US. There’s always something about Elon Musk or the American government even on Lemmy’s “non-Reddit-exodus” instances. When Apple releases a new phone, people won’t stop talking about it positively and negatively. Europe does a better job with most things yet it’s less common to find them in the spotlight.
I wish I could use Lemmy exclusively, but so far I haven’t yet seen a lot of AI (LLM and SD)-related content here. The good news is that lately I feel like a lot of AI-related activity has migrated from Reddit to Discord.
Same, reddit is now pc only for me and only when im going for content or conversation that’s just not on lemmy yet. Lemmy has let me fully disconnect from reddit news and politics which is a massive blessing in itself, and also kept my mobile browsing habbits satisfied.
For now, I find it kind of boring. On reddit, I used to spend more time in comment sections than regularly scrolling. Now I don’t really do that, because there are either no comments or the comments are the same.
When I started using lemmy with the default sorting option (‘active’ i think?), I would see the same posts for days, now I use top 6 hours and that problem is fixed, but lemmy now feels like a news site with comments. Also I am European, but it feels like 50% of content is some local American politics. I don’t care about my own town’s politics, so I don’t care about that guy from Minnesota either.
A post from asklemmy hasn’t shown up in my feed in a long time and I kind of forgot it existed, but looking into it, looks like one of the only interesting places here, so I guess, I have visit it more often.
Hi - mod of a small kbin.social mag here - @13thFloor - and a lemmy.world user. Is there anything we can do on our end to help mitigate the problem, or make it easier to flag spam that makes its way to Lemmy? I'd be more than willing to include a note to the lemmy.world admins if a spam post is deleted off of a mag I mod here- just need to know who to contact.
Side notes - Ernest (kbin.social admin) just responded on the spam issue here. The community has been actively working over here to flag and remove spam accounts (I've personally flagged close to 100). According to the most recent news from @ernest earlier last week, we've got a software update incoming, and a magazine cleanup in the works that will hopefully make an impact.
My recommendation is to install a browser extension that indicates when a site has a feed. Then when you are reading an article you like you can consider subscribing. Eventually you will gather a list of good sources.
If you are just getting started and want to build up a list quickly:
Err on the side of subscribing if you are not sure. After reading a few articles it than unsubscribing is free if you decide that the feed isn’t for you (unlike email newsletters where you still somehow end up getting spam in the future). I think of adding a feed to my reader not as much as subscribing but starting a trial for that feed. If I like the content then I stay subscribed.
Just find new content how your normally would. Lemmy and social media are good for finding new things to follow. You can even use Google News. Once you find good content it usually has a feed.
You can find topic-based starter packs. Often in the form of OPML files. However I find that these often have far too much volume. But you can still start with them and then quickly unsubscribe from the feeds that don’t interest you.
Once you have a good base then you can just let it self-manage more or less. A lot of the new feeds I find are from links in my subscriptions. But if I get through my news I still go on Lemmy and often find new sources there as well.
That was my reason for asking. I don’t know anything about RSS for torrenting. But usually people asking, I want something for ‘other purposes’… it means either pirating things or lewd stuff. 😉 But this isn’t the case here.
Back in the day, I’ve used RSS and Atom feeds for my favorite 10 news sites and 20-30 blogs I was reading regularly. The way I got those feeds was: I’d go to my favorite websites and have a look in the top right of the page or at the bottom, and they’d link their feed somewhere. I think at some point firefox had a feature to show some kind of symbol in the location bar, when a site had a feed.
But times have changed. Websites stopped having RSS feeds. RSS readers vanished. And no one writes proper blogs anymore. Maybe a trending story on medium.com Recently I’ve seen influencers advertise their newsletter… Which is a way more medieval thing in my eyes.
I’ve stopped because I was reading too much news and articles and wasting too much time. But I’m still using it for podcasts and maybe I’m going to pick it up again. My consumption of media has changed anyways. Today, I waste my time on Lemmy. And read news here. But I have heard the word ‘RSS’ come up more often nowadays. Seems to be on the rise again. But I wouldn’t know how people use it as of today.
Boy I sure hope you’ve never called an image macro a meme or Dr. Hawkins is going to need a word with you.
Or, maybe we could marry that definition with Dr. Chomsky’s thoughts on language.
Or maybe we could review where that response lies on Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement?
Or perhaps go back to the time of Quine and merely revisit the principal of charity.
But none of that is actually necessary because what I was describing is actually a result of enshittification from Doctorows original definition anyhow, because the popularization of engagement-based algorithmic is specifically engineered to translate to ad sales, and anger-inducing content drives the most engagement.
Just because Lemmy itself didn’t do it for ads, we’ve been socially conditioned by the enshittification of other platforms. Recently Reddit, sure, but this isn’t a new playbook.
Go back even just 7 or 8 years and look at late night TV. Engagement spiked across the industry as people realized they could eschew generic comedy (Leno, Conan, Letterman) with something that looked similar but was just political ragebait with a punchline (Oliver, Noah, TYT)
But even THAT is following what we’d already seen in print and on “News” (Fox).
All of these platforms reshaped the nature of comedy and discourse after building a following in order to drive up engagement to drive as sales, by using anger as the tool to drive that engagement.
What I’m saying is that even if LEMMY hasn’t undergone “enshittification” directly, the social programming you’ve received from other platforms that HAVE make you the way that you are, and you bring it here.
When I parted ways with reddit, when the API scandal happened, it was very timely. A lot of content from reddit was toxic for me. All the negative news, about environment, about how people are treated at their job, about how shitty companies are nowadays. Not to mention the rampant cynicism…
I left all that behind, and it really helped me get the high ground (hey Anakin) against my mental health problems. I was dangerously flirting with a burnout. This break was very beneficial.
When I saw that Sync for lemmy was available, I tried it. The facts that there are much less trolls here, much less cynicism (and also the fact that I’m now medicated) really help, and I feel now I can be among communities that aren’t too toxic for me.
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My guess for the current even distribution of votes is this:
Those who voted in favor of keeping all the content in this community wish to have a centralized location of all news and related information instead of having to subscribe to an additional community.
Those who voted in favor of “Create the gamedev_news community” wish to either not see [engine, tool, gamedev company] related news or wish to have a dedicated community for that exact content.
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What might happen is that the current community becomes more saturated/concentrated with people looking for engine, tool, gamedev company news and those who don’t care for it unsubscribe/leave to look for a community focused on providing game development content(probably on another Lemmy instance).
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So if there’s a likely probability that the community fractures due to differing needs then wouldn’t creating a new community to provide the needs of both groups benefit everyone?
the unfortunate con of this plan is that this does cause my first point to happen[1] which goes against the wants of those wanting a centralized location
the pro would be that programming.dev can cater to the needs of both types of people:
satisfies people looking for engine, tool, gamedev company news in c/community1
satisfies people looking for game dev content in c/community2
This in turn likely creates 2 sustainable communities where people want to actively engage in their community because it’s tailor made for them
So rather than 1 community staying active while some people get pushed out for no good reason maybe creating 2 at the cost of tediousness might be a worthwile tradeoff?
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What do yall think though about this approach as it does suck having to subscribe to another community but maybe it might be better as it might offer more tailored content for those looking for it? eh maybe someone has a better solution than this one
When making this post I was thinking of like categories in Steam and how having more seperated but specific tags helps us find games that we’re looking for
Insanely popular online yet I’ve never met a single soul in real life who even has an account. My cousin literally just made his first one to promote his band, like a week ago.
imo, Mastodon replaces Twitter, and effectively would if everyone moved at once. Most news, if it isn’t there is mirrored there.
There is the whole trans porn and titties situation on any default account, tho, same as lemmy.
Just making sure I’m in the right place. I cannot see any developed communities here so I’ve started wondering, what’s the real place everyone from Reddit has moved to? I’ve heard something about Discuit, but never tried it.
I would say 99.9% of people are still on Reddit. I mainly use Lemmy to get the bigger news stuff and the gaming community is pretty active here too. Also I use Lemmy on mobile only really since the Reddit app is still terrible.
If I want to read about one of my other interests I’ll go to the specific subreddit on my desktop browser and use old Reddit but with no account since I deleted mine a few months ago. Sometimes I’ll post or comment on one of those smaller communities here but I don’t want to be someone who posts tons of things to a community. Too much work for me.
Hopefully the user base and engagement will grow over the next few years. Welcome to being an early adopter!
I am on Lemmy (here and a few other instances) but when I get into discussions in comments here I am starting to wonder if I should just quit the whole social media concept altogether. So far I have mostly stayed since I still need to get some news from somewhere but RSS might be a better option in the long run.
I’m here and on Mastodon. I really like Mastodon. (I still have my old twitter account, but have not posted or commented for years. I never really used it anyway. Now I use it to see the occasional newsworthy linked tweet since they require a login now to view anything. I’m purposely ignoring its attempt to rebrand)
I still go to old.reddit and lurk on slow news days. But my feed isn’t as robust or interesting as it was before the exodus. It’s still good for historical help on certain topic. So I will keep checking it probably.
But to me it looks like Lemmy and Mastodon are getting slow, steady, but high quality growth overall. I think the fediverse in general may be the saving grace of the internet. It looks to me like the “main stream” internet is becoming one voice, much like Clear Channel taking over and homogenizing the eclectic voices of regional radio.
I mostly browse “Top X hours” which is All the communities and it’s filled with terrible memes and “funny” things I’ve blocked of few of these meme communities but overall it feels pretty low quality content aside from news but still there there’s lots of duplicates due to the various similar commuties on Lemmy
I dunno how to hotlink, but if you scroll to the active users graph at fedidb.org/software/lemmy you can see there’s been like a 25% dropoff in active users since the peak in July. Lemmy has still grown 50x since May, and it’s much MUCH more active than it was then. But we’ve definitely crested a peak and not everyone who gave Lemmy a shot then is sticking around in a monthly basis.
This isn’t necessarily bad. Lemmy is still young and has many rough edges, it wasn’t realistic to win all the users that tried it on ease-of-use in a head to head with reddit. And Mastodon has had multiple growth waves interspersed with periods of declining usage, but with the spikes has grown ie remained stable overall. Early-stage commercial social media have big ups and downs in engagement and growth as well, and just like lemmy those ups and downs are often externally driven… when competitors mess up, when a big global news story hits, when a major sporting event happens… these can all be catalysts for one-time growth. It’s not a straight line.
Time will tell what user level we stabilize at in the short-term and what events spur new growth, but it’s normal to have a big expansion be followed by some degree of contraction.
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Polish Government Develops Test That Can Detect If Someone Took Abortion Pills (truthout.org)
“Polish authorities are using their powers to terrorize people instead of to protect basic rights,” said one researcher....
What do you think about Lemmy, so far?
I happen to like it very much.
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Game Development Communities
Hey everyone, slight update on the game development communities in the instance...
Starlink quietly lost over $250,000,000 in burned satellites this summer. (tiblur.com)
Not one major news outlet is covering the destruction of Starlink this summer. Though Lemmy might enjoy Elon losing more money.
Removed Kbin.social communities
Hello everyone,...
What’s the best way to discover RSS feeds?
I’m new to RSS and I’m trying to get into it. I don’t really check out news all too often, so mostly the other parts of RSS. Thanks.
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How is Lemmy so good and you guys all so awesome? FUCK!
c/Gamedev community news separation
Hey everyone. wanted to do a post about this since the gamedev community recently quadrupled its monthly active users....
Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself. (themarkup.org)
Ashton Kutcher Resigns From His Anti-Child Sex Abuse Organization Amid Danny Masterson Support Backlash (www.etonline.com)
Reddit implements hidden "credit scores" only visible to admins (old.reddit.com)
Where are all of the reddit refugees these days?
Just making sure I’m in the right place. I cannot see any developed communities here so I’ve started wondering, what’s the real place everyone from Reddit has moved to? I’ve heard something about Discuit, but never tried it.
Anyone else noticing engagement and post quality issues?
This is just my basic perspective as a daily user since June 9th....
Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests (www.garbageday.email)
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