I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days....
I hear ya. There’s just no one here. I don’t like anime and I’m not a communist so there goes half of the subs. The other half are either news related or empty. I never engaged in conversation much on reddit but the comments were always where you got the best info and links. That was half the reason I liked reddit and lemmy doesn’t have that at all. I’m still here because I’m stubborn but unless there is a growth spurt coming soon I probably won’t be much longer.
No content issues for me here. Lemmy has completely replaced reddit for me. Been here since early June. The content is getting better and better. The one thing I do want is a multi-community interface where I can have say all my “news” communities all show up on the same page. I’m a novice programmer but the API documentation doesn’t hold my hand enough for me to grasp it or I’d do it myself. Tbf I haven’t looked for a month or two.
Same. If I want advice on a product, there’s generally an old Reddit thread about it. But for actual discussions or news, Lemmy has been perfectly fine.
I recently made a new account on lemmy.blahaj.zone, because I’ve been harassed and doxxed on my old account and I wanted a fresh start with a more lighthearted online identity that I could be more open about my gender identity on. I’d heard blahaj zone was good for trans people, so I made my account there. And yeah,...
…what if I just don’t like seeing news that only makes me feel angry or bad on my feed.
That’s not the meaning of the word politics. […] This other thing you’re talking about, bad news, that’s not what politics is. Sure, bad news is political, but that’s because everything is political.
I feel you missed a chance to get a less aggressive perspective on all of this.
The other person told you they “just come here to see tech, cars, and art.”. Probably hinting at a casual experience, with little to no opinionated or controversial topics. Maybe they have a mental health too, maybe they have a super political day job, or whatever. There are many reasons for people to seek another experience on Lemmy than you do. This does not necessarily imply they are your political enemies and need a lesson from you.
The belief that bad news and politics are the same thing has been used to justify transphobia, sexism, and racism.
While in a specific way it is true that everything is politics, this does not mean it is okay to make everything about politics. You cannot connect a persons desire to have Lemmy without politics to justifications about transphobia, sexism, and racism. That’s crossing several lines.
Am not American and seeing that psychopathic looking face everywhere made browsing lemmy shit. Bro , am here for memes and tech news. Like, it was kinda entertaining watching the American political shitshow but the joke joke of “orange man with red eyes and funny psychopathic look” got old pretty quick.
Connect for lemmy and eternity both have keyword based filtering .
If anyone is interested, here’s the list in text format (i didn’t use some keyword to minimize collateral damage on actual world news posts that may be interesting ) :
To make it work with community ids, I planned to have something like the “subreddit shorcuts” from the “post to reddit” bookmarklet (see below). Not ideal, but better than nothing.
i don’t suppose you could share some of those?
Sure, here there are. I realized that a couple of them are not really bookmarklets, but simple bookmarks with the %s param. You need to add a keyword and use it with keyword string to be searched.
Execute it without param (e.g.: link) to get [title](url)
Execute it with a param (link text to display) to get [text to display](url)
It will show the result in a prompt and you can copy from there. The prompt itself has no effect, it doesn’t matter how you close it.
pretty printed code(function() { var title = (“%s” || document.title) .replace(“[”, “[”) .replace(“]”, “]”); prompt(“Title:”, [${title}](${document.location.href})); })()
I also have one to get just the title of a page, but I leave that as an exercise to the reader :D. It’s very easy to modify the link one.
post to reddit
Use it with the subreddit name (e.g.: post CassetteFuturism) or the subreddit shortcut (e.g.: post cf).
If executed with no param, it will show a list of “shortcuts” and will ask you to select one.
The shortcuts are in the `subKeys``dictionary. That’s the trick that could be used to assign the community ids from the community names (or custom shortcuts). Not practical for a random commmunity, but manageable for the most common ones.
pretty printed codefunction() { var subKeys = { cf: ‘CassetteFuturism’, it: ‘ImaginaryTechnology’, iv: ‘ImaginaryVehicles’, ap: ‘ApocalypsePorn’, ss: ‘Simon_Stalenhag’, sw: ‘spainwave’, sk: ‘sketches’, }; var subreddit = ‘%s’; if (!subreddit) { var promptText = “Type subreddit:”; for (var shortcut in subKeys) promptText += n- ${shortcut}: ${subKeys[shortcut]}; subreddit = prompt(promptText); } if (!subreddit) return; if (subKeys[subreddit]) subreddit = subKeys[subreddit]; var title = document.title; var url = encodeURIComponent(document.location.href); window.open(https://www.reddit.com/r/${subreddit}/submit?url=${url}&title=${title}); })()
Sports and sports news. That’s where we need to recruit.
/r/nba has 8 million subscribers. /r/soccer has 5 million.
We can have sport-focused instances, and we can have one community for each team from the major leagues. We can have “legal gray area” instances focused on video and streams for games that are not on TV or online.
Dontt get me wrong, I think the topics and instances you mentioned can be definitely interesting, but they all seem to be a bit of “preaching to the converted”. We need to go after the people who look at Lemmy and think “there is nothing there that I don’t get on Reddit, why should I bother to learn all that fediverse crap?”
The moderators on communities that have decided to approach this in this way will discuss it amongst themselves and begin a thread requesting a new feature on the github. In the meantime, the moderators can work together to sketch out a plan of how to connect their communities in a loosely organized manner, where each community links to one another, and cross-posts will be recognized, while not explicitly favoring one community over another. Basically, just moderators working with other moderators and communicating and making a plan that works for those communities, and will likely be different for each set of communities.
If the feature fails to gain traction because there aren’t enough interested parties, then oh well. Maybe one of the interested parties knows a little Rust and will write in the feature themselves and ask for their work to be added to the mainline project. Anyway, these things take time, and running around howling about how it won’t work before people have even really had formative discussions about it isn’t helpful. Yeah, it’s decentralized, which means some people will take longer to find out that the option exists, because they’re on a site that isn’t federated with somesuch other site, and the meandering path of news of “tools to organize multiple communities as a larger whole,” might take longer to get to them. That’s… not the end of the world, you know? That’s the nature of decentralization, initially, the conversation won’t involve everybody. Over time, maybe it will, but likely some areas of the fediverse will wall themselves off and not be interested in connecting their communities to others and that’s fine. That’s literally the point of the federated decentralization, so people can be allowed to make their own decisions on how to interact, everything from not interacting at all, up to and including making “webrings” of related Lemmy communities. I’m not sure why you need a whole gameplan laid out for you, but it feels like maybe you haven’t been part of a lot of self-organizing communities in your life. These things grow organically. Yes, that includes competing standards growing at the same time, much like there being a bunch of different Lemmy apps existing at the same time.
Unplayable mess? I never said that. However, more than a few people had game-breaking bugs in Skyrim and had to restart or hope they had a save from far enough back.
Obviously Skyrim was playable enough since it was an immediate critical success. I can’t really speak for fallout 4 since I never played it and didn’t bother following the news for it.
That being said, there are memes older than some people on lemmy equating Bethesda and bugs. They’ve earned their reputation, but good and bad.
When communities aren’t as populated we rely on a more central content feed. Young reddit was the same way. People identified with the site as a whole with advice animal memes and news instead of everyone having their perfect niche subreddit feed that emerged with a huge userbase.
The general feed that we have now is a little immature but that’s how reddit was too. Lemmy or whichever platform succeeds will mature and cater to us eventually but for now it’s kind of like going back in time. It’s weird and fun and definitely good enough. No fucking way I’m being an experiment to some shitheads that don’t respect what reddit is about. It will all be worth it when lemmy develops I think.
Not trying to be mean, but … you’re making a post about redundancy because other people make posts about redundancy? :D
I’m trying to prevent a scenario that I see could happen: Lemmy stays stuck in its current state for a while, most of the users are leaving because the content is hard to get to, partially due to the number of redundant communities.
Lemmy’s userbase keeps focused on the usual 4 core topics: news, memes, tech, foss.
The userbase shrinks back to what it was before the Reddit API changes, hence under 5 thousands monthly active users, talking about this 4 core topics. Most of the enthusiasts go back to Reddit using Rrvanced apps or other tricks.
Aside from technical solutions, people can vote with their feet.
They can, but I’m always afraid they leave Lemmy altogether rather than just a few communities.
Hey, I’m the guy who started the .ml fediverse community. I started it with the Lemmy part of the network was young, and there weren’t many instances yet. It’s become a very active community, and I’m constantly amazed to see how much faster things move these days.
This has kind of been an ongoing conversation in some prior feature request discussions for Lemmy. One idea is that communities could consensually relay posts from one together, effectively creating a group containing Group Actors. This would probably cut down on duplicate content, but could create a larger surface vector for spam. But, I think it’s an interesting idea.
I don’t really have a full idea of what the best solution is. A Fediverse-specific instance similar to socialhub.activitypub.rocks could be a really interesting experiment, in that it would try to serve as a “Neutral Zone” between instances while sharing all kinds of news.
In the end, I don’t really have much of a horse in this race. I think cutting down on duplication and redundant communities in favor of a more active shared space would probably have a lot of benefits, there’s always going to be independent communities dedicated to the same theme on some far-off server. I’m not really interested in preventing anybody from starting their own.
I’m in the US and “lefty” might mean something different for me than it does for you. Where I live and the sites I go on - have leftys on there but no, they never use the term tankie.
As I mentioned, it’s used in discussing circles with leftists beyond center left (i.e. someone who’s more left than Bernie Sanders): Anarchists, Marxists, Maoists, etc. Lemmy might be the only site you go to that has a sizable proportion of these.
On Reddit, if you go to places like r/anarchism, r/socialism, r/stupidpol, you get to see it being used.
Annoying is an opinion yes, but I’m saying its annoying because of how often it is brought up.
It’s brought up a lot here because there are a lot of them on lemmy. You’d never hear people around your neighborhood complaining about something that doesn’t happen in your neighborhood.
Maybe you are not seeing as many because your instance might block them. But I see them all the time is news articles about Ukraine or North Korea.
I see that there’s a discussion thread that goes on about this, not gonna get involved on that.
Lemmy really helps. Lot smaller then other places and not the engagement engineering. If it is really important national or global news someone will post it here too.
Use RSS feeds if you want more than Lemmy.
Bookmark then read. Review the bookmarks ruthlessly and only read stuff that is actually going to give you information related to you and actions you will take. Other stuff is just noise. Great example, I rarely look at stuff about Trump now. I know him and his minions, where I stand, and what my actions are… no more info needed on my end.
Have some perspective. Human history over the long span has been a story of improvement. We however live in interesting times.
Live you life best you can on your own terms. Does no one any good to do otherwise.
I actively avoid news. If something is important enough then it’ll make its way into my life one way or another. Besides, me being aware of the billions of problems in the world doesn’t change their outcome one bit, it just makes me unhappy. I’ve been more engaged with the news since joining Lemmy, since I don’t have my feed completely curated yet, and I’ve noticed a significant decline in my overall happiness. As a result, I’ve become more aggressive with my blocklists this last week.
I haven’t been doomsrolling for at least 15 years. Even on Reddit, I had my frontpage curated to block most of the “doom” stuff… but leaving Reddit behind and switching to Lemmy, has definitely cut on that even more.
I DO NOT directly visit news sites, AT ALL. Only whatever I get through news aggregators.
Currently, my sources are:
Beehaw Local
LemmyWorld Local
LemmyWorld Subscribed (only cool/funny stuff)
Google News recommends (curated down to mostly science, tech and space)
YouTube (similarly curated)
TV (mostly the looping 24h news broadcast, mostly the beginning with the headline blurbs, turning it off when I start getting fed up)
Fedilab (mastodon, following some people, artists, etc.)
Porn (check on 𝕏, quick search on your favorite website, y’know the drill)
A couple Facebook groups (FB’s ads interrupt the scrolling and make me close the whole thing)
I try to switch from one source to another in a more or less regular pattern, never staying too long on a single feed, and engaging by writing comments or looking up related stuff.
You could say I’m somewhat “underinformed”, but actually get a decent cross-section of news about local, country, world, general science and tech, and some niche interests.
As for a constant state of anxiety… well, on one hand I’m in more of a resigned state of despair about the world… and I take anti-anxiety meds… so… yeah, not sure how much is owed to information hygiene, and how much to just giving up/not giving a crap.
I struggle with this, I feel like Lemmy has affected me negatively overall. I guess you can’t blame bad news being shared when the world is objectively shit, but no one benefits by you ruining you mental health.
Apathy and people not caring about politics is something that negatively affects the world by leaving all the choices to the ones with bad intentions, but caring too much can very quickly lead to desperation and hopelessness. I’ve been diving a bit into world history, trying to clear my mind from misconceptions and propaganda, but what I’m realizing is that everyone sucked, maybe excluding early hunter-gatherers.
In order to change the world, it takes power and the ability to cause harm to the ones standing your way, but this means that well meaning people who just want themselves and everyone around them to live a happy life can’t really do much about it because doing something about it most often involves picking a side and dominating opposition. That unfortunately leaves powerful positions to the ones who are willing to do all that, who probably don’t care all that much about everyone being happy or themselves being brutal.
And I think that’s why we’re left with a world so uncaring, so hostile to its own self, willing to take everyone down with them instead of working together.
Same and I hate that I would have to go back to reddit. I like that I can have decent conversations here but I also miss being able to talk about niche shows I like and quote things with people. The niche interests that Reddit offers isn’t really on Lemmy.
Like I’m also no longer keeping up with my favorite radio show cause they have a sub Reddit and the people who listen to that show, aren’t the kind of people who can just switch over to Lemmy. They don’t know the first thing about changing platforms.
I already talked to someone else on here on providing my own content and being the change I want to see. But I’ve found so many communities where its just one person posting into the void and there’s lots of posts from like a month ago and zero comments on every single one. Some communities seem to be just people posting news links to other sites. Which makes Lemmy seem like a directory- not a community.
I went back to RSS and my niche community is on instagram/threads. Not the same as it was on Reddit, of course, but I’m having what I want in terms of news and content at least. Right now Lemmy has nothing for me, that’s the truth.
Tags would be so good for Lemmy actually. Instead of creating new extremely specialized community we could use tags to help those who want this kind of content find it in a less focused community, preventing segregation of small Lemmy user base. And when certain tag gets enough traction we would create a community for it.
Instead we have sorting mechanisms that actively punish small communities and big communities mostly driven by news (e.g. c/technology).
Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?
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