RSS feed overview with bookmark possibility, can filter ads links from rss (golem (g+) RSS news… can be used with rss bridge for twitter and full text articles,… hmm I really like it and never visit websites normal…
You can search through all rss feeds for example msa it shots all articles with msa,…
You could also add Reddit and Lemmy and Mastodon Feeds and Google alerts - totally useful
My first impression of sync: it's good, it allows me to use #Lemmy the way I used #Reddit. Don't know how much better it gets with an Account, as I only have one for kbin. Some apps only allow limited home instances without an account, here I can freely choose whichever.
Then sell all your shit and live without any device connected to the internet. If you believe a trillion dollar company can’t track what you like then I’ve got bad news for you.
Oh wait, even if you sell your shit, they just need to know who your friends are and they can create a profile of you… Woops! 🤷
What’s funny is that you’re trusting a bunch of random Lemmy hosts right now, but not companies that can be identified and that you can tell which laws apply to them.
Are we able to post videos or images in the comments? I know that you can post a video in the post such as a sign language video, but are people able to respond with a video comment in sign language?...
Thanks for the explanation. That also explains why often news or speeches have sign language interpreters instead of just supplying subtitles.
You should make a feature request for Lemmy. If this were configurable by the admins maybe you could find an instance that would be willing to shoulder the space requirements. Maybe some kind of Peertube integration could work.
Second after Relay, but it was pretty close. This is awesome news though as I could not find anything for Lemmy. Hopefully soon on F-Droid & in the future with kbin support as well.
As much as I hate meta/Facebook, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think these laws are right either. I don’t think you should have to pay to simply provide a link to another website. This runs antithetical to the whole idea and structure of the internet. If they’re taking the article or photos and republishing it on their own website that’s different and they obviously should have to pay for that. The linking to news sites is actually good for news sites though and increases profit for publishers by driving traffic to their sites, it doesn’t take profit away. The news publishers are free to have a paywall or put advertisements on the page being linked too and get revenue from that. This feels like publishers wanting to eat their cake and keep it too, they want big search engines and social media to link to their articles so the news sites get traffic and revenue from advertisements/subscriptions, and then they also want the search engines who created that traffic in the first place to pay for linking too? I think publishers are shooting themselves in the foot in the long run lobbying for these laws all for a pittance of cash.
This idea could also affect things like lemmy too eventually and make them impossible, if you need to pay to simply provide a link to a news story or other website.
A large part of the problem here is that people have been trying to artificially grow lemmy posts via bots that repost both articles from reddit, and random news articles from various sites.
ITT: people happy that Canadians won’t see local news as often, just because they perceive this as hurting Facebook.
You can hate Facebook and understand that this is a shitty law. To be fair, if you aren’t in the loop on what the law is, it’s easy to accidentally think it’s a reasonable law. When I first heard of it, I assumed it was just preventing companies from stealing articles and keeping news sites from getting clicks. After all, that’s a real problem and a totally reasonable solution.
But nope, the law actually prohibits linking to a news site without having an agreement to pay them. Yes, linking. I really hope it’s obvious how dumb such a law is. They wrote the law to only apply to super big corporations. Otherwise this post would have had to pay Global because you linked to it. Similarly, copying any part of the article in any amount also needs to pay them. Even the headline and tagline that Lemmy shows. It’s hypocritical that anyone cheers this on when this very post wouldn’t comply with the law.
In the past week and a half, I've noticed Reddit behaviors starting to try and poison all of the places that people are taking refuge in to get away from the toxicity, myself included. They've started to DDoS Lemmy for a while, which is a Reddit thing to do and what they're notorious of doing whenever they feel they don't like...
Even if everything you have said in this post is 100% true (and in my opinion, it is not), then the good news is that both Lemmy and kbin (and really most federated spaces I've joined) have excellent blocking tools. Block freely, block safely, block often if these other posts are bothering you.
I quickly looked at your kbin account, and it seems like every post you've made so far has to do with social networks and apps and people being mean. I know it sucks that you've just lost a very large community, but trust me, just let it go and you will be happier.
I have no way to know if you'll do this, but just as an experiment: next time you see a post here that you think either comes from or belongs to The Old Place, block it immediately, and then open up Magazines (or channels if you're in Lemmy) and pick a topic that normally would not interest you at all. Birds, movies, books, architecture, science, stamps, etc. Browse that for a few minutes and try to involve yourself in one topic. Just one. Even if you know nothing about it, ask an insightful question. It doesn't really matter if you get any response at all or not.
Do that a handful of times every time you see something you do not like here. I'd be curious if it helps you (or anyone else that tries this) in any way. I have done this myself, and it has helped me, but that doesn't prove anything.
On Reddit I’ve found most of the news about the big social networks is posted by only handful accounts, they also don’t post other interesting things, so you can just block them.
the Fediverse is growing, but still small. If anything (as much as I’m personally enjoying it) at this stage of growth, it would be still statistically likely to fade to irrelevance in a few years, so it would not even be big news. Seeing a couple of the Big Socials being dismantled this way at the same time is… something else. I’m getting tired too of all this coverage about Twitter and Reddit and start wishing Lemmy had filtering by keyword, but rationally I know it’s granted.
“As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media...
From a mastodon users point of view a Lemmy user behaves like another Mastodon user. For instance this is what my Lemmy profile looks like from mastodon:
Even though they boost ( e.g. “retweet” ) everything that has been posted to the community. Be it a thread or a new comment.
The big upside of kbin is, that it, as you said, combines micro blogging and news aggregation. While Mastodonusers can interact with lemmy content users on lemmy can only reply to comments posted from Mastodon. We have no real way to send a toot (e.g. “tweet”) to mastodon deliberately.
One is that everyone forgets who actually decides the rules for a given C/. This happened all the time on reddit. The mods make the rules, period. That’s how lemmy is set up, though admins have veto power of course.
Since whoever creates a community is the top mod, they get to decide what the usage of the sub is.
When you have an umbrella term like politics, news, knives, cars, users come into it with their own preconceived assumptions of what that C/ should be about. Often to a degree that shows their arrogance as much as anything the mods do. It was a long running battle on r/edc with people thinking their definition of the term was the only acceptable one. Happened in morbidquestions all the time too.
But the hard truth is that no forum can be a bottom up organization unless every single person using it inherently thinks in that cooperative way. And that is impossible. The only way you could make a C/ where every user is in perfect agreement about the rules and usage is to have it set up by the group and closed to outsiders.
Now, you’ve also run into the language fallacy. You’ve forgotten that an forum with a name in a specific language is going to be predominantly filled with things in that language. You aren’t going to find many news reports in Korean on an english based C/, and that’s the majority of internal news about korea.
English is currently the ironic lingua franca of the world, but there’s still only a handful of countries where it’s the default. So, on a news or politics C/ with those words as the name, you have to expect a majority of the posts to be from or about those countries.
With that in mind, you have to remember that reddit was predominantly american. Most of these newer communities here were started by r/efugees, directly carrying over the names of subs. Most of the users looking for those C/ names are also ex redditors looking for the familiar. They’ll be american, posting things about american news and politics.
Since the “owners” (really head mods, but you know) make the rules, and they’ve decided to limit things, there’s really nothing anyone can do unless instance owners step in. And what’s not actually something we want happening very often.
I don’t think it’s arrogance. It’s just habit and familiarity.
Now, do I think that anyone running an umbrella C/ should be aware of that fact and not artificially limit things to one facet? Hell yes, the rule is a bad one. But it ain’t my C/, and it’s a big fediverse where we can have !news in fifteen different places, run them as a proper umbrella community and let the users migrate wherever they prefer.
This isn’t reddit. It’s nigh impossible for one person to squat a C/ name at all, much less on every instance.
Shit, afaik, there’s no rule against setting one up and actively notifying users on C/ twins on other instances. There’s a shit ton of people that will be very happy to subscribe to both, or a dozen. None of “my” C/s have duplicates currently, but anyone that sets one up is more than welcome to advertise the fact politely. Hell, if they bother to let me know, I’d link that shit in the sidebar.
11 year, here. I lurk for it to supplement my news until Lemmy ramps up. Otherwise, I’m done there. Not exactly by choice, but because I was wrongly permanently suspended and admins refuse to listen to an appeal. Their loss, for I made them money through gildings both given and received, informative content, and reporting of incivility, bigotry, and violence.
11 years, and I really haven’t missed it. Lemmy has been great (the 3 day no-poop guy was just as good as anything that was on reddit), the apps are getting better by the day, and Mastodon has easily filled the gaps for breaking news.
I migrated there after digg 4.0. I still have a reddit account but all of my old comments have been changed to direct people to Lemmy. As far as my influence? Probably not much. While I had several hundred thousand post karma, that was all news related so I was not exactly a content creator. I did comment a decent amount though.
People are saying they don’t like the spam, it’s ultimately the choice of the user if they do not want to see repeated posts of the same item.
I get posting to 2 communities of the same, but if you are filling multiple communities with the same post. You aren’t really adding anything. With the fediverse people can subscribe to multiple communities with what you’re suggesting, if everyone were to spam posts, which this is what it is. It’s spamming the same post across multiple communities. What you’re going to end up with is a bunch of redundant communities with a severe lack of orginal content. Which harms the community they are posting to more than it helps.
Why should I subscribe to both [email protected] and News@SmallLemmy if the small community is just reposted content from the first community. I get what you’re trying to say, but this kind of thing harms the communities more than it helps
They can do this if they want too, but I’m not going to bother subscribing to a community with duplicate posts. That’s not the point of the fediverse.
The beautiful thing about Lemmy is you can have multiple communities co-existing, producing their own unique content and be subscribed to all of them at once. Nothing against cross-posting but this doesn’t feel at all an organic way of sharing content. It feels forced and hampers discussion.
People who are scrolling through all can see these posts, and will need to pick between 3 of the same post if they want to discuss it, It will spread comments thin. It makes more sense to just post it to one, then maybe wait before posting it again to another community.
Your argument of semantics is not constructive to this conversation. You absolutely know what I am talking about yet you continue
Spam is spam. The definition fits whether you like it or not I am not discussing it further.
We are arguing over the proper use of this site. When I say site what I mean is platform and you know that. You’re just arguing about that again for the sake of it. Again, not constructive. Frankly it’s obnoxious
When promoted to me by the site admins it’s always encouraged to subscribe to communities. Why is it there if you people aren’t supposed to use it? Why should I be forced into seeing posts from a user whose only purpose is to spam content. If all they are doing is reposting the same content over and over . What good is it for me to block multiple communities because of a single user? You’re bringing a tank to a knife fight. Then that restricts me from seeing posts from an entire community based on the actions of a single individual. Whereas blocking 1 person only stops me from seeing their posts. Oh well, who cares. If a user doesn’t want to see someone’s posts they can block them if they want too. They are well within their rights to do so.
Why do I have to deal with the inconvenience of seeing the same post because someone doesn’t have good etiquette when using the website?
You missed some pretty key details about how constantly posting the same post hinders it getting proper engagement. I know this shit, I have browsed this place long enough to understand that pretty well.
You are arguing a different purpose for communities. My idea of the purpose of communities is having them as individual spaces. I have no issues if someone makes a LemmyShitpost or a Mildly Infuriating on another instance. That doesn’t bother me. The two communities can co-exist. It’s especially useful if it’s a case of two communities instances being defederated so allowing the posts to be seen by as many people as possible.
People are actively telling you they do not like posts being spammed across multiple communities. That is lowering the quality of content here on Lemmy. Which makes Lemmy a worse platform than alternative places. Whilst well intended it isn’t a viable strategy. Not for keeping people happy.
It just clogs up the All feed with the same post making any other posts hidden. This is not a good thing. It reflects poorly on this platform.
Imagine if today everyone decided I am going to post an article to every news community across all instances. That would get pretty chaotic pretty fast, but I guess that’s not spam to you is it?
Anyway. I am ending my discussion with you here. I have said what I needed to say. I made my points pretty clear where I stand on this.
With the mass migrations of Reddit users to Lemmy/Kbin, and Twitter now speedrunning its own mass extinction, it seems me that the eventual future of social media is de-centralized. I like how Lemmy is slowing turning out, even if it still has some work to do and growing pains to fix up. It’s still able to inform me of all of...
On that, we agree. While what we have been Spectra and Diode and the handful between us is…fairly decent? Discovery still absolutely sucks.
I think one thing that works well for Lemmy is in how its communities are structured. Like this one! A bunch of servers all connect to the same space, and people passing through trade thoughts, questions, and bits of news.
I feel like part of the problem is that PeerTube has no such communal structure. You just kind of… stumble around and try to watch videos and hope it’s interesting. In fact, in the past, people shared their videos through Reddit communities like /r/PeerTubeVideos. It’s like we had to bootstrap it with something else.
Maybe we should do the same with Lemmy in the interim?
Both are true and there’s a difference between doing fine and excelling
I prefer Lemmy’s slant towards technology-related news, and polite discussion in earnest without painfully unfunny “and my axe” responses.
I used to think so also; but Red Hat’s earth shaking move to stop sharing its source w the public was a non-event in all of the fediverse instances I could find. I missed it’s since I don’t do Reddit anymore and became aware almost 2 weeks after the fact when my employer released a statement condemning it.
You can check out the lemmit instance. A lot of instances have defederated from it (with good reason imo, because a bunch of lemmit communities are just links to reddit).
But some of the communities (that the lemmit bot creates from scraped subreddits) are just links to other sources. It doesn’t scrape comments but just the content. So I subscribe to the “TIL” and “World News” communities from Lemmit, because it’s just links for me to read.
Personally, I’m trying to move away from those as well, because I prefer to rely on the fediverse for the content I want. But it’s been a good option for me to still get certain material, while never actually using reddit myself. Some of the communities only link to old.reddit, so I ignored those. But mainly for news is what I’ve used it for, and it’s been good for weaning my last remaining ties to that sunken ship.
My next step will be reposting that same content to Lemmy communities myself. But I gotta handle up on some current (personal) life issues, before I can start contributing more to the content around here
Fresh RSS
People that host Fresh RSS , I dont quiet understand what its use? Does it save the RSS articles?
Update regarding community rules on c/Games (lemmy.world)
Hi all!...
Sync for Lemmy is now available for everyone (play.google.com)
Is Lemmy a good option for the Deaf Community?
Are we able to post videos or images in the comments? I know that you can post a video in the post such as a sign language video, but are people able to respond with a video comment in sign language?...
Someone forked the Infinity for Reddit app and turned it into a Lemmy client (lemmy.ml)
Meta to end news access in Canada over publisher payment law (The Guardian) (archive.is)
Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers...
Lemmy is trending toward all links no content
Sorry, no link to some ‘news’ article. /s...
Meta begins process to end news access to Facebook, Instagram users in Canada (globalnews.ca)
Be wary of spiteful Reddit users (kbin.social)
In the past week and a half, I've noticed Reddit behaviors starting to try and poison all of the places that people are taking refuge in to get away from the toxicity, myself included. They've started to DDoS Lemmy for a while, which is a Reddit thing to do and what they're notorious of doing whenever they feel they don't like...
What are your favorite news sites?
Regardless of the kind of news. I’m working on a TLDR bot and I’d like it to support the most used sites on Lemmy.
"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate (www.salon.com)
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)
“As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media...
Why !politics and !news are US centric and then we have !worldnews for the rest of the world? Am I the only one finding this slightly arrogant?
Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?
I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help....
Is there someway to stop this?
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/44ee2a15-1301-4e5f-97ab-76d90b0587d9.jpeg
PeerTube has a federation problem
With the mass migrations of Reddit users to Lemmy/Kbin, and Twitter now speedrunning its own mass extinction, it seems me that the eventual future of social media is de-centralized. I like how Lemmy is slowing turning out, even if it still has some work to do and growing pains to fix up. It’s still able to inform me of all of...
How exactly did Reddit become a top website and what does Lemmy need to do to eventually get there?
Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?
Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech. (lemmy.world)