Jerboa is an app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is made by Lemmy’s developers, and is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever....
I find myself reading my Kindle more. Although I do miss out on finding out news that’s currently happening, e.g I didn’t realize Twitter rebranded to X and I don’t really go on Twitter as much was something pretty surprising.
I also found Lemmy to be much slower in terms of posts and engagement so it’s hard to find meaningful discussions or funny comments that I usually like to find on posts about what’s currently new.
I’ve never posted on Reddit at all and was a lurker for almost 10 years so I feel like writing and commenting on Lemmy to contribute. Although a part of me refuses to bring back the golden years of Reddit in Lemmy. Maybe the death of Reddit third party apps was just what I needed to enjoy the current moment and try other new hobbies.
The bot generally works OK (the problems are more the Pi it runs on has a somewhat flaky wifi connection so sometimes it posts stuff it shouldn't post, or vice versa, than anything to do with Lemmy)
The Bedfordshire one is something I knocked up to get some content flowing. The sources aren't the best (lack of RSS feeds on websites these days) but, yes, it posts everything - every day is a slow news day in Beds 😄
Bonus: don’t have time and want to just auto-subscribe to all* (mostly, I forgot to add some I think) of these communities (please note this isn’t reversible without manually unsubbing yourself, there’s a lot of niche communities here that may not appeal to you - you can remove them from the JSON file if needed)?
Enter instance name and login details, upload JSON.
It’ll automatically subscribe you to them all. If it looks like it’s frozen, it hasn’t. Just let it run. If you’re on a small instance, you may need to re-run it a couple times (it can error if your instance hasn’t discovered the community yet, this is solved on a rerun).
Note: this will change your lemmy settings (e.g disable NSFW). No way around this, change back if needed.
Of course, some may not be of interest or may overload your feed (meme communities can do this). Unsubscribe as needed.
I wrote this list for a curious person on the other site. It took me awhile, figured I’d share. Finding these places takes more time than I’d care to admit so… hopefully it saves you some, Lol. It’s not an exhaustive list by any means, but is mostly places I find of interest and/or I think has good content. But there’s definitely others out there I have missed (either intentionally or not). Lemmyverse is a great resource for finding new places.
My rough criterion was:
Of interest to me or a wide audience
Has a decent amount of activity, at least a single page worth of posts.
You know, if you don't care so much you don't have to involve yourself.
Lemmy (Kbin in my case) is great but this specific sub is about Reddit. And I felt that that was a fitting post to create here.
I would understand your position a little more if this was asklemmy or another sub that at most only indirectly would have anything to do with Reddit. I didn't post the link there because I know that those subs would not be fitting.
This isn't like obsessing over an ex-girlfriend. It would be, if it were always the same person posting every Reddit news. This is the first time I made a post about Reddit over here and only because I think it's good to know for the people that weren't there.
I liked the action they took at the end, as well as the persistent advertisement of Lemmy in the literal middle of r/place.
Rage over the Reddit reposts, not over the Reddit news. Or at least keep the rage in the subs that are not mainly about Reddit.
Lemmy world was growing at a decent pace leading up to July 1st, then had a big influx following the API deadline. However the last week in particular has seen a decline....
I disagree. While I do like that the discussions and top level comments are not nearly as homogenized as Reddit eventually became, I’m really missing the niche communities. I wasn’t subscribed to any large subs on Reddit, so my feed was basically just a curated list of discussions for my hobbies. No memes, news, pop culture, internet drama, or politics. Right now, that’s just not possible on Lemmy due to the low population.
Sicily - which has already been brought to its knees by a prolonged heatwave - is battling wildfires that are threatening towns and cities across the island.
It's gotten pretty bad lately and by this point I do feel like I see more misinformation on here than on Reddit. Lemmy has successfully managed to become more like Reddit than Reddit itself.
It's kinda sad, there were a few days in which it really felt like this space would be different, but right now, I either go on /sub and barely see any content because most of the communities I want to follow are fairly inactive, or I go on /all and it's mostly americans calling eachother Nazis over the slightest political disagreement, middle-class doomers going on about how their lives are horrible even though they're better off than most of the world and every "serious" community, whether it's news or politics or etc. is filled to the brim with misinformation (and more doomers).
People are already circlejerking below about capitalism over this fake pic, nice, cheers.
Sidebar says “News from around the world” not “News impacting the world”. If you don’t like it, down vote it and move on; or better yet, start a new community that you see fit. This is Lemmy after all, and anyone can create a community/an instance to shape the fediverse to their hearts’ content.
Since starting my questioning journey, I feel like some of sexual orientation labels make less sense. I like girls (a lot apparently). I have always liked girls. Therefore as amab I am straight, I realize one day in the future “fuck it, I’m transitioning” and then I’m not longer straight. It honestly would make a lot...
“you don’t know how you feel, don’t try to feel a label.”
My wife has been saying the exact same thing for months. It is incredibly difficult to change your thinking process like that and I’m still not there. Kudos to you for getting there! I think with enough therapy I’ll get there too lol
I’m in my late 30s so our age difference isn’t too great. These feelings came out of nowhere and are SO confusing.
"The Moment", a lot of oversharing, and possibly relevant trauma dumping (sorry)My realisation came when I was in between therapy sessions and trying to unpack childhood trauma. I was quite the angry person, and my therapist said “let’s try a softer approach” and the word “soft” triggered me like milk coming to a boil. I couldn’t figure out why. A few days later I was cleaning and “processing” and picked up my wife’s skirt and put it on my lap because it looked cute (a little black lace and tulle one) and the elation I felt was off the charts. I felt soo happy, and then like most of my happy moments at the time, it was fleeting. I had to break the news and it was an extremely rough time. Back in therapy, most of the events that I could remember were abusive, but couldn’t figure out why until after that day. Almost all of them were because I would be playing with my sisters’ dolls, “mother’s” makeup, being affectionate and telling family members that I loved them, wanting to wear colourful clothes (it was the 90s for pete’s sake), I was too SOFT, and things like that so we concluded that it was beaten out of me. Now I wonder how I would be if I had a supportive and nurturing family?
Tangent over. Here I am inching closer to my 40s with a lot of unresolved teenage angst, more questions, confusion, and everything in between and beyond. I didn’t understand. There were SO MANY SIGNS that I (and everyone else apparently) ignored/were blind to. It’s a lot of picking up the pieces, and it does get better as time goes on. At least I think it does. As I said last night, labelling is still the biggest issue. I never felt like I fit in anywhere, and now I feel like I fit in here on blahaj.zone. I ran away from Mastodon last year because I encountered a bigot (from our own community, no less) that made me feel like absolute dog shit for not feeling dysphoric enough to want HRT. I’m back on there now, and have been since I came to Lemmy, but I may move that over to the main blahaj.zone since I post more about gender than tech.
I feel you on the body stuff too. Like, I want to present more femme, I have big-ass shoulders for guys even. I am also one of the hairiest people I’ve ever seen in my life, like literally continuously head to toe, front and back. How do I not look like “creep in a dress”?
The hhaaaairr!!! I have this cluster of hairs on the inner corner of my mouth that grows back every 3 days. THREE. I was told that waxing and plucking was supposed to make it last longer. It aaabsolutely does not! I feel like we’ve been lied to lmao it makes me not want to even attempt laser removal because of how expensive the treatments can be, for what may be little personal gain. My 5:00 shadow starts less than an hour after shaving and can definitely relate.
If you don’t mind, I have a tip to help with some of your shoulder dysphoria. Pad your hips if you can. This video by Bernadette Banner helped me understand quite a bit on how to style for the body I have. I lost a lot of weight in the past few years, and I managed to lose weight everywhere except for my chest and hips. The rest is loose skin, and I have a bit of a natural “ratio” going that my wife is jealous of if I use a shaper and boob tape lol… I still hate my shoulders and body overall because long things become short things, but padding the hips definitely helps with the silhouette image if you want to give that a try. A-line skirts and dresses are my favourite kind, as they taper on the way down and then poof back out after the waist. Perfect for our shapes!
“Creep in a dress”… ugh. I hate those thoughts, and they are frequent. I wear high waisted skinny jeans and leggings out in public with a blazer, hoodie, or t-shirt most of the time because of those thoughts. They rule my life. I buy dresses in public, drape them over myself to check fit, buy them, and scurry home to take pics for my wife and friends so that they can tell me I’m pretty 💀 It’s not healthy and I cannot wait for the general public to not give a shit about what I wear.
Also, as I understand to idea of “trans”, it can be as broad as not being 100% inline with gender/body ideas, non binary could be considered under the umbrella of trans.
I agree. Nonbinary could and should fall under that umbrella. Some nonbinary people undergo HRT to conform to their dominant side so it absolutely should apply. :)
This has gotten quite a bit long, its a passionate subject 😂
If for an event you refer to something like the Reddit API fiasco then I wonder how many people joined here not because of Reddit, but because looking for social news aggregators.
Maybe some folks come from Mastodon but before Mastodon for me the Fediverse (indeed I just thought it was a selfhosted Twitter and nothing else) was non existent, even when I knew about Lemmy (on Reddit) I didn’t relate it with Mastodon.
I feel my smaller communities aren’t as active as I would like, I suppose the best way to fix this is that we all lurk less and contribute more, that and share fun stuff from here to acquaintances, even through other social media.
Plenty of (valid) concern about niche communities in here. I do wonder if it is something lemmy can help with some features.
A Best sorting algorithm is in the works, which would rank posts by how popular/hot they are relative to their community, and might be a great way to surface interesting stuff from smaller communities
Some sort of “Multi-Communities” that can be created and defined by the user would be wonderful too, especially in combination with the Best sort. All the news communities in one feed, sorted equally, eg. Could really be quite powerful IMO.
A controversial thought maybe … would getting more mastodon people over in some way or another be a good way to increase user counts? They’re already on the fediverse and understand something about federation. How to get them over is probably rather non-trivial though.
Some sort of “campaign” to let mastodon people know about lemmy/kbin. You’d be surprised how little mastodon users are aware of other platforms.
Very controversial and probably very difficult … adding some sort of microblogging interface to lemmy so that a mastodon user would feel more at home migrating to a lemmy instance that allows them to stay plugged in to their microblogging space. At the moment, mastodon’s UI is not doing a good job at allowing federation between lemmy and mastodon to be functional, and that’s unlikely to change any time soon, so it may be up to lemmy to bring microbloggers to here so that they can participate in both kinds of formats.
Well it depends on your goals with the platform. If you want a one stop shop to get all the necessary information in an efficient time then megathreads are great.
Nobody on Reddit, Lemmy, etc. behaves that way. Nobody checks megathreads unless it’s an ongoing, high profile situation. I guarantee you this megathread is going to get essentially no engagement within 48 hours and now for some odd reason all news about SpaceX, Twitter, and Tesla is functionally banned.
IMO the important thing is removing duplicates and pushing people to post to the most relevant communities (and for us regular users, only upvoting the post in the most relevant community). As well, Lemmy itself needs better means of combining the same post across many communities.
When I say removing duplicates, I also mean for a given event, not a literal duplicate link. We don’t need 5 posts from different media sites on the same event unless a new one is significantly different.
That’s the issue I’ve been noticing a lot. Every major news site wants to post their own opinion piece on how dumb Musk is (can’t blame em) and it feels like every single one of those will get posted to some Lemmy community.
Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…
I think karma whoring is a real problem for that site. Any post that reaches a popular critical mass gets slammed with people trying to make a quick joke or pun for upvotes, and so even commentary on popular news stories was filled with fluff, memes, or basic circlejerking. The karma system also incentivizes this really shitty dunking culture that is so bad for discourse.
It might come here eventually if lemmy gets popular enough. But even if it does the platform as a whole is just more righteous and worthwhile. It doesn’t exist as a commercial entity to drive engagement in order to satisfy advertisers, and that’s something really unique and different in our day & age.
What world are you living in? Every single person I know uses Yahoo for email, search, news, lemmy, calling taxis, ordering food, online shopping, streaming tv shows and movies and instant messaging
Basically every post like this I’ve seen on Lemmy has been shit similar to this lol. It’s too easy to discredit, I don’t understand how people think it’s a useful argument to make.
There was one about 3/4 of a news article being covered by ads. Which is true until you start scrolling, the top ad disappears because it was just in the header.
As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
I’m interested to know which accounts to follow for lemmy news. Seems like a natural place to go when having trouble connecting like I did with fmhy before and shit just works recently.
Honestly I used it sarcastically, because IIRC one of the Lemmy devs/.ml admins used that as an excuse to censor news articles about the Uighur genocide
Do note that I said “vast majority.” Would anyone argue that most of Lemmy’s user base doesn’t consist of ex-Redditors? Weren’t there about 1200 people on Lemmy as recently as a few months ago? Lemmy is basically now an open-source subreddit for memes and anti-Reddit brigading, with occasional tech news links from Beehaw. It probably wasn’t that before, but that was before.
As for the roots of the platform being communists and socialists, who are more to the left than ex-Redditors, I can’t argue that. Reddit is mostly young American liberal democrats, and that’s not communism. So I’ll take it back.
Really though, I’m unsure why I’m even posting. Maybe it’s because the OP’s premise seems so ridiculous and reminds me of the kinds of posts I see on Reddit? With posts like this, generally from the young and uninformed, I sometimes get triggered into commenting.
I’m actually relatively new to Lemmy, but I don’t think there are any Spanish instances yet that have gained a lot of traction (maybe because much of the potential userbase currently frequents Menéame, a popular news aggregator in Spain, although it has its issues).
I think it started in the comments, it felt as if the self-reflexive nature of the humour became less self-aware and what once were jokes in the voice of and at the expense of more bigoted philosophies were becoming actually serious comments propping up those laughed-at philosophies.
The left-wing echo chamber became a right-wing echo chamber and as such there was a lot more blatant racism and way way more cryptoracism directed at minorities and people of non-white origin.
Where before I felt that (on the whole) the news and temporary-culture subreddits (memes and the like) abhorred non-acceptance, suddenly that became the norm and the accepted tone shifted to one tinged with a heavily closed-off and conservative outlook; white elitist liberalism was as left-wing as it suddenly went.
My perception is that the voting and karma system where once felt egalitarian and more democratic was suddenly found to be a tool to show where the power seemed to lay.
Dissent was met with hordes of downvotes and basically snuffed out. Whether it was a shift in the userbase or bots suddenly becoming very active, it really shifted up the confidence of the more single-minded user.
I think the best thing about reddit was the comments and the ability to see how people in the actual industries and in the know of articles and posts would give great and insightful info, this felt lessened.
I feel the thing that was least effected were the smaller but active niche interest and hobby communities, and what I hope lemmy starts having more of.
Try That in a Small Town features lyrics threatening violence against protesters and has been removed from Country Music Television, but Aldean says it is a celebration of community
Your whataboutism doesn’t even work here. The USA was born in native American genocide, an international slave trade, and rampant settler colonial capitalism. At least the next time when you’re doing racist dogwhistles on lemmy pick a country that the US 24-hour news cycle wants you to derail about like Russia and China you absolute tool. Blaming the global south was so Cold War ago.
Jerboa (lm.ilyamikcoder.com)
Jerboa is an app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is made by Lemmy’s developers, and is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever....
How has your life improved with reddit nuking itself?
I find i’m doing more activities in the real world, sitting with my thoughts, and not constantly needing content to fill the void (as much)...
[repost - moved] UK Digital Terrestrial TV (Freeview) - Feddit UK (feddit.uk)
I'm re-posting this as I've moved the community to a different server for various reasons, and want to ensure anybody interested is aware....
A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics)
Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. !trendingcommunities is also a nice tool for finding new places....
Official timelapse (www.youtube.com)
Highlight is at 3 minutes....
Is lemmy growth coming to a halt?
Lemmy world was growing at a decent pace leading up to July 1st, then had a big influx following the API deadline. However the last week in particular has seen a decline....
The whole island of Sicily covered by wildfires tonight. It's a catastrophe. Here is a satellite image. (feddit.uk)
Sicily - which has already been brought to its knees by a prolonged heatwave - is battling wildfires that are threatening towns and cities across the island.
Pastor at kidnapped US girl's funeral in 1975 charged with her murder (www.bbc.co.uk)
apes together strong (feddit.de)
LemmyTools 0.2.0.7 is released! Now with Top Bar as default! Browser addon news: LemmyTools functionality is being explored to go into the "Instance Assistant for kbin & lemmy!" by cynber! (greasyfork.org)
cross-posted from: thesimplecorner.org/post/112995...
Shower thought(?) : some labels are less helpful.
Since starting my questioning journey, I feel like some of sexual orientation labels make less sense. I like girls (a lot apparently). I have always liked girls. Therefore as amab I am straight, I realize one day in the future “fuck it, I’m transitioning” and then I’m not longer straight. It honestly would make a lot...
Lemmy's active users appear to have stabilized over the past two weeks
According to lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats...
General Megathread for Elon Musk Nonsense and Twitter News
Hey folks -...
Is there any evidence that Reddit has suffered at all from the exodus to Lemmy?
Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…
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As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
Man who played ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ protest song without permit cites UN rights treaty in court (hongkongfp.com)
Lemmy is more left leaning because the rights popularity seen on other social media are driven by bots that are not here.
Yet.
Winning party by municipality in the Spanish elections yesterday. (sh.itjust.works)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/1641859...
I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)
I can’t really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by “both” sides of the spectrum. It’s just something I find interesting.
‘There’s nothing American about promoting violence’: country star Jason Aldean criticised for anti-protest song (www.theguardian.com)
Try That in a Small Town features lyrics threatening violence against protesters and has been removed from Country Music Television, but Aldean says it is a celebration of community