But, isn’t that sort of the point of Lemmy? Link aggregation?
I’ve been going to all the individual sites as well since leaving Reddit. But, only because the news and politics culture in Lemmy is so atrocious.
Despite its faults, Reddit did an okay job of moderation. It’s a shit show here. The posts are all either bots or edgy 8th graders from troll communities. It’s a mess.
I don’t get my news from any social media platform, including lemmy, no offense to lemmy. I used to do that with reddit, but it’s just too unhinged getting your news that way.
I stick with Associated Press, Reuters, and The New York Times, in that order. I also use Google News specifically for local news, but I don’t even peek at the main world news feed there.
More generally speaking, I stick to the old school human editorial board for my news. News that’s presented to me on AP, for example, has already been filtered by a board of humans who are smarter than me and whose opinions I trust on the state of the world. Opening up your selection of news to an easily gameable social media algorithm is just more trouble than it’s worth, in my opinion.
I wouldn’t rely too much on lemmy for news and politics tbh, because posts can sway on way or another or even not get traction because most people don’t agree with it. Instead I think it’s better something like a RSS feed where you can pick your sources, or maybe just check a couple of less biased news outlets, so you can somehow have a more broad overview of what’s going from different perspectives.
They create RSS feeds from external sources and dump the feeds into lemmy communities.
So it’s an RSS aggregator native to lemmy so that we can up/down vote and comment or cross post too.
Seems like an interesting way to take the arbitrariness out of what gets posted and instead focus on actually reading, assessing and commenting on the news.
French courts have been imposing disproportionately severe sentences for minor offenses, including 10 months in prison for stealing a can of Red Bull and one year for a homeless boy with schizophrenia caught looting a luxury store. The overwhelmed courts rush cases, provide minimal time for defendants, and prioritize punishment...
Your post sounds more like a manifesto than a news piece. Also, your source is really oriented… unless you are using Lemmy as a platform for your own content which is not what I’m here for.
TLDR: While Fediverse won’t directly serve you ads, anonymous bad actors other than Meta can save, redistribute, and even dox you for any information you post here. Anything you post here can/will remain forever on some malicious instance that doesn’t honor deletion requests. So be careful!
It’s called social media, the entire purpose of its existence is for other people to see what you post. This is true for Reddit, Twitter, literally any social media site. I’m not saying, well other social media is just as bad, I’m saying, this is inherently how social media works. If you’re expecting anything you post on any social media to remain private or be completely erased from existence when you delete it, you’re either stupid or hopelessly uniformed.
There are some sites where you can allow only people you’ve friended/followed can see your posts, but that is not the default setting and doesn’t prevent someone you’ve shared your content with from saving and distributing it.
Most social media sites ask at the very least for your phone number and birthday when signing up; Lemmy doesn’t, they don’t have any personal information other than an email address and only if you choose to add that for account recovery.
If this article is news to you, then so might this headline: Warning: when you drive your car from one place to another on public roads you can be seen by other people. Car users should consider this carefully before driving.
A sports team I support. There’s a community here on lemmy which I do post in but it’s like 3 of use here haha. Until it picks up I need to get team news somewhere.
Ukraine war daily thread. This is too important to ignore but I am trying to find other sources. Started using mastodon to follow some war commenters.
Afaik, whenever an Activitypub instance has defederated from another it has always had to do with some combination of bad user behavior, poor moderation, and/or spam. Are the various instance admins who have decided to preemptively block threads.net simply convinced that these traits will be inevitable with it? Is it more of a...
Threads is already 30x bigger than Lemmy and many times bigger than even Mastodon. Mass defederation won’t be making any sort of large media news outlets. We wouldn’t have any sort of significant numbers at that point.
I have stopped using Reddit as a place to waste time and doom scroll, but I am not really looking for a full replacement. I’m have started using multiple platforms to fill my time now. For news and current events I have started using RSS again. I spend a decent amount of time on Mastodon. Lemmy has been a great link aggregator and the growing community is making it feel like a great Reddit replacement, im just not putting all my eggs in one basket.
I only ever go there to check the front page/news now. Lemmy is growing fast, but being decentralized, at the moment it’s still easier to catch up on politics and world news using reddit.
Yes and I hope that the user engagement increases with time so that there is new content and info, because I used reddit for tech and other news, if lemmy does that I’m more than happy to stay here.
I am trying to lower my use of Reddit and increase my use of Lemmy.
One thing I would really like to be accepted (since its already in the proposals on Github) is to have multiple communities that have same topic somehow be joined and their news aggregated together.
Every so often I’ll glance at r/politics or r/worldnews since following the news was a big part of how I used reddit and Lemmy doesn’t quite have the volume to replace it for that function yet. But as time goes on I’m finding Mastodon and Post to be almost just as good for news so I expect to cut out reddit completely before long. The vibe and overall feel is a breath of fresh air, I’m really liking it!
So there is still stuff that’s more active on reddit, like football news, but I am now just a lurker there I don’t contribute I just read if there is an update then if it’s relevant I post it from there to Lemmy, so we can start building a community here.
Only thing I feel like I am missing is r/onepunchman the rest is no loss for me. And I have spend some time to get more news feeds here on Lemmy. I can get used to this.
Why is this good news exactly? Doesn’t this just mean that people who want to see content from Threads will be driven to that app instead? Why not allow Lemmy users to see Threads content without them actually having to support Meta?
I’m Ben and my profile page reminds me I’ve been on Lemmy since the early days back in 2019 (and I need external memory, because my internal one regularly fails, as Pieter explained… 😂).
I figured back then OpenStreetMap deserved its discussion corner on Lemmy, so I went on. And there was activity but rather quiet with mainly news posts and no real discussion threads.
Meanwhile, a lot happened to Lemmy, the Fediverse, and the outside, so we’re good for more activity on here, and that’s excellent news!
I can’t really make the time to map a lot in the last years, but I keep myself interested in mapping and in the OSM ecosystem at large, so all things OpenStreetMap usually catch my interest and are open to discuss.
As a mod, I still have to discover what the duty will really impose, but I’m positive we’ll make it a nice place all together. 🎉
Some lemmy communities enforces its own particular language. In this case, that “hacker news” community enforces display of posts for the users who have selected english as a language in the profile section.
you can also do multi select languages in lemmy.
I personally can’t wait to see communities like hiphopheads, internetisbeautiful, listentothis… join lemmy and become as active as they were on reddit. what are some of y’all fav?
Pages not loading or error’ing out, general usability stuff, like pictures in the feed snapping back to small/icon size causing the feed to jump around, posts opening in the same window and going back takes me all the way to the top/start of my feed, the confusion around interoperability between instances (can I just log in with my account on another instance? Do i need a new account?), etc.
I’m on mobile, so maybe that’s a large part of my complaint, but when ya come from Reddit, it’s hard to not see things Reddit does well that you miss.
It’s also very likely some of this is simply user error, I am not an expert, but I feel like if it’s confusing or not intuitive for me, then it’s probably room for improvement.
Edit: Idk what changes were made in the most recent update to Lemmy but a lot of my complaints here no longer appear to me occurring, so that’s great news!!
Where do you go on Lemmy for reliable news and politics?
I’m enjoying Lemmy so far, for the most part....
French Courts Are Giving Protesters INSANE Sentences (www.youtube.com)
French courts have been imposing disproportionately severe sentences for minor offenses, including 10 months in prison for stealing a can of Red Bull and one year for a homeless boy with schizophrenia caught looting a luxury store. The overwhelmed courts rush cases, provide minimal time for defendants, and prioritize punishment...
My personal Newbie Sunday: How to install Teddit with docker. (lemmy.ml)
Hello all !...
YSK: The Fediverse is a privacy nightmare (blog.bloonface.com)
TLDR: While Fediverse won’t directly serve you ads, anonymous bad actors other than Meta can save, redistribute, and even dox you for any information you post here. Anything you post here can/will remain forever on some malicious instance that doesn’t honor deletion requests. So be careful!
Those who have not deleted their Reddit accounts, do you still visit the site for anything?
Why or why not and what do you use it for?
What does defederating from Meta's Threads.net actually accomplish?
Afaik, whenever an Activitypub instance has defederated from another it has always had to do with some combination of bad user behavior, poor moderation, and/or spam. Are the various instance admins who have decided to preemptively block threads.net simply convinced that these traits will be inevitable with it? Is it more of a...
Are you replacing Reddit with Lenny?
This seems like a good place so far tbh
Lemmy's active users (content creators) see impressive 35% growth so far in July (lemmy.world)
We’re seeing an increase from 53k active users at the beginning of July to 72k active users at the time of this post....
How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though? (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1190537...
Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook (lemmy.ml)
Lemmy.ml has now blocked Threads.net
Introducing the mod team + open call for moderators
Hi all!...
Some community's posts when viewed from other lemmy instances are not showing up
Here is one example:...
What are some reddit communities you wish to see live and more active on lemmy?
I personally can’t wait to see communities like hiphopheads, internetisbeautiful, listentothis… join lemmy and become as active as they were on reddit. what are some of y’all fav?