It already had search (with some rough edges), but people are already making their own to fill specific needs ... chiefly it seems to replace the Google site: reddit.com search facility.
@maegul@fediversenews yeah this is so cool and fascinating. Completely different culture on lemmy with regards to search. And I keep being surprised by how separate the communities are. It barely registers on the masto feeds as news
To someone who is subscribed to multiple communities on Reddit, has there been any change in their feed in their quality or amount of posts since July 1st? Any change in the amount of comments in the posts? Even the number of community subscribers?...
The generic stuff that has a broad common denominator will easily take hold on Lemmy as they would in any growing community (like shitposts, question threads, gaming, technology, news, image focused communities and so on).
The niche stuff will take a while to grow, more so as the niche subs are those less likely to move from Reddit (or already have communities like Discord that they retreat to). More specific communities will need to build a new base here unfortunately.
You might not be aware but Lemmy has RSS built into it. I just noticed myself so I wanted to check out the current state of RSS clients and well, nothing seems to be quite what I’m after....
This is exactly what I did but it’s not pulling them. Might be on Lemmy’s side perhaps?
Edit: it’s not pulling in preview images like in the screenshots. It’s pulling article images from other feeds like Hacker News though when you open the full article.
Ich habe das Surfen im Internet verlernt. Wie hätte es auch anders laufen sollen, wenn ich mit Reddit neun Jahre lang stets das beste aus dem Internet auf dem Silbertablett präsentiert bekommen habe und über neuste Entwicklungen zuverlässig auf den Stand gebracht wurde?...
Yeah, I’m really only ever going back to Reddit for comic book movie news and /r/motorsportsreplays because there isn’t a good sub on Lemmy for that yet.
Greetings, fellow Lemmings! As the first members of this newly established community on Lemm.ee, we have the unique opportunity to shape its purpose and create something truly special. With Reddit currently experiencing chaos and users seeking refuge elsewhere, let’s make this space our own haven....
Well as far as “Lemmy welcoming committees” go, there are already quite a few from what I can tell. So I wouldn’t invest time in that but it’s up to you, of course. I mean, you’re offering a community named “Reddit” and people won’t be coming here for that anyways. Seems natural share Reddit-related info and news, at least to me. Otherwise you could have named the community something other than “Reddit” :) (e.g. “Lemmy Newcomers”, “Reddit Refugees”, etc.)
Just my 2 cents on that topic.
Personally, I can say that I’m sorely missing a central place for news on the Reddit situation/fallout. Some technology communities have been providing the news I’m looking for but this could be a more relevant source.
As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it’s pretty hard to keep track. I’ve been browsing for about a month now, here’s a list of popular communities I’ve subscribed to that others would find interesting!...
As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it’s pretty hard to keep track. I’ve been browsing for about a month now, here’s a list of popular communities I’ve subscribed to that others would find interesting!...
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a simple, standardized content distribution method that can help you stay up-to-date with your favorite newscasts, blogs, websites, and social media channels. Instead of visiting sites to find new posts or subscribing to sites to receive notification of new posts, find the RSS...
I use Inoreader, it provides a great way to quickly get up to speed on the news, without relying on ‘human curators’ on reddit or twitter. I’ve been able to add lemmy and kbin community feeds no problem, and it currently serves as my ‘front page’, until lemmy itself becomes more stable.
Auto-de-duplication and word filters help me keep my sanity and avoid the constant musk-worship on tech sites.
One of the hurdles to change for users switching from reddit to a federated platform is less content. The logic goes: “smaller community, less content, I can see i’m missing out on stuff over there so I’m not going to switch away”....
The content porting really only means something when it’s not overwhelming and the person doing the content porting is actively planning to participate in the submissions.
The easiest way to get someone to not comment on something is a wall of submissions with a fair number of upvotes and few to no comments. At this point, it’s just a glorious RSS feed rather than an actual community.
Driving user growth actually requires putting in the leg work to make meaningful submissions, following-up on them, commenting on submissions, and upvoting content. All of this takes actual effort though. A bot content porting content from Reddit to Lemmy doesn’t do much and for a number of people, looks much more like artificial engagement rather than any meaningfully sincere attempt at growing a community.
Some of the (World/US) News and Politics related communities are so barren of comments despite the deluge of content porting submissions, while other communities have blown up into their own distinct thing because people are making sincere, organic (enough) submissions.
r/Android never mentioned Lemmy before when they could have made use of the blackout to introduce people to Lemmy;
never mentioned nor helped !android, and instead preferred to launch a tiny community much later on with the exact same goals and content just so that they can preserve their imaginary mod “powers”;
waited until !android grew sufficiently big and until the fear of missing out kicked in, and then decided to advertise inside this community for there being “finally” an Android community on the Fediverse, still completely gaslighting !android here and on r/Android;
the low effort advertisement in OP’s post acting as if we’re not already on a much larger and well-established Android community:
Android news, reviews, tips, and discussions about rooting, tutorials, and apps.
General discussion about devices is welcome. Please direct technical support, upgrade questions, buy/sell, app recommendations, and carrier-related issues to other communities. Join Here: !androidlemdro.id/c/android
So I set up TT-RSS the other day and it’s generally nice, the only problem is I’m trying to find feeds that are interesting more or less. For example, we all enjoy watching TV, right? So I took the TV OPML from awesome-rss-feeds on GH and applied it, and was not amused. I don’t watch that many television and I very quickly...
Start with Lemmy feeds. Open a community, sort it by, let’s say, top-day posts, and copy the RSS button link. Here we are - top posts for 24h for a community you like but in RSS. I am subscribed to Ukrainian National Bank news, Kyiv Subway (Metro) non-urgent news, the news feed of our president, few government ministries. All this is to keep up to date with government regulations. Then there are a few developers and IT and Tech portals with worldwide news for their fields - top for the day, top for the week, and top for the month in separate feeds. Anandtech, for example. I used to be subscribed to a few Twitter accounts by RSS via a RSS-Bridge, but it’s gone now. A few vendors for the products I like. A few VR portals as I have an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset. Unraid news, as I own one. Thinking of moving email GitHub releases subscriptions to RSS. I can continue if you want.
For example Mastodon is for “microblogging” or basically what you do on twitter. Everyone yelling out a few SMS messages worth of stuff and others can reply to it.
Lemmy is a “news aggregator” or basically what Reddit does. People post on a topic and others create threads of discussion on the topic.
These two services arent serving the same purposes. What they share is an underlying protocol for doing federated social networking.
Kbin and Lemmy are both different pieces of software that can be used to spin up an instance of a reddit-like news aggregator. Both speak the ActivityPub protocol, a common "language" that allows instances in the Fediverse to connect. In theory a Lemmy or KBin instance can connect to all other Fediverse instances via ActivityPub, no matter whether the server runs on the Lemmy or KBin Software or it's an instance of Mastodon or Pleroma. But the administrators of a particular instance can restrict which servers they want to federate with, but that is not a feature of the used software. A caveat is, that in practice there had been some issues with federation between Lemmy and Kbin servers in the past, at least I heard so. You could regard this as software bugs and in current versions that should be better.
Also a reason that many people choose KBin over Lemmy is that supposedly, the original Lemmy developer has some far-left "tankie" world-views and runs the "lemmygrad" instance. Many instances defederate with that (and maybe other Lemmy instances), but those are social aspects, and not an issue with the Lemmy software itself.
I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon....
Same, a lot of people acting like you have to use one or the other its just silly. Clearly lemmy isn’t big enough to contain all of the niche news and updates from various communities yet and that’s fine. As lemmy hopefully grows then I’ll shift over here but in the meantime reddit is still better for content, anyone saying otherwise is lying to themselves lol.
Same here. Lemmy is rising quickly though, I have no doubt it will be a sufficient Reddit replacement soon enough. I’ve been using Apple News as my “read over breakfast” app. I already pay for the sub anyway, and once I set it up with a bunch of sources/topics I was interested in, it became a pretty good reading experience.
First try, Reddit post in r/Kbinmigration (I think) and it didn’t let me see the real post. Second time, it doesn’t even include Reddit posts and all about citing a magazine in APA style, and the like. Google dropping Reddit search? Because of API costs? No, because searching Reddit news yields Reddit as the top 5 entries....
So, personally, I don’t want to be even close to that stuff, because I’ve seen the damages the undernet can do.
But, far from me to be the voice of censorship. I haven’t pirated a single game or book in years, and yet, I actively follow scene news, and talked with others about stuff like Z-Library, clearly on the side in favor of the pirates.
So, exercising what empathy I think appropriate, I think the very last thing you want to do is ask for permission. Because others might not give it to you, no matter the legality of your intents. Specially if you openly say it revolves “contraband”.
Go find an instance specifically made for people who do want to talk that stuff, and others will defederate from you when they notice it. The dream of a single platform that allows it like Reddit used to is gone, but multi-accounting is a thing. You shouldn’t even be making this thread, you will just give the issue attention and spread the word to your peers that Lemmy isn’t an option. Attention was how the gore and violent porn and the loli lemmies got so swiftly removed, which is a stark contrast to how reddit operated (something something spez and jailbait). But they’re still there (probably). Just not searchable from here or lemmynsfw.
Okay I was a chronic lurker on Reddit but seeing you here gives me hope for the Soccer community on this site, which has thus far been a huge gaping hole. I honestly haven’t used anything other than r/Soccer to keep up with football news in many years so I hope Lemmy can shoulder that burden sooner rather than later. It’s probably the one part of Reddit that I’m really struggling to replace and/or live without.
Yea truth be told I still visit r/soccer and r/reddevils to catch up on football related news every morning/evening. The communities on Lemmy are still growing and while the more popular communities are very active, niche communities like sports will take some time.
Check out the football community on Lemmy, it’s starting to get active. I’ve recently started posting too.
I’m not sure how to link directly to a community, so here’s a link to one of my posts. You can click on the community and subscribe sh.itjust.works/post/701657
Why YSK: This bot is constantly reposting reddit content to its own lemmy instance, lemmit.online. Most of it goes completely unnoticed and produces no discussion. If you like using All to find new communities, and sort by New, all you’ll see is this bot. Its highest upvoted post has 40 upvotes and 0 comments, and it has over...
I noticed it posting like r/buildapc stuff; folks asking questions about how motherboards work and such.
Like, I could see mirroring r/news or something where people are posting news articles. But technical questions? If anyone on Lemmy answers the question, the original author won’t read it.
I never actually used r/ideacancer for anything but I think I might just open a community for it.
I’m fairly new and don’t 100% understand it yet, but instances are run on servers that require money. Are we heading towards seeing ads or subscriptions to raise funds instead of relying on donations to cover overhead?...
That’s very concerning! Sounds eerily similar to how Google killed XMPP back in the day. Honestly we probably shouldn’t allow any federation with them to stay safe.
There was a really good writeup I saw recently either here in Lemmy or on Hacker News somewhere, can’t seem to find it. In short though, Google adopted the decentralized standard, built it into Gmail so everyone uses their client, then eventually dropped support for talking with other XMPP clients.
[meta] Guidlines for Posting
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:...
No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here (www.independent.ie)
Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future.
Can someone still viewing Reddit explain how it is doing as of right now in terms of content quality and engagement? Akan
To someone who is subscribed to multiple communities on Reddit, has there been any change in their feed in their quality or amount of posts since July 1st? Any change in the amount of comments in the posts? Even the number of community subscribers?...
Recommend me an RSS feed reader
You might not be aware but Lemmy has RSS built into it. I just noticed myself so I wanted to check out the current state of RSS clients and well, nothing seems to be quite what I’m after....
Ich habe das Surfen im Internet verlernt German
Ich habe das Surfen im Internet verlernt. Wie hätte es auch anders laufen sollen, wenn ich mit Reddit neun Jahre lang stets das beste aus dem Internet auf dem Silbertablett präsentiert bekommen habe und über neuste Entwicklungen zuverlässig auf den Stand gebracht wurde?...
How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history (Feels super weird to see Lemmy get mentioned on mainstream news) (www.theverge.com)
What Should this Community Be About?
Greetings, fellow Lemmings! As the first members of this newly established community on Lemm.ee, we have the unique opportunity to shape its purpose and create something truly special. With Reddit currently experiencing chaos and users seeking refuge elsewhere, let’s make this space our own haven....
List of popular communities you should visit!
As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it’s pretty hard to keep track. I’ve been browsing for about a month now, here’s a list of popular communities I’ve subscribed to that others would find interesting!...
List of popular communities you should visit!
As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it’s pretty hard to keep track. I’ve been browsing for about a month now, here’s a list of popular communities I’ve subscribed to that others would find interesting!...
Do you use RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a simple, standardized content distribution method that can help you stay up-to-date with your favorite newscasts, blogs, websites, and social media channels. Instead of visiting sites to find new posts or subscribing to sites to receive notification of new posts, find the RSS...
What's your opinion on cross-posting?
One of the hurdles to change for users switching from reddit to a federated platform is less content. The logic goes: “smaller community, less content, I can see i’m missing out on stuff over there so I’m not going to switch away”....
r/Android is now on the Fediverse! (www.reddit.com)
Android news, reviews, tips, and discussions about rooting, tutorials, and apps....
Your RSS feeds
So I set up TT-RSS the other day and it’s generally nice, the only problem is I’m trying to find feeds that are interesting more or less. For example, we all enjoy watching TV, right? So I took the TV OPML from awesome-rss-feeds on GH and applied it, and was not amused. I don’t watch that many television and I very quickly...
what’s the benefits of using Lemmy compared to the others? I found this picture on Google. (lemmy.world)
Done with Twitter and Reddit
I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon....
I just tried to see how to reference a magazine in Kbin by searching Google. (www.google.com)
First try, Reddit post in r/Kbinmigration (I think) and it didn’t let me see the real post. Second time, it doesn’t even include Reddit posts and all about citing a magazine in APA style, and the like. Google dropping Reddit search? Because of API costs? No, because searching Reddit news yields Reddit as the top 5 entries....
Would darknet market discussion be allowed on Lemmy?
Hey guys,...
We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is.
YSK: There is a bot spam posting reddit content, and blocking it will improve your experience sorting by All
Why YSK: This bot is constantly reposting reddit content to its own lemmy instance, lemmit.online. Most of it goes completely unnoticed and produces no discussion. If you like using All to find new communities, and sort by New, all you’ll see is this bot. Its highest upvoted post has 40 upvotes and 0 comments, and it has over...
So how long until the Fediverse is monetized?
I’m fairly new and don’t 100% understand it yet, but instances are run on servers that require money. Are we heading towards seeing ads or subscriptions to raise funds instead of relying on donations to cover overhead?...