It is an important metric for me when comparing secure messengers like WireMin and Session, especially when they are both good in terms of security. Of course, their speed needs to be taken into consideration. From the perspective of tracking up-to-date news, I believe Mastodon is the best. While when it comes to the social experience, Lemmy is my favorite.
I’ve seen this a couple of times on reddits r/all front page
People like to say that lemmy is a better alternative or much more different with its userbase than reddit but I’ll say that’s rather the opersite it’s got pretty much the same userbase from reddit plus alot of people whom have been banned which makes the stuff you do see here alot less welcoming and alot more poloarising it alot of the content I see on all is tankie or extreme alt left memes I get comedy is subjective and all but me personally im surprised anyone finds any those memes funny most unfunny memes I’ve seen in my life and reposts like this sprinkled in with a shit ton of rage bait news articles
You can take a redditor from reddit but you can’t take the reddit out of the redditor
There’s not enough userbase to literally split them for every single distro. Remember even with “a bigger exodus” than what we got, reddit’s userbase is still hundreds of times larger than ours.
Lemmy’s numbers have gone downwards and stabilized. Currently one of the more popular moderation actions has been to shutter the incredible excess abundance of communities and consolidate on main communities.
/c/linux is good enough for most news discussions, and I would argue that places like /c/linuxgaming are better resources to troubleshoot your system based on purpose rather than just on distro.
So, Lemmy is sometime missing content. I don’t regret switching from Reddit to Lemmy but, expecially for niche communities, the content isn’t always here....
I was going to add instance filtering to Tesseract, but since that’s an upcoming feature of Lemmy 0.19’s API, I decided to hold off on implementing that.
The good news is, regardless of which UI you use, you shouldn’t need the greasemonkey scripts to block instances once 0.19 is out :)
If lemmy had user-defined filters, I’d use them. Right now I’m downvoting the stuff, but there’s already a community for musk-related stuff: !EnoughMuskSpam
I think anything “musk did/said ABC” should be banned. Reading news about SpaceX or whatever else Musk owns that’s technology related is fine IMO, but the constant “Musk this” and “Musk that” just makes me downvote or at “worst” unsub.
Regarding Twitter, if lemmy had filters, I’d block all of that too. However I can see that it has some influence on people and would be fine treating it as an exception to the muskysphere as long as it doesn’t contain “Musk” in the title.
When I joined Reddit I noticed that it’s too easy to end up doomscrolling and arguing with idiots. That’s why I stayed away from r/all and any sub that’s all about news and/politics. The only exception was r/europe, because I think it’s good to know something about the region that actually influences my life.
In order to avoid wasting time on stupid idiont nonsense, I focused on science and technology subs along with some very specific niche subs. That way Reddit was actually able to provide some benefit from time to time.
I made a Lemmy account before the Reddit Blackout, and I’ve been here ever since. After the blackout ended, I visited Reddit every week at first, but now it’s more like once a month at most. In order to make the transition faster, I unsubscribed from everything except all the protest, blackout, API etc. related subs. So if I go to Reddit now, I’ll just see people complaining about Reddit. If I go to r/all it’s about as useless as it was years ago, so there’s no reason to spend time in there.
Lemmy Instance Assistant It does things like if someone links a post and the link takes you to the post on another instance, it adds a button to show the post on your home instance. You can also right click on a page (say, an article on a news site) or image and choose the option to share it on lemmy, which creates a new post. It also has stuff to help you when you click a link to a community but the community is not federated to your server, or you can go to the list of communities on another instance and it will have links to take you to that community on your home instance. That sort of thing. Basically the beginnings of a RES for lemmy.
I also like Dictionary Anywhere, which lets you double click on a word to get a definition, a bit like the one Google one for Chrome.
There are also various container extensions such as a Facebook or Google one, that isolates those sites to attempt to prevent that activity being associated with your activity on other sites. It can be a little annoying to get used to but I use them. The annoying thing is that when you click say a google site from a search result on duckduckgo, it closes the duckduckgo tab and opens the site in a google container, but then you can’t click back to go back to the search results.
The general container tabs extension is good too. It keeps separate cookies per container. So say if you have 3 different microsoft accounts, you can create different containers. Then you can open a new tab in a specific container and it will remember the account you logged into last time in that specific container, but doesn’t affect other containers or tabs not in a container.
I think for memes and news I’m pretty much set with lemmy. For a lot of more niche topics like specific gaming communities, I do kind of feel left out. For now though I’m willing to bite the bullet. I stand by why I left Reddit. It’s nothing special technologically to warrant putting up with the shitty business practices. Eventually people will migrate elsewhere once the squeeze is tight enough, whether it’s to lemmy or not. For one of the games I play there’s already more activity on their forum than the subreddit for it. Not so much for others.
I still use reddit when I need to ask some obscure question about some topic that isn’t well represented on Lemmy yet. I don’t browse or lurk anymore though. (Kind of like how some people just use Facebook for communication and not for the newsfeed.)
Check out beehaw if you’re worried about missing news. That lemmy instance has way less shitposting and seems to have healthy discussion.
Between the mixed feeds on Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and beehaw I haven’t missed any big things that I’m aware of. I have other friends on discord and irl and if they talk about a big news story it’s never something I missed.
I only check in on my cities subreddit for local news otherwise I’ve totally dropped it. I miss the community and the depth of content on what reddit used to be but Lemmy is growing fast and has kept many of the same internet jokes so I’m content
Its been weird, I feel like I’m kind of missing something, same kind of FOMO, but when I actually go back to it I see I’m not missing anything at all. Lemmy is pretty neat, but haven’t fully gotten the hang of it yet. Just discovered how to sub another instance today, so progress is being made.
I’ve been back to reddit probably 20 times in the past 3 months, and every time I’m waiting for the dopamine hit, and it never kicks in. Its just flat now, the content just isn’t that interesting. Its all pretty cringy, and I’m pretty much over it, just going there out of habit, chasing the content dragon that no longer exists.
Facebook is useless, Xitter is dead, reddit lost its way. I’m enjoying Lemmy so far, but it seems to be missing the viral content, ultra red-hot breaking news that reddit used to have.
I haven’t missed a thing. I don’t even get most of my news from Lemmy or Reddit communities; I get it from RSS feeds or books. I lurked /r/linux for a long time after I stopped actively contributing. It wasn’t until a few months ago that I started contributing to Lemmy, the first collection of online communities I’ve been a part of in years. I’m of two minds about it.
I’m actually grateful for it because I started complaining about things that have bothered me for a long time, and The Great Lemmy Migration made me realize, well, there’s no reason I can’t do something about that. It helped me change my attitude. So, in a very real way, I’ve contributed to several upstream projects because Lemmy made me rethink things and I am now less annoyed. It’s weird how Lemmy feels like an actual community in the way no other social site (including Reddit) has.
On the flip side, I think I spend too much time on Lemmy…but this week has been uniquely rough.
Actually, there is high value in posting where their upvotes matter a lot. That’s why Russia hijacked r/conspiracy - because they didn’t have the numbers to overwhelm some of the bigger subreddits.
A new medium like Lemmy is easy to hijack. And clearly it’s happening. I read a very broad cross section of news, and a lot of the stuff that’s getting upvoted here is simply lame anti—west propaganda.
Federal law enforcement officials warned on Wednesday that Israel’s ongoing war with Palestinian militants could encourage more hate crimes in the U.S....
Strolling through Lemmy world news reflects this. That community is starting to become as foul on this subject as reddit, just a different side of extremism.
I’m on a waitlist for professional help. That’s not as easy to access as I’d like it to be, at least not here in the GTA. Religion I will be staying pretty clear from because honestly people using religion to hate me is one of the reasons I’m in this position in the first place. I’ve got no issue with religious folks, and plenty of religious friends, but I avoid the religion itself. Just not good memories in anyway as a gay dude with a sprinkling of autism who happens to be from a rural area.
As for the other advice:
I don’t trust ChatGPT at all. There have been other instances of people using chatbots to try and help with mental health and it has recommended some terrifying options. One support line decided to replace their phone answering employees with a chatbot. That bot started recommending dieting to people with eating disorders. That’s just the first example that comes off my mind.
If I could take a cruise, I would without a single hesitation. However I just had a vet bill for a cat that ended up being perfectly fine. That wiped out all of my savings and is going to mess up my budget for a couple months. Not to mention the fact that the amount of money I had saved took months and was a pitiful amount. I legitimately wouldn’t have been able to go up the CN Tower and have a dinner at the restaurant, nevermind get a cruise. Social media is also my only connection to society in general. Social media isn’t super healthy which is why I already limit myself pretty well. The only social media I’m active on is Lemmy and, to a lesser extent, Mastodon. In both I stick mostly in meme/funny communities and keep everything light. That or just focus on Star Trek. I only really drop into news communities once every day or two just to see what’s going on there, I don’t engage much.
I don’t really want to go into it but I have a hard time trusting people physically.
Honestly it’s fine. Been like this for years. I’ve tried a bunch of different things, talked to different people, tried different environments and it’s none of those. It’s me. I’ve just sort of accepted that I’m not going to be happy. That’s fine. Not everyone gets to be.
Inside Gaza, cut off from the world by a near total blockade, Israeli airstrikes have decimated entire neighborhoods, leveling homes, schools and mosques. CNN drone footage from Monday showed the level of destruction across parts of the strip, with whole streets flattened in the al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City and a row of...
This holy shit yes. Reddit is a clusterfuck. I hold Netanyahu and Gaza’s elected representatives, Hamas, both accountable. I deeply condemn both of their past, present, and future war crimes. I am so old enough to know that Netanyahu and Hamas have always been partners.
But more importantly, although we may disagree on the conflict, we do NOT disagree that Reddit is a clusterfuck disaster. I fight the pro Hamas propaganda here on Lemmy because I still care about Lemmy. I happily soak up the downvotes from all these kids who have no knowledge of the conflict snd the anti-semites both.
But the pro Netanyahu/hardliners shit on reddit is fucking pointless to fight it’s a shitshow and nobody should look to Reddit for anything on this conflict. For this conflict I just consider it an illegitimate news source completely.
I am glad! Lemmy needs more bright little corners of things to make people smile. It’s good to follow politics and news and tech, but those things are seldom positive stories.
With nobody else posting, I decided to make it what I wanted to see on Lemmy, so while I do post adorable but deadly birds, I also try to teach about them so we care about saving them and to spotlight the people that care for them when they’re injured.
Sometimes I’ll post about environmental concerns if it’s more important than usual, but it’s mainly just to give everyone, including myself, something to look forward to seeing.
If you’re non-US, I try to they’re in owls from around the world a few times a week, and if you have any questions it there’s something you want to see, just let me know!
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This is true but I think we need to remember the internet with less rose colored glasses as well.
There was a lot more decentralization to the older web, but most general discussion still revolved around a handful of big name message boards. Sure you had more smaller forums for specific hobby’s like photography or knitting , but there was usually a big photography forum and a big knitting forum and a bunch of mostly dead ones.
Then there are the communities we all fondly remember. Our message board of international internet friends, but slowly but surely those message boards started to just die off as users left and moved on and discussion dried up.
I feel like federation gives us a sort of best of both worlds in theory, though in practice I’m not sure if it will work like that.
Also I feel like regarding beehaw specifically, as it exists this community is broad enough that it benefits from a bigger user base, but understandably its hard to maintain the standard they want. Overall I think the issue for me when it comes to following beehaw where they go is that Im here more for the general stuff and I imagine that the shift will lead to a big reduction in activity in conversation about say technology and news and health and the like. I remember how smaller message boards got on and while beehaw is currently one of the bigger more active lemmy instances I suspect that the majority of users wont follow. Even now most of the content we have sits at less than 10 replies.
I wish everyone luck, and I know the founders were on lemmy long before the reddit bump changed things so they are happy and able to continue on as a smaller more compact entity, but I’m probably not going to move on. That said it’s a shame because lemmy discourse and attitude is one of the better parts of lemmy so its very possible that without beehaw I drop lemmy as well(outside I guess mander and @startrek stuff maybe)
When I open my phone, I look at a couple of things like news / weather / Lemmy, and then in about 5-10 minutes I’m done taking a dump and I put the phone away until I get a message.
Most of the time I don’t use a smartphone for the Internet, it’s just my pocket messenger device.
The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...
Because RSS works with an app that manages more RSS from others sites with different configurations you can set plus some filters you can do to that RSS list. So for me, the RSS app gives me more control on what I have read or not from not only Lemmy news (plus some filters I do, a pre-prosessing after fetching the RSS list using Javascript code). And you don’t even need a Lemmy account for that.
One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion (arstechnica.com)
xkcd - Spirit (lemmy.world)
xkcd.com/695/
Where is Ubuntu in Reddit alternatives?
The Ubuntu Reddit appeared to be very intimidated about the actions Reddit did bit back safereddit.com/…/reddit_is_forcing_us_to_reopen_r…...
An idea for more content on Lemmy (and the fediverse): Relly (Relay+Lemmy)
crosspostato da: lemmy.world/post/7542906...
An idea for more content on Lemmy (and the fediverse): Relly (Relay+Lemmy)
So, Lemmy is sometime missing content. I don’t regret switching from Reddit to Lemmy but, expecially for niche communities, the content isn’t always here....
If people did everything as a trick shot (thumbsnap.com)
Could we please add a rule to ban musk spam?
If lemmy had user-defined filters, I’d use them. Right now I’m downvoting the stuff, but there’s already a community for musk-related stuff: !EnoughMuskSpam
'Friends' Star Matthew Perry Dead at 54 After Apparent Drowning (www.tmz.com)
if you were wondering how well reddit is doing (lemmy.ml)
hey - trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox, what are your recommended extensions and/or quality of life addins, etc?
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Question to the ones that fully left Reddit
How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?...
China Calls for Complete Lifting of US Empire’s Illegal Sanctions Against Venezuela (orinocotribune.com)
FBI, DHS warn of U.S. hate crimes increase amid Israel-Hamas war (www.politico.com)
Federal law enforcement officials warned on Wednesday that Israel’s ongoing war with Palestinian militants could encourage more hate crimes in the U.S....
18+ Filters off, where do you really see yourself in 5 years?
Communick News Network: topic-specific lemmy instances.
cross-posted from: communick.news/post/267127...
2,000 children killed in Gaza, aid group says, as doctors warn fuel shortage is a death sentence | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Inside Gaza, cut off from the world by a near total blockade, Israeli airstrikes have decimated entire neighborhoods, leveling homes, schools and mosques. CNN drone footage from Monday showed the level of destruction across parts of the strip, with whole streets flattened in the al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City and a row of...
What are some good Subs on Lemmy that we should know about?
Subs? Not sure if that’s the right term on here.
Where will we all be(e) next year?
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Five apps😅 not so many for me (lemmings.world)
rules for thee, but not for me (lemmy.ca)
To be clear, not talking about this community, obviously 😛....
Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)
The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...