There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!

Just noticed that it shows how many days ago I joined. The babies are taking over this thread. This is a baby-thread now.

I gotta say, I respect what Lemmy does and hope it succeeds, and I think it's a good place for discussions and such (and I will remain), but good god if this place isn't unfunny as hell. I'm struggling real hard to find some place with actually funny content on here, which leads to me getting exceedingly riled up by politics.

More friends! More allies!

Lets make this a new reddit but better!

What constitutes an active user? Is a new lurker like myself counted or is there a threshold of minimum action needed to be counted?

I will shitpost harder.
I'm doing my part!
- Same. Someone’s gotta help feed the modlog.
  
  I love how the mod log is so accessible for all to see.

One of my largest pain points with Lemmy is that there are multiple active communities for the same topic, causing quite a few duplicate posts to show up in my feed that is difficult to filter. Hopefully there comes some kind of solution, outside of userbase, this is (what I believe) one of the larger issues compared to Reddit.
However, I still switched over to Lemmy for my primary 'Reddit'-needs.
- Lemmy needs a "all" option for communities with the same name so you can, for instance, browse across all the fediverse's gaming communities.
  
  jerboa lets me see a weighted feed from all posts the instance can see
- Piefed is a Lemmy "competitor" that actually does some sort of "multi comm" combined view type of functionality
  Piefed.social
  It's not mature yet, but last I heard interoperability was mostly ok, though had oddities
- It helps to see communities as categories for an instance, each instance will have a different response to the same post based on the general instance vibe and culture. That's also why picking a good instance to browse locally can be pretty useful.
  
  I like that view, and it made me think of a possible "implementation"/"fix" as well:
  Combine the post somehow (Based on attachment/title/something else?)
  Filter/categorize the comments by instance that the comment was originally posted towards (Not by user, as that would be awful)
  The largest issue here that I can see, how do we treat "new" comments to a post?
  My annoyance is primarily with the fact that I see the same image 3x in a row, on a fairly regular basis. I might unsub from a few communities that share the same content.

How many people use reddit

I am ready to give up Reddit, we need more communities to move here!

Nice. Might as well leave my first comment here. Hi!
- Welcome
- Howdy!
- Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  
  Exactly right... cm0002. If you don't like a instance, block it with the tools given to you. Why haven't you blocked .ml if you feel so strongly about this?
  Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided against each other!

Yesterday was the first day that Lemmy activity tipped over the threshold, and there were too many overnight posts for me to read all of them over breakfast.
- End of an era 🥲
  Although usually the tide rolls back down for a while with one of these Septembers, as some newbies just don't click with their instance for whatever reasons. Still, it seems inevitable that it will tip over that threshold, and stay there, one day.
  
  I had to switch instances 3 times before I found one I was okay with.

I'm glad to be part of this renaissance of the forum.
LONG LIVE THE THREAD!! LETS GOOOOOOOOO

Is anyone else just enjoying seeing people create actual user names again and not just using the automatically generated ones reddit has done for awhile?
- I use autogenerated names from Bitwarden for my usernames everywhere XD
  
  It did you dirty with this one lol
- Your name here isn't auto-generated? :P
- They were doing surveys with the mods to see if they could tell between real and bot posts. I half wonder if it's by design and they seed their own bullshit with llms. That is my tiny tinfoil hat for the day. I do the surveys and feed them bad data then tell them they suck in the comments and they somehow have not banned me yet from them lol.
  
  I hate them.
  I run a cryptography forum on reddit (now here too). On reddit it's /r/crypto. Before the random suggested usernames every spam operation had to make up their own random username scheme. They ended up being mostly distinguishable because they used patterns normal people didn't. Now? A ton of users with limited activity are now indistinguishable from bots. So the subreddit has to be in restricted mode so only approved users can post, and for anybody with ambiguous post history I have to send them a request for more detail to be able to keep spammers out while still allowing genuine newbies to join to ask questions. Otherwise the spam volume just ends up being way too intense.

A lot of folks here are talking about Reddit being shitty but I switched because I'm in Europe and I don't want to enrich especially US Companies off of my personal data.
- Same here: Deleted my 13y Reddit account along with every other US tech account except Google, as I need that for my livelihood.
  Censorship wasn't the motivation, I rather want to permanently remove my support for the US economy in any way possible, given the shocking geopolitical events of this year and the way they are treating Ukraine.
  Besides, the Federverse feels like going back to the internet's roots and I'm here for it!
  
  American here, thanks for standing up to our fascists!!!
- Then you'll be happy to know that Lemmy is 100% EU funded.

Reddit's auto moderation has gone haywire. You can't say anything bad about nazis now.
- If you post too many pictures of Luigi/Mario you will get permabanned. I'm trying it right now, will report back...
- I legit got permabanned for implying that fascists deserve the fate of Mussolini.
  
  Yup, Reddit's mod team is pro-fascism now.
  
  Insane.
- They can nazi how bad that is for them either

Probably we can thank king Trump and the magnificent 7 horseman.

Welcome all

This is what happened when I joined obviously
- What a trend setter!

If you are here and want lemmy to succeed, please consider donating. The devs used to get by mostly by nlnet foundation grants but are trying to shift to a more sustainable donation based model. You can see how they are doing on the join-lemmy website when you scroll down to the bottom, there are also links to their liberapay (preferred option) paetreon, etc.
- Thanks for the reminder! I just donated $124.24. (12/4/24), advise you all to do the same if you're able! Every $124.24 donation counts.
- I donated monthly for almost 2 years, and they never even added me on the donator page. Petty reason, but at this point I don't even know how much they care.
  
  I care! Thank you, you rock internet stranger. I would have never looked at a donator page but I saw this. Please keep donating, looks like Lemmy is very underfunded. I did a one time for 124.24 today!
  
  There's a donator page? I wonder if I'm on there...
  EDIT: Oic, just scroll down here.
  Nice of the .world admins to donate a hundred/mo. Didn't know that.

That's really good to see. But it will be far more interesting to see what the numbers are a month and longer are from now. If they don't stick, it's pretty meaningless.
- They won't all stick. That's just the nature of things, no site/game/service/what-have-you boasts a 100% retention rate. Hell, not even heroin does. But with every MAU bump, some amount of them do stick around, and with every such increase to the baseline MAUs we get closer to critical mass.
- Historically, many stick and many bounce off.

This is probably active ones too, so the ones that don't comment (like me) don't count.. except this time. I would say it would be around same size as the active ones, but I have no data to prove that.
- I think voters started being counted a while back? I'll see if I can find the release notes.
  Edit: there we go, from the docs.
  An active user is someone who has posted, commented, or voted on our instance or community within the last given time frame.

Hey look! I'm a statistic! Not the one I expected.

And I am glad I am one of them. Not because of an anti-US sentiment (as in: towards American citizens) but as more pro-Europe move.
- Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .world account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  
  Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided against each other!
- as if that's not the same
  
  It's not the same

I'd be here more if I didn't need to re-log in every few pages. It's annoying, and I haven't found a solution.
"What?! Logged out again?! Well, screw it, at least Reddit doesn't log me out every time I refresh a page."
- That would be a switch to a different app on like the 2nd offense to me.
  Or buy a new computer offense. You got something going on there, and it's not the site itself.
- I've never had that problem. Not on my instance's web page or using Sync on my phone.

Hopefully even more people will join as Reddit gets shittier and shittier.
- got permaban on 5+accts because reddit did what similar pornhub did, sanatize the site and only corporate content was left. it was getting increasingly hard to comment as anything other than right wing comments.
  
  That's what I think happened to me, seems weird that so many of us are getting banned at the same time. It's different for me though, I get banned or downvoted to oblivion if I express any right wing ideas. It's 98% leftist there now it seems. Wouldn't surprise me if they ban r/conservative entirely this year.

What does "active" mean in this context? Is giving an upvote or opening the app enough, or do I need to write a comment/post?
- A vote is a "mini comment".
- Iirc an up or down vote is the bare minimum for activity

Ready for this

This is my first time here. I do not abide thought policing. Fuck Reddit, fuck Spez.
- Me too, fck reddit, it’s no longer a board for broad discussions from all view points but instead an echo chamber of moderators curating their own narrative.
- If you're concerned about that, you may want to join an instance with broader federation than Lemmy.world, such as Lemm.ee or Lemmy.ml.
  
  Or one with the broadest possible federation like lemmy.sdf.org, though they are US based if that's a problem for you.
  SDF does not defederate. The blocklist is empty. And it's small enough and chill enough that it's unlikely to get blocked by other instances much.
  They're a non-profit that's older than the web and offers a variety of network and retrocomputing services including most famously a public access Unix server. They started as a dialup anime BBS.
- its thier OVERPOLICING that was the problem, it wouldve been fine if all they did was ban actual BOTS, you know the propaganda ones, but nope they went after everyone more aggresively than they did the above mentioned bots.
- Welcome! To the good place
  
  Thank you.
- don't worry, you have that here too. A lot less but still.

What happened around February 12?
- The domain registration lapsed and somebody tried to make money off of it.
- hexbear.net defederated due to domain ownership issues, since resolved. sounds like they're aiming to be refederated by the end of the month.
- Hexbear issues
- Maybe defederation or privatization

Always happy to see the Fediverse getting more popular! 😃

I was fed up with reddit and looking to make a change that won't put money in spez's pocket, arrived a few days ago.
- I just arrived today myself, after being temp-banned for 7 days for some bullshit reasons that the appeal team agreed were bullshit so they unbanned me, but not before someone else perma-banned me for violating the rules on 'my other accounts' -- I've had a single reddit account for the entire 14 years I've been there, I don't even make throwaways, so, even more bullshit. I appealed that one too, but even if it's overturned I'm not sure I'm going back. They've gotten real fucking fashy all of a sudden with the censorship, banning people for upvoting shit and calling it 'inciting violence.' Fuck 'em.
  
  Yep and when you're perma banned you're fucked. They don't look at the reasons, they don't engage with people... it's ridiculous
  
  i heard about that situation, some people were getting temp banned, and then when the ban was lifted, they were permabanned. I think some mods mentioned reddit, or the sub does not reset thier filters once the bans was lifted so the filters automatically assume you are EVADING A ban.
- This was me during the APIcalypse. Since joining Lemmy, I have:
  Realized I'm trans
  Procured a Steam Deck
  Started pirating again
  Been on HRT for over a year and counting
  Developed a chronic dependency on Yuri manga
  Lost 50-60 lbs
  I hope you have a good time here as well!
  
  If you're not daily driving Arch, btw, did you even join Lemmy?
  I know you're not daily driving Arch because you didn't mention it.
  (Jokes, obvs. Congrats on the self-discovery!)
  
  Give us good yuri manga recommendation 👀
  
  Sounds like some very positive changes in your life. Glad to hear that you've been improving yourself.
  My wife and I recently had to make a difficult but necessary change in our own lives, fleeing from the US to live in France while we wait to see what shakes out of the chaotic situation there over the course of the next year. Been starting in on the language learning, but it's been slow going.
- Welcome!
  
  Thanks, glad to be here. This place seems way more welcoming than I remember reddit ever being. But I was a little late to the party on Reddit, I joined in 2016.
- I also broke free from Reddit. Hopefully in lemmy we are not limited to only post things that agree with moderators point of view.
  
  Uh...........
  (unfortunately, that's just human nature, but there are a variety of ways in which things can become better here - e.g. the ability to create a new community on another instance, and then certain apps and PieFed, though not Lemmy yet, offers the ability to combine all of those communities into a single Topic, called a "Feed", see recent post about this)
  
  For sure. There can also be a problem of too little moderation, though. There is a balance to be struck between censorship of opposing views and getting rid of off-topic spam.
  For instance, there were a few regional subreddits that were obviously intended to be for thing like "Which restaurants are worth a 30 minute drive to go to" and "Come to my band's concert at the waterfront this weekend", but had turned into basically nothing but off-topic spam wars about national level political topics.
  The mods refused to do anything about it, so I just left because 90+% of the content was stuff I didn't come to that subreddit to read. Keep that shit on r/politics.

Shaddow Banned from Reddit for making some Luigi Mangione prayer candles got thousands of likes and bam old high karma account banned forever. No response from Reddit. Noticed on the shadow ban page that tons of people getting these bans everyday and no response from Reddit . Suggested we protest at Reddit headquarters in SF and now I’m banned from Shadow page ban lol. Nice to be here though
- At least a protest outside their HQ you can hold up pro Luigi content.
- reddit has been going hard in being anti-luigi site recently. the 3 main subs are know that is controlled actively by admin is the shadowban, reddithelp, help, and by extension modhelp.
  
  It's a bizarre thing to go after. I really don't like the pro luigi posts cos he murdered someone and that's not ok... but people are allowed to have their own opinion and most of it IME is tongue in cheek. There's far more important issues they could look at (Russian interference, reddit being used for crime etc) but no... luigi. Ffs.

What happened 2/12?
- Hey everybody! This guy doesn't know about 2/12! Let's all laugh at him! Ha ha ha ha ha!
  .........I have no idea. Does ANYONE know what happened?
  
  hexbear lost its domain and went offline
- Hexbear lost its domain and went offline
- Lemmy was for while like 50% bots, which is why you see random shifts generally.
  Could be something else though
- Probably a bot instance being removed
- It was President's Day in the US, but I don't know why that would impact Lemmy.
  
  US workers had the day off to do other stuff than scroll Lemmy at work

Lets just have each of us 50k post about Lemmy over on Reddit.
- Can't. Banned for a 3-month old post supporting Luigi.
  
  Clearly the inferior Mario brother.
  
  they went after your acct of 3month old post? im not surprised i find if i dont delete some comments some user was going into Old POSTS AND reporting it.
- I got one person to try it! In eattherich. I thought about deleting my 15yr account but that is a much better use of it
  
  I should have used a code to change all my posts/comments to an advertisement for Lemmy. What are the going to do, ban me??

Been checking and commenting on Lemmy everyday since I made my account. Its my new first opened app of the day now
- and its so much better than trying to do that on reddit witha new account, they make it very hard engage with a brand new acct.

Left Reddit as soon as Boost stopped working
- Same. My boost app finally stopped working so I had to switch over. Seems basically the same here just less comments
  
  omg samee 😭
  I replaced boost for reddit with boost for lemmy
- Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  
  Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided against each other!
  
  I signed up for hexbear out of morbid curiosity, that place feels like an insane asylum.
- Boost can still work, though - ReVanced is a great project
  
  Let's just leave it 😅 I'm happy pretending Boost doesn't work so that I have no reason to go back to Reddit.

It was a "alternatives to American apps/sites" on Reddit that got me here
- Just got so sick of reddits smarminess. It’s also just astroturfed corporate BS at this point anyway.
  I’ve been boycotting Amazon for over a year (and quite frankly won’t ever stop), won’t shop at Target and won’t visit super corporatized social media.
  Reddit has proven time and time again they’re just a whipping boy for corporate interests.
  
  Are you me from the future? This is literally my mindset right now. Just started boycotting Amazon, Target, etc.
  
  Yeah I knew it was bad but this last round of suppression was the final straw.
- just a heads up, the instance you're on is pretty controversial.
  
  I thought the whole point of Lemmy was that it didn't matter what instance you joined. Can I move my account, or do I need to make a new one on a new instance?
  
  very good way to put it
  
  Is lemm.ee chill or should I be making a new account?
  
  Controversial? How come? I’m new to the Fediverse so I’d love to learn as much as I can. 🙂
  
  Why?
- Don't worry about the other posters trying to dissuade you from lemmy.ml. It's a very chill instance. It gets flack because it is run by and has a majority leftist base, but that shouldn't be an issue if you consider yourself a progressive. The "tankie" slurs are frankly b.s. and disingenuous. I wouldn't call the sub "pro-Russia/China" by any means, the users are anti-imperialist and realistic in the nature of US propaganda depicting other states as bogeymen. Just because you question the mainstream US-centric narrative doesn't mean you're shilling for China/Russia etc. There's a lot of liberals and centrists, that despite their progressive sentiments they may hold, are still very beholden to the narrative of American exceptionalism in a lot of ways.
  
  Guessing it's coming from shitjustworks people. Politics mod over there doesn't like anyone pointing out the Dems weak ass "resistance" even if you are lauding another Dem(Rep Green) at the same time lol.

Is this something that should be really celebrated? I mean, the reason I joined is because it's not reddit. And I feel that this place will turn into reddit 2.0 if we're not careful.
- Absolutely it should be celebrated.
  Once enough users are here, you can join a niche small instance that doesn't federate with as many mainstream ones to get that small community vibe. (Or better yet, make your own instance to build what you want)
  The more people using federated social media instead of single-entity controlled social media the better for society.
  
  Just like it was in the early internet.
- You can pick a less "reddit-coded" instance. Lemmy.world is pitched as more of a reddit-clone, but other instances have niche subcultures or other fun characteristics like unique emojis. It's less about size and more about policies and structures that cause something to become "reddit-like."
- The beauty of the fediverse is that you can pick exactly what you want.
  Would you like reddit 2.0 where the admins will do what they can to ban "luigi's manefesto" from being posted? You can do that!
  Not my cup of tea, but yall do you
- And here comes the fun part: It can't turn into Reddit 2.0. If you don't like the policy of your Instance, just join an Instance that fits you more, or create one your own.
  
  This is the biggest draw for me. No more switching services finally.

People getting sick and tide of Reddit. TBH I’m still salty over them killing 3rd party apps and I’m so glad they did because that drew the line for me, also fuck spez.
- They've basically banned anonymous accounts. Their whole thing was anonymity.
  
  They seem to be blocking access from certain IPs and VPNs (if not logged in?) Which is funny because some of these VPNs are not really hiding anything. Like my work VPN which I would think makes it pretty obvious which company I work for. Annoying when search results link to reddit content.
  
  Without anonymity it is in fact pointless. Pseudo anonymity is extremely useful I basically won't go anywhere without it. That's definitely a feature we should advertise to people, you can actually be anonymous
  
  Wait first I'm hearing of this one. What happened now?
- Reddit has become very strange.
  Shadowbanning sucks when your on the other side of it.
  Forever mods that have hundreds of default subreddits act like dictators. Banning people from all their collections of subreddits without anyone knowing.
  Removing the ability for users to see actual number of votes up/down.
  And now with the whole "don't upvotes certain content or you will get a strike". Never mind that isn't how the site works at all.
  They haven't come out with a feature that people have wanted in the last couple of years.
  
  It's been a while since I've been on and everything I'm hearing is that it just keeps getting worse. Eventually it'll be completely unusable and probably shudder but by then the real conversation will have moved elsewhere
  
  Getting rid of coins/rewards just to empty everyone's stock and then bringing them back again without 1:1 compensation and forgetting everyone who gave their coins away before they would vanish
- Same, it was over for me when they took Boost away thankfully Boost pivoted to Lemmy lol
  
  Is Boost dead though? I love it too, but it hasn't updated in a while
  
  Boost gang!
- I'm more oxi clean of reddit myself
- I'll still check sometimes on Reddit when I'm at my desk if I feel like it and I've got time, so like barely anymore.
  When 3rd party apps died I moved here.
  After them saying that if you upvote enough banned content you'll get banned, I'm just waiting to catch ban over there.
  
  i still lurk a lot. i have a rule against posting there though... which admittedly i did break recently, but only to plug lemmy. otherwise no posts/comments there in two years
  
  Use Reddit Enhancement Suite. You'll thank me later.
  makes red it much more usable and easy on the eyes.

I didn't realize that was only 50 thousand users. Muddy have been only 5000 in 2023 during the API Exodus.
- Literally seems like 1/4 the comments of Reddit, 1/1000 the userbase. I think between API lockdown and "violence" banning, the entire commenting community of Reddit came here lol.
  
  when they allow so much astroturfing from the right, and anything remotely try to use a neutral word to describe a controversial ones, eg demographic instead of the POC actual race, will get you banned.
- 50 thousand users
  Active users, so vote, post or comment. Lurkers aren't counted.
  
  Yeah but fucking still. I never would've imagined i was surrounded by more peers at any given Bills game than there were people accross the whole world contributing to Lemmy on avg. That's sooooo fucking wild.
  It's also so crazy how in a stadium of 70,000 people from US and Canada I will see someone i know every piss or beer break. Whereas Lemmy is half that amd I am 100% positive I've never interacted or saw a comment/post on Lemmy from anyone I know. It's just crazy to see the perspective of seeing the odds of being 1 out of 70,000 vs being 40,000 out of 6 or 7 billion. Obviously I'm intentionally ignoring all the variables at play for the real reason I know people at bills games vs lemmy but it's still the quntificatikn that I found amazin.

THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!!
But seriously this is good news and I'm glad to have you all here. Lemmy is in a pretty good position right now in terms of having a critical mass of users and decent traction within popular communities. At the very least it feels self-sustaining here.

I'm the "9" of the 90-9-1 rule (aka: mostly comments)
hope that counts 👀
- Who has time to put in the effort to post posts?
  
  I went through a phase where I would find good posts on reddit and then just copy the link and post here.. but as of now, reddit is like 95% anti-Trump posts so it's all noise. Lemmy is fairly noisy with that lately too but not as bad. I need to figure out a better way to filter out politics because it's ruining online discussion even in non-political threads, somehow it devolves into "orange man bad" somehow at some point and it's just tiresome going over the same topic over and over with the same talking points. Musk nazi, orange man bad.. when you see it 50000000000 times it just gets old after a while, with RES I am able to filter out subs which helps immensely but I don't think that's possible here. But like r/pics, r/interestingasfuck, r/lotr, r/lego, r/technology, r/news, many many others.. 90% political now, so the majority of the site is useless to me now. And it feels like it's majority bots now, probably LLM-generated discussion through an API, dead internet theory is in full speed ahead mode.
  
  Thankfully, Stamets@lemmy.world and The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world
  
  Effort? Nah the typical post is as effortless as a comment

Speaking of users, whatever happened to Flyingsquid?
- Idk I was just thinking that last night, hasn't been active in like 2 weeks. I hope they're ok
  
  He got out of the US recently-- I'm sure there'll be periods in setting up in a new country where he's too busy to be on lemmy

I can't remember one instance of a company being bought out and then made better by investors. That's why I came here. I just don't like people like that. I hate how everything is about money.
- Yeah, it's textbook enshittification.

Joined up yesterday and have been pretty happy so far. Have been looking for an alternative so i could ditch reddit since the API changes and had no idea this place existed until i saw a random thread yesterday
- Welcome!
  If you're new, I definitely recommend checking out https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding new communities to subscribe to, rather than just browsing "all". There are a lot of weird communities out there when you just browse "all"...
  
  Block the weird communities if you dislike them so much.
  
  https://sub.rehab/ is also good.
- Welcome! It's a great, homely place that still feels a little bit like the old internet.
  In addition to the already mentioned Lemmyverse, two other great ways of finding active communities are !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
  
  still feels a little bit like the old internet.
  Yes! I miss it.
  
  The old internet never went away, not on a technical level for sure. What changed is that big corporations had dominant positions from control over user bases and then they squeezed us for profits so hard that it's no longer worth it to use them. This process seems to have accelerated since the end of the era of easy money in 2022 which is why we're seeing things pop off more than it used to.
- Welcome!
- Welcome!
  There's a ton of good apps that use the API.
- Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .world account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  
  Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided against each other!
  
  !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  Keep in mind that subscribing to this community means that it'll take over your feed.
  /j, but it's also true
  
  In terms of sorting the "tankie triad" least bad to worst though it's definitely: ML, Grad, then HexBear. At least I sometimes have decent interactions with people from ML, can't say the same about the other 2 though.
  Edit: Actually put this as a reply to the correct comment this time. :/
  I deleted the other one as I replied to the wrong comment.
  
  We have an entire instance dedicated to popular 1960s television show Star Trek (don't go there)
  
  the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear.
  aka where the good posts are hidden, if you want news outside of the mainstream liberal echo chamber a lemmy.ml account works well

Subjectively, Lemmy's communities are much more robust and have a lot more content than they did during the Reddit API exodus. I imagine there will be more people who choose to stay this time around.
- Yep, I discovered let me during the API Exodus, and then came back recently with this last wave. They're definitely feels like there's a lot more here than last time!
  Also finding a lot of value in reading and actually interacting with comments and content, on Reddit I just felt kind of drowned out and a lurker
- The problem is that communities feel dead if they're below a certain critical mass of users and the resulting content. If we can hit that critical mass it will take off on its own
  
  Yep we all need to get posting and chatting to encourage others
- Yeah working a lot of OT seeding this joint!

Woo more people to join our cult. Everyone will get their robes in the mail
- Wait, I've been here almost 2 years, where's my robes‽
  
  You know what you did
  
  You and I will be considered the early adaptors. People will guess as to why we migrated so early.
  
  What's the password?
  
  The real robes were the Caroline's we got DMed by along the way.
- Well at least Nicole from Toronto in their inbox.

I’ve had enough of reddit
- Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  
  Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided against each other!
  
  hey cm0002 why are you on lemmy.cafe now?
  
  I'm new myself, thanks for the recommendations. While you're at it, do you happen to know of any good political/religion debate .. subs? what are they called here? I'm going to call them subs for now. Maybe some Anarchist and non-tankie Communist subs?

One of us one of us!

2025 is the year of the Lemmyverse!
- The more people that transition over here the better it'll be (outside of some of some subs). I'm hopeful to see more community engagement.
  
  the more and more reddit increasing thier filters to ban or remove comments we will see more. it going to take permabans for people to come here in large numbers. sooner or later reddit is just a clone of FACEBOOK.
- *threadiverse, we don't want to exclude other software
  
  I'm excited to see where software development is going to go. It seems like every major microblogging platform has a few different flavors and there are multiple platform choices available. What were using is just the beginning, the software can only ever get better really. It's not like the corporate world where they make shit worse on purpose to make more money. And as the software gets better than use might increase as well since you can do more and do it easier and more elegantly
  
  True, but this graph only shows Lemmy users, right?

Greeting new Lemmings!
Please wipe your feet, we don't want anyone tracking in any spez.

I created an account a while back now, but it’s been mostly inactive since then. I’m liking it a lot more here!
- Yeah, what the other guy said. lemmy.ml is run by tankies. best to move
  i moved from .ml about a year ago because of their moderation... "policies"
  
  Oh shit, I had no idea! Any ideas where I should move to? What kind of policies??
- Welcome back! Just...be careful about what you say on the instance you're on LMAO
  
  Never heard anything about this, are you able to elaborate or provide any links?

Greetings everyone

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