Fortunately AI bots (which they claim this supposed prevent them from siphoning the content) don't use uBlock /s

Norway as well.

Lemmy's still too full of incredibly thin skinned snowflakes and tankies for it to get popular

Cue the invariable “but what about my niches?!!1!?” I swear some people would stay on Reddit even if Steve Huffman personally killed their family and would kill again unless they got off the platform.

hey, i was only told twice yesterday that i deserve to die by some random drive by commentator.

Bro they ARE the fucking nazis, ghislaine maxwell is literally a known supermod, the owners are trump funders.

We need promotion outside of the Fediverse.

Post it into your social media and chat groups. discord whatsapp signal telegram facebook and whatever you use.

Don't bother posting it on reddit because the mods or admin will delete it.

I think we may just not view Lemmy in the same way. I don't see these sites as "fun". Sure there are funny memes, but it's also news and meta discussions about very recent topics. If I wanted to open something to have fun it'd probably be a video game or something.

Big tech makes it easy for people to use. They want the biggest and bestest userbases with the simplest interface... Lemmy does not care how big it is, it's all about organic growth, and Lemmy by itself doesn't have a very nice interface. I'd bet most people come here because they want to get away from the others, not because they want to add it to their list of feeds to browse. That being said, people making an effort to get away from the biggest and easiest platforms are probably more likely to put effort in to cater their feeds to their own interests and viewpoints.

Also I must've misunderstood your comment on Patrick originally so that's my bad.

i would also suggest piefed over lemmy; not because one is better than the other but because piefed shows other related communities under a thread and might be easier to come over from reddit in terms of discovery.

also it would be nice to have a master list of communities that match the reddit version.

were you on a vpn at all? reddit is very picky about that and the ip might have been banned from another user.

Unfortunately the only way to change that requires work. If community is dead it won't become active unless someone will post there and we might need to be the ones to do it.

If you have some community that you would like, start posting there (if you don't know content you can copy from Reddit) as long as there is content and people interested in it, it will grow, but someone has to do the dirty work unfortunately.

In the beginning it might be better to create generalized communities that encompass multiple topics so it would be easier to find people. Not start with very specific ones. That's how Reddit grew.

What Threads is doing is an old strategy of embrace, extend, extinguish.

Google did the same thing with XMPP. When it joined it was welcomed then they introduced incompatible features to encourage existing users to switch to their GTalk. Eventually they "accidentally" broke communication so anyone on XMPP couldn't talk with users on GTalk and effectively killed XMPP.

I just laughed like a silly little nilly, because I just noticed this late last night after I decided on deleting reddit for good because it was just ragebaiting algo bs anymore. Funny seeing this, this morning, front and center. As someone else stated, all of these social media sites are going the X route for Cash. It's definitely not about "keeping Reddit safe".

I think like some people on here, I only kept Reddit around because I can't find Wrestling related communities, and i don't wanna be a grounds keeper for it. There's no substitute for /r/WoW.. or at least widely used or populated for that matter.

Me too! I never went back to Reddit though. I lost my account with rif that was carefully built over years. I still can't figure out lemmy, fediverse, whatever it's called. The tech is not something I care about. I want a simple and easy to use interface, like rif. But this is 1000 times better than dodging ads, bots and trolls on an over-capitalized website.

Brother Lemmy has slowly taken over my news aggregator usage, conversations are better, with old reddit gone its even more of my usage going to lemmy

Oh no it was me that got banned and yes I had been on a VPN. But I just decided I'm not giving Reddit any of my eyeball time in order for them to make money off of me on ads

what if your niche is fantasies of steven huffman murdering your family?

Exactly there's a lot and I mean a lot of very specific niche communities that you just can't find help with issues on any other platform. Especially stuff like health insurance denials and stuff like niche hobbies. I personally am pretty upset because they banned me over essentially nothing. And yes while it is my own fault because I had more than one username and posted in a community that I had been "banned" from a secondary username. I had absolutely no idea they would completely obliterate all of my logins and make it so I absolutely could not use Reddit at all. The IP banning nonsense should be illegal on a platform as big as Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, and Google. When they are essentially the biggest social medias they should not be able to ban you permanently for things that are basically nothing.

I like how he got banned, exactly proving his point.

I got the reddit block about a week ago, so I've given this place another try (first tried it after the reddit API fiasco). I would like lemmy if it were more active. I mostly used reddit for news headlines, and I haven't found any communities here that are nearly as quick for breaking news and whatnot. I feel like my head has been buried in the ground since leaving Reddit. Still not going back though.

Glad to hear this! I really want Lemmy to thrive while Reddit continues its enshitification.

How do you view the lemmy’s logged out? You have to choose an instance or can you irc (or is it icc)it? I don’t really know what I’m talking about so I’m probably using the wrong lingos.

I don’t understand the amount of communist talk on this platform. Maybe it’s because it has fewer Americans on it, but we pretty much never think of communism at all.

It basically only ever brought up by right-wing politicians to scare the voter base. Nobody really gives a shit.

i normally get breaking news far quicker on the microblogging section of the fediverse. have you considered setting up a mastodon account maybe?

So while I agree with many of your comments, I would say people who are not computer people don't know anything about the things that you listed. Sure there's other email servers than Google, but here's the thing do people know that? When you buy an Android phone it forces you into a Google login. There's no other way around it. And then most people just use that because that's what they know. The same thing with RSS, I would not begin to know where to even find a community that is on RSS. Like what does that even mean? most people don't know what all of these things that you listed mean. And it's not because we're lazy, it's because those things like Gmail and Reddit are easy to access Before I got IP band from Reddit I had no idea that lemmy or the fediverse existed. I still don't know how to make a category that I can post on. I have no idea how to make a server, I don't have the money to buy extra computer stuff to do anything other than use my phone. People who program software and are computer programers understand the back end. Those of us who don't have any idea of any kind of programming don't know how to use anything but what is readily available. And yes I'm trying to learn but it's not easy.

I agree, it's super frustrating to be IP banned (over nonsense essentially) and whenever I look something up reddit is the first option to look at

As someone who is not programming literate, using the fetiverse has been very frustrating. It's very confusing, it's very difficult to figure out the different categories or whatever they're called. Reddit is very straightforward basically you want to find out about watercolor painting you type in watercolor painting and there's a plethora of community as you can join. You need help figuring out how to get around a healthcare denial, and there's a plethora of information that can help you. Honestly lemmy is not easy to use. Facebook YouTube Google Reddit etc are all very easy platforms for people who are not very computer literate to use. I don't think it's inherently lazy, more like inherently easy to use alternatives.

Let me be clear I've been IP banned from Reddit. It does not make any sense that they are IP banning anyone. Especially for nonsense like I evaded a ban in a community by logging in and commenting with a different login. (Which was accidental and not purposeful at all if they had a person look into what happened they would have seen that, AND my comments were really not even anything at all). Because why would you ban people who actively are using your site? If they are a company that makes money off of people engaging in the content of their site why would they ban them? Especially it seems like in the mass banning that's been happening. And I can understand banning one login if it creates an issue but to go into how they find out all of your logins and ban everything seems ridiculous. Especially if your business accounts are on there.

Not to be dumb but what is a tankie? I've never heard that term before

I’m on Lemmy for the first time today after discovering it because Reddit was doing this to me today. Good Riddance. Happy I found an alternative.

Just go to whatever instance url and you can see what's on this instance as well as what's on the instances it federated with. No need to login for reading. You are logged in lemmy.world so check jlai.lu for example.

The only thing I use YouTube for (and I can't believe people use it for anything other than) is tutorials. Like I need to replace the window actuator in my car and I can look it up how to do it and there's a video. I can't believe people watch you tube like a streaming service. It's kind of mind-blowing to me that people watch as much as they do. Like literally the only thing I use it for is tutorials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
You'll start noticing those opinions mainly from specific instances. If it's not your thing, don't hesitate to block communities, users, or whole instances before giving up. You can use Lemmy the way you like.

I didn't even know who Mr beast was until last year That's how much I don't watch YouTube

You don't need to create an instance (requires server administration skills), just a community (requires a few clicks). On the top right menu, there should be a create community entry.

Welcome :)

I'm confused, I didn't mention Threads. I think we actually did a good job of keeping Threads out and they already kinda gave up on ActivityPub

Threadiverse = Lemmy+Mbin+PieFed, it's a term older than Meta's Threads

Thanks!

If you check the Mod Log (accessible through the button under the comment with 3 vertical dots), apparently that user has a history of using ableist slurs, uncivility, and telling users to kill themselves.

If someone like that is complaining about the culture here, the rest of us must be doing something right.

They're only doing it to stop scrapers from having free access to posts. That's their main product right now and they want to make sure they get paid for it.

Thanks I'll try it

Hi! We joined on the same day for the same reason :D

Edit: Nevermind, the little number next to my account name says I’m wrong. Apparently I have trouble reading a calendar.

I have Mastodon, but I just get infosec updates there. How would I get general news updates as well? Just follow a vunch of media outlets?

Thanks!

Most of the frontend apps let you browse things unauthenticated as far as I know. You can't post/comment/vote without being signed up though, of course. You can also visit an instance's url directly in the browser to look at things unauthenticated. So for your home instance, you'd just go to "https://lemmy.world/" in your browser. For my home instance, you'd go to "https://sh.itjust.works/" in a browser. Etc for the various other instances out there.

I deleted mine. Since there was no "delete all posts" button I used bot that edited all into gibberish. It was funny watching countless private messages from multiple communities begging me not to do it this way. Apparently it makes moderation difficult or something.

Most real place? Jeez, my gf is realer than that lol

old.reddit.com actually stopped working entirely for me today, logged in or not.

The enshittification will continue until every user is gone.

do people know that?

If they cared at all, they would find out.