It’s much better here! It’s nice and cozy, kinda like Reddit circa 15 years ago.
For your memes we have !memes@lemmy.world and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch, if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like !science@mander.xyz, !biology@mander.xyzand !astronomy@mander.xyz and for a meme science combo there’s always the fantastic !science_memes@mander.xyz
You can also drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or hang out at !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)
If you want to explore the world of PC Gaming on Linux check !linux_gaming@lemmy.world or for more general Linux !linux@programming.dev and we even have a Linux meme comm at !linuxmemes@lemmy.world (we like Linux around here lmao)
For news !world@lemmy.world is excellent and for US focused news !news@lemmy.world and !usa@midwest.social
Want to ensure your privacy in this crazy world? Checkout !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
And of course, the best for last, the best comm on the Lemmy-verse, !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world !!! Just make sure to buy a krabby patty!
We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies, but here they’re mostly on what’s known as the Tankie Triad: lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. For the most part, grad and hex are widely defederated from (Users and content of those instances won’t be “synced” and you won’t see them) and 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. .ml tends to be more subtle opting for censorship of dissent before things get crazy on their threads and allowing certain propaganda to flourish (If you wish to see documentation of it, checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what’s known as the “modlog”
Obligatory, fuck Spez
Can anyone recommend any other places? Ones where mods aren’t overzealous and biased *****.
(The stars represent a word I would probably be banned for saying).
@NotLemming@lemm.ee Do you like reading, or even marvel at libraries and stuff? The last time I checked literature.cafe, the atmosphere (as well as the instance (I call it “online raft”, for one) mods there) seems to be typical of a small town library. It also has comms for fanfics in general, and genre-specific ones.
I bet there’s also even-smaller fedi-rafts out there that cater to a specific creative interest/hobby, or an entire fandom; time and effort will tell.
I’ve been browsing Lemmy for 2ish months, went ahead and made an account just recently. Deleted my Reddit account last week and I’m chuffed.
Welcome aboard.
When I first joined Lemmy there was hardly conversation to be found but now things are starting to really pickup. Next you will really start to see niche communities thrive and I’m all for it.
Welcome to our reddit refugees!
It was heart warming to see my new emulation community see some traffic _
Here for The Great Reddit migration. People left Digg for Reddit for similar reasons. Although the issues with Reddit are magnitudes more concerning.
Reddit has magnitudes more inertia, unfortunately. And a predominant sentiment seems to be “we should stay on Reddit to counterbalance the bad parts."
Or even worse, move to Discord :/
Discord makes feel like an old man shaking my fist at the clouds. The UI is the worst, and I have no idea how anything works, but I have to be on it because my friends use it for in-game chat on multiplayer games.
I never feel dumber than when I’m trying to find something on Discord. Ugh.
I think its interface is pretty good, but it’s structure absolutely sucks for larger communities. It’s a deliberate information black hole for shooting the breeze, yet people treat it like a forum, wiki, or hub,.
Or even worse, move to Discord :/
reddit got worse faster after IPO.
Discord is now doing the same, so that’ll last a few months lol.
I’m sure you’re right, migration here won’t make much of a dent in reddit’s numbers. It’d be great to have more people to fill out some of the smaller communities but we don’t need the ones who don’t want to move.
This isn’t a full migration sadly, at least I don’t think so. It’s a welcome trickle of new users, but Reddit will need to do much worse to force a full on exodus. Though I have no doubt they will eventually. But I don’t think we’re getting another mass Rexit event until they turn off old.reddit.
I think more folks would come if they knew lemme.ee existed. I only found out it exists this morning.
I think part of the problem is if you post a lot about lemmy on reddit to recruit, you’ll get banned/shadowbanned eventually.
That’s what Twitter did to Bluesky.
Ugh. Humans ruin everything.😞
Thanks for the welcome wagon. This was the first post I clicked on. I feel like a boomer (I am not one) trying to understand the Fediverse even though I can understand how email works, somehow I can’t apply that to how it works here. Like am I supposed to be able to see Mastadon or Pixelfed content on here? What would that look like? Ok also had some weed tincture so that probably has something to do with my confusion. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Welcome!
Yea, you’ll see mastodon stuff from time to time, there’s nothing really that tells you it’s a mastodon post, they just look kinda different. For a mastodon post usually the giveaway is hashtags in the post like #hashtag except they’ll be links.
Pixelfed is supposed to show up too, but federation with Lemmy has yet to “kick in” (at least as far as I’ve noticed)
Also on Lemmy you can do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ without any extra "" actually, here putting the extra 2 backslashes makes you lose your arm
It’s actually really nice, now I can ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ right from my phone keyboard lmfao ¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ok here’s another question. How does this exist financially, who pays for servers and whatnot? Believe you me I am so glad not to be assaulted by ads and whatnot but isn’t this expensive?
We discuss costs here.
As long as you shop around for a good hosting deal you don’t need everyone to donate to cover the costs.
It’s not actually all that expensive to host websites, it never has been, sh.itjust.works a larger instance with something like 1.5k posts and comments/day only spends about $150/month
A bid cost saving is not using the “cloud”, cloud services do what they advertise (mainly allow one to “easily” scale up to millions of users), but its costly.
But the beauty of it is that because Lemmy is decentralized, not one person/org has to worry about scaling to millions of users as the Lemmy-verse grows so hosters can skip the cloud
Some pay out of pocket and some take the ways of the forums of ol, donations and small perks for donating. For example, having a db0 account and being a donator gains you voting rights. There’s been talk about private/VIP comms for donators as well
Donations for server costs. Apparently each user costs a little over 1 dollar a year, hosting-wise. Reminds me of how one site I use for checking stuff in pokemon sleep, how-many-more.com, said in a reddit post from the owner that they don’t even take donations because the cost of running it is absolutely miniscule and that you should absolutely question people who want upkeep money for largely text-based stuff like that.
Ah I was wondering why that arm got amputated. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
[ Removed by Reddit ]
Ive had this account for a while, but I’ve mostly lurked. I like it better here anyways.
Hell yeah
I have arrived
And my axe! Are we still doing that?
Ah the old Reddit switcheroo.
I finally said the thing.
Is that when instead of fucking the dog in the ass, the dog fucks spez in the ass and we sit on the sidelines with foam fingers cheering the dog on?
No it’s pre2015 Reddit reference
The prophecy has been fulfilled.
No, not again.
Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what’s known as the “modlog”
Saying it again to everyone in the back. The modlog is a great feature. Instance Mods and admins can’t just disappear people and communities without a trace, and trolls can’t make up stories of unfair moderation without bringing receipts and their old account name.
Couldn’t an instance admin just disable modlogs or spoof them, though
Yes, but the backlash would be undoubtedly intense, everyone here loves the modlog (well probably not the trolls/tankies LMFAO)
the tankies were who created the modlog. broken clocks etc
Isn’t the whole thing about public and harsh punishments in authoritarian societies to keep everyone in check?
its also to hide and shield your atrocities, punishments from the public, hence they dont know whats going on so its easy to claim any story you made up.
the tankies/MLs are the biggest downside of lemmy, they prefer insults to discussion and have a very stalinist approach to moderation/administration. they are the spez of lemmy
oh and they spread russian propaganda like jolly traitors
authoritarians have always been the same
Keep in mind that not everyone on ml or everyone with leftist leanings is a tankie. Yes, there are a lot of tankies there, but ML is a general purpose instance and some longstanding lemmy users simply have their accounts there
i was referring to the fundamentalists, wannabe revolutionaries and myopic protesters
if you have a main account on .ml to bait MLs then fine, but it might be time to make an account elsewhere. all the MLs that want to troll the rest of lemmy have done the same so they don’t bring the instance into further disrepute
they behave the same way , probably banned on reddit.
For their own instance, sure.
But it won’t alter the modlogs of other Instances, which also have a copy if the community is federated to them.
Because of federation the lock-in is much lower and we could move to a new instance due to a rogue admin.
If modlogs were disabled, it would get noticed pretty quickly. If some mod decided to waste a lot of time coming up with an elaborate scheme to try to mess with things unfairly, that instance would lose a lot of trust if it gets revealed.
On a related note, one funny thing that occurred recently: Mod sets up community with an automated moderator, automod boots the mod soon after.
Eh, you say that.
- Here’s a post I participated in 8 days ago on !asklemmy@lemmy.world
Image of post
- The post title was something like “What is your ideal political system”
(I’ve since deleted my comment just in case I doxxed myself elsewhere)
- When I click on the link for that post it says the post was deleted.
- When I look at the ModLog for AskLemmy@lemmy.world, there’s nothing there in that time period
Image of modlog
So either there’s some funny shenanigans going on at lemmy.world, or more likely maybe the modlog isn’t completely visible across instances, or…?
People are still able to delete their own posts, that wouldn’t appear in the modlog
Ahhh, good point. Though, the “Permanently Deleted” made me think it’s an action of a mod rather than a user.
To test:: https://lemmy.ml/post/27769094
Please post something here in the linked thread. I will delete the whole post in an hour, and then please send me a screenshot of what you see when looking at your profile for comments for that thread.
That community doesn’t federate to my instance 😅
you can see my comment from ML, but you can’t see the communities? Federation is crazy complex haha
Federation is community dependent
Okay, I got responses from:
Please tell me how the deleted post looks
It looks deleted to me from my instance. I can see my comment on my profile.
I didn’t know I was volunteering to help, but I am happy to.
When I view your link to lemmy.ml my comment is visible
Same as in the first screenshot for me
Ah no I meant when you search for your comment in your profile and see the “Godspeed” comment, what is the name of the post it is under?
I see “I will delete this post in 1 hour”
I was part of an experiment, huzzah!
Invisible indeed https://lemmy.ca/post/41361575/15492240
When you search for your comment in your comment history, what is the name of the post it is under?
Post names don’t change if the creator deleted it, so it would be the same as the last title before deletion. However, I usually edit it to [Deleted] and the post body to [Deleted] to overwrite the entire post before deleting.
The main thing you need to know the username of the OP who posted it. Chances are they were banned, had their account deleted or deleted the post themselves. The comments in the post is collateral damage in deleted/removed posts. It has happened to me and it does feel bad a bit since comments of deleted posts and children of deleted comments do not appear in the modlog. The idea though, is that the main OP who has been actioned against has recourse. The process certainly can be improved but its still several steps above Reddit in transparency.
Ah that makes sense too
maybe the modlog isn’t completely visible across instances
The modlog is vulnerable to the same federation issues that all Lemmy content can suffer from.
Because I’ve noticed the same thing with comments removed by .ml admins, I can see the modlog entry when looking on .ml itself, but when viewed from .worlds modlog it’s missing in some cases
But also, like all federated content, you won’t see modlog entries on your Instances modlog if they’ve defederated from an instance. So you won’t see hex/grad modlog entries on .world but you can from .ee for example
Because I’ve noticed the same thing with comments removed by .ml admins, I can see the modlog entry when looking on .ml itself, but when viewed from .worlds modlog it’s missing in some cases
I believe this depends on what community it happens on. If the community is on ml, then ml moderation actions will be copied by world (or any other instance showing that community), but if it happens on a world community then ml moderation actions stay on ml.
Do you see a different modlog for asklemmy@lemmy.world as I’m seeing in that screenshot then?
I checked 2 other instance modlog’s, and didn’t see them there.I did notice “*Permanently Deleted*” for its post title, which is usually indicative of a total post purge (Deletes all content from a post, pictures, comments everything. Normally, an uploaded picture can hang around on an instance directly accessible by its image url), but it’s supposed to be reserved for really bad shit (read: illegal) you don’t want hanging around in an instances DBsThat being said, even permanently deleted/purged stuff generally does show on the modlog, at least an entry that just says Permanently Deleted, so that is a bit concerning.Id suggest putting together your evidence into a post for !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com maybe you can catch the attention of another instance admin, maybe of db0 themself and they can look into it more (admins of other instances have special visibility into some things)Edit:
I just realized you participated in an asklemmy post, not made one yourself, I was searching incorrectly lol
Yea there are a number of other things that can happen in that case like blaze said, OP deleted the post, deleted their account, was caught posting really bad shit and their account was wholly purged etc
Instance Mods and admins can’t just disappear people and communities without a trace, and trolls can’t make up stories of unfair moderation without bringing receipts and their old account name.
That actually isn’t true, they can disappear it for normal users. I’ve had things disappear at LW and when I called it out, the shitty admin dude went after me. Also, if you delete a thread, it disappears. That’s the one thing the bad place did correct up until I left, it might be different now though. They kept the threads up even if they shut down the thread. Now, it just disappears.
There are instances where deleting content permanently is a good feature, like for illegal content and spammers.
A way to list what was disappeared entirely and the reason for it would be good for transparency. Like if a comment/thread is deleted for illegal images just having a note in the modlog that it was deleted for illegal content would be good even though the images won’t show. .
Spammers might still clog up the modlog though, but there could probably be a way to consolidate them or something.
I agree. I think the bad place had a warning page if it was deleted for violent or abusive content. Otherwise, it stayed up. Again, it might be different now though, I haven’t been there in years now.
I got a temp ban for calling Usha Vance a class traitor. I said that when fascism progressed far enough she would likely not be safe from the overt racism and patriotism because she’s brown. 3 day temp ban. Reddit is shilling for the fascist and corporate overlords. That along with warnings just for upvoting posts. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
I got the same ban here for reporting someone who called me dumb. Apparently asking where someone is from isn’t allowed here.
You won’t even remember you wasted years on there
It’s funny because I bet a lot of us that came on the API wave had/have 15+ year old accounts.
Mines 18.
I had a post from /r/teenagers show up on my homepage and I realized that my account is older than most people there say they are.
12 years, and almost a million karma, and I was permabanned soon after the election for repeating an anti-HitlerPig post that I had repeated many times BEFORE the electuon.
I was bummed at the smaller crowds on Lemmy at first, then I realized I didn’t have to scroll through dozens of puns, bots, trolls, idiots, etc. on EVERY post.
The lack of the niche communities is the main difference for me, mostly. But that takes time. Otherwise I mostly like it here :D
Stick around. It’ll fill out with time. There’s plenty of low activity niche communities on here, try just making a post in one sometime. I’ve been on a campaign of doing weekly posts like stargazing Saturdays on mander.xyz’s astronomy community.
Same. I still find myself regularly going to old Reddit threads on extremely niche topics that only a few people on the internet seem to have talked about somehow, but a lot of what I want most of the time is already here on Lemmy, so that’s nice.
The lack of karma farming is amazing. Not nearly the same amount of people frantically grasping at low-hanging-fruit puns.
Your talents will be much more appreciated here, I guarantee it.
🙋10 year account for me, thousands of comments. 166k comment karma. It was a wild ride, but when they took Boost it was over for me. Fuck em.
Consequently, now that I’m here I post WAY more, I don’t even think my post count cracked a hundred and here it’s…4…thousand…fuck, I’m here too much 😅
Crazy how much more value there is here. 1/1000th the users, 1000x the engagement.
Definitely
You’re doing the lord’s work, sir.
18, 17, and 10 year old main accounts.haven’t been there since the API fiasco, but I kinda hated it for a few years before that.
I was the primary character in a pretty huge event (fiasco) in Reddit history 16-18 years ago, that I wish I could talk more about without doxxing myself.
Basically when TIFU and AITA got popular, the site kinda went to shit. Welllll, when smart phones got popular and people started to refer to Reddit as an “app”, it went to shit, Eternal September-style.
Those were the very first subreddits I blocked when it was possible. Then thousands more. Now even with blocked garbage subreddits it feels like mostly fake AI content these days, it’s almost FB level bad.
That’s not even the reason I left, “Musk’s fumes are fatally toxic”. Permabanned for violence, like wtf? No way a human banned me.
Well make an anonymous account here and fudge some details, I’m sure we’d all be interested to hear.
Oh that’s you! I saw your post about your ban for musk fuming and my partner and I both had a chuckle about the ridiculoscity of it all.
Quick edit: yeah the creative writing (now AI slop) subs always made me upset. TIFU was always “I SEXED MY POOP” and AITA was always clickbait bullshit.
All I’ll say about the event I was in is rest in peace, Tynan (I_RAPE_CATS)
15yo ago: Someone monetized our prank, not cool! 15 min ago: You are the product.
Those were good times…
It wasn’t even monetized hahaha, had to have a bigger channel for that…
when smart phones got popular and people started to refer to Reddit as an “app”, it went to shit, Eternal September-style.
I still hate seeing posts on websites where people are telling me to “swipe”.
Amen hahaha
Society (bottom text) can pry “click” and “scroll” and “program” out of my old, dusty hands!
So we’re literally old reddit.
Works for me.
https://oldsh.itjust.works/ literally indeed
10y and 400k combined karma (mostly comment)
And I actually managed cold turkey, partially helped by my creating an entire instance which kind of made Lemmy a hobby I was invested in both time and money wise.
Mine is certainly near 15 years old, but for the life of me I can’t remember exactly when I made an account, nor how many fake internet points I’d rattled up - it just seems so insignificant now.
The best part of Lemmy is that if any instance starts becoming like Reddit is now, I can block it individually, or we can collectively decide to shun them! It’s not fool proof, but it’s a pretty large leap in the right direction.
I dare say I miss the niche communities, but frankly, the main niche that I filled was on the pony side of things, and that’s pretty dead now. RIP smol horses, you all get to live your best lives now as glue 🫡
In life, they brought as together. As glue, they’ll keep us together.
how is lemmy diffrent then reddit other then mutliple servers and stuff like that? both is kinda the same reason you use it for and thats why they exist?
There is no central control, which means there’s no CEO to influence into doing ghastly shit to the users. It’s basically one step up from the non-federated Internet forums of old.
ah thats huge!
I hope it is one day.
10yr old account, was mostly a lurker. I am actually active on here since I don’t need to comment on a post 5min after it’s been created for my comments to be seen. It feels refreshing.
12 year account here, but was accountless for many years before that. Pretty much a lurker on reddit. Here, I don’t post much, but I’ve been trying to add to the conversation as much as possible. I find I get genuine responses from folks, even if we disagree with each other. By the time I left Reddit for the API changes, it had been either jokes, trolls or bots on the biggest subreddits for years, no real genuine discussion anymore.
Not to say it’s perfect in the comments around here, but it’s a lot better than reddit has been for like, 8+ years
I came here on the API wave and went to Reddit from digg. I left digg after the Digg 2.0 fuck up.
I heard Kevin Rose purchased Digg again and plans to redo it again.
Kevin Rose (Digg founder) and Alexis Ohanian (Reddit co-founder) just acquired Digg together, so we’ll have to see how it goes. But I don’t need to wait for Digg to resurrect itself when Lemmy is already right here.
I’ll take some extra competition. It’ll help reddit burn faster.
Burn, baby, burn!
Whereas I’m one of the people who was annoyed at having all the Digg users come over and ruin Reddit. :)
Oh ya, we sucked. We did like the secret handshake. When does the narwhal bacon?
So of course Spez rolled over like a bitch
Rolled over so fast it’s like he’d been just waiting for a reason to ban content he didn’t like.
I don’t think he was waiting. There’s a reason so many of us came here two years ago.
they did that when musk complaing WHITEPEOPLETWITTER.
Spez has been rolling over like a bitch, his whole fucking life. fucking punchable face that little cunt.
I made an account after I got a warning for upvoting criticism of musk on a post about Teslas being attacked. I was warned for upvoting violent content. I purposely avoided upvoting such content after admin sub posted about it.
Fuck Spez ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
Didn’t this happen since 2020 for the censorship? Because I got my account banned/kicked out.
I remember Reddit after I started using it, around the time of the Digg exodus. It was a fun community of nerdy people. Just doing some things because it was cool.
A few years later, I had the weirdest feeling that that vibe was gone. That both behind the scenes, and more overtly, they had to be prepping for accommodation of corporate interests. A little bit of officially sanctioned promotion here, a dash of ignoring guerrilla marketing there.
And for several years now, it’s not even subtle anymore. Reddit does what some dude with money bags says must be done, users be damned.
by 2016, the enshittification was appearing, because of trump 17 is when the bannings of accounts for the slightest disagreement became noticible, around the same time illicit subs became a target of bans, because GOP complained.
Refugee crisis on lemmy?
Wir schaffen das
Sry just testing how everything works on here Ignor this masage
Oh no no, my friend. Newcomers are obligated to provide massages for their first week. We will not ignore…
Welcome!
Fresh from reddit here. What is the difference in subscribing and bookmarking a community and how do I find them after I subscribe/bookmark?
I’m using the Summit app if that makes a difference.
Subscribing is like Reddit, where your default frontpage view is only your subscribed communities. These communities could be from your server or a federated server, it just depends on what you subscribe to. You don’t really need to think about how federation works, it’ll just show up for you if you subscribe.
If you pick “Local” you’ll see a feed of the the popular posts from all communities hosted on your own server only. Some of your subscribed comms might be in there if they’re a local server comm. But it’s just a general feed from your server alone.
If you go to “All” then you get a feed from all federated communities, so you could be seeing posts from /c/linux from lemmy.ml as well /c/linux from another server (though it’s not likely to see posts from small communities unless you’re an incorrigible doomscroller). Generally you’ll run out of content on your subscribed only feed fairly quick due to the activity being relatively lower than Reddit, so browsing All gets you more content, but you’ll run into a lot of irrelevant shit in the process. But it can be a good way to find more things to subscribe to, as well.
In any case, welcome. I fled reddit after 15 years of contributing by posting and modding when they burned the app community and shit on the people that made Reddit what it was. At least here I don’t feel like my efforts to provide content and moderate is for someone else’s benefit, least of all a greedy little pigboy like spez.
Be the change you want to see.
If you go to “All” then you get a feed from all federated communities,
I’ve been here for a while and this is still unclear to me: Is All only the communities that are synced to my server? And syncing is dependent on a user on my server subscribing to it? So if I find a new community on a different server and subscribe to it, it will show up on my server’s All?
You got it.
Thank you so much for this!!
The one thing I’d add is that since you’re on lemmy.world, your “Local” feed is fairly heavy with content since some the most active communities are on .world. That’s not always the case if you’re homed on a small server that nobody subscibes to comms from.
And you can sub to multiple communities of the same name, but different servers.
And you can block individuals or entire server. Sometimes your own server defaultly blocks servers, for instance, lemmy.world (our home server) blocks lemmynsfw and hexbear (because tankies). You won’t see content or users from those servers with an account homed on lemmy.world. So if you want to browse porn, either manually browse to lemmynsfw.com and browse not logged in, or create an account if you feel the burning need to comment on porn posts.
Can I ask some questions if it’s no bother?
- What’s a server? I assume lemmy.world, but what others are there?
- Is a community local to only one server? Are two communities across two servers with the same name different communities or do they share something?
- Can you access a community that’s not hosted on the server you’re on from your server? like in your feed, etc.
- What the hell is Mastodon. Is Mastodon a server?
Actually, scratch all of this, is there an introduction somewhere
You are right, lemmy.world is a server that you can create an account on and participate in the fediverse through. Other servers can be found here: https://lemmyverse.net/?open=true
Yes a community is associated to a server, so you can have a Linux@lemmy.world and a Linux@lemmy.ml. They don’t share posts, they’re effectively completely separate.
Yes, if you search up communities it will list everything it can find from any servers your home server is federated with, which by default should be all of them. Usually you’ll see some counts of posts and users to give you an idea of popularity.
Mastodon is another application like Lemmy, and has it’s own servers just like Lemmy. But since lemmy posts and mastadon toots are effectively the same ActivityPub object, you will often see Lemmy posts being commented on by Mastodon users. If you see a lot of @username BS in a Lemmy post, that’s probably Mastodon users commenting
Really, all that Lemmy or Mastodon are is different interfaces and hosting platforms for the same ActivityPub objects. They’re just presented in a different way, one is more like Reddit and the other is more like Twitter. But there’s no inherent reason for a post to behave differently than a toot, they have the same thread flow, so they can interact seamlessly.
And idk about an introduction, seems like someone should make one. Maybe I’ll feed this thread into a jippity and see what it spits out later.
Thanks a ton, really. I’ve been aware of Mastodon, Lemmy and the fediverse as buzzwords, but I think I’m starting to understand what they mean for the first time.
If you still have time, can you stick around for some more?
- Can I find data anywhere about which server is federated with which, how many users they have etc.?
- I just googled ActivityPub. Is it true that I could technically interact with Threads and soon Tumblr without having an account there, because they use AP?
- Are servers literal servers, located on seperate computers, or does Lemmy host everything in the end? I understand that’s how Tumblr and Threads do it, so is Lemmy different and if yes, how?
- does instance/server mean the same thing?
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At one time I saw a federation map, idk if that’s still around. All that info is inherent in the backend server communication and wouldn’t be hard to get, but IDK if anyone is currently doing it.
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Perhaps, it’s been a standard for years. But I don’t think the Bluesky “federation” protocol is the same as ActivityPub, so from all I’ve heard it wouldn’t talk unless someone writes a bridge for it.
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The servers are literally servers, you could set one up today and register a user on it, and it would federate with all the other ones that allow random federations. I think your new server would go out to github or something to get the first list of federation targets, then after that it’ll probably update from other federated servers. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html
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yes
The way to think of these is more like an email server. You have a mail account with Gmail.com or hotmail, and those talk to each other to exchange messages. DNS is the glue that tells them where each other are. If a server blacklists another email server, then they don’t talk and you can’t get messages to a user on that server.
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“Bookmark” is not a term I’m familiar with. I think it might be an app feature.
I don’t know about the apps because I normally use Lemmy on the web. There might be an option in your app to just see posts from your subscribed communities though.
On the Lemmy.world website you can see posts from your subscribed communities by clicking the “subscribed” tab near the top of the page (the other tabs are “local” which shows you just posts from your instance - Lemmy.world in your case - and “all” which shows you the top posts from all Lemmy servers).
Also on the Lemmy.world website, if you scroll down on the main page, you can see your subscribed communities in a list on the right-hand side of the page. I sometimes use that list when I want to look at a particular community.
