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.
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.
Same, it was over for me when they took Boost away thankfully Boost pivoted to Lemmy lol
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.
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”…
https://sub.rehab/ is also good.
Sub.rehab is super outdated and https://fediverser.network/ is easier and crowdsourced.
Thanks, hadn’t seen that one before
Block the weird communities if you dislike them so much.
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
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.
still feels a little bit like the old internet.
Yes! I miss it.
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
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)
There are dozens of us!
!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
Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided against each other!
^ one of the bigger Tankies around, “good posts” aka anything pro-CCP, pro-Russia, pro-NK and nothing not
Anything otherwise is considered “liberal”/Western propaganda/“CIA something or another”
Just wait till they break out the random blog links and YT videos lmao
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And you’re the biggest anti-communist “leftist” around.
NOoo TAnKiES AREN’t CoMmUNISt They’RE AuthoritArIan. Every time you say that you only show your ignorance. Read an actual book, or stop talking nonsense. Stop trying to fabricate a pacifist communism, and just admit that you are anti-communist full-stop.
- Friedrich Engels, On Authority
- Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
- V.I. Lenin, “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder
- Michael Parenti, Anticommunism & Wonderland
Stop trying to fabricate a pacifist communism
Ah ok, so if authoritarian communism is the only form of communism that exists then eroding human rights ever further in the pursuit of it is A-OK then?
Sorry, I don’t subscribe to that, I personally would love to see the fall of capitalism in my lifetime, but not at the sacrifice of basic human rights like freedom of speech and inviting even worse censorship.
Skill issue, I would simply choose liberal reforms, despite their never succeeding.
He’ll never read a book.Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
Hmm yes, century+ old books that predate the CCP coming into power by like 25 years and well before modern age concerns like the power of the internet could even be imagined
Y’all keep arguing theory with books that are incredibly dated and blog posts based on that dated info when most of us are talking about what the Chinese and Russian governments are doing today.
so basically a right wing propaganda/astroturf instances, no thanks had enough of that on reddit.
They’re actually mostly anarchists/communists, so left wing
It was a “alternatives to American apps/sites” on Reddit that got me here
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
True, but this graph only shows Lemmy users, right?
Yeah
Correct. However with ActivityPub protocol those number are irrevalent : any increase of users from (Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed) will benefit Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed.
And to a certain extend, on Mbin and later Piefed, they will also reach microblogging plateform as iceshrimp and mastodon. Then pixelfed, peertube, loops…
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
It seems like every major microblogging platform has a few different flavors
Do you mean every major social media platform?
I haven’t seen any lemmy forks yet
You should definitly try them. :)
- Mbin : you can connect to mastodon account, they support flair, filter by content type. I don’t use it a lot but enjoy it.
- Piefed : a good moderation board, flair, multi-community (feed), peertube support…
They’re not forks, but we have piefed and mbin (fork of kbin) and a couple more that have shut down
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.
Then you’ll be happy to know that Lemmy is 100% EU funded.
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. Rather; I’m withdrawing 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!!!
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.
Greeting new Lemmings!
Please wipe your feet, we don’t want anyone tracking in any spez.
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.
Woo more people to join our cult. Everyone will get their robes in the mail
Left Reddit as soon as Boost stopped working
2025 is also the year of Piefed. :)
The year of PielemmbinBB
The entire fedi is going up with new users. We keep having wins.
Kinda easy when traditional keeps hitting itself over and over.
I suspect the fediverse is stickier than mainstream social media, since there’s no incentive to be anti-consumer, and anyone can make their own frontend.
It’s only a matter of time until these companies keep making unforced errors and people join us.
The thing is no one is actually forced to use their websites, we can all leave at any time when it’s no longer worth it. This means that we have all the power since those websites are nothing without their users and the content they post. You are also right that the diversity and quality of software offerings can only go up and we see this happen even with rather low user numbers. Imagine what the world could look like when corporations are unwelcome nuisances
Year of the Verse
Nice word, i tried to find a similar word to microblogging (masto/IceShrimp) Sadly, threads was already taken, and i do want to promote Meta.
So, Verse as competitive, verse as poem, verse as conversation…i think it fit lemmy/mbin/nodeBB/piefed perfectly :)
Is there a mobile app yet? I made an account because I was interested in the new Feeds feature, but I spend 100% of my time on the Threadiverse using my phone.
No. However there are two mobile app in WIP :
- a fork of Thunder : Pferd. (only for testing and i love its logo)
- Interstellar, they want to support Piefed
I use daily Piefed as an app. The mobile website works well :
- you open https://piefed.social/ with your browser.
- Then click on add a shortcut and it will work as an app.
Our year comrades.
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!
For 2 months I was instance-banned and it was wonderful, but then your wonderful davel just couldn’t let that stand and then un-instance-banned me and re-banned me from individual comms instead for the sole purpose of allowing .ml users to brigade me
Anyways, there’s plenty of documentation of .ml’s Tankie behavior on lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works I don’t warn people about that Tankie problem for no reason
What happened 2/12?
Speaking of users, whatever happened to Flyingsquid?
Reddit’s auto moderation has gone haywire. You can’t say anything bad about nazis now.
I legit got permabanned for implying that fascists deserve the fate of Mussolini.
Insane.
Yup, Reddit’s mod team is pro-fascism now.
They can nazi how bad that is for them either
If you post too many pictures of Luigi/Mario you will get permabanned. I’m trying it right now, will report back…
