I mean I’m new here and i can’t see a lot of stuff like on reddit
Lemmy is really the best alternative ive found, it reminds me of reddit when it was new.
SACRILEDGE
This is the best Reddit alternative. But we all hate Reddit here. Nothing is going to have as much content as Reddit, but it’s also a shithole run by shitheads, sooooooo…welcome to Lemmy.
If there were something more active than the fediverse (lemmy, piefed, mbin) you would have heard of it already.
As nobody else mentioned it there is https://lemmyverse.net/communities to search for communities across instances.
I’m aware how finicky it sometimes is to subscribe to new communities on other instances. The fediverse (Lemmy+PieFed+Mastodon+everything else) has some technical quirks but for me its a small price to pay for an unbuyable platform.
The obvious problem is that niche comms are not active. I feel like this comes from people expecting or even emulating the same experience as on reddit. But before we even create new niche comms. We should use the more broader ones even if the more broader one is casualconversation or something generic like that. Even some half dead forums feel alive cause they have like only 4 different places to post. And is also how reddit started but people are forcing it to be like it is right now.
And to answer your question no not that I’m aware of :)
There is https://lobste.rs/ which seems to be working well mostly because its invite only. Truth be told Lemmy will eventually also have to close registration and have an forced application form. If we want to keep it as human as it is right now. Don’t think there is any other way of dealing with bots that are eventually going to hit us.
There is also https://tildes.net/ which is less active but more moderated. They also have only broader comms because its more opinionated.
But they all do not federate which is in my eyes a deal breaker. The mods are probably alright but having the option to move instance while keeping most connections and communities only changing the server owners that control what you see is a game changer for me. It even made me post way more than I ever did on reddit because I feel like its more sustainable. You feel like you are part of the network more than on any other platform, because nobody really owns anything. That is what makes this place so special :)
@vogi @Galaxynowy lemmy is too ideological which make federation a drawback not an advantage.
You writing from Mastodon where I definitively agree that federation is more apparent. I stopped using it myself because of that. But on the “threadiverse” I feel like its different as everything is naturally a bit more centralized through the existence of communities. which makes the switch from Reddit to Lemmy not as jarring as Twitter to Mastodon.
EDIT: oh just realized i completely ignored your point… I do not really see it though to be honest. Sure if you are on .ml it will be ideological, but thanks to federation I do not have to.
@vogi other instance are also ideological like world is generally screwed toward liberal centrist
But… So is Reddit. Here the importance isn’t really the ideology of the instance, but that of the community. If an instance’s ideology clashes with a community in the instance, the community can migrate. If you don’t vibe with the ideology of the community, you can pick others.
In Reddit you’d have liberal centrist subreddits, more conservative, more socialist, more communist and so on, here those communities are divided in instances, but most instances share with basically all the others so for an user it doesn’t really matter.
@fushuan we where supposed to solve what reddit did bad, “and so is REDDIT” is a terrible argument and again instance can defederated from each other what if the instance you migrate to also get defederated or defederate from another that have communities you are interested in?
Um. That communities have ideologies is something shared by everything, and not something that Reddit did bad. It’s not something to be fixed, it’s life.
If instances get defederated from each other feel free to join one that won’t do that. Idk.
There’s a reason some instances are defederated with each other, mainly that admins were fed up with managing spam.
@fushuan how are you sure they won’t do it?
Reddit had many years of growth. Lemmy is more like what Reddit started as.
It’s one of the better Reddit alternatives.
That’s an important thing to remember: Reddit was an empty web site when Digg started to piss its users off. I don’t post a lot, but I sure do have fun commenting on random threads.
you gotta subscribe to a LOT of communities to get a somewhat active feed
I just browse all communities, and block the ones I don’t want to see.
I mean I’m new here
You have already become part of the solution!
Trade off.
Less nichey and less specific, but more community, you run into the same people multiple places.
What are you looking for?
to be honest I’m looking for communities like nosleep etc. Maybe they exist because I didn’t figure out how it works yet
Ooh, I’d love something like this too. There’s a creepypasta community but it doesn’t have frequent posts unfortunately.
Do you use anything else than lemmy and Reddit?
I think people like piefed, which is kind of a separate thing but also federated. It’s weird.
But think of it as going to a different culture: different culture do different things well and if you’re just looking to COPY your cultural matrix onto another culture, you are going to miss out on what makes that culture unique.
Example:
French have a really amazing culture of comic books. A French person learning Spanish might think, “Oh, I’ll just read a bunch of Spanish comic books” and be immediately disappointed. The solution isn’t to say, “Well, I guess Spanish culture just sucks,” it is to recognize that your current preferences are formed by what your culture was good at and take the time and effort to appreciate new things. ’ Which is a big part of why I hate Soda Stereo so much, but that’s a different story.
I doubt that was their question. Lemmy/piefed/mbin are all different infras but since they all talk with each other as of they weren’t, for questions about communities and content they all tap into the same network.
Lemmy is the most active reddit alternative that I’m aware of.
there are dozens of us.
Some posts may be not visible for you because you did not choose any language(s) in your settings. I suggest to not just look for local communities (the ones created on https://lemmy.world/), there are plenty on other servers.
How do you see what languages they selected?
How do you see what languages they selected?
So you mean other users or an entire instance? Besides assumptions by looking at posts (and guess/recognize) you can’t see which languages are selected. When you are referring to yourself, well, I guess that depends on your browser and operating system among other things.
Well you mentioned they didn’t choose any languages in their settings, so I was wondering how you knew that.
Yeah, Piefed.
*Pylova because PieFed is
shitReminder that lib means very different things depending on which part of the world you’re in
Thanks for helping promote it
democracy and taxes
Liberal democracy is a vile anti-democratic institution (and I don’t necessarily even think that direct democracy is the best or only method of horizontal, anti-authoritarian decision making without extra information; i.e. upholding democracy as the be-all end-all of “all power to all the people” is itself a lack of imagination). Almost every imperialist power today is a liberal-democratic state. Liberal democracy is a resounding success at what it is designed to do, which is oppress the proletariat and entrench capitalist hegemony while giving the superficial appearance of proletarian representation to gullible liberals.
And no actually, proletarians should not be paying a single goddamn fucking penny to capitalists or their demonic governments as long as they use our money to destroy us, doom our ecology, and just barely maintain the social services or infrastructure statists claim that these institutions are supposed to provide, which incidentally, half the bourgeoisie doesn’t even want their governments to even give the workers enough crumbs off the table to buy proletarians’ compliance!
Something you Tankies fail to realize is that your rabid and biggoted craziness actually pushes people further towards liberalism.
It’s hilarious watching Autocratists and Authoritarianists lecture others about living in subservience.
And when have I ever supported authoritarian projects or autocracy? You just don’t like being called out as the liberal you are.
im not sure about lemmys interface but with niche communities that are active but real light. like no posts for weeks. well anyway I finally realized I could, at least with piefed, click this bell icon and get a notice for every post. Its pretty awesome for low post communities but of course anything with decent traction it would be a nightmare to turn on.
Oh that bell feature sounds pretty nice. I’ll need to check if lemmy has that feature.
yeah I use it for the sto and pathfinder communities which have low volume but I totally want to see anything posted.