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[–] [email protected] 208 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, lemmy has become really good lately. It's generally better than Reddit these days. I tried it a year ago and it was still quiet here, now I see posts with 2000+ upvotes

[–] [email protected] 151 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The only thing Reddit still has is certain very active niche communities, but we do great on the more general stuff.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 6 months ago (3 children)

As someone who used reddit for 14+ years, this place feels exactly like early Reddit, a place where you actually can converse with anyone and contribute instead of yelling into the void. Realistically we will always have both, but many more will join the verse everytime Reddit has an oopsie.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Narwhal, bacon, midnight, dick butt, le, doggo.

The real question, when we enter ^ this era of Lemmy, how many years of prison is appropriate for the above genre of jokes?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lmao beans fit that list, we can cringe about it all we want now but at the time we're building community.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Don't forget jeans. We're almost there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Truth. Still. Prison.

At least public flogging.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The sheer coverage of every subject on Reddit is crazy. Yesterday I was getting infuriated at a stupid plot in the 3 Body Problem, so I ddged it, and of course I found 3 Reddit threads sharing my frustrations. What a shame it has to get enshitified.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Upvoted because "ddged". Wonderful. 😊

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It helps that Reddit along with other big platforms like FB absorbed all the traffic that in the old days would have been distributed into small separate forums. Not good for the ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Internet ecosystem is a great term, it was put well in an article someone shared on slrpnk: https://slrpnk.net/post/8711732

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

We're doing our best!

If you're in a niche community, don't be afraid to put some content out there. Niche communities are generally so happy to see any conversation. The amount of criticism/downvoting I've seen on topics in slow communities has been very low.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I'm so glad to hear other people with the same opinion! Everywhere I go I see people complaining about the negativity and toxicity here and I'm like... Where? I've had nothing but positive interactions. I'm really happy reddit went through the API fiasco because I'm having a better time here than in late stage reddit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not any more toxic than Reddit honestly.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I agree, I only came here in July after they finally followed through with pulling the plug on 3rd party apps. This place has grown a lot in 1 year. Still needs more communities for the smaller hobbies, plus less memes and political content, and it would be perfect. 99% of everyone I talk with here is super nice and helpful as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

If we can't meme, I don't want to be part of the revolution.

~(that's a joke, based on something emma goldman kind of said)~

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[–] threelonmusketeers 73 points 6 months ago (10 children)

What interface is this? Looks interesting.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What are the differences between Lemmy and Mbin?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Totally different implementations of activitypub servers, for one thing.

Kbin/mbin were also designed to try to support both interfacing with micro blogging (as in Mastodon and a few others) and with Threads (as in Lemmy and a couple others).

It's pretty good overall, and I started on kbin, but I've found myself using Lemmy instead for a while, mostly because of better clients on mobile. And a handful of technical/design issues on kbin that were annoying me (although some have been improved since)

Mbin is a close fork of Kbin.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago

Moist is down at the moment, so - in true Reddit fashion - maybe Lemmy just hugged it to death.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There's just something about seeing users make posts on another instance from their own and the comments filled with users from different instances that makes me so happy. It makes Lemmy feel more like an actual front page of the Internet that can be used from anyone anywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's so much better! RIP R word

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

R word is an offensive phrase.

You gotta proxy it by saying "letter after Q word".

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I still miss some features that RES provided.

Especially draging images to resize them is a feature I use all the time

[–] threelonmusketeers 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does your instance have a mlmym interface? If not, you should ask your admins to add it.

It's not the full RES, but it at least gives you the "old reddit" format. Most of the large instances have it, like old.lemmy.world and oldsh.itjust.works.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Damn, Louisiana got a whole fleet of orphan crushing machines.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If only k/mbin federated better - I'd be all over it :(

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (21 children)

Did you actually try mbin? Because we fixed a huge number of federation issues kbin had/has. Sure a bunch still need to be worked on, but we do our best and improve it with every release

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

and it's* starting to become

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

article posting = notifications = shitloads if dopamine

(for just lemmy*)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I've always liked Kbin's design and funcionality more than Lemmy, but the latter is more popular and sometimes posts/comments won't load properly on Kbin, so I've stuck with Lemmy for now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Everyone in this thread is suggesting Mbin, so I might try that. Sounds like it's a fork of Kbin that actually solved a ton of its federation issues with Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (10 children)

I spend most of my time on kbin.run now, one of the mbin forks.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I go back and forth depending on my mood but yeah, I find lemmy a bit smoother

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

More functional how? I'm always interested in how people perceive things and what they look for, after all, it's the people that make places good and so it's important to understand them.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't know what OP noticed in particular, but I immediately saw the interface collating other posts with the same URL as super helpful in making the Fediverse feel more contiguous.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

This place by its apparent nature is so far less prone to the pollution those other guys allowed in

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