Yeah I moderate /r/Lemmy. If you need anything, let me know. I'm more likely to read your message quickly if you sent me a message through Reddit (a PM, not chat, as I still use RiF).
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Yeah I moderate /r/Lemmy. If you need anything, let me know.
That's great to hear!
The pinned threads on the subreddit are both over a year old, and could use some updating. Would you consider swapping them out for new ones?
Folks on here could probably help you out with updating the info, if you need assistance.
Suggested the same to @[email protected] via a PM on Reddit yesterday (there my account is u/Zadsten, a secondary account I had forgotten about when deleting my u/Zedstrian account after the Reddit blackout, and thought it'd be better to make use of an existing account than make a new one).
As I had discussed ways the pinned megathread could be improved and updated, he offered to let me write a new one that he'd then pin. As it's among the best ways to teach Redditors about Lemmy, I'm going to spend time today and tomorrow writing a version of my own that communicates the core details in a clear manner, with secondary sections to answer anticipated questions.
As it's important for the post to be clear, straightforward, and informative enough to encourage Redditors to try out Lemmy (but not so much information as to make Lemmy appear overly complex to newcomers), I'm more than glad to take feedback before I post the new megathread. I'll post the initial paragraph here for review tonight, and the remaining sections tomorrow, perfecting it as much as possible to maximize the odds of Redditors switching over. 👍
I’m more than glad to take feedback before I post the new megathread. I’ll post the initial paragraph here for review tonight, and the remaining sections tomorrow, perfecting it as much as possible to maximize the odds of Redditors switching over.
Awesome, looking forward to reading it!
Apologies for the delay; got caught up working on a paper for university, but finally got around to writing my version of a megathread post. I understand if @[email protected] decides to keep the new one that was just posted instead, given my tardiness, but here's what I came up with:
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a network of news aggregation and discussion forums, similar to Reddit. The platform has thousands of communities—Lemmy's name for subreddits—covering a vast range of interests, ranging from common ones such as [email protected] to niche ones such as [email protected]. Lemmy's federated structure means that users on one instance—the name for a server hosting Lemmy—can message users and subscribe to communities on hundreds of other instances as if all were on a centralized platform like Reddit.
Centralization incentivizes a platform's owner to progressively increase monetization practices over time, as has occurred with Reddit, due to the inability of users to leave without losing access to valued content. Lemmy's federated structure affords its users the flexibility of joining one instance and moving to another without losing access to their communities, discouraging the administrator of any instance from prioritizing profits over the best interest of users.
How do I join Lemmy?
Joining Lemmy is like making an email account: after making an account on one instance, you can message users and subscribe to communities across different instances. Although you can navigate the full instance list and choose one yourself, I suggest joining lemmy.ca (hosted in US), discuss.online (hosted in US), or sopuli.xyz (hosted in Germany), as they have high uptime rates and use Fediseer to defederate from spam instances. To maximize your Lemmy connection speed, choosing an instance hosted near to you is recommended.
As an alternative to the default user interface, third-party developers have created several Lemmy web apps for use in desktop and mobile browsers, as well as standalone apps for iOS and Android. Voyager is often recommended for mobile, having distinct web app, iOS, and Android versions available. Alternative web apps include Alexandrite and Photon, while alternative mobile apps include Arctic for iOS, Connect for Android, and Thunder for both iOS and Android.
(I started to write a paragraph about how a user from one's home instance needs to subscribe to a community for it to become searchable, and was going to mention Lemmy Federate and Lemmyverse as solutions to that problem, but it might be too in-depth for an introductory post.)
Great work! I think this is worthy of its own post. Even if it isn't posted to r/Lemmy immediately, we can always use it in the future, and it would be great if more pairs of eyeballs looked it over.
RiF works still?
You can patch the old apps to use your own API key iirc. The API pricing only kicks in when there's too many requests using the same key in a timeframe. Which is easily reached when you've got thousands of devices using the same key, but nearly impossible when people use their own key.
I’ve been on Reddit for 17 years, and I have no idea what’s going on.
If you're talking about us? We don't have any terms with them.
I never checked r/lemmy so i can't comment on it. r/RedditAlternatives community can seem against the fediverse and usually recommend obscure, proprietary alternatives such as Discuit? Weird. And they removed rimu's post advertising piefed, so i wouldn't say i'll trust them immediately.
If you told me r/RedditAlternatives was operated by Reddit employees it wouldn't completely shock me. But a more likely explanation for why there is no "Fedi consensus" there is that because Lemmy/Piefed is the best option, the people who try it out are more likely to actually leave Reddit.
In short, there are people trying to "make Discuit happen" because unlike Lemmy it's well, not happening.
And they removed rimu’s post advertising piefed, so i wouldn’t say i’ll trust them immediately.
They did ? Crap
Yep. It was on 0 upvotes and a dude calling us "conservatives" based on the homepage (???) was highly upvoted too. They were questioning funding, but it shouldn't be a problem if we aren't twitter incarnate types of size.
They seem pretty against the idea of the fediverse.
prob assume hosting costs more than it does, people pay like 50$ a month for a single static html site on proprietary builders, mfs out there pay 100$ a year for ssl renewals still
If it was on zero upvotes, might it have been removed without human intervention?
It might be worth resubmitting the post and linking to it from Lemmy/Piefed to help promote it.
We actually did advertise it, and it took 7 hours to remove so it's a safe bet to say it was manual. I think the reason why people hate fedi so much there, is because the people who want to be there already are, and people who dislike it still remain.
it took 7 hours to remove so it's a safe bet to say it was manual
Not necessarily. It could have just taken 7 hours to dip below a positive vote score, triggering the automod.
We actually did advertise it
Was this recently? I don't recall seeing it in the fedibridge community.
the people who want to be there already are, and people who dislike it still remain
This is definitely problem, one that I hope this community can help to address!
I don't actually exactly know how reddit works, iirc the post hit 0 upvotes like 40 mins in lol. But you may be right
Was this recently? I don't recall seeing it in the fedibridge community.
Actually yes, just go a couple of days down and you'll find a post about piefed being advertised on reddit.
This is definitely problem, one that I hope this community can help to address!
Thanks, I hope so too! :D
just go a couple of days down and you'll find a post about piefed being advertised on reddit
Oh, was that the Virgin/Chad meme? For some reason, I can still see that thread on Reddit.
In Willy terms, i would say...
Never had any contact with them, good or bad.
They usually leave my posts promoting Lemmy
@[email protected] I guess ?
That's me.
Hm, their most recent activity was their sh.itjust.works account, 27 days ago, so they might not check Lemmy on a frequent basis. Have you tried messaging them on Reddit?