• Lvxferre [he/him]
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    462 days ago

    Lemmy is nonsensical fediverse bullshit.

    Lemmy will never take off due to their idiotic federalism approach.

    See those muppets looking for the next Digg / Reddit 10 years from now, after their alternative “with no federated bullshit” gets enshittified the exact same way as Reddit did. 🍿

    • @NOT_RICK
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      322 days ago

      It’s crazy how lazy people are.

      “FeDErAtIOn iS CoFUsInG”

      Welp, enjoy continuing to be at the mercy of the whims of the board of directors. God forbid you have to learn something new

      • FundMECFS
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        142 days ago

        Its like dude. Just make an account on a big server and pretend federation doesn’t exist. You’ll barely notice the difference. It’s not as if you have to understand federation to use Lemmy.

        • Blaze (he/him) OP
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          102 days ago

          I bring it up every time, but I’ve seen people just install Voyager or Sync and use it. They don’t even know what their instance is

          • threelonmusketeers
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            22 days ago

            just install Voyager or Sync and use it

            Do they automatically pick an instance? If so, which/how?

                • FundMECFS
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                  31 day ago

                  It’s the least controversial. They don’t really defederate anybody, they are big and fast, but they aren’t super centralised like world, or abusing mod powers like ML.

      • Lvxferre [he/him]
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        172 days ago

        Not necessarily a pea brain, but certainly clueless on why Reddit, Digg, Slashdot etc. went downhill.

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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          2 days ago

          I mean the most often expressed complaint I see there is that the fedivwrse is “fractured” as if joining one instance won’t let you see content from another instance. They are missing the crucial element that they are all still connected to each other, and Reddit also kinda works this way, with content hosted across a plethora of servers. Those servers are just controlled by a single entity and you probably won’t notice when you move from one to another unless one is down.

      • mesa
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        62 days ago

        I think it’s just that reddit looks like everything else now (Pinterest/Instagram/ect) with their UI so the general public expects certain elements to do certain things. They don’t remember the old interface nor the free-wheeling link madness reddit had in the beginning.

        Reddit only became popular relatively recently.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 days ago

    Welp, time to dust off the old reddit account. There’s people showing interest, asking genuine questions, and many opportunities to practice that rusted thing called kindness while answering them.

  • mesa
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    302 days ago

    I think instead of telling people what Lemmy is in words, maybe just give them a link and let them decide.

    Who cares what “instance” they land on or the “correct” way of doing activityhub. Let them go down the rabbit hole if they want to. Just give them an in.

    For the longest time, reddit got popular despite its UI (that I grew to love as old.reddit). Let them explore a bit and point them over to a front page. Just my 2 cents.

  • mozingo
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    172 days ago

    The comment mentioning lemmy only has 268 votes. The one it’s responding to has over 1000.

      • mesa
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        202 days ago

        It so nice to be able to edit titles.

        Imagine being on a platform that doesn’t allow you to do that ;)

        • @[email protected]
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          Saw a brother printer related post with the title striked out. Regardless of whether you agree with the edit or not, that felt kinda nice. Poor man’s community notes. Hated reddit news titles that became misinformation because crucial details came out after they were posted, and many people don’t read beyond the headline.