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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 months ago (4 children)

We're expecting a giant influx of users when the popular workaround, old.reddit.com (perhaps with RES to make it less outdated), inevitably gets shut down. Please try to make Lemmy a worthwile space in the meantime so that they stay!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (3 children)

As long as they’re fans of trans positive meme dumps and endless half-serious slap fights about distros, they'll feel right at home.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

They won't even notice anything changed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

...you also must despise Trump, and if you don't, you will.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Don't forget the Rule 34 manga and rhetoric of not sexualising anything. Also the college kid Marxists.... and Linux cults... And figuring out liberalism and "American liberals" are polar opposites. Basically avoid .ml And obviously don't let anyone know your skin colour, gender, or sexual preferences if they're vanilla. And support all war that's against Russia. I think that's it- Oh, and don't reply to the same person more than twice in a thread.

Apart from that, they'll feel right at home.

Ah, yeah, and obv use Thunder.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

You forgot to mention the furry porn... so much furry porn...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I've used both and have been daily driving Voyager for months, I'd say they're both great to the point it's a matter of taste. May as well give it a go if you're curious!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For Lemmy apps, it's best to try a few for a week or so each—theres a few good'nes—and you land on the one you like. I was just plugging Thunder because it's sort of like the Linux of Lemmy apps. All the cool underground kids froth on it and those that don't use it couldn't give a fuck, because they don't know any better, man!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reddit is already rate-limiting old.reddit.com traffic. There are already few threads about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hadn't heard that, could you drop a link?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks! Maybe they are doing this because old.reddit is more convenient to scrape, and stopping unauthorized data collection seems to be a priority for them? Since it isn't actively worked on you wouldn't need to constantly update a scraping program every time there's a change to the site that breaks it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And please actively remind people to remain civil. We can be better than Reddit in so many ways. I believe!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think Lemmy is and will be quite good at remaining civil because the questionable content makers use their own instances and get defederated. The most edgy community federated with the main cluster I found is [email protected]. It features cryptic posts that presumably make sense if you engage in the decentralized (IRC? Telnet??) discourse channels of sdf.org and some appear to be pro-fascist depending on how you interpret the questionable veil of sarcasm. I don't think it's serious enough to consider defederation because the worst ones get massively downvoted anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

If it helps any, those memes go straight over my head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They're not just staying on those instances tho...

When they get defederated (usually long before) they find a small boutique instance (that's actually valid) but didn't bother to set up any requirements for account creation then make a shit ton of accounts to troll with.

If you ever look at the main modlog you'll see there's a significant amount getting banned on a daily basis.

But they just go make another, and even tho most instances are doing something about it, there's a surprising amount of zombie instances no one will ever change but are still running for some reason and federated with large instances.

Eventually the main ones will need to "prune" a lot of instances, which shouldn't be surprising considering a year ago everyone wanted to federate with everyone.

Imagine just walking thru a city and inviting literally everyone to come hang out at your apartment, even giving them the door code to get I to your building. That's kind of what happened.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. However, we need to solve the chicken-and-egg problem of niche communities. For example, there is no Czech community at all after both the czech-lemmy.eu and kyberpunk.social instances went down. It's only once the communities get going and start appearing in "All/Active" feeds that I'd worry about serious moderation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a tough position to be in for non-English and regional communities. For something like a game you can cross post in both a general videogames community and a more specific one and help people find it, but there's not much of an option for any sort of non-English non-pop culture topic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Feddit.org is quite active

Jlai.lu has 600 monthly active users on the main community

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I joined lemmy just over a year ago when reddit killed its API. I hoped that my favorite subreddit would come here too but it didn't so I wandered back to reddit. I was clinging to old.reddit.com and would probably have stayed around for as long as that lasted. But recently they began requiring email addresses. That was too much and here I am.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can I ask which subreddit or is it private? I know which communities I miss but I'm curious what communities we need to cultivate for others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You may ask, yes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My account still works without an email address.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

How are you seeing that an email is required? Is it when you try to post something? My account is banned so I just us it to lurk but I can still log in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My account is banned. I can still log in and lurk, but not post, upvote, etc. And, as I already said: When I log in to the main site, it says "account permanently banned". When I log in to old reddit, it says "provide an email to reactivate your account".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't see where you already said that. Weird though that it happens to you and not me. Seems like we're doing the same things otherwise. I did recently have an issue where my adblock was preventing me from logging in on firefox but it was just saying my username/password were invalid. If you have that going maybe try turning it off to log in and see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Whoopsies! I posted that to a similar conversation in a completely different thread, I got confused. My apologies. I don't know what you mean when you say that it is happening to me but not to you. You say that your account is banned and that you can only lurk - sounds exactly the same as my experience. Nothing to do with adblock as I have confirmed the problem on multiple platforms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I missed the part where you said you could log in. So yea I think our experience is consistent. You got banned for not having an email on your account?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I can't remember the exact wording of the justification for the ban, but it was something vague like "violation of site wide policy". I did not do anything questionable to trigger a ban. I suspect that the real reason for the ban was to force me to provide an email address. The reason I think that is that old reddit displays the message "provide an email address to reactivate your account".