• KnoLord@lemmy.zip
    301·
    20 hours ago

    While I agree with the message, that the people should leave all centralized Social Media services, the big mistake here is concentrating a massive user-base on one instance (.ml) of one specific service (Lemmy) instead of spreading the influx towards many smaller, but still solid instances and federated services (PieFed, Mastodon, MBin).

    Even disregarding .ml’s reputation, if this post does reach a substantial user-base, the only thing happening then is .ml receiving a HoD and people losing faith in the Fediverse as a whole (e: spelling) due to this, sadly. :c

    • spicehoarder@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      13 hours ago

      Plot twist: it’s a ploy by reddit to get extremists off their platform and on to Lemmy

      • inbeesee@lemmy.world
        8·
        16 hours ago

        I don’t know how the French are able to rally in real life and put everything on the line to push back fascism. I know I should do something real to fight back, but like, I’ve got a lot going on ya know? Maybe I’ll be rallied by the time atrocities have already happened, but I hope not.

        • tino@lemmy.world
          5·
          8 hours ago

          We have unions, a variety of political parties and many organisations who have decades, even a century of experience on how to organise rallyes. The only thing common people have to do it show up. And still, most French won’t go even if they sympathise with the message (I almost never do it).

        • UristMcHolland@lemmy.world
          71·
          14 hours ago

          The main difference being that France is 248,573 mi² (643,801 km2)

          The contiguous United States is 3,119,000 mi² (8,080,464.3 km²)

          France also has a 3.5x higher population density

          Inhabitants/km²

          • France: 124.4

          • United States: 35.2

          • ByGourou@sh.itjust.works
            32·
            3 hours ago

            The country’s population density doesn’t change anything to protest, it’s a cultural thing. People only live in cities anyway why would having huge empty fields affect protests ?

            And there are plenty of denser countries which fight way less.

        • Elgenzay@lemmy.ml
          21·
          14 hours ago

          I saw a post on here the other day where someone was complaining that their coworkers “don’t care” about the current political climate and after they elaborated, they were describing people who do care but weren’t actively spearheading a demonstration. I don’t know if they expect them to go stand in traffic or what.

          I give monthly donations to nonprofits that I like and email my state representatives when EFF or Fight for the Future tells me to but I’ve also got a life to live. Just stay informed, vote/petition, donate if you can, but live your life. You can only do so much.

  • niketunic@lemmy.world
    115·
    20 hours ago

    i left yesterday after 12 years. joined lemmy. the internet was a lot cooler before it was run by billionaires and ass kissers who are intimidated by billionaires.

    fuck em all

    • Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      16 hours ago

      My account is 14 years old, and I’m almost to the my line where I’m going to torch it. The censorship is getting bad!

      I do miss the Reddit from 10-14 years ago. So sad that it’s gone. It was truly amazing.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      7 hours ago

      Excellent. Every long term power redditor exiting is a good blow to reddit. They’re left with all the lurkers who just want to consume content so they’ll have to rely more and more on ai slop until people realize it’s all fake.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      16·
      20 hours ago

      When you’ve settled in, consider joining a smaller instance! Just because it has “Lemmy” in the name doesn’t mean it’s official or good. We all federate together, so you can still join communities hosted on other instances.

      • niketunic@lemmy.world
        10·
        19 hours ago

        thank you! still wrapping my head around the “instances” thing but i think i’m starting to get it

        • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          12 hours ago

          I’ve been here a while, and don’t have any desire to check out other instances. I just know that if Lemmy.world goes under, or its management starts fucking around, there are plenty of places I can go.

          Leaving Reddit was not as simple.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
      12·
      20 hours ago

      Welcome, glad you could make it! I hope you find this to be a cool place.

      For best results, subscribe to communities you want to have a dedicated feed for, and block communities, instances and users that aren’t worth your time, since there is the occasional jerk like you might find anywhere on the internet.

      • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        18 hours ago

        since there is the occasional jerk like you

        Hey!

        might find anywhere on the internet.

        Oh.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      20 hours ago

      I’m going to repeat what I’ve been saying a lot lately. The default is “active.” If that gets boring (it probably will), switch to “hot,” “new,” and “top 6 hours” to get a more vibrant experience. The search engine is confusing at first, but is pretty good.

    • Thales@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      17 hours ago

      Welcome!

      The web UI is accessible on any device and there are plenty of apps as well such as Sync and Voyager.

        • njordomir@lemmy.world
          6·
          15 hours ago

          Fellow baconreader refugee here. I use Jeboa and Eternity alternatingly. They were both good and I was never able to choose. baconreader was a great tool for research into other peoples experiences, knowledge, and opinions. Also the memes etc. I’m glad threaded convos live on via Lemmy.

  • .Donuts@lemmy.world
    43·
    20 hours ago

    They should really include the no ads thing. I think it’s a great selling point, and it would be useful to leverage.

    • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
      101·
      20 hours ago

      While this is true some instances do need donations it’s very probable that some instances could include ads in the future.

      • .Donuts@lemmy.world
        18·
        20 hours ago

        Totally fair, but at the moment, there are none. And even if instances will start using 3rd party ads, there will also be instances that will never run ads. The power of federation at work.

  • jaybone@lemmy.world
    53·
    18 hours ago

    Lemmy mods delete posts and threads too. Interesting choice to use the Lemmy.ml instance in this message. Coincidentally they just deleted one of my threads in asklemmy recently.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    4·
    14 minutes ago

    It’s a little bit dramatic, it’s a little bit wordy.
    Yup, it probably is a genuine thing from the source: certainly, it was written by a redditor.

    “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

  • mint_tamas@lemmy.world
    135·
    2 hours ago

    revolutions are born in monents like these

    Holy shit can this whole thing be any more corny? Is this done by teenagers? Don’t get me wrong fuck Musk/reddit/etc. but what is even the outrage about this time?

    • Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world
      71·
      2 hours ago

      Subreddits are being banned and important information being hindered from being seen. It may be corny to you but at least they’re trying. What have you done?

      • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
        2·
        52 minutes ago

        I’m not sure if I share the exact same sentiment as @[email protected], but I honestly did have the thought of, “Who (or For Whom), does this format work for anymore?”

        Like I get it, it’s classical and all. A call back to a historic time where action was taken (just don’t look into it too hard, you’ll get disappointed if you learn outside the “Americuh” version). But, now it just feels a little … disingenuous? Idk the exact word/feeling, maybe because it’s been co-opted by so many bad actors or maybe that we’re talking about social media websites.

        I guess this format gives off a dude’s “Love, Live, Laugh” version of righteousness, that even though the message may be correct, it just feels like a weird marketing technique.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
    264·
    20 hours ago

    I saw it being denounced as a psyop which I thought was funny, since I think it pretty clearly isn’t one. But directing people to lemmy.ml is bad advice as most of us know.

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      15 hours ago

      When I first heard of Lemmy, I curiously poked around, and at the time it was just lemmygrad and ml. Needless to say I backed out quickly. Glad it got some diversity with the api kerfuffle.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    12 hours ago

    I love it, but I fear for the day Lemmy becomes so popular that it is worthwhile for the corporate bots to begin gaming Lemmy’s algorithm to dominate front pages. I don’t think Lemmy is prepared to defend against this.

    • bayesianbandit@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      9 hours ago

      I am still new to the fediverse but I figured that smaller constellations will federate without connecting to the largest federation.

      It’s harder to manipulate 500 disjoint federations than 1 really large one. Especially when some of those federations rely on heavy verification.

      Of course those smaller federations are likely organized around specific purposes or organizing interests rather than broad public discourse.

      • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        3 hours ago

        Part of what makes Reddit so great is the huge community of content creators. Both the posts and comments. Lemmy has slowly been catching up, but still is far off.

        Defederating from large instances will just result in lower quality content for those instances. I would hope there’d be a better solution, but I’m not smart enough to think of one.

        Maybe the secret is to let each instance control their own sorting algorithm. They keep getting the content from the large instances, but control how it gets brought to the front page. My guess is this would be no small task, but that would definitely make it difficult to game the algorithm.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I think we might reach a point that, instead of one application in the beginning, we’d have to have periodic “re-verification” to prove that you are human (and haven’t been taken over by a bot). Like maybe once every 6 months. And on the 5th month, you can begin early submission for the re-verification application.

    • Freefall@lemmy.world
      162·
      6 hours ago

      Right? Way to destroy a movement and make a bunch of people run back to Reddit and “never again”.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        83·
        19 hours ago

        Look I’m not gonna dox the mf’er, but the primary force behind the .ml instance, and frankly all of lemmy, spends a lot of time enjoying the privilege and benefits that come with being a well paid software living in a “global north” social democracy. Thankfully, they have since cleaned up their profile, but previously, it was trivially easy to figure out where a certain person lived, at least the metro, what company they worked at, and that their income range was well into the 6 figure plus.

        If you are new to lemmy, maybe take a bit more time to develop your understanding of the ‘lore’ that underpins this place. If you are already familiar, please understand that basically the core development team of lemmy, and admins of the dot ml instance advocate for a kind of authoritarianism they’ve been shielded from their entire lives, and that they’ve enjoyed extraordinary privilege that has only, historically, been available to the global north, and specifically, a kind of democratic socialism that affords them incredible breadth of opportunity. And its fine that they have contradictions and don’t live their perspectives; but I’m going to exercise a significant degree of criticism at this disconnect.