I mean I’m new here and i can’t see a lot of stuff like on reddit
you gotta subscribe to a LOT of communities to get a somewhat active feed
I do reverse subscription: I browse by “new” and block what I don’t want. Best of both worlds.
I just browse all communities, and block the ones I don’t want to see.
On many instances too. You’ll have to get to know what they’re niches and userbase is like
im not sure about lemmys interface but with niche communities that are active but real light. like no posts for weeks. well anyway I finally realized I could, at least with piefed, click this bell icon and get a notice for every post. Its pretty awesome for low post communities but of course anything with decent traction it would be a nightmare to turn on.
Oh that bell feature sounds pretty nice. I’ll need to check if lemmy has that feature.
yeah I use it for the sto and pathfinder communities which have low volume but I totally want to see anything posted.
It is still small but oddsrabbit
is worth it to be here?
The fediverse is my favorite social media. It does have fewer daily active users than many others, but I encounter more real people and fewer bots than many others. If there’s not as much stuff here as you were hoping, there’s a broader fediverse that we are connected with that may interest you, like pixelfed (like instagram) and loops (like TikTok) and mastodon (like twitter) that you can follow from piefed or mbin, while still having a similar ui to lemmy. Personably, I kind of like that I run out of posts to browse and have to go do something else.
I like it better here, sure its not as populated but once you find a few good communities and join in, it can be a lot of fun
If you can tolerate ideological debates
No. you have to create the stuff you want to see here.
Lemmy is really the best alternative ive found, it reminds me of reddit when it was new.
Probably you can not see much including my other post, as a result of no chosen language(s) in your settings. Look at this hint and not just for local communities (the ones created on https://lemmy.world/), there are plenty on other servers.
There is piefed. I am even using it to see your post and write this comment
Its not something that helps with your problem since the 2 platforms share the same feed
I mean I’m new here
You have already become part of the solution!
As nobody else mentioned it there is https://lemmyverse.net/communities to search for communities across instances.
I’m aware how finicky it sometimes is to subscribe to new communities on other instances. The fediverse (Lemmy+PieFed+Mastodon+everything else) has some technical quirks but for me its a small price to pay for an unbuyable platform.
The obvious problem is that niche comms are not active. I feel like this comes from people expecting or even emulating the same experience as on reddit. But before we even create new niche comms. We should use the more broader ones even if the more broader one is casualconversation or something generic like that. Even some half dead forums feel alive cause they have like only 4 different places to post. And is also how reddit started but people are forcing it to be like it is right now.
And to answer your question no not that I’m aware of :)
There is https://lobste.rs/ which seems to be working well mostly because its invite only. Truth be told Lemmy will eventually also have to close registration and have an forced application form. If we want to keep it as human as it is right now. Don’t think there is any other way of dealing with bots that are eventually going to hit us.
There is also https://tildes.net/ which is less active but more moderated. They also have only broader comms because its more opinionated.
But they all do not federate which is in my eyes a deal breaker. The mods are probably alright but having the option to move instance while keeping most connections and communities only changing the server owners that control what you see is a game changer for me. It even made me post way more than I ever did on reddit because I feel like its more sustainable. You feel like you are part of the network more than on any other platform, because nobody really owns anything. That is what makes this place so special :)
Yeah, Piefed.
*Pylova because PieFed is
shitThanks for helping promote it
democracy and taxes
Liberal democracy is a vile anti-democratic institution (and I don’t necessarily even think that direct democracy is the best or only method of horizontal, anti-authoritarian decision making without extra information; i.e. upholding democracy as the be-all end-all of “all power to all the people” is itself a lack of imagination). Almost every imperialist power today is a liberal-democratic state. Liberal democracy is a resounding success at what it is designed to do, which is oppress the proletariat and entrench capitalist hegemony while giving the superficial appearance of proletarian representation to gullible liberals.
And no actually, proletarians should not be paying a single goddamn fucking penny to capitalists or their demonic governments as long as they use our money to destroy us, doom our ecology, and just barely maintain the social services or infrastructure statists claim that these institutions are supposed to provide, which incidentally, half the bourgeoisie doesn’t even want their governments to even give the workers enough crumbs off the table to buy proletarians’ compliance!
Something you Tankies fail to realize is that your rabid and biggoted craziness actually pushes people further towards liberalism.
It’s hilarious watching Autocratists and Authoritarianists lecture others about living in subservience.
And when have I ever supported authoritarian projects or autocracy? You just don’t like being called out as the liberal you are.
Some posts may be not visible for you because you did not choose any language(s) in your settings. I suggest to not just look for local communities (the ones created on https://lemmy.world/), there are plenty on other servers.
How do you see what languages they selected?
How do you see what languages they selected?
So you mean other users or an entire instance? Besides assumptions by looking at posts (and guess/recognize) you can’t see which languages are selected. When you are referring to yourself, well, I guess that depends on your browser and operating system among other things.
Well you mentioned they didn’t choose any languages in their settings, so I was wondering how you knew that.
I see. Thanks. To be clear: I do not know it. It was an assumption I made. I tried to indicate that by using the word may. When I post/comment stuff I usually do not use software to assist me phrasing it or to correct my grammar on purpose. I want to interact genuinely. Sometimes I look up single words in the dictionary as english is not my first language. My hope is that most of my contributions are still more or less comprehensible. (And if not, we can talk about misunderstandings just like now.)
The amount of content on here is less plentiful, so browsing all and blocking the communities you don’t like has been how I curated my feed. If a community doesn’t exist you can always make one (easier said than done I know).
Yes, but Lemmy hasn’t blocked me yet because of some weird comment. Reddit did it again yesterday. I know I should delete my Reddit account but…
Reddit had many years of growth. Lemmy is more like what Reddit started as.
It’s one of the better Reddit alternatives.
That’s an important thing to remember: Reddit was an empty web site when Digg started to piss its users off. I don’t post a lot, but I sure do have fun commenting on random threads.
What are you into?
The fediverse isn’t as addictive or algorithmic as legacy corporate social media, but I follow stuff that I’m interest and see new things everyday.
