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humbletightband ,

Reddit: porn

Lemmy: no porn

Annoyed_Crabby ,

There’s like, a whole instance for porn.

vzq ,

Are you joking? Lemmy is basically unmoderated, and the little moderation we have is trash.

RandomLegend ,
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Thats the neat part about lemmy, every instance can do their own thing.

If you’re not happy with the moderation you currently have, you can always check out other instances

vzq ,

Moderation is community level though.

If you bubble everything up to instance admins they basically melt from the effort.

RandomLegend ,
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yes and no

If one of our users report something on lemmy.world for example we can remove it for all our users.

So yes, the post still exists but from the perspective of our instance it’s removed.

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

I can’t speak for other instances, but we don’t melt from the effort.

RandomLegend ,
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

We don’t either

Moghul ,

Several people have already raised concerns with the fact that they got banned from several unrelated .ml communities by the same mod for breaking the rules in one community. There are several topics with broad appeal that have their largest community on .ml. Switching instances is basically the same as making another account because you’re still subject to the .ml moderation.

RandomLegend ,
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Then the people should switch over the communities to another instance then

Moghul ,

The people don’t really do that. A move needs to start from the mods, whether it’s because they want to move or because they did something to piss everybody off.

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

You’re on one of the best-moderated instances unless you hate trans people.

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t know why people keep attributing privacy to Lemmy when ActivityPub is anything but.

Salvo ,
@Salvo@aussie.zone avatar

That was what I was going to say.

That said, if someone detects some sort of data-mining plagiarism bot sucking down everything on an instance, it can be defederated very quickly.

Serinus ,

New instances basically suck down everything as the most normal use case. That’s what activitypub is for.

OsrsNeedsF2P ,

Is ActivityPub logging which IP I post from? Is ActivityPub monitoring which communities I view? Is ActivityPub blocking me from browsing with my VPN on?

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

Is ActivityPub logging which IP I post from?

That depends on the implementation.

Is ActivityPub monitoring which communities I view?

That depends on the implementation.

Is ActivityPub blocking me from browsing with my VPN on?

That—believe it or not—depends on the implementation.

puppy ,

We already have an implementation. You me and OP are all on Lemmy. So can you answer these in the context of Lemmy again?

davel , (edited )
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

I actually can’t answer them, because I only admin this instance, I don’t run it.

While I’m sure this is not the case, it’s entirely possible that the people who do run this instance are running a fork of it that does all of those things. It couldn’t log your IP address or block your VPN, but it could mine, and your instance could yours. And I haven’t read the Lemmy source code, so I don’t know what even an unmodified Lemmy logs.

(Actually this instance is running a fork right now, or rather a branch: 0.19.6-beta1, because lemmy.ml is the core Lemmy developers’ instance for testing beta code before releasing production versions.)

GoodEye8 ,

But you can read the source code and get an understanding of whether it is collecting private information or not. You can theoretically also fork the code and make your own version of Lemmy where you’re ripped out the parts that collect private information. Can you do any of those things with Reddit? Absolutely not. You have no idea what exactly Reddit collects and even if you did you have no control over that collection.

What you’re doing is questioning the privacy aspect without putting in the effort to check if your questioning is valid. Nobody is preventing you from reading the source code. And if you don’t trust anyone else running the instance you can fork Lemmy, make whatever privacy changes you need and host your own instance. That goes beyond the capabilities of the average user but that’s the catch with privacy, if you can’t trust others then you have to learn more to get by without others.

TechNerdWizard42 ,

Many Lemmy instances block VPN posting. You can view, but not vote or post. I have a secondary private VPN I use sometimes for that. But honestly the whole thing just sucks.

growingentropy ,

I got off lemmy.world because they block VPN connections. Not happening, under any circumstances. I don’t trust anyone that much.

Serinus ,

And generally that’s fine. If you’re posting stuff publicly, expect it to be public.

Lemmy gives away for free what Reddit is desperately trying to put up walls on so they can sell it, but I wouldn’t call it “private” because it’s monetized.

Lemmy is the opposite of privacy, and that just makes sense if you 🤔.

vonxylofon ,

The amount of magical thinking around federated protocols both on Lemmy and Mastodon is astounding. Sure, design decisions make a difference, but federations gonna federate.

Phegan ,

Privacy in the sense that no one is selling your information for profit

ChaoticNeutralCzech , (edited )

I was just re-wiping my Reddit comments with an updated text yesterday and apparently, the word “enshittification” is banned on r/hellsomememes. Seriously?

I miss the content though, and I have too much of a life to create a fediverse community and fill it with content even if it’s stolen. Can somebody break Reddit’s ToS and set up a reposting bot?

dharmacurious ,

Can you, or anyone, explain to me how tf to do the text overwriting thing? Like, is it even doable for someone who doesn’t know the first thing about coding?

kurwa ,

If you’re talking about your past reddit comments, I used this in the past: github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite, not sure if it still works though.

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

I am using Shreddit on Linux. It goes through each line in comments.csv from the GDPR export I requested, which is more complete than the data PowerDeleteSuite gets access to. PowerDeleteSuite basically clicks through your comment history on old.reddit.com and submits edit requests, while Shreddit uses the powerful API (it’s not paid for personal use but you need to register the client, see the github page) and will find all comments thanks to the legally-mandated completeness of the GDPR export (if supplied; it will use the API to retrieve the comment list otherwise). BTW, you can alter the comments.csv for a custom filter (for example, I want to use a Czech string in Czech subreddits). You can use it on Windows (and it’s an easier installation) but because of non-POSIX shenanigans, newlines in the replacement string won’t work there.

If using PowerDeleteSuite, make sure to download the log file it supplies before you close the window or your original comment content will be lost!

Serinus ,

Reposting bots aren’t great. It just means a bunch of articles with no comments that make Lemmy look more dead than it actually is.

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

These aren’t articles, they’re just memes. The discussion below is mostly just “aww” and “I’d like a demon friend too” so it’s not too important. Of course, the reposting should not be overdone: perhaps limit the bot to a single top post every day.

Sonotsugipaa ,
@Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

There are some reposting bot, Lemmit comes to mind

hankskyjames777 ,
@hankskyjames777@kbin.run avatar

r/hellsomememes

Would like to see that community on Lemmy

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

So would @Rolando and @Piemanding. That makes four!

I am too busy to create it though.

fin ,

You can’t unseen the huge one problem that Lemmy has: lack of contents/people

BuboScandiacus ,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

And searching for the said content

Evotech ,

Catch 22. Just gotta start posting content

lemmyseizethemeans ,

I’m doing my part!

atro_city ,

I find enough content here. Have you blocked every instance?

Phegan ,

There is substantially less content , but there is content. I don’t get everything I am looking for, but enough to keep me happy

atro_city ,

Majority: everybody uses reddit, so I'll join them

Jimmycrackcrack ,

You can’t guarantee better mods, those are volunteers/instance admins/staff of an instance admin and are people. There is nothing inherent to how Lemmy works that ensures that people tasked with moderating aren’t power hungry or in some way a bit of a dick. There was to my understanding, a certain draw to Lemmy over Reddit in that the federated nature means the actions of some power hungry moderator on one instance won’t leave you having no option but to accept their behaviour because you can just migrate to another instance to see and interact with the same content or even spin up your own instance, but that doesn’t make the mods themselves any different and that’s all in theory anyway. In practice there isn’t currently a way to migrate user accounts from one instance to another so if your account is of value to you and you’ve run afoul of some ban happy mod in one community on one instance, then you’ll have to make a whole new account on another instance if you want to circumvent them and interact in that same community again from another instance and in such a case if its identifiably still you, or you want to engage in the original behaviour that incurred their wrath then they’ll just ban you again from your new instance because a different protocol design doesn’t mean different people.

NorthWestWind ,
@NorthWestWind@lemmy.world avatar

The main problem is, people are not aware of the left path

AVincentInSpace ,

Well the main problem is that the left path has about a tenth the content.

And also that Redditors are terrified of change.

NorthWestWind ,
@NorthWestWind@lemmy.world avatar

Correction to my comment, the right road is wider, and is also a giant glue trap

WalrusDragonOnABike ,

So many communities simply don’t have alternatives here. But I’m happier with the quality of the communities that do exist. So what if they don’t have spam bots sharing 6-12 month old memes that sometimes make no sense outside the timeframe they were post and users just repeating catch phrases for karma increasing the amount of “content”?

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

There are like 5 people here to talk about my entire country of 10 million while the Reddit community gets 2000+ every day. Even a karma farmer would help here as long as it’s not a bot and occasionally replies to comments.

dwindling7373 ,

about a tenth the content

I fucking wish.

Schal330 ,

Is the onboarding experience any better? I remember the initial process of joining Lemmy felt very shady and not user friendly. That can be a massive deterrent for people joining. Then on top of that having to filter out all the communities that are not to my taste.

Overall it was a messy non-user friendly experience, but now that I’m here I’m happy.

rustyfish ,
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

I tried to recruit a friend of mine but the moment I tried to explain instances to him, he zoned out. I wouldn’t call it non-user friendly, but it’s not as simple and dumbed down like other social media is.

Also roughly a year ago there have been a couple of articles thrown around on Twitter and certain subreddits which wrote about CP stuff going on on Mastodon. So the Fediverse had some bad press. Which is rich coming from the site that allowed people like Violentacrez to fester.

Schal330 ,

Instances are great, but are also a problem for onboarding.

Is there a single point of entry for people now? I can imagine there being a website people could go to that asks a few simple questions and sorts (or load balances) people to certain instances. This would of course need some way for people to transfer their accounts in the future should they not be happy with their instance. Additionally each instance would need to have some kind of API call for the single point of entry to create the accounts You could even have a simple survey to gauge people’s interests to help them in the community filtering process and present the mobile apps that are available.

Just some thoughts of course on how it might be possible to improve the users first experience.

BuboScandiacus ,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

The one I can search posts from about a very specific issue or question I have with google

Duke_Nukem_1990 ,

What do you mean by “privacy” on the lemmy side? And aren’t the mods mostly the same mods that were active onnreddit before?

Serinus ,

Hi, I’m Serinus of the Lemmy.World Community Team checking in.

And aren’t the mods mostly the same mods that were active onnreddit before?

No. Most of the mods from Reddit stayed on Reddit to desperately cling to “power”.

Also, if you want to help with this, talk to me about modding a community or two.

in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only consume content, 9% of the participants change or update content, and 1% of the participants add content.

wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

It generally takes about five minutes a month to mod a medium (Lemmy) sized community. I have to beg people to volunteer, and they often turn me down.

Our top mods seem to be great people, but I’m still trying to informally limit how many communities they have in favor of having more diversity and fresh blood. But it’s difficult when they’re willing to actively help out, and I have to go beg otherwise active people who turn me down.

Please, if you don’t like super mods and you want to actually help, go take a look at some of your favorite communities right now. See if the mods have posted in the last couple months. If they haven’t, talk to me about modding that community. Mention this post.

EarthShipTechIntern ,

I would choose outline of both statements in opposite colors so that it’s more ledgable

papalonian ,

Lemmy is much better than reddit, right other Lemmy users?

Paradachshund ,

I think you may be preaching to the choir on this one. 😅

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