Just came in from reddit, so from a newbie point of view so far so good, altho the content and users are not as expanded as reddit i think its a matter of time. people are haphazardly looking for alternatives and the only reason people stay is because of the interaction. I for instance immediately tried looking up the threads i was subbed to reddit as well. Its there just not as big and ill gladly trade it in instead of dealing with reddit any longer.
Some Lemmings are extremely right. That is the norm on any other social media too. Luckily they were often contained on a specific instance. What I noticed tho is that at least in my german bubble the view is very, very left. That’s noticeable especially as the consensus of eg. !ich_iel seems to be extremely pro towards protestors of the last generation, which are often criticised in my real life bubble for their actions as they’re seen as too extreme. Could be that my RL bubble is just much more right than I perceive it to be, even after blending out some individuals.
The ich_iel community existed as sub on fuggid too, it was never as left tho. I guess there are much less older and therefore theoretically less tech savvy as well as statistically conservative folks people on Lemmy in general. Conservatives would probably care about new, better platforms anyway.
Trying to sub to something from other instance is still pain in the ass tho. Especially when you’re from a small instance so everything is somewhere else.
Even the head mod of piracy subreddit was ousted from the subreddit for attempting to migrate the sub to a lemmy instance, and the redditors that remain there actually cheered! It’s wild, you would expect pirates, who always at risk of having their subreddit shut down, would understand the need to migrate.
Literally swap the word Fediverse in that pinned post for Lemmy and you’ll get more engagement with it. Because you’re right, even if the current reddit user has heard of lemmy and mastodon, they still most likely don’t know what the fediverse is, don’t understand the site linked to is a lemmy instance / reddit alternative. Subbed to !futurology btw, if the current activity there can be sustained I think it’ll shape up to be a nice community
I almost completely agree with your first and last points. I was trying to say if they provide the same product at the same quality and price try to prefer the co-operative. I say similar because, personally I’d give some leeway to the co-op. But there are limits and co-ops are businesses and if they give sub par products and services than we shouldn’t buy from them.
The power is held by the owners. If it’s a consumer co-operative it is controlled by the consumer and a worker cooperative is owned by the workers. So the end users of products or the ones who have jobs. It depends on how it’s structured.
I somewhat agree with your last point. The big thing is ownership is wealth and control. If you control your store you get to chose the available options if someone else owns it it means someone else has control. So I’d rather I have control over it. Again with the previous thing. If someone else can do it sooo much better than I than I should someone’s product.
But we have to be careful because you can lead to the problem with data and big tech. I use an alternative to Google Cloud that is a cooperative but I have to pay. But with Google I don’t pay but loose my privacy. In that instance you have to determine what’s more important, given what I need it for is comparable to what I need what is important and I chose ownership and privacy over having neither of those.
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
It’s the same fundamental problem all the new social media sites have and why for instance there are a bunch of lemmy sites we’re defederated from. With such a small user base the initial users to join have an outsized influence on the content which then starts a feedback cycle. E.G. if the first users to join are a bunch of far right GQP nutjobs that spend all day posting about whatever the latest insane conspiracy they ran across, then anyone stumbling across the site that isn’t a GQP nutjob (or at least nominally allied with them like the various neo-nazi groups) is going to pass on it, and any marginal users who were on it previously would leave as it just becomes more extreme.
In particular these things tend to be driven by purges or mass exodus of other social media sites, so depending on who and why they left the previous site will tend to set the tone for the new one. E.G. when reddit purged a bunch of the more toxic subs a couple years ago and then there was a sudden crop of sites advertising themselves as censorship free reddit clones, only they all quickly devolved into complete cesspools. It turns out a certain amount of censorship and moderation is actually kind of important for maintaining a civilized discourse.
give it time, people will come to their favorite instances with time. The best thing you can do is make your own posts to your favorite subs and cross post posts you see to other subs they fit into as well.
Communities do have good contributors that make good content. Speaking to Pokemon GO, announcements are often wordy and lack key information (which pokemon can be shiny, for example). It’s up to the community to post helpful infographics when events start to give a concise and accurate overview. In many instances, blocking top contributors will also block the best content.
Totally different story when talking about big, general topic subs like memes, news, etc. But why would you even browse those in the first place?
RandomLegend_dbzer0 that comes with the dbzer0 site. I’ve tried them all, but often I can’t open the sub replies link. In all of them it just spins when you click it, you never get to the comments. Had the same problem on two other lemmy instances and various themes in the past. Only thing I’ve tried that works is Voyager on my phone.
One way of getting into postwar Canada “was by showing the SS tattoo,” Canadian historian Irving Abella told “60 Minutes” interviewer Mike Wallace. “This proved that you were an anti-Communist.”
Speaking of lemmygrad, I gotta say, they apparently Instance banned me for being a capitalist shill, and ever since then my lemmy experience has gotten way, way nicer. lol
Just less bickering in general now, its so much more chill.
Don’t even have to go there to get banned either, I was banned for a conversation (on history of course) I was in on lemmy.ml’s memes sub.
edit: The specific argument I was banned for, incidentally, was saying it was blind faith, akin to religion, that led them to accept Soviet-era accounts of history as factual instead of even potentially false. This was after I had to explain at length that I do not trust any accounts completely, no matter where they come from. Even my own country’s accounts must be questioned, because it is simply possible that they could be incorrect. For a variety of reasons.
Probably just never saw it on Reddit because of the hyper moderation and reporting (especially spaces that are mainstream politics). I’ve been lucky enough to catch some drama before the entire chain is nuked so it definitely exists. What’s worse is no matter what subreddit you go into there’s hatred of another side (try visiting something as mundane as a ufo sub and it’s crazy), here the smaller niche communities seem calmer and more welcoming in general.
One thing I have noticed on here is we’re all highly polarized from other online interactions and Lemmy gives the ability to somewhat combat that instinct. In-fighting among like-minded people is usually settled with a “I agree with your sentiment but also feel ‘this’ way”. The “I hate people from this instance”, is tempered with an equal amount of people who just don’t care. I’m not sure if that will be the case as popularity rises over time and the louder voices drown out everyone but it’s definitely made me re-think my gut reactions and commenting etiquette since being here which never would’ve happened on Reddit.
Realized my family was spending more than $200/mo on streaming and other media sources. Been a while, but I’m sailing the high seas again. Ethically, I agree with “Piracy.” Fuck Disney with a cactus. Functionally, it’s a service problem for me....
Woah, what system did you find? Sounds way simpler than what I’ve figured out. I’ve read posts about capturing traffic from the network tab of the web inspector but I got really mixed results. That does work, but it was enough of a pain that I explored other options.
The system I eventually found was on Android Libby store files from audiobook unencrypted. They try to hide them by splitting books up into lots of files with random names and distributing them across random folders within its data folder. It even includes some junk folders and files to try and throw you off. None of these files have files types/extensions and Libby tacks on .mp3 when it comes time to play them.
How this can be exploited: I have an android device but this can also be done with Windows Subsystem for Android, or really any other android emulator. I have targeted the parent folder to all that with Syncthing and set it as a one way sync. This way whenever audiobook files are added they are copied to one of my other devices and because it’s one way sync when my loan expires those files disappear from the Android instance, but persist on the device I’ve copied them to. Next step is filtering out all the junk files. This is shockingly easy as I just click into the windows file browser search bar and hit enter. This serves to show a list of any file of any name of any type in all sub folders. Then I just sort the results by size. Libby doesn’t bother to make the junk files the same size as the “mp3s” (remember they don’t say .mp3 yet) so it’s easy to just truncate the list when the files stop being in the kilobytes and start being megabytes.
What’s left is a list of file that want to be .mp3. I use a command line based batch renaming tool to add all the endings, and then begins the painful task of listening to each file to find where in the book it’s supposed to go. The splits do not line up with chapters, so it’s sometimes handy to have an ebook copy to search for phrases. I put them in order then load them all into audacity, merge and then use the detect silence tool set to between 2 and 4 seconds to try and detect the chapter breaks. I’ll manually clean up any misplaced breaks, export as individual files and then finally use one of the many audiobook binding tools out there to bundle it all back together. Though I mostly do that when I’m sharing the book with others. My préférée audiobook listening platform tales individual files very nicely, so I can save a step if it’s only for myself.
It was my home to my account. I didn’t catch any announcement it would be going down. 2 weeks ago the website started throwing errors (50* internal server errors) and since a week it is completely unreachable. There are still DNS records resolving the domain, but the site seems completely gone.
Yeah but it’s only content for communities you sub to. I’ve been running this instance since about 2 weeks after the rexodus and I’m sitting at about 14GB.
That being said I would like some additional tools to manage data retention.
The single hardest part of running a self hosted instance is the initial setup. There’s very little maintenance involved if you set it up right. Storage and bandwidth are going to be directly related to what you sub to. If it’s all images and videos sure. I’m sitting at about 14GB storage right now and my bw is pretty modest.
I can certainly see people getting bored with it and abandoning their servers tho. But I doubt it’s the upkeep.
Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year....
Yeah there really needs to be a rethink of how the Fediverse works.
I don’t want to have to subscribe to 8 different “Games” subs each with under 3000 users.
It really should be like “topics” more than “sublemmys” (or whatever) where every post on the Fediverse tagged “games” will appear on your feed when you subscribe to the topic.
The topics still get moderated by the local instance topic moderators and instances can defederate from troubled instances, but discoverability would improve exponentially.
Yeah it sorta needs to be back to hashtags to tag content so that it can all be in a community despite being in different instances and subs. It’s really disjointed and currently the fediverse feels like we went back to AOL chat rooms where it’s a lot of people waiting in their own room for someone to come in and talk to them.
It doesn’t work and it doesn’t really inspire conversation anymore.
This can be easily fixed tbh. You just need to get the sub count directly from the instance that the community resides in via API. Because that instance has all the subs while the other instances only have their part of local subs.
Hi all. I recently decided to try PeerTube as a creator, and was quite surprised by a lot of what I found. Thought a writeup from the perspective of a newbie to the platform might be useful for others who are considering it....
X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service::X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation
The beauty of the Fediverse is that many tasks like this can be done by the client, as opposed to the actual base software.
For instance, Lemmy can’t actually block instances or “subs” (or whatever the equivalent is) on an individual level, but Voyager can.
On another point, as much as I hate hearing about Musk and Twitter, they are both very powerful, and both have an impact on the world. Especially if Twitter were to become an “everything app” (AKA Superapp)(which it hopefully won’t).
OP’s home instance is the second-worst in terms of questionable defederations (the worst being beehaw). I used to have an account on lemmy.world but stopped using it once they blocked anything even remotely Piracy-related for that exact reasoning you’re talking about. Just switched to using this instance and Kbin and problem solved. Worst part was re-subbing to all the communities I’d been following. Pretty painless all things considered.
Defederation has its place but some instances really overuse it.
Depends whether or not you think most instances should take a stance against the far left. Personally I think the fact people treat Lemmy.ml as a generic all purpose sub rather than focusing that effort onto places like lemmy.world or lemm.ee is pretty messy and will only continue to create more and more issues. As for creating your own instance and defederating, why do that rather than just block their communities as a user if you want to avoid communist groups? Presumably there is a reason you wanted to be part of Beehaw?
The echo chambers are here, they’re just not quite as obvious. And, there are competing echo chambers so sometimes the whiplash between posts is a bit intense lol.
It’s probably because of the instances that some of the subs I’m subscribed to are in lol.
[Lemmy active users] 28th of September was the only day with more monthly active Lemmy users than the previous one, probably thanks to the release of Boost for Lemmy (lemmy.fediverse.observer)
Link to the daily stats: lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats...
Your big brain conservtive/capitalist takes will be laughed at (lemmy.world)
Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse. (lemmy.ml)
'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores (finance.yahoo.com)
The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.
A moment of appreciation for a man who is undoubtedly the world's most successful promoter of Lemmy and the fediverse (lemmy.ml)
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
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Don't get your hopes too high (lemmy.world)
Reddit’s new Contributor Program will let you cash out gold given to your posts by other users in real money. (www.theverge.com)
PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year (www.phoronix.com)
Canada admits letting in 2,000 Ukrainian SS troopers (jweekly.com)
One way of getting into postwar Canada “was by showing the SS tattoo,” Canadian historian Irving Abella told “60 Minutes” interviewer Mike Wallace. “This proved that you were an anti-Communist.”
Lemmy feels so much more welcoming than R*ddit... And it's weird
Can someone post hate comments so I feel at more normal?
Automated ebook advice.
Realized my family was spending more than $200/mo on streaming and other media sources. Been a while, but I’m sailing the high seas again. Ethically, I agree with “Piracy.” Fuck Disney with a cactus. Functionally, it’s a service problem for me....
Does anybody know what happened to lemmy.villa-straylight.social?
It was my home to my account. I didn’t catch any announcement it would be going down. 2 weeks ago the website started throwing errors (50* internal server errors) and since a week it is completely unreachable. There are still DNS records resolving the domain, but the site seems completely gone.
Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)
Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year....
Your communities might be a lot larger than you think!
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/5674368...
Initial PeerTube impressions and tips from a newbie creator
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/8544858...
Initial PeerTube impressions and tips from a newbie creator
Hi all. I recently decided to try PeerTube as a creator, and was quite surprised by a lot of what I found. Thought a writeup from the perspective of a newbie to the platform might be useful for others who are considering it....
X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service (techcrunch.com)
X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service::X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation
is the lemmyverse dying already?
There is not much getting posted, it is becoming emptier and emptier....
sToP pOsTiNg pOliTicAl mEmEs!!! (lemmy.ml)
Third party Reddit apps just got canned.
Influx of Lemmy brothers and sisters incoming. Already 3K and growing deep, we may as well rebuild together. Let’s do this! 🤝...