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Looking for an alternative to reddit

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Would you work for a corporation that you oppose ideologically, if the pay is good?

I was wondering , if you will be ready to work fof an organisation that you oppose ideologically , for instance you are against big oil but you get a job interview in exxonmobil with good pay , would you consider it ?...

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All Googlers say yes.

I say no personally and have been turning down jobs where I despise the company.

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Trump is running? :)

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They can’t say it because their instance is down :)

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Because people here are tired of being exploited by corps I would assume.

Also it’s a teenage thing. No money but wants to play all the latest games. :)

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Always exceptions, some people like you stay cool their entire life :)

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Another one sees the light. :)

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At this point I view it as a iq test.

/s

Just kidding… But you know what I mean.

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Didn’t even know about that one. First time I hear the name. Will check it out!

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Oh that must have appeared now then.

Very good to know, got really worried for a minute. It wouldn’t be exactly unheard of for a company to pull something like this.

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Appearently so, yes.

We should have something like federated communities

Communities on different instances about the same topic should have the option to essentially federate so a post on one appears on all of them and opening any of them shows you the comments from all of them. This way when lemmy.world is down its not a big deal because posting to any news community federates to all of the...

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Good idea but this will lead to even more centralization if it’s decided by the instances who their communities federates with.

The top ones will federate and leave the small instances out of the loop. Or put demands on other instances they have to fulfill to be part of the community federation.

It all ends up similar to Reddit in the end. Maybe it’s unavoidable and we cant have properly decentralized now when it’s centralized.

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I think it was a breath of fresh air to see something like this on Lemmy. I mean, I love tech but it’s not all that exists in the world. :)

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They are doing their best, but the users can help by spreading out to smaller instances. It’s also much better for the fediverse as a whole to have many smaller instances instead of a few giant ones.

Maybe you want to join lemmy.today? It’s located in Oregon (western USA) and is literally never down. I know since I’m addicted to Lemmy and I’m on it all the time now… :)

Also who doesnt like that cute little Lemmy icon it has. :) Looks like a very surprised lemming, or very happy one…

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If it does, it’s not hard to fix. :)

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He is more than open to having several admins :) He is a Linux devops guy who is doing consulting in the area. It makes sense to have several admins due to the “bus factor” or what we shall call it.

Just have to find someone willing to help out. You know anyone?

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So far it hasn’t attracted any bad behavior and the admin is a super nice guy. Works in tech (of course, who doesn’t here, right? ).

I think it’s not a major selling point either, just a bit of “open for all until we get actual problems”.

There was some guy from exploding heads trying to get users to his instance however. They don’t seem very nice at all, and seemingly blocked by a lot of instances.

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Cool, call me when you arrive… :)

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This is also why should join a small instance. A large one doesn’t even notice you. A small one does and feels gratitude.

It’s like this with a lot of things in life. The big chains don’t care about you whatsoever. A small boutique on the corner will recognize you and know your name.

I wish we would go back to local farming, grow our own food and trade with neighbour’s for groceries. I don’t like big corps anymore for anything.

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Yeah I have been thinking about this fog of war a bit. How can we spread word about what’s happening so everyone finds out? Because it matters for choosing an instance. If something is blocked on instance level, it should be clearly said why.

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Yep it’s important to pick an instance that doesn’t block many other instances, if you want as much content as possible.

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Everyone is a lot safer, faster and less vulnerable by being on smaller servers.

It’s not possible to ddos thousands of smaller instances in the same way. And if communities were spread out, taking a few instances down wouldn’t even be noticeable.

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Yeah I’m not exactly clear over why federation differs either. Its designed not to differ I assume?

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When Lemmy.world was ddos’ed, other instances didn’t feel any of the effects, despite being on the same hosting provider. So it really matters - spread out :)

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Truly a shit post. :)

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There are always negative things to find about companies:

kagi.com/search?q=Mozilla+controversy+&r=se&a… (link you can use even if you don’t have Kagi)

But I think it’s the best of the bunch still. Google is absolutely evil, Brave is using Chromium as a base, so Firefox is the only browser with it’s own engine.

It means they are not affected by the shit Google pulls, at least not stuff they put in their engine. Of course Web Environment Integrity is hostile to the entire planet, but that’s Google in a nutshell.

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Firefox is probably the best alternative but I agree about people looking for flaws. We are all flawed to same degree. It’s unrealistic to expect everyone to have the same opinions about things as yourself.

But that being said, if you find those opinions to be extreamly offensive, don’t use their products. I’m off Google almost completely for that reason. I despise them and am actively telling people to stop using them.

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These sum up bots are great, no need to even visit the site. I know it may not be great for the website owner but we are just a few users anyway.

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Consider removing it so users won’t find it… Because the less value they get from reddit, the more likely it is they will come here instead.

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Yeah and then they get unhappy with reddit and find Lemmy. :)

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It won’t if people remain on reddit. :)

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Which query did you run?

I did “Lemmy neovim” and finding good results on Kagi:

kagi.com/search?q=Lemmy+neovim+&r=se&sh=0…

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Depends on the search engine I think? I was getting lots of nice results on “Lemmy neovim” on Kagi.

But yeah, fully aware that almost all people use Google and that the current results may not be as good as reddit.

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It’s a good start though. Lemmy should grow, it has everything it needs. Good apps, and it’s decentralized and most important of all : it’s not big tech.

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And no big tech!!

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May have some trust issues with that…

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Made me laugh :)

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Asus is really going down the drain…

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You will own nothing and be happy.

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From fucking PayPal?? It’s one of the worst companies in the world and has entire websites dedicated to hating it. :)

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Lol I didn’t know, I haven’t been there in months now. That’s awful… But good for us. :)

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Do your part and try a smaller instance. lemmy.today has not been down even once. I’m a heavy user there.

But if you don’t like that one, pick any other smaller instance and you won’t have this problem.

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While world is down, you can still read everything that was posted and federated before it went down on other instances. It’s not like you suddenly don’t have anything to read (unless you are on here 24 hrs / day).

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There is a nice button on each instance that turns off new registrations. Once an instance owner has enough users and don’t want to upgrade the instance anymore, he checks that one.

It will be impossible to ddos every Lemmy instance, not very efficiently at least. Now it’s super easy to just bomb Lemmy.world.

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Being outside is dangerous, it has fresh air and sunshine. :)

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I haven’t looked into it but couldn’t those skins be installed on other instances also? Hopefully open source thingies.

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Things are good. Why are people obsessing over usage numbers? It’s a fantastic place to be, away from big tech!

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