Why are you here and not on Reddit?
I am new to this whole Fediverse stuff. Trying to privatize my life and break away from big tech. But I have to ask, why are you guys here and not on Reddir? Where the population us much larger and its basically the same? It appears a few instances dominate this landscape anyway? Its not like this is unchecked social media, they still moderate these places right? So what’s the benefit?
Can you expand on that?
The fediverse is free. No shareholders.
And by the way, it seems like upvoting and downvoting are pretty much worthless here right? Like there is no ranking system that permanently folllows you correct?
I’d argue the only worth of votes is for posts and comments. Nothing good came from running aggregate “karma”.
When someone contributes here it’s because they thought it worth sharing. Not that they knew a lot of people would push the happy button.
because the official app is ad-infested bloatware without decent modtools that gobbles my data bucket and keeps trying to show me popular / all instead of just my subscriptions
and because reddit cancelled all my coins and then brought out a new microtransaction currency within the year
and because spez is a shill for the US President and his reactionary right-wing entourage
But why did you migrate entirely instead of just going to the main app or a browser with Ublock Origen?
It doesn’t feel good being herded into increasingly constrained solutions.
First they shut off the API, then all mobile apps, then various moderation tools…
They just keep making the situation worse, intentionally, as much as they can get away with.
In contrast, this place keeps getting better, as features are added to the Fediverse.
Are you hearing the question you’re asking? Challenging people who HAVE broken away from big tech (which you claim to want) and dealt with the costs?
Come and stay a while. Participate
My concern is the extensive data Reddit collects and stores, and I’m sure will hand it over to whichever government agency wants it, and probably already have. They even keep track of what we upvote and downvote, including comments.
I feel less exposed here, I don’t know if that’s true, but it feels that way.
But in a way, couldnt he buy the most population Instances like Lemmy.World? Is that a possibility?
Unlikely, but either way, I’m not registered there and neither are you. There’s already many of us hesitant of their size and are quick to recommend making new communities somewhere else.
If that were to happen many people would make accounts elsewhere.
To reiterate, this place isn’t own by anyone. I’m confident we would all just move to other instances.
Tor.
I love Tor.
Reddit hates Tor.
We got a beef.
Like, is there a FAQ somewhere that explains things. Like I see xxxxx@xxxx
But sometimes I see Cxxxxx@xxxx?
Okay, so Lemmy is federated meaning anyone can host their own server and connect with others doing the same. Most of us choose to register with one someone else has already made and maintains. I chose sh.itjust.works, you chose lemmy.zip, and this specific community we’re commenting on happens to be posted on lemmy.world.
But federation means each instance “server” of Lemmy share everything between each other.
Is that what you’re asking?
The obvious example of lemmy-like federation is email.
There’s lots of email servers, but all of them can send emails to each other (unless blacklisted, which would be the equivalent of defederation), and their users can read emails regardless of which server the sender has their account on.
Each server has its own users and communities (but they still all talk and subscribe to each other!)
Usually I see usernames written in the form @[email protected], while communities [email protected]
Not using Lemmy
I think if you’re looking at a piefed or mbin/kbin community (magazine?) from lemmy you might be able to see replies from mastodon users through the magic of federation (mastodon —> piefed or mbin/kbin —> lemmy), and the other way around, even if mastodon and lemmy can’t directly federate with each other…
Welcome to the platform!
Reddit's enshittification has been steadily getting worse for years. I moderated a large sub that took part in the blackout protests over the API changes, until the admins threatened us into reopening the sub. That was the point at which I decided I was completely done with this garbage fire of a website.
We're in an era where every large social media platform is becoming increasingly awful, and all of this can be attributed to corporate ownership of those platforms. I believe that the only way forward is federated platforms that no one CEO can control, putting power back into the hands of communities. The Fediverse is the only capitalism-proof solution to everything wrong with the internet today.
Yes.
It’s not a utopia, but it’s the better social media platform for my mental health and I genuinely like it here.
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