Lemmy’s originally Canadian just saying 🇪🇺🤝🇨🇦
I’m new to this app, how does it work
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
It’s pretty close to Reddit, but it’s like a whole bunch of smaller Reddits that share posts between each other. The individual Reddits (instances) are generally grouped by hobby, political affiliation, or geographical location, but not always.
You can tell what instance something or someone is from by looking at their name or title. E.g. I’m from lemmy.zip, you can see it after my user name.
The reason that it can’t be bought by a billionaire is that even if one instance is bought out, compromised etc, it can just be removed from the group at large, and it continues like nothing happened. I’m simplifying a bit but I hope you get the general idea.
US billionaires aren’t even all American. All billionaires are bad.
So it wasn’t Reddit bots after all.
There is plenty of manufactured consent without it.
Same horrible views -Trump.
Europe can continue going down the drain with the US.
Deserved.If you don’t enjoy the left environment Lemmy has to offer, there are plenty of right wing echo chambers wating for you. I prefer it over the pure hate I read on those, even if I agree to a certain degree about manufactured consent. Maybe jfs just the nature of the Internet these days.
I see hate here too. And hate is nothing that I personally endorse. But I understand where it is coming from, and whom it is directed to. On the right it’s just directed towards the hate group of the day©, be it communists, migrants, refugees, gays or trans folk. It’s just hate to have a enemy. At least here it’s hate against a class that has systematically made 99 % of people suffer for their own gains.
Same horrible views -Trump.
You clearly don’t get my comment.
I said Lemmy is equally right except there are no Trump fanboys.
If that’s why you feel the need to call it ‘left’ is laughable.
Possibly from american standards and view, who haven’t got a clue what ‘left’ is and think their Bernie or even their right wing Dem party is ‘left’.
Despite there being less horrible bots and banning or whatever, it looks like most views correspond to american ones.
Since Europe in in their sphere of influence and colors our news.
Somehow I was hoping it was only the MSM but when I see all the comments and views here it looks like the population has also shifted further to the right and think what they are told to think.
Many incapable of discussion, parroting MSM narrative and when asked for sources they start name-calling bcs they can’t back it up.
Only difference with Reddit is I (mostly) don’t get banned if I then return the favor.You clearly haven’t been around here much. There are loads of very far left communities and servers including dbzero, hexbear, lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, and so on. Sure there are right wing and libertarian parts as well on different servers. In fact this place largely attracts radicals and extremists of multiple flavors.
I regularly get canned for not being far left enough actually. Despite being further left than easily 95% of people.
y’all don’t have to boycot every american, just their economy, so if a based person hosts a lemmy server that helps the open free internet and should not be boycotted
Some Instances Allows Tor:
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-Comment posted on Tor Browser via the Tor Network
(Not sure how much good it does, since I kinda already revealed the city I live in through my personal anecdotes. But I suppose I can create another throwaway for more… spicy… stuff)
Some Instances Allows Tor:
Basically every instance except lemmy.world allows Tor
Shouldn’t this be posted on other socials instead of Lemmy?
Feel free to, but also be ready to see your post removed anc your account banned
I posted it to Reddit, let’s see how it goes
Please report back
12 views, no up-votes so far
Aaaaand it’s gone.
I haven’t had any issues posting this kind of content to BlueSky and Mastodon.
Already got banned for pro Luigi posting.
Me, too. You have my sympathies.
I have decided that nothing of value was lost
Sorry to hear
This actually got me pumped and Im American. Long live the resistance.
ヽ(°ω°)ノ
Can’t stop the signal.
Is the Sync app no longer being updated/maintained/developed? I am having problems with it. Upvotes/downvotes are no longer being showed. Shame because it is my fav Lemmy app.
What, didn’t even notice! Thought that I somehow disabled it myself.
Yeah, the dev took our money and bailed.
I don’t know if you used to use Sync for Reddit but it was pretty normal for him to go away for a while and then come back with a big update. I’m just assuming that’s what is happening at the moment.
Hopefully, it’d be nice if pics, gifs and vids would actually load.
I had a sync sub but since it got abandoned I just cancelled it. Most images or videos wouldn’t load, as well as some comments or some random shit. Using voyager now and won’t look back. It’s much better since the first time I tried it
Honestly same, i feel like pressing the random buttons sometimes causes it to just not want to load, especially if what its loading is videos/gifs
Lemmy reminds me of Reddit when I first joined more than a decade ago. I just hope it doesn’t go to shit like Reddit has the last few years.
I hope it won’t but I won’t be surprised if it does. The internet itself is decentralized, and that wasn’t enough.
In a perfect world…
I highly recommend “boost for lemmy” don’t know if boost is european but lemmy is so gopd enough for me.
My only problem is lower userbase but I guess that will get better
Boost finally breaking for good on Reddit is why I’m here. Boost is simply the best.
Same!
Boost was my favourite Reddit client, but I prefer Voyager for Lemmy. Boost just had way too many ads, Voyager has none.
Boost just had way too many ads, Voyager has none.
Aaaand you’ve just sold me on Voyager
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
Shame it doesn’t remove Russian trolls, though.
Certain instances do, you can switch to them if you like
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I’m not aware of any big instance that blocks .ml
Thats because i was wrong
You cannot protect yourself from that without making substantial sacrifices.
Lemmy seems interesting. Though instances, federations etc, meta stuff is confusing.
It really isn’t once you get used to it, give it a little bit of time and feel free to ask stuff.
It’s not that confusing. The simplest way to explain it, I think. Is that instances are like email servers. Defederating is like a spam blocker. If you don’t like your “email server’s” “spam blockers” you can chose another.
No need to worry about the inter-instance drama.
I don’t think he’s interested.
