Reddit users are called Redditors. What are Lemmy users called? Lemmitors? Lemmings?

How well are the Lemmy fediverses growing? How many daily unique users do we have on this service? Will we overtake Reddit someday?

What differences should I get used to over here from what I was used to on Reddit? Thanks in advance.

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[–] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

Some advice, stay away from .ml, know that .world is moderated almost exactly like Reddit, and from my experience, most lemmy users like to be called “socialists”.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (4 children)

    There’s a community here called MeanwhileOnGrad that tracks their bullshit ideology via proof of posts and content made by not only those there, but the admin team that is well known pro-russsin pro-Chinese authoritarianism.

    Many people will try and tell you otherwise, but those that are critical, have the receipts to show as proof of the claim. I’d advise you to go to MeanwhileOnGrad and see for yourself.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Thanks, good info. That is one thing I think I like less about Lemmy vs Reddit. On reddit we only had to worry about certain subreddits, but here we have to worry about communities and entire instances... I'll just have to get used to it and maybe make a new account on another instance after comparing them some more.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    For sure. At the end of the day, it’s going to be your experience that drives your choices. Sure, others can help guide you, but you will see for yourself after a while how things roll.

    And if you want an example of the type of people I  talk about, here is a discussion am current in as we speak. This is how these people are. They cannot speak against the atrocities committed by Russia- even when the answer is should be obvious.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    Centrists here (lots on piefed, some of the main developers for a piefed app hardcoded leftist instance blocks without telling anyone until they got caught, that is their vibe a "hallucinated" center) lose their mind about leftists even when the world outside is drowning in radical rightwing fascist movements openly advocating for violence, racism and fascism. Also did any of them warn you that there are rightwing VERY VERY toxic parts of the fediverse that mainly don't connect to the bigger communities because they are simply too violent and toxic to federate with normal people?

    sigh

    You will run into stupid leftists here, maybe that will be a new experience for you if haven't because they were excluded from all the other places you have been but shrugs the idea that this is some problem that needs to be shoved in the face of new users in their welcome in post is kind of pathetic and says more about these "centrists" than it does about .ml at this point. Even if it is a new experience so what, there are plenty more intelligent leftists with nuanced views, this vision of tankies is a caricature on purpose in a frankly alarmingly cynical way especially given the state of the world and who has power.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    What do you have to say about the mounds of evidence piled up on MeanwhileOnGrad that verviees exactly what everyone says about that shithole?

    There’s a difference between words and proof.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    .ml is fine generally, this is coming from someone who was tempbanned from .ml communities for stupid reasons

    Every instance has its quirks, you determine whether if you want to engage with any particular moderation scheme.

    • Lemmy.blahaj.zone has zero tolerance for anti-trans sentiment and intentional misgendering, to explictly be a LGBTQ+ safe space.
    • Lemmy.ml has less tolerance for anti-Russia and anti-China views due to its Marxist Leninist origins but isn't too bad otherwise.
    • Feddit.org follows German law which blurs the line between anti-Israel commentary and antisemitism.
    • Lemmy.ca is not an unconditional free speech haven either, the server's existence is contingent on following Canadian laws including ones barring hate speech.
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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    .ml has no tolerance for factual information that disproves their propaganda. This is a documented fact.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Not disagreeing with you, that indeed is how some of those mods behave.

    It's just that I've been around this place long enough not to write off the instance, nutomic or dessalines over it. That's a personal decision of mine, but you or anyone else can make a different decision for themselves.

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