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Could you guys recommend the best subreddits here?

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[–] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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    • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Me after trying to find a Reddit alternative and I stumble across Lemmy.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Like, 30 minutes in. So far the front page is a breath of fresh air. Reddit is unusable as of a few months ago. Just trash on top of trash.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Reddit has been shit for like 5+ years at that larger levels, but some small niche hobby and similar subs are still decent.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Like, 30 minutes in. So far the front page is a breath of fresh air. Reddit is unusable as of a few months ago. Just trash on top of trash.

    until some weirdo mod joins the sub and decides to ban you for posts you made elsewhere 5 years ago

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The mods just do great work in some subs, but completely destroy others. I got banned overall for posting facts in conservative subs...

    But I don't think lemmy fixes that since it has the same mod/channel structure. The nice thing is that advertisers and nefarious actors haven't started posting as "fellow kids" yet, like they have on Reddit for many years.

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    [–] 64 points 1 year ago (27 children)

    And eventually:

    Friendship ended with Lemmy

    Now Piefed is my new best friend

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Beautiful thing about the fediverse is that people can choose and no one get’s excluded if you do not agree with the popular choice. Hope it stays that way.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Care to explain what piefed is and how it differs from lemmy? I thought it was just one of the instances in lemmyverse

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    PieFed written in python has consolidated comments, flairs, spoilers, polls, topics, feeds (like multireddits), proper blocks, hashtags, piped video integration, disclaimer messages, better mod and reporting tools.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    PieFed is an alternative platform in the same social media category of Lemmy, "Forum and link aggregator".

    It's younger, but is being rapidly developed, esp considering it's written in mostly python instead of Rust.

    Biggest benefit though, is it doesn't come with toxic political ideologies attached like Lemmy does (https://lemmy.world/post/29072279)

    Also why we're moving to more generic terms like "Threadiverse" instead of "Lemmy-verse"

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    So far, the Lemmy devs being Marxist doesnt seem to affect the quality of the software. And since it's the fediverse you can just go to a server that doesn't clash with your own world view.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It has in some ways, it's awfully convenient that features that would harm their ability to spread their ideology get neutered or not developed fully. Like making the modlog less useful, neutering the vote system (Lemmy used to have a more robust voting system, until they noticed that it could be used against them) or still not having a proper blocking system in place after 4 years

    There's also the "soft" issues, instance admins not wanting to take the step of defederating with .ml when they do so with grad and hex because they depend on support from dessalines and they fear he would be petty and cut off support with them if they dared to do so (which prob would)

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You don't want ideology to be mixed with a social networking service. It can get problematic. Maybe it hasn't yet for you. But it might. So might as well switch now to something neutral.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It's also just generally easier for first-time users to start using. For anyone curious, their little "feeds" of communities you can follow in one go by topic are super handy.

    For example, if I subscribe to the activismplus feed, I automatically subscribe to communities like antiwork, solarpunk, socialism, leftism, anarchism, unions, antifascism, human rights, left urbanism, etc, from a number of different instances all at once.

    For a first-time user, it's easier to pick a topic they're interested in and automatically be following all the relevant communities across most instances, rather than subscribing to communities one-by-one over a very long period of time.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Nothing says community like splintering the already tiny community into 90 smaller distros sub-communities

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Nothing says community like splintering the already tiny community into 90 smaller distros sub-communities

    Splintering nothing. I’m on Piefed right now. The Fediverse means it plays nice with Lemmy just fine. Same with Mbin.

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    • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wasn't sure about lemmy at first and im still not entirely sure... but fuck reddit

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    • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Then they go back to reddit after 2 weeks

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I'm non-binary and don't commune with binary choices.

    I can be in parallel on Reddit and Lemmy. Eventually I may feel totally comfortable in one of them to ditch the other, or maybe not. Who cares?

    Plus there are two sides for users in social media, producer and consumer.

    I can be on Insta as a consumer checking what my friends are up to and on pixelfed posting my pictures and sharing the links with my friends.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It's been 2 years for me, and I never went back. Well, aside from looking up the random tech question here and there since Reddit is in every search result. (Use redlib to view reddit stuff!) I am quite liking the fediverse. It has this early Internet forum vibe to it. I kinda hope it stays small for a little while longer. More people probably means more enshittification.

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    • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    super relatable.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I made an alt account for when I actually need to use reddit to ask something in a hobby group that I used to participate in, but I no longer participate in reddit overall, comment or contribute in the groups I formerly patronized. Just noticed that today’s my cake day here - the day I left reddit.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I would like to fully move over, but unfortunately most of my hobbies and things I'm into just don't have a large enough audience to have an active designated group for.

    There's a Dead by Daylight one on here, but the last post was like a few months ago, and then after that almost a year. I'm also super into modded minecraft, but all those ones are botted reddit repost rippers. I haven't looked yet, but I heavily doubt Hypixel SkyBlock is gonna show up.

    Unfortunately, my lust to see idiots make a fool of themselves in public spaces is too strong to keep me away from reddit, and therefore, I become the fool.

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

    I highly reccomend making the move to Piefed. The Lemmy devs promote westerners all off themselves so that Putin and Xi Jinping can fuck more people's wives.

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    • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    After a while, you realize this place is not perfect either. Too much Linux (although I'm on Linux now), too much "voter suppression" messages from the left (which I'm no longer), tankies or whatever, I could swear I've seen several anti-Japanese/racist posts and the same crypto drivel you'd find on reddit.

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