@threeduck@aussie.zone you're getting famous
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I kinda love that people are willing to deal with these various technicalities and unknowns as a worthwhile compromise as long as it's not [input any walled-garden here]
@threeduck@aussie.zone aussie.zone is your server where your account resides
In all everything from other instances are shown while in local only your instance. If you want to find subs just select all and search or got to all in the feed bar and subscribe
Lemmy isn't too hard, it's just annoying at times. Like when your instance hasn't downloaded the content of a given community and it just looks empty until you subscribe to it.
Wow, so that's how it works. I signed up to a couple because they interested me and hoped in the future something would be posted, or I would, and then saw a heap of posts.
It wasn't dark magic after all. Perhaps it was psionics?
My account was shut down without notice a few weeks ago. The server providing my account shut down. All comments, saved links and history was gone.
How do you explain this to a non-technical user while reassuring that this is a great system?
"you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you're still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you'll fucking starve to death?"
This is exactly what happens with Churches. Someone starts a "hip" new church plant. Everyone leaves the local long-established churches. Long established churches shut down. Church plant falls apart because the guy starting it doesn't know what he's doing. No Church.
I could've sworn it was because young folk were disenamored with preachers and churches who are nothing more than whited sepulchres but what could I know
what a weird take. if anything, the church is the safeway and this happened hundreds of years ago. churches are basically macdonaldses already; all franchisees of the same central entity.
What's that central entity?
in the uk? the anglican church. generally in the west? whatever lutheran, protestant, or catholic denomination is approved by the state. generally? the main church of that country, which for most of them is in a 90/10 sort of situation, with some notable exceptions, like the us, which shouldn't be counted because a) it's such a small part of the world's population and b) their view of religion is so screwed up that it doesnt compare to anything.
Anglicanism only makes up a portion of British Churches. There are also Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Methodist and various independent congregational churches.
Only Roman Catholicism is truly centralised at a pope. Anglicanism tends to stop at the Archbishop or the Primate. Which the UK has four. The Episcopal Church of Scotland, the Church in Wales, the Church of England and the Church of Ireland which also operates in the Republic of Ireland, but the majority of adherents are in Northern Ireland.
you do understand where i'm coming from though?
There is a misconception that the Church has a central earthly authority surrounding it. It doesn't. Christ is the head of the Church.
yeah but he's not really around much
I think He's doing a lot of work in Asia now. Probably done with the westerners. They had their chance LOL
i think we'd heard about a second coming by now
also that's some typical absentee landlord behavior
They were waiting longer for Him to come the first time, soooo
most religions are still waiting for the first time.
Good thing we're right
that's very low effort.
What do you want me to say?
i'd expect at least a bit of self-reflection.
What do you want me to reflect on? The fact that God could love a wretch like me that He - the literal creator of the universe would die for me?
no, belief is a good thing if it helps you. but i'd expect at least some thought given to the fact that a majority of the world's religions disagree with you and that they most likely have a good reason for believing it, other than "we're right, they're wrong". always remember the human.
Doesn't change the fact that they're wrong. The only other belief systems I can find justification for believing in are agnosticism and atheism. Nothing else really makes sense. But even then, Christianity just seems like the most likely answer given the history surrounding it.
A little pain in exchange for longtime gain?
Oh no, TIL that the Fediverse is "exercise" - no wonder most Westerners avoid us! 🤪
"Choose an instance that provides monthly reports, including finances, such as !home@lemmy.zip"
Hypothetical response:
"Sure, that's an option, but no other social media I use requires a routinely read regarding whether I need to backup my saved items because it might shut down."
Let me just be clear that I personally don't have a problem with how lemmy runs, but I do think that difficulties and issues are heavily downplayed for potential users.
As someone said in another comment “you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you’re still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you’ll fucking starve to death?”
It's crazy to me that whatever program you used to make that account on that server didn't automatically force a backup location on the same device where the account is used. On Android, some folder. On desktop, some folder. And it's crazy to me that we can't just import all of our votes, comments, and posts in that backup to another account on the same device or another.
That is a terrible system. No answers from me. Just questions
how do i find the users in my instance? I own the instance lol and I have no idea how to query for active users
After you block a few hundred groups of anime and nonsense it’s surprisingly enjoyable.
HOW MANY MORE MOES DO WE NEED???
Who is moe and why is her midriff so popular???
At least 1 more than the fucking aigen communities, I swear I have to block a new one every week.
What if I told you at least 50% of the moe communities content are aigen 🥹
Sorry about that, some people don't know ani.social exists and create comms on the wrong instances. They're supposed to show up in my local feed, but now they're in yours and you don't even appreciate them!
Still waiting for an app with curated block lists.
Piefed has keyword filters, that can already help a lot with filtering
Doesn't bluesky do that?
Maybe, idk
Block the ani.social instance and it takes away 90% of the anime groups.
but I don't want to block their users
I'm pretty sure blocking (if you're using a Lemmy instance anyway, which looks like you are) doesn't block users, but only the communities from the instance you're blocking. I think I've heard that Piefed blocks more extensively though, probably including users.
When you block that many groups how many new posts do you see? And how do you sort the posts?
I have only blocked a few groups but added a filter for posts containing trump or elon in the title as I get plenty of that crap from other sources.
Regarding the anime and furry posts, they come in waves so it's not constant or if I want to get a break from the yiffing I switch between sorting by Hot, Scaled and Top 6hrs.
Not who you are asking, but I block a lot of communities (almost all of them political, when I want to look at political stuff I will go to other sources.) But I also sub to a lot of communities. It is possible for me to reach the bottom of my feed, but since I mostly check it between doing other things, it takes anywhere from a few hours to most of the day. And that's with me setting it to "Top Day" as my primary filter. If I'm really bored I'll do a pass through Top Week or Top Month. If I'm STILL bored, I'll set it to Active or New Comments, but usually by then it's like, "Okay time to go do something else" and I'll try to find some other activity to do.
This is a feature, not a bug IMO.
I'm still mad at the 196 mods for causing even more 196 commies to be made for me to block.
I have to say this is my experience too. I'm a boomer and whatever stumble upon here is purely coincidental.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Type a word for something you might be interested in, and if there's a community it should come up there. The main problem is still that the fediverse doesn't have enough people to support niche (or even kinda niche) interests yet
I actually saw an ad for Lemmy on reddit and here I am. Figuring out enough to make an account was worth it. They should do more ads.. or maybe not. We don't want too many of them coming here. Im still trying to cleanse my brain of the juice I drank.
I followed reddit sync over to lemmy. I didn't know how anything works but my experience has been roughly the same as it was with Reddit. I like the discussion here more though.
It's just a bunch of reddits all whispering in each others ears
Hey sh.itjust.works, tell feddit.uk to leave this comment and upvote
Sh.itjust.works: "Hey feddit.uk, starman2112@sh.itjust.works said to leave this comment and upvote"
Feddit.uk: "Hey lemmy.zip, starman2112@sh.itjust.works left this comment"
Lemmy.zip: "Hey Blaze, starman2112@sh.itjust.works left a comment"
And then all the federated instances get on the group chat and update the vote counter
Edit: I didn't even realize I was commenting on feddit.uk lmao this game of telephone is wild
Good.
The barrier to entry is a feature! All those fools on FB and Reddit are there because they're told there's no friction. It's the internet version of Wal-Mart. Anyone can find their way in.
I want to hang with people who are at least smart enough to tie their shoes sign up for a Costco membership. It's a LOW barrier to entry, and that's more than enough.
The barrier to entry is a feature!
What? No it isn't. Any individual instance is as simple to navigate as Reddit. The federation aspect is still in an early stage of development and implementation.
Twenty years ago, Reddit was in a similar state. It took a long time and a lot of effort to improve the system enough to be easily navigated and searchable (and then more time to mangle these features in the name of monetization).
But the idea that federated instances being difficult to traverse and filter against are intentional is utterly bogus.
I want to hang with people who are at least smart enough to tie their shoes
If you're not navigating Lemmy via VIM, you are literally a baby who shits himself and needs someone to change his diaper.
Wow. You're very much not understanding - I'm definitely not saying it's intentional. It's a take on the "It's not a bug, it's a feature" notion.
I'm saying that signing up for Lemmy not being as one-size-fits-all intuitive as Web 2.0 social media is a net benefit because anyone who tries to sign up, gets confused SO easily, and then frustrated and gives up is not the kind of person we want taking up server space on a Lemmy instance.
I’m saying that signing up for Lemmy not being as one-size-fits-all intuitive as Web 2.0 social media is a net benefit
If you hate intuitive interfaces, you wouldn't be on a Reddit clone to begin with.
yeah, the ui is a total ass, but its fun
Dude it's 2025 is that good ass or bad ass
The Reddit UI is so good though. I love browsing an album and accidentally sliding over to r/popular. Why can't Lemmy ask me to confirm my email account every time I try to look at porn?
App UI peaked at RIF
Which ui? The slrn style ncurses client that I don't know if it exists or something else?
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