Actually just got here based on that post. Knew about the fediverse before, but was hesitant to take the plunge
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For all redditors and elsewhere who have come to PieFed or Lemmy, welcome! Don't forget to contribute to the devs every now and then.
Lemmy/PieFed works like if you had multiple reddits ("instances") talking to each other, and also to other non-reddits that are linked, like Friendica, Mastodon (this is "federation").
What Instance to Pick?
If you wanna find a good instance, my recommendation is: don't go for the biggest one. Pick a mid-sized or smaller one, or find one yourself. This is a great guide on Github giving some pointers, including a "idc, just give me some instances" at the top.
If you still wanna pick yourself but there's a bit too much, I recommend going for the instances with 20-1000 people. The smallest are either self-hosted or probably just friends/classrooms, and if it's too big, might get issues with hosting costs.
Apps
For Lemmy interfaces/apps, see here. I personally like Voyager, Mlem, and Thunder, but a lot of them are great. There's even an old reddit-like look if you want. Here's a list for the PieFed ones.
Pro-tip: Block Some Stuff
Don't be scared! Unlike with Reddit, the block options are a bit better. The following is a list of keywords I've put up to block. It's pretty useful so far.
List of keywords
Trump
Kirk
ICE
Elon
Musk
rapist
Republican
pedophile
GOP
Israel
Hamas
Block Sites
These will block the ones that pop up as links. I'm not going to directly link them, but either way here you go.
Fox News
Breitbart
Sputnik
Russian Today
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
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Came here directly from this reddit post. Totally new here - is Piefed only a browser-based alternative? Why is there no Piefed-app ? The only thing i can find is "Blorp for Lemmy and Piefed... sounds weird.
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"The sweetspot is using both at the moment" - the sweetspot is siphoning knowledge from shitty platform into the fediverse
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Honestly, even as an American (from California - a rare state of sanity in this damn country), I've been moving to de-google and move away from stuff like reddit for months now at this point. Especially since user data requests by our federal government (and likely other world governments) are an open secret that these companies can't really refuse.
Glad to see y'all on the same path :)
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Lemmy has one significant problem that platforms like Reddit and Mastodon don't, and I don't see that problem easily going away.
The companies who use raw data as a source of their wealth steal everything that isn't bolted down. Platforms like Reddit and Twitter realized this, and put their content and APIs behind restrictive paywalls.
Lemmy and Mastodon content is free for anyone to hoard and add to their pile.
I guess technically you might be able to create some kind of "firewalls" (distinct from network firewalls) that heuristically kill AI harvesters, but it will be a perpetual battle.
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Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
The tankie stuff turns out to still remain a hard sell, who could've imagined... (block lemmy.ml if you can, if you can't, switch platforms and then block .ml)
One unfortunate limitation of the fediverse is that blocking undesired categories of content is harder than on reddit: when you block a subreddit, it doesn't exist on 50 other instances. None of the fediverse stuff handles that gracefully, the "subreddit" approach was just not a good choice for this kind of thing.
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22 comments in c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com view that post
Top comments are full of positive mentions of Fediverse, PieFed, Lemmy and Mbin. This is nice.
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The fact that Lemmy devs are genocidal tankies (and manage two of the three tankie instances) is a major issue if you are from Europe and you don't know about how Fedi functions.
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