Just checking the place out after not being able to stand Reddit and its policies anymore. Their policing of Luigi posts was the last straw for me. Going public ruins companies.

  • conicalscientist@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    There’s no going back anyways. I’ve tried making new accounts. It’s impossible to post anywhere.

    The account vetting filters block me everywhere. Can’t post unless I’m a vetted poster. Can’t become vetted because I can’t post to begin with. I can’t be bothered to seek out and karma farm on random subreddits that aren’t a mess of filters.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      8 days ago

      You can make your own Lemmy iinstance and be your own censorship police, that’s the difference. Thats NOT an option on Reddit.

      Hell, you don’t even have to be on Lemmy, Mastodon, any if the Bins etc can interact bacause they alo use ActivityPub.

      There are plethora of instances people don’t federate with becase they don’t agree with them, that’s how it SHOULD be.

  • Zement@feddit.nl
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    8 days ago

    Welcome, have a seat… remember when the narwal bacon or some shit like that… back then reddit is todays Lemmy.

    • bfg9k@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Hah, I remember being a cringey teenager and spruiking Reddit to all my friends with the narwhal shit

      Lemmy now definitely feels smaller than old reddit but has much better quality posts and posters

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    Been on Lemmy since the App/API ban. Haven’t looked back at reddit since, other than the occasional search result pointing to someone’s q&a.

    Side note, anyone else tired of all the sanitized AI slop that pervades search results? The only websites worth visiting these days are user forums (incl. reddit/Lemmy) and wikipedia.

    • abbadon420@lemm.ee
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      9 days ago

      The AI slop isn’t the issue. AI could be a blessing. It’s the corpos that are ruining it, like they are ruining everything else

  • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Welcome to Lemmy! I’m glad you joined. There are tons of tutorials out there for how to use the platform, but if it helps, here’s my advice:

    I use the Android app Sync For Lemmy. Reminds me a lot of rif is fun from before Reddit shut down 3rd party API access about a year ago.

    Lemmy.World is the name of the biggest instance on Lemmy. Think of it as a discord channel with different sub-channels except those are called communities here (and instead of r/ for subreddits we have c/ for communities).

    There are still trolls here. What’s nice about Lemmy is that you can block individual trolls, communities of trolls, or even instances of trolls (if you deem them so). Conversely, if you get banned from any of the above, you can make a new account on any other instance (like dbzer0 or shitjustworks) and still have access to the content from those people/places. The same is true if certain communities/instances change their policies on things like Luigi, which happened on Lemmy.World recently. I switched over to dbzer0 to avoid that censorship and to also see stuff about pirating - that which is banned on Lemmy.World.

    Lastly, we can see posts/comments from other people on the Fediverse, like from Mastodon (Twitter alternative) and others.

    Hope you enjoy your stay here! Lemmy is primarily tech- and politics-focused rn, but a lot of people draw parallels to Reddit’s early days, which is good!

  • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    9 days ago

    here’s a tip:

    • subscribe to communities, then browse by “subscribed” and “new”
    • when you run out of new posts on your subscribed communities, browse by “all” and “new”, and look for more communities to subscribe to