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Memes about the Fediverse.

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It's much better here! It’s nice and cozy, kinda like Reddit circa 15 years ago.

For your memes we have !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch, if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like !science@mander.xyz!biology@mander.xyzand !astronomy@mander.xyz and for a meme science combo there's always the fantastic !science_memes@mander.xyz

You can also drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or hang out at !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)

If you want to explore the world of PC Gaming on Linux check !linux_gaming@lemmy.world or for more general Linux !linux@programming.dev and we even have a Linux meme comm at !linuxmemes@lemmy.world (we like Linux around here lmao)

For news !world@lemmy.world is excellent and for US focused news !news@lemmy.world and !usa@midwest.social

Want to ensure your privacy in this crazy world? Checkout !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

And of course, the best for last, the best comm on the Lemmy-verse, !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world !!! Just make sure to buy a krabby patty!

We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies, but here they’re mostly on what's known as the Tankie Triad: lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. For the most part, grad and hex are widely defederated from (Users and content of those instances won't be "synced" and you won't see them) and you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. .ml tends to be more subtle opting for censorship of dissent before things get crazy on their threads and allowing certain propaganda to flourish (If you wish to see documentation of it, checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what's known as the "modlog"

Obligatory, fuck Spez

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[–] Trilobyte@feddit.uk 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've been browsing Lemmy for 2ish months, went ahead and made an account just recently. Deleted my Reddit account last week and I'm chuffed.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Welcome aboard.

[–] macncheese@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the welcome wagon. This was the first post I clicked on. I feel like a boomer (I am not one) trying to understand the Fediverse even though I can understand how email works, somehow I can't apply that to how it works here. Like am I supposed to be able to see Mastadon or Pixelfed content on here? What would that look like? Ok also had some weed tincture so that probably has something to do with my confusion. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Welcome!

Yea, you'll see mastodon stuff from time to time, there's nothing really that tells you it's a mastodon post, they just look kinda different. For a mastodon post usually the giveaway is hashtags in the post like #hashtag except they'll be links.

Pixelfed is supposed to show up too, but federation with Lemmy has yet to "kick in" (at least as far as I've noticed)

Also on Lemmy you can do ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ without any extra "" actually, here putting the extra 2 backslashes makes you lose your arm

It's actually really nice, now I can ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ right from my phone keyboard lmfao ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] macncheese@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Ok here's another question. How does this exist financially, who pays for servers and whatnot? Believe you me I am so glad not to be assaulted by ads and whatnot but isn't this expensive?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

It's not actually all that expensive to host websites, it never has been, sh.itjust.works a larger instance with something like 1.5k posts and comments/day only spends about $150/month

A bid cost saving is not using the "cloud", cloud services do what they advertise (mainly allow one to "easily" scale up to millions of users), but its costly.

But the beauty of it is that because Lemmy is decentralized, not one person/org has to worry about scaling to millions of users as the Lemmy-verse grows so hosters can skip the cloud

Some pay out of pocket and some take the ways of the forums of ol, donations and small perks for donating. For example, having a db0 account and being a donator gains you voting rights. There's been talk about private/VIP comms for donators as well

[–] Chocobofangirl@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Donations for server costs. Apparently each user costs a little over 1 dollar a year, hosting-wise. Reminds me of how one site I use for checking stuff in pokemon sleep, how-many-more.com, said in a reddit post from the owner that they don't even take donations because the cost of running it is absolutely miniscule and that you should absolutely question people who want upkeep money for largely text-based stuff like that.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

We discuss costs here.

As long as you shop around for a good hosting deal you don't need everyone to donate to cover the costs.

[–] macncheese@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Ah I was wondering why that arm got amputated. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 189 points 1 week ago (25 children)

Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what's known as the "modlog"

Saying it again to everyone in the back. The modlog is a great feature. Instance Mods and admins can't just disappear people and communities without a trace, and trolls can't make up stories of unfair moderation without bringing receipts and their old account name.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Couldn't an instance admin just disable modlogs or spoof them, though

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, but the backlash would be undoubtedly intense, everyone here loves the modlog (well probably not the trolls/tankies LMFAO)

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 62 points 1 week ago (6 children)

the tankies were who created the modlog. broken clocks etc

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 week ago

For their own instance, sure.

But it won't alter the modlogs of other Instances, which also have a copy if the community is federated to them.

[–] ninthant@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago

Because of federation the lock-in is much lower and we could move to a new instance due to a rogue admin.

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[–] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 99 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So of course Spez rolled over like a bitch

[–] paddythegeek@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Rolled over so fast it’s like he’d been just waiting for a reason to ban content he didn’t like.

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[–] Fiction@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago

Spez has been rolling over like a bitch, his whole fucking life. fucking punchable face that little cunt.

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 88 points 1 week ago (26 children)

It's funny because I bet a lot of us that came on the API wave had/have 15+ year old accounts.

Mines 18.

I had a post from /r/teenagers show up on my homepage and I realized that my account is older than most people there say they are.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

🙋10 year account for me, thousands of comments. 166k comment karma. It was a wild ride, but when they took Boost it was over for me. Fuck em.

Consequently, now that I'm here I post WAY more, I don't even think my post count cracked a hundred and here it's...4...thousand........fuck, I'm here too much 😅

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 42 points 1 week ago (5 children)

12 years, and almost a million karma, and I was permabanned soon after the election for repeating an anti-HitlerPig post that I had repeated many times BEFORE the electuon.

I was bummed at the smaller crowds on Lemmy at first, then I realized I didn't have to scroll through dozens of puns, bots, trolls, idiots, etc. on EVERY post.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait so Reddit is taking action against moderators who block X links on their subreddits? Wow! That’s draconian as fuck!

I hope we get a big influx. There’s so many small subreddits I like which have no Lemmy equivalent!

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[–] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 51 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Reddit has turned into a real fuck of a fuck over the last few weeks. It was a bad omen when they started charging for API access, but that was just a preview. They're in full-on enshittification mode now.

You get shadowbanned for unspecified reasons, without apparently breaking any rules. They do cute shit with vague error messages rather than tell you what's up. Zero actual communication.

They're also busting people for upvoting super mario kart jpegs for some reason, but when they do that they actually tell you.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

I up voted a Mario Bros Luigi jpg and a few days later my login doesn't work.

That's actually the outcome I wanted, this is a celebration not a rant 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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[–] stonkingwind@lemm.ee 39 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Here for The Great Reddit migration. People left Digg for Reddit for similar reasons. Although the issues with Reddit are magnitudes more concerning.

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[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember Reddit after I started using it, around the time of the Digg exodus. It was a fun community of nerdy people. Just doing some things because it was cool.

A few years later, I had the weirdest feeling that that vibe was gone. That both behind the scenes, and more overtly, they had to be prepping for accommodation of corporate interests. A little bit of officially sanctioned promotion here, a dash of ignoring guerrilla marketing there.

And for several years now, it's not even subtle anymore. Reddit does what some dude with money bags says must be done, users be damned.

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[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

[ Removed by Reddit ]

[–] AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Woo! Thanks for the mander.xyz shout out. Come for the science memes, stay for the top-tier science discussions.

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[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Refugee crisis on lemmy?

Wir schaffen das

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[–] madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mr. Free Speech Absolutist strikes again.

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[–] RedSnt 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

By total accident I found out that Digg is resurrecting, backed by Alexis Ohanian, a founder of Reddit (and husband of Serena Williams), and Kevin Rose, who originally founded Digg.
Maybe all the former Digg refugees that fled to Reddit will go right back to Digg.. Continue the cycle.

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was part of that migration and I won't be as it looks like Digg is going to be pre-launch enshittified via AI slop.

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[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I would love it if reddit clamped down on free speech. Please reddit, just lay it out on what else you want to limit. Let the people know what else they can't say. Or even better- force people on reddit to make mandatory posts praising billionaires. It would make my day. Please reddit, put more gas on your dumpster fire

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[–] InTheDoghouseAgain@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thanks for making us from Reddit feel welcome I can se i am going to like it here

I got banned from Reddit because I made a suggestion on what should happen to a violent dog that attacked a family member

No free speech on Reddit

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You'll probably like it because we are all from reddit, at varying times in the past.

It's really like OG reddit. Like the good ol' days.

Well maybe not cause of the whole jailbait thing

And the racism

Yeah, it's a bit more cleaned up

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[–] Burninator@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (7 children)
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[–] Andr3w222@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago

I'm glad I left Reddit good riddance. Much better here tbh.

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