What is lemmy about?
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Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement? What is the user count vs reddit? Is it worth it sticking around? I usually just casually scroll and read interesting random things, to which I may or may not get involved in, however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
Yeah, it’s basically an alternative to Reddit that federates. Since Reddit is centralized and closed source, they can push a lot of content on you immediately to get you started, which is a good thing. Lemmy, being decentralized and open source, would have a lot of push back if they tried to do that (which imho is bad, because it’s hostile to new users, but understandable, because there’s a sense of fairness that would be lost with that approach), so you start off with a blank slate, like you described. I recommend following some news and memes communities just to get started. You can also browser the All feed and follow some communities you see there.
One of my biggest gripes with Lemmy's approach is that I’ll see the same things over and over when I refresh my feed.
Overall, I think Lemmy is good. Its upsides outweigh its downsides to me.
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Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement? What is the user count vs reddit? Is it worth it sticking around? I usually just casually scroll and read interesting random things, to which I may or may not get involved in, however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
- yup, link aggregator / forum site that is not controllable by a corpo or single individuals
- hard to measure, but here you can see a bit more info regarding activity on the lemmy part of the fediverse.
3)for sure. pros of lemmy: you don't get drowned out if you comment by a horde of meme comments, discourse is mostly civil and a lot more real discussion takes place in comparison to reddit. Lemmy also has a lot of apps that reddit lost.
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Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement? What is the user count vs reddit? Is it worth it sticking around? I usually just casually scroll and read interesting random things, to which I may or may not get involved in, however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
Let go of user count; return to quality.
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Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement? What is the user count vs reddit? Is it worth it sticking around? I usually just casually scroll and read interesting random things, to which I may or may not get involved in, however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
Complaining mostly
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Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement? What is the user count vs reddit? Is it worth it sticking around? I usually just casually scroll and read interesting random things, to which I may or may not get involved in, however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
I think it's better. Reddit seems mostly bot regurgitated content these days. Also I'm still salty after getting site banned.
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Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement? What is the user count vs reddit? Is it worth it sticking around? I usually just casually scroll and read interesting random things, to which I may or may not get involved in, however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
Do you scroll all??? Because that should not be empty. If your subscribed is empty and you want to scroll on subscribe then yeah you have to subscribe to stuff. Personally I just scroll all and then block communities im not interested in. My main examples are sports and meme ones.
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It's a message board like reddit, with the benefit that it isn't owned by one corporation.
So if a weirdo server owner goes weirdo, the others can just break contact, which has happened before. If one country creates stupid laws, the servers in the country can simply shut down or move.
Communication flows more like a spiderweb instead of a pyramid.
I love this, I guess my reddit account can go bye bye then
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It's an alternative to Reddit in the Fediverse.
The Fediverse is a network comprised of such software (Lemmy, Mastodon, PieFed, PixelFed, etc.)
Federation is the ability for different platforms to communicate using an agreed upon language (in the Fediverse, this language is called ActivityPub).
So if Instagram and Twitter were federated, you'd be able to post your photos on Instagram and have them also be on Twitter, all without having a seperate account at Twitter. All the likes and comments on Twitter will be available on Instagram and vice versa.
And because of this, servers (or instances of platforms) are not really dependant on each other. So even if lemmy.world were to shut down, every other instance will still operate just fine. For example, I run my own Lemmy instance lemmy.asudox.dev. Even if every other Lemmy instance were shut down, my instance will still continue operating without any issues. Any new instance can then link with my instance and start federating. The power of decentralization.
A nice video explaining the Fediverse by the Peertube team: https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD
The video and my explanation are over simplifications. Federation will not work between all instances the same. Mastodon and Lemmy don't federate fully. For example, Mastodon has no communities. Mastodon users just post (or "toot", like "tweet" in twitter) on their profile. So you can't subscribe (or follow) users in Mastodon from Lemmy nor see their posts, unless they post it in a community (which appear as just another user in Mastodon).
If you want to know more about the technical details, check the specification for ActivityPub at W3C.
Thanks a lot for the explanation, this is awesome, I've always hated any kind of social media, but I think I could live with something like this
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To your third question: yes. I actually moved here a couple of years ago from reddit, due to that API nonsense. It's a smaller community, with much less content. But honestly, it's better this way.
Smaller doesn't mean worse I guess, but I'll try to preach to everyone I know in reddit to make the leap for sure now
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Like reddit but feels like an actual community. Just be forewarned, there are angry troglodytes here, just like any other online forum. Keep the positive, ignore the negative. Many people say to block .ml/etc adresses as they are here only to flame, but I haven't seen that correlation yet.
Good to keep this in mind, I guess
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Smaller doesn't mean worse I guess, but I'll try to preach to everyone I know in reddit to make the leap for sure now
I really feel more sense of community here
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Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement? What is the user count vs reddit? Is it worth it sticking around? I usually just casually scroll and read interesting random things, to which I may or may not get involved in, however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement?
It is a forum Website. The same way every shooter game is not a doom clone and every car is not a Ford clone.
What is the user count vs reddit?
relevancy. As long as you find people to talk with, that is irrelevant.
Is it worth it sticking around?
You decide.
however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
I would count it as a positive, that Lemmy is not shoving me posts up my ass that I may or may not even want to see, just so I create more content/Data for advertisers. If I want to eat, I go to a community and eat the things I want. I don't want to be force fed like a pig.
Or even if I want non personalized stuff, I just go to the all tab.
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Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement? What is the user count vs reddit? Is it worth it sticking around? I usually just casually scroll and read interesting random things, to which I may or may not get involved in, however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
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Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement? What is the user count vs reddit? Is it worth it sticking around? I usually just casually scroll and read interesting random things, to which I may or may not get involved in, however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
Lemmy is my personal soapbox where I can scream into the void without the fear of corporate censorship.
I almost never get censored on most instances because I act like a normal human being never post stupid bigoted stuff like a conservative jackass lol.
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Smaller doesn't mean worse I guess, but I'll try to preach to everyone I know in reddit to make the leap for sure now
People don't like to be preached to, or converted to something they know nothing about, especially if they're happy with what they already have.
Yes it would be nice if there were more members on Lemmy, but I prefer if people make their own choice to seek it out themselves.
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Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement? What is the user count vs reddit? Is it worth it sticking around? I usually just casually scroll and read interesting random things, to which I may or may not get involved in, however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
- sort by "all" to get a better feel for the fediverse
- try piefed if you want an easier time discovering communities of interest to you. (similar to lemmy, talks to lemmy, but its not lemmy)
