The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!

[jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org]

You won't be able to from a lemmy.world account like that.

[stamau123@lemmy.world]

unfortunatly .world banned piracy quite awhile ago, you'll need a different instance account

[dreaming_novaling@lemmy.zip]

I've been dual-booting for about 2 weeks now, and I've been spending so much time in Fedora Silverblue because it's just so nice. I mean, most of the shit I do is browser stuff, so I have no issues there. Most of the time I can get apps to work, but my only gripe is not being able to use NextDNS alongside Proton VPN like I did on my windows computer . I just don't know how to get it to work, and idk how to revert my DNS settings in terminal back to default instead of NextDNS.

But like everything else is fine, and I can still do my schoolwork.

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

Is this really just the "backup site"? Boo, I say. Boooooo.

Also, wasn't Reddit banning links to Lemmy or something? Maybe that was only in the run-up to the IPO?

[farraigeplaisteach@lemmy.world]

Is there a problem with Lemmy.world? I joined this one to avoid tankies, but I haven't gotten familiar with the place yet (despite moderating a community lol).

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

Especially important to understand decentralization when it comes to topics like piracy. Unlike Reddit, a non-commercial Lemmy instance isn't going to be shut down by a CEO who is worried about how it might affect their ability to sell ads. But, admins can get threatened, they can get overwhelmed, they can get hit by a bus. It's good to know how how to find other communities on other servers, etc.

[swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

And this is why lemmy can feel unwelcoming lol

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

For a while I was reading and posting on Lemmy, but still going over to check things out on Reddit (without an account) because Lemmy just wasn't getting enough traffic to keep interesting posts popping up. I'm having to do that less and less these days.

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

There's still a lot of old, useful and informative posts on Reddit that I find via a Google search. It annoys me that whenever I find one of those posts, I have to go and edit the URL to be old.reddit instead of www.reddit otherwise it's so hard to use. Like, the useful thing is in the comments, but the comments are collapsed by default, so if you search for something you won't find it until you expand those comments.

If they get rid of old.reddit I think I'm going to end up using the wayback machine to get that old post rather than trying to use that horrible new reddit interface.

[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]

My advice to newbies is to just sign up for whatever, then change later if ya need to. I think I tried 2 other instances before i found the one that fit best for me

[clif@lemmy.world]

It's fine.

The occasional complaint I see is not enough that I've considered moving and I don't even remember what those were. But the great thing about the fediverse is that you can move if you want!

[echospire@lemmy.ml]

It's a bit of a mixed experience. Overall, federation has its benefits, but it also tends to encourage cliquish behavior among groups. Sometimes, entire servers get blacklisted for various reasons. Reddit has a lot of corners that don't violate its current ToS, but in federation, ToS isn’t usually about pleasing the most people and pulling them into your platform, it's more about the ideals of your server admin team. That’s a good thing, I suppose. It’ll be interesting to see how things play out with Lemmy federations when Reddit bans porn.

[clif@lemmy.world]

Especially when vi is better

Fight me

(I kid, I kid, but not entirely

[loudwaterenjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

That'll teach em! You can't just sign up, first you gotta read some 20 minute long post from gnu.org

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Very dated Lemmy version. LW users still can't remove their uploaded media

[apollosarrow@lemmy.world]

Besides smaller complaints (every instance has their issues). .world has gotten too large. Many people have suggested that it close its doors for now so other instances can catch up.

[db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Honestly I never have to do it unless I'm extraordinarily bored and have nothing better to do.

[db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

It's not really the backup since last year, but the primary, but reddit won't let me shut down /r/piracy and the other mods who took over my top spot after reddit removed me still believe in reddit, so they refuse to leave and call lemmy still the backup.

[turtle@lemm.ee]

We are called Lemmings over here!

Lemminators

[turtle@lemm.ee]

Agreed. New Reddit is terrible. I find having to flip to different pages to get to deeper replies particularly annoying.