What is lemmy about?
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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)
