The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I’ve mentioned lemmy a couple times over there and got replies like " it’s just too complicated " etc. and now that I think about it they were most likely bots

Ima go back to the cesspool and investigate

Feel free to join us on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in

• !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
• !buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

We could maybe ask lemm.ee admins to enable automatic email verification, but then they would need to fight the unavoidable spam bots registration waves

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

Ok Mr “speak my mind,” again your comment makes no sense. You can’t get karma without commenting and posting, both of which you can do day 1

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

Email verification isn’t the issue. Every platform uses that. I’m saying the above is simpler than joining the fediverse and “getting around.”

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

Rofl, Romeo and Juliet is like the definition of a tragedy.

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

It's not just ad-free, it's actively anti-corporate, anti-advertising, even anti-monetization. I would go so far as to say even anti-content in some ways. That's a cultural disconnect that goes beyond tooling.

[openstars@piefed.social]

PieFed closes most of those gaps. It's not quite as fully featured as Lemmy, in particular the search function (but then again, Reddit's search doesn't work either?:-P), but it's super easy to get started on the Threadiverse.

For one thing, you don't even need an account or to download anything at all to start using it immediately to browse content from all across Lemmy. And the Categories of Communities featuring topic areas, which you can customize yourself and/or share with others, provide that multi-Reddit feel that people, especially from Reddit, really crave. See e.g. Arts & Crafts, and note the subheadings beneath, such as Photography. There is simply no comparison between this and e.g. the default setting for Lemmy being to only show Local content (a setting which lemmy.ml still uses today) for those without accounts.

Then if you decide to create an account, a wizard walks you through various settings, asking the user for their preferences and automatically subscribing to multiple communities based on the answers. Multiple types of News, multiple types of Politics, etc. Or just don't bother subscribing at all, so that it doesn't flood your Subscribed feed, yet still be able to access it immediately with the Topic Category at any time.

It's not perfect, but it's damn good:-). And for those who do want it, testing is underway for an app (Thunder).

[shrugs@lemmy.world]

That's the spirit. Reddit and all other social media died for me during the exodus 1 1/2 years ago. Since then i go to lemmy and I'm fine. Tbh I'm not really sure if more user will not also pull commercial interests into the fediverse and if that is something I'm looking forward to, but for now, everything seems like reddit around 2010, not too big but big enough to not being out of content after scrolling for 10 mins.

[industrystandard@lemmy.world]

Migrating account would be a big upgrade.

[toaster@slrpnk.net]

Obligatory !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net

[toaster@slrpnk.net]

Can we stop it with the low effort dunks?

[glitchdx@lemmy.world]

The infrastructure is there, and most of the features are there, but the content comes from content creators and they're not here yet.

For example, we have grimdank, but we don't have vezimira and emmawatnot. We have users who repost their content, but they're not posting here directly.

[aesthelete@lemmy.world]

You can be a content creator. It's not that difficult to post a meme. Content creators aren't another species.

[peterisbacon@lemm.ee]

Agreed. We should take the extra time to upvote, comment, and share on this app. Cheers mate!