I described it as “Mastodon’s Reddit”. Which is inaccurate, and I’m not happy with it. How would you phrase it?
It’s reddit but instead of r/ we have c/ and there are different servers, not just reddit.com, but most of them talk to each other. Also the devs are leftist authoritarians
tankies, don’t use .mlMany parallel reddit-like services which can interact with each others’ content if they choose to allow it.
its nerdy reddit and if you want to know more I will have to describe the idea of federation and distributed social media.
I don’t even know what Lemmy is but I use it.
“Imagine a hydra with an infinite number of heads. Some of the heads are arguing, some have got their necks knotted, and some are french-kissing. One of them is wearing a pirate hat.”
Reddit.
Without the cunt on top who put it down.
And there won’t ever be one, because there’s no chair for him to sit in.
I’ve learned it’s a mistake to try to describe the fediverse to people. It’s right up there with getting them to care about privacy
I’d just describe it as Reddit, but less bots. Or reddit but less toxic. Just focus on what might draw them in and send them a link to lemmy.world or whatever home server you think they’d like
“less toxic” can be interpreted in different ways. For example, I don’t always find people on Lemmy to be more open-minded across tribal boundaries. But you can perhaps find your tribe and experience less toxicity that way?
If you had a hundred small Reddits talking to each other like one big Reddit, oh and with fewer fascists and no ads.
What would win in a fight, a hundred Lemmy-sized Reddits or one Reddit-sized Lemmy?
I’d love to know if my enormous blocklist of instances and communities is unusual or if most people end up curating their global feeds massively to keep them interesting. Anime, porn, US-specific politics, authoritarian-friendly politics, furries, wojak-style barrel-scraping memes - I don’t want to downvote most of these just because they’re not my bag, but I suspect I end up with a tiny fraction of the total Lemmy+Piefed content.
I tend to block at the user and community level, my only instance block is feddit.de and that’s only because I don’t speak German and those folks are such prolific posters it felt like I was touring central Europe every time I’d go to the All feed.
Blocking what you’re not interested in is the second best part of Lemmy, IMO.
News and discussion, but you start from a chosen community and work towards global connection. Also, no ads, no making you the product, and volunteer-based development and moderation.
reddit without the reddit users
A bunch of smaller Reddits all combined together, without karma, and more tech-focused content.
They don’t need to know what the fediverse is. I’d tell them it’s a smaller Reddit without the many assholes and narcissistic mods.
Its like reddit without the content and with silly keyboard warriors. But at least not big tech. :)
Ive been here two years and have made 5500 comments so I guess im quite an active user of this place. Its not too bad. But absolutely an huge echo chamber.
Like reddit but mostly politics and no videos.
The worst part about fediverse is there is not enough users for discussions about a specific tv show or anime 😕
Reddit12 years sgo
