Kick your feet up and drop a shitpost off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world, meme in !memes@sopuli.xyz or chill with the cats of !cat@lemmy.world
If you saw my comment about the pitch fork, here you go: ------E (deluxe upgrades are extra)
Welcome aboard!
ETA Context: https://lemmy.world/post/24558150
Nothing new in particular. People are sick of power tripping mods. Also people that joined Reddit many years ago are sad to see it’s turned into something else in many ways. I’m brand new here, I am over Reddit as I just got banned for “threatening violence”. I appealed to no avail. I got angry regarding a post about an adult purposely running down a 12 year old. I expressed what I “would feel like doing” to that driver if he knocked one of my sons over on purpose. I didn’t actually threaten a real person, it was based on a hypothetical scenario. But no apparently that’s threatening violence. So yeah, I’m here.
Mods can be very ban happy around here as well.
Lol I got an account banned in reddit for threatening violence too - my comment was a direct quote from the US president!
A post of an article calling for federated social media got big. A comment on said post pointing to Lemmy got 100s of upvotes. Reddit mods deleted the comment.
!https://programming.dev/post/24371441
ah. I thought they did some new, fresh BS and caused another exodus.
It’s meta and x that are causing interest in the fediverse again. Pixelfed has gained a lot of users.
I know that, but the title of this post references redditors.
Well I just got here and I don’t know what the title was referencing in regard to an earlier thread. I’m learning how to navigate this thing currently. I understand where you’re coming from though. Maybe that earlier post explains it ?
Whether you’re on desktop or mobile there are many alternative frontends to Lemmy.
Edit: some desktop examples:
Photon
Alexandrite
More can be found here.
General interest in fediverse includes Lemmy.
Would you mind telling me what “Fediverse” is please. I had a bit of a read about this new place/thing/situation/blogsite or whatever it’s called. I’m an old Troglodyte and lucky that I even discovered Reddit 12 years ago. It was great for many years but I’ve grown tired of the same old comments and the insecure mods. Well anyway, happy newish year.
Federated Universe, or open social web as some have come to call it. It refers to many services that use the same protocol ActivityPub for their backend. Different software uses it a little differently but a shared backend is how for example you can get people commenting here from their Mastadon or Mbin account.
It can be tough to describe without getting too much into unnecessary details. Other big things is instances. Basically anyone can download the hosting software for one of these sevices such as Lemmy. Once it’s run it becomes and instance of the Lemmy software and then connects to the broader network of Lemmy servers.
Hope that didn’t make things more confusing. The main benefit for you is if you find you disagree with the admins where you signed up you don’t need to abandon the platform as whole, you can just look around for an instance that’s run in a way that more aligns with your views.
My instance, while one of the biggest, is small enough that I can directly chat with the the handful of admins if I have any concerns or questions. This works for me. Plus it being hosted close to me is good for latency.
Edir: and happy new year to you too! Hope you enjoy the time you spend it here.
It’s the constellation of federated web services all communicating with each other through a shared protocol.
Imagine if Web 2.0 had dawned with someone inventing a way for all the blogs, forums, wikis and social media to talk to each other, instead of Big Web tempting people into walled gardens. Well we’re now back on that better timeline and making up for lost time.
See: https://jointhefediverse.net/
!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca should give you a few pointers!
Appreciated.