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[โ€“] 160 points 10 months ago (36 children)

Actually just got here based on that post. Knew about the fediverse before, but was hesitant to take the plunge

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  • [โ€“] 47 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    Once you populate your homepage with the right communities (and block all the furries/tankies) you'll love it here

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  • [โ€“] 59 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Or add additional furries because theyโ€™re mostly just silly little guys.

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  • [โ€“] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

    Just block the fascists and you're good to go, tbh. The tankies are a very small community here.

    Furries are pretty wholesome -- whether they and queer people are there, I use as a miner's canary to see if a place has a welcoming and chill atmosphere.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    People can like what they want, I just dont personally enjoy seeing that myself. In my experience I havent seen any fascists, just Authoritarian advocates.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Sure, people can like what they want. Though I don't think we should encourage inaction against the far right. Unfortunately, I've seen a few, but indeed very few. Personally I feel divided on tankies, but in my perspective, the greater foe is the fascist. That said: AAAB (All Authoritarians Are Bastards), and if we can combat both effectively, then great!

    But also, to put it as a metaphor. If I had to pick my battles -- and had three bullets, and there were a fascist and a tankie in the room with me, I'd shoot the fascist immediately, and keep two to safeguard against tankies - so that if I shot, I still have a credible threat afterward.

    A tankie is an ally against a fascist, and can turn into a fiend - so let us make sure that they have to stay our friend. And while they are our friend, then let us treat them with at least kindness. They don't need to like us and we don't need to like them; but we need to band together against the storm.

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  • [โ€“] -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [โ€“] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks, working my way through that now

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 10 months ago

    One thing you'll see here is that it's a lot more human than Reddit. People here are wayyyy more willing to ask questions and understand instead instead of just assuming. People here are also more willing to actually provide links and supporting documentation.

    Of course, I'm not saying that always makes people right, but people are also more willing to accept when they're mistaken and also give people the benefit of the doubt.

    It's a breath of fresh air on the internet.

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  • [โ€“] 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, me too. I was getting tired of the Reddit bubble I have been pushed in to for a while now. This here is such a refreshment...

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 10 months ago

    Welcome!

    Bob Dylan once proclaimed that who is not busy being born is busy dying. You'll probably find us busy being born over here, but I consider that to be a good thing. We're very happy to have you here helping us out with it. :)

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 10 months ago

    Welcome! Most of us came over during the Reddit API fiasco a couple years ago. It's a lot nicer here. You'll notice the difference the more you post or comment. It's not like screaming into the void, like you get on Reddit.

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 10 months ago* (12 children)

    My best newbie tip is to use https://lemmyverse.net/ to find new communities.

    Just set your home instance (in your case lemmy.world) with the house icon and all links will refer you to the right place for you.

    Discoverimg new stuff isn't always straight forward, but lemmyverse.net makes it a little easier.

    Then there are communities for promoting other new communities as well.

    Have fun, amd welcome!

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Brand new to Piefed here - i'm clueless about what you're suggesting here. Why is there no piefed-app, and why do i need to use another service to make Piefed useful?

    I feel like everytime there's a european alternative to anything, it's always unnecesarily complex and extremely unintuitive..

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    You don't need the other service. I personally strongly oppose pitching stuff about federation and so on (this is something for a user to look into if they are interested).

    If you are looking for communities, click the all Communities -> All Communities button:

    https://piefed.social/communities

    And then type a keyword to find a community.

    Voyager works for mobile:

    https://f-droid.org/packages/app.vger.voyager/

    You can also just use the mobile website (that's what I prefer).

    If you have any questions, just post them here:

    https://piefed.social/c/piefed_help

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Highly recommend lemmy. Yes, it doesnโ€™t have all the communities that Reddit has and engagement isnโ€™t as high, but its general content is overall good and it doesnโ€™t feel littered with bots and spam like Reddit. Itโ€™s also much easier to access than it was when it first came out and the available clients are light years better than the garbage Reddit app.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    So, I have Lemmy now and just made an account on PieFed. I donยดt want to use multiple platforms. What would you suggest? Can I synch them?

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 10 months ago

    Lemmy and Piefed communicate with each other natively. You'll find people talking about Lemmy here because they are on Lemmy, and most of them won't even realize that you are not. It doesn't matter that you are not, as we communicate across the platforms just fine.

    One of our greatest challenges is that we don't have a good umbrella term to refer to all of us. But I guess that's not such a tragic problem.

    In either case, no further action needed on your part.

    Welcome!

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  • [โ€“] [S] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    You only need one platform, it's like email, you use the provider you like the most.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, this is part of what had me a bit confused. I'm on lemmy, and in addition there're different apps/readers for different instances? I just downloaded the top choice from the app store (Boost for lemmy). But they all talk to each other? And as far as I understood, you can also interact with for instance Mastodon which is an alternative to Twitter?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 10 months ago*

    In short, every Lemmy instance holds a complete copy of the full post and comment history of every user of every other website on the lemmy/mastodon network. Every post and comment you make is first copied locally and then sent to the other sites for their own local copy.

    Itโ€™s more resource intensive to have all of these separate sites, but it ensures that if one falls, another can take its place basically instantly. Redundancy means lemmy is incredibly sturdy with effectively 99.99% uptime. Your site might go down, but just change the url and youโ€™re back. Albeit with a new account to make. Though I havenโ€™t had to swap sites at this point, and itโ€™s not a common occurrence

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 10 months ago

    Welcome, I've been here two years and it's been great. At first you might miss some content but that's just your dopamine receptors resetting from the slot machine effect of reddit.

    The "algorithms" here are simple and honest and all the Russian/Chinese bots are on lemmy.ml. Be careful though, you might end up switching to Linux if you stay here (which I recommend).

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 10 months ago

    Outstanding choice.

    Just keep in mind, the instances are all made up, you can see everything from everywhere and if you don't like limits or administration on one instance, you can always move to another.

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  • Welcome!

    It takes a bit of fiddling and customization to get your blocklists and filters set up, but thatโ€™s true to a lesser degree for Reddit anyways. Thereโ€™s tons of people that should be willing to point you in the right directions, though, should you have questions.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Welcome!

    This place is not quite as active as Reddit, simply by virtue of the userbase being a lot smaller. But I've quite enjoyed the past three years I've been on this platform.

    My first recommendation would be to subscribe to some communities (equivalent to subreddits) you are interested in.
    The main communities are mostly covered, but if they are particularly niche they might either be rather quiet or simply don't exist yet. At that point the only real way is to get them going is to contribute yourself.

    Also, small piece of potentially unsolicited advice:

    spoilerIf a community is hosted on a domain that ends in .ml, they are likely a "Marxist-Leninist" (authoritarian communist, aka "tankie") community. The same holds for individual users.

    The moderation in tankie communities (e.g. lemmy.ml) is generally not very great, in my experience.
    They tend to not be particularly accepting of any criticism of their beliefs, so these places tend to turn into an echo chamber.

    Personally I blocked lemmy.ml, and the overall Lemmy experience has been better for it.

    Enjoy your stay :)

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