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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

We're expecting a giant influx of users when the popular workaround, old.reddit.com (perhaps with RES to make it less outdated), inevitably gets shut down. Please try to make Lemmy a worthwile space in the meantime so that they stay!

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

As long as they’re fans of trans positive meme dumps and endless half-serious slap fights about distros, they'll feel right at home.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Don't forget the Rule 34 manga and rhetoric of not sexualising anything. Also the college kid Marxists.... and Linux cults... And figuring out liberalism and "American liberals" are polar opposites. Basically avoid .ml And obviously don't let anyone know your skin colour, gender, or sexual preferences if they're vanilla. And support all war that's against Russia. I think that's it- Oh, and don't reply to the same person more than twice in a thread.

Apart from that, they'll feel right at home.

Ah, yeah, and obv use Thunder.

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

You forgot to mention the furry porn... so much furry porn...

[–] Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] lupec@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] lupec@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I've used both and have been daily driving Voyager for months, I'd say they're both great to the point it's a matter of taste. May as well give it a go if you're curious!

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For Lemmy apps, it's best to try a few for a week or so each—theres a few good'nes—and you land on the one you like. I was just plugging Thunder because it's sort of like the Linux of Lemmy apps. All the cool underground kids froth on it and those that don't use it couldn't give a fuck, because they don't know any better, man!

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

...you also must despise Trump, and if you don't, you will.

[–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

They won't even notice anything changed

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And please actively remind people to remain civil. We can be better than Reddit in so many ways. I believe!

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think Lemmy is and will be quite good at remaining civil because the questionable content makers use their own instances and get defederated. The most edgy community federated with the main cluster I found is !funhole@lemmy.sdf.org. It features cryptic posts that presumably make sense if you engage in the decentralized (IRC? Telnet??) discourse channels of sdf.org and some appear to be pro-fascist depending on how you interpret the questionable veil of sarcasm. I don't think it's serious enough to consider defederation because the worst ones get massively downvoted anyway.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

If it helps any, those memes go straight over my head.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

They're not just staying on those instances tho...

When they get defederated (usually long before) they find a small boutique instance (that's actually valid) but didn't bother to set up any requirements for account creation then make a shit ton of accounts to troll with.

If you ever look at the main modlog you'll see there's a significant amount getting banned on a daily basis.

But they just go make another, and even tho most instances are doing something about it, there's a surprising amount of zombie instances no one will ever change but are still running for some reason and federated with large instances.

Eventually the main ones will need to "prune" a lot of instances, which shouldn't be surprising considering a year ago everyone wanted to federate with everyone.

Imagine just walking thru a city and inviting literally everyone to come hang out at your apartment, even giving them the door code to get I to your building. That's kind of what happened.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. However, we need to solve the chicken-and-egg problem of niche communities. For example, there is no Czech community at all after both the czech-lemmy.eu and kyberpunk.social instances went down. It's only once the communities get going and start appearing in "All/Active" feeds that I'd worry about serious moderation.

[–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a tough position to be in for non-English and regional communities. For something like a game you can cross post in both a general videogames community and a more specific one and help people find it, but there's not much of an option for any sort of non-English non-pop culture topic.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Feddit.org is quite active

Jlai.lu has 600 monthly active users on the main community

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Reddit is already rate-limiting old.reddit.com traffic. There are already few threads about it.

[–] wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I joined lemmy just over a year ago when reddit killed its API. I hoped that my favorite subreddit would come here too but it didn't so I wandered back to reddit. I was clinging to old.reddit.com and would probably have stayed around for as long as that lasted. But recently they began requiring email addresses. That was too much and here I am.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can I ask which subreddit or is it private? I know which communities I miss but I'm curious what communities we need to cultivate for others.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

You may ask, yes.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My account still works without an email address.

[–] wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How are you seeing that an email is required? Is it when you try to post something? My account is banned so I just us it to lurk but I can still log in.

[–] wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

My account is banned. I can still log in and lurk, but not post, upvote, etc. And, as I already said: When I log in to the main site, it says "account permanently banned". When I log in to old reddit, it says "provide an email to reactivate your account".