Ask Lemmy

Cultural/social hegemony leads to bad places

Because Fediverse is non-judgmental, I don't know who any of you are or what you look like, and Fediverse hasnt reprimanded or banned me yet.

cause it's running at some dudes house and shit like that is fuckin 🅰️wesome

I like that they’re all connected — I can follow the portion of my friends who prefer a more Instagram type of social media, or a more TikTok style of social media, or a more Reddit style of social media, all from my mastodon account.

The community feels much nicer here

Intelligence is considerably higher

It's smaller, and so there is less temptation to scroll when most of the posts I see are the same posts I saw yesterday.

I like the niche linguistic rebels I meet here, and even though I fundamentally disagree with them ("politics" shouldn't refer to all human group decision, the oakframe is too cryptic for most people to adopt, and "th" is better than "þ"by a wide margin), I respect their willingness to step out of the language comfort zone. Not many people can do that.

Also, I like the idea of starting my own Reddit/Twitter/YouTube, so to speak :D

Reddit banned me and it genuinely felt like a much too toxic place in hindsight. It's less stressful on here as well. Plus I needed a similar alternative as most specialized forums nowadays are dead and I am fond of the easy community style.

I'm here because I can't forgive reddit for what they did to Apollo. None of the communities I really want/need are actually even active on the fediverse but it's just the best I can get without participating in the shit show that reddit has become.

I miss the reach that reddit had and I continue to hope the fediverse will get there but.. after a few years I'm not as hopeful as I once was.

one. control. I did kbin over lemmy initially because its features were more robust and moved to piefed because it had and was adding many more options in general. two and actually this should be first. Non corpo. Im done with centralized control of my internet interactions.

Because the apps are better 😉

It's smaller and friendlier, no ads, no big tech, non-commercial, open source and I can host my own instance on a potato that connects me to people all around the globe.

Technically and practically much more open.

Slick, not burdened by ads and marketing.

I've always preferred threaded discussions over short messages or linear feed to read and take part in discussion and comments.

Not sure I prefer it. Just another in my list that I use.

Because even if I have to read stupid opinions here, they are written by humans and not artificially inflated ads or bots

There's no incentive to enshittify. Donations from myself and others cover at least the ongoing cost if not the labor. There is nothing here trying to compete for my attention and keep me here as long as it can. No bugging me with notifications that I'm missing out on conversations or posts. I just use it here and there and if I need a few days because I'm not in the right headspace to socialize I just take it without it trying to guilt me or FOMO me into coming back.

It feels like back in the early days of the internet. You can run out of new content: go do something else for a bit. I feel like people are kinder and more polite here, though it could be my aggressive blocking of people I don't enjoy interacting with combined with my own increased effort to extend people grace.

I like how it's more decentralised but still feels easy to use, and also has no ads and isn't controlled by companies trying to make money. I also love how it is easy to curate a feed with only content that you want in it, and none that you don't being shoved in by algorithms that collect all your data

No ads, much less corporate influence, smaller, no spez, API access, and generally more chill

I really loved Reddit.

I got banned from Reddit, not sure why, but I am sure I deserved it.

This is the closest I have found to reddit.

More ownership over my data. Now I don’t really own anything I post on my Lemmy.world account but they also can’t stop me from exporting my subscription list and moving my account to somewhere else on the fediverse. And if I wanted to, I could port my account to a single user instance and I would actually own my local copy of the data (of course federation means I don’t really own the federated copies since it’s all public.

It’s more relevant on a platform like mastodon where I not only can export my follows but can port my followers to my new account if I move.

All the sweaty nerds circle jerking about how great federation is. That, and all of the politics that goes on between different hosts and their moderation policies.

I don't dislike federation, but I think it introduced at least as many problems/nuisances as it fixes.

The ads are much better here

Something something not selling me out to a hostile government?

Centralised social media corrupts, but I do have a craving for social media in this form.

Functionally, I don't. Just because Mastodon is Fediverse won't make me "Tweet" more. Same thing here. In fact, I use Lemmy less than I used Reddit. Element does not measure up to what Discord does at the moment.

So outside of my beliefs of what the internet should be and the alignment of my choice of platforms with my beliefs, I'd rather be using the thing with the widest userbase and/or the best functionality. However, I no longer believe in Reddit, Discord, nor hardly any other big tech products; and so, here I am.

I do like the idea of federation, and I wish it were the norm for society when it comes to choice of product. But we're at a point where many people my age don't even know you can host your email outside of Google, and it's not really their fault. If I could wave a magic wand and snap every service to a federated nature, making everyone who uses the internet accustomed to using the federated web, I would do so in a heartbeat.

That said, does anyone know of a good chat service that actually has desktop audio on screen share? Preferably federated and similar to Discord, but obviously that's really specific.

all the comments are written by humans and no bots.

the green flash revealed it to me

Nobody knows who I am and everyone else here is just as nerdy as me.

Don't really do social media, and sometimes I question if being on here makes me happier. Anyway I Used to be on reddit but left when I could not use the 3rd party app without paying.

It's not corporate owned. No profit motive to turn things to shit.

Among many aspects, I liked that at first I had to figure out what instances are, that some instances required an application and I had to wait for approval, and looking at all the other instances users come from. It’s a very different feel than reddit et al, and I hope itv stays that way.

There's other social media?

I guess there's also IRC, matrix, and individual forums here and there but it seems like fedi is an easier habit to get into.