Lemmy and Reddit promote engagement, discourse and even arguments… ok, especially arguments.
Mastodon feels like a list of billboards that I am disconnected from.
“Oh, that’s news”
But no one talks between eachother about anything. I almost feel like the nature of the layout of Twitter and it’s alternatives are almost by design to make the users a little more self serving.
Mastodon has every user standing on a soapbox yelling at crowds, Lemmy is more of a public forum.
While I can’t quite land on why I didn’t use Mint DE, I didn’t use Ubuntu because I don’t like snap very much. Just about every instance using it has led to either issues clashing with other apps or just complete failure overall. I know you can avoid it and get rid of it but I’m tired of removing things.
I saw MX and was like… “Looks like my desktop as I usually like it.” and you can treat MX as if it’s just another Debian stable install as far as guides are concerned.
MX Linux.
Debian with perks.
I use SearXNG. They search Google anonymously. I also like the layout better. Less bullshit. Straight to the content.
Let’s shake our fingers harder.
You can have multis, and you can subscribe to multiples at once.
I have about twenty different gaming subs on all different servers subscribed, so I’ll see any one of them in my feed.
Does it matter which one posted what I’m looking at?
Not really.
/r/stonks: “welp, time to buy!”
Moderation with federated communities is going to come down to general consensus. That’s easy to do with communities that deal with facts and reason, and it explains a lot about how right-wing and hate groups fall apart because nothing is actually based on anything. You can’t prove someone is wrong if like… everyone is.
They can’t federate. Everyone has a better idea of the truth.
We can, because the truth is what the truth is and like-minded people can collect and agree on it.
Reddit sustains on having go-to communities.
Public freakout is inherently entertaining.
Wallpaper board. Even if you don’t use reddit, you likely went there for wallpapers.
Emulation and console hacking. If these become main discussion points on lemmy, less will go to reddit first for the info. Same for crypto. Same for Linux enthusiasts, knife collectors, car nuts.
We need that instant “I’m sure Lemmy would know” mindset that we already have with reddit.
It really reminds me of Reddit circa 2012.
A little wilder but also a little more innocent so it balances out.
“here” is relative in the Fediverse.
Here? sure, but there will be right-wing Lemmy instances. It’s almost a rule of existence at this point.
“shittymusic.fire was a bad choice, this shit slaps.”
They installed it.
I tell people in my family that there is spyware on their phones. They don’t really care or shrug it off.
I mean, there’s the water, drink!
nah
I don’t get it.
Yeah but I have to like… function in society and go to work and whatnot.
I mean if I didn’t, sure.
Invidious over in the corner, lowering his shades.
“Sup, guys.”
Videogames. Yugioh, Magic.
Videogames. Yugioh, Magic.
No one owns it.
In my experience, the major flaw of every social media site. Some asshat owns it and wants to profit from it.
I never considered going back. Lemmy is forward. More power to the users and the community and less from greedy shareholders. This is the way.