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Welcome friend! I’ve been keeping your seat warm * mini-fart *
Dozens+1 ! :)
Welcome everyone!
Dont stress about which instance you join. Took me 3 tries before I found the one I like, but I was able to see most of the stuff from each one.
What made you decide on a tankie instance?
happy to be here~~
Can some people who are willing to post something other than American politics and Reddit bashing posts join lemmy soon, I’m sick of my entire feed being nothing but all these negative topics
Blocking all of the political and news communities can help
[email protected] has a pinned post without active non political communities
More Star Trek memes!
Star trek is very political lol
Right there with you, it’s going to be a long four years…
Just block the subs. Or subscribe to communities that interest you and stick to your subscribed feed.
Big things are happening in the world right now. I know that it sucks.
Use an app with filter lists. Add american political terms to filter. Experience gets muuuuuch better.
For those of us using Firefox there was a post on [email protected] on how you can use uBlock Origin to create word filters.
To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)For example:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)Remarkable functionality. Thanks for helping me and everyone else out
You can also block certain users who post in a certain way.
Feel free to practice blocking users on me.
You could either block a few communities or make your following feed your main one. I prefer the first case as it allow community with less trafic to reach the top of the page.
There is a lot animal pictures, some fantasy genre conversation and plenty of renewable energie discussion somewhere hidden behind the very detailled and commented biographie of the trump/musk duo.
Hi :) it’s a niche community but I’m doing what I can
I think Lemmy is a bit too complicated to attract the kind of light-hearted users that made Reddit shine. It’s daunting unless you have nowhere else to go.
False we have :
[email protected]
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[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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[email protected]
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!houseplants@manyplace
[email protected]
[email protected]
And we might get a revival of [email protected]All this is news and linux free. Enjoy!
Idk, I came here with no idea about the instance system, I joined one that was near the top of the list, realised it was entirely Tankies, and made an account on the instance this account is on. I think people are likely to have a similar experience.
Hear about Lemmy -> join one of the first instances they see -> realise how things actually work -> make an account on an instance that’s properly researched and more aligned with the person
Took me 3 tries to get one I liked. I wish new users were put in some “default instance” with no defederations so users can pick and choose where to go better.
Like window shopping
It would take someone being willing to host something like that, and every other instance agreeing with the idea. It’s a nice idea, but I really don’t think that it’d happen, too many moving parts, too many people to convince, and honestly too much risk of ending up a hotbed of unsavoury content, CSAM etc.
People on
Seem to be doing fine.
There is a pinned post with non-political communities on [email protected]
I had a discussion the other day, where people were not happy with lemmy instances not handing data over to google. They argument was that we should do everything so lemmy can be found more easily, as the only goal is to “win” against reddit.
Unfortunately in that discussion people were not interested in using Lemmy and the Fediverse at large to create a positive vision of the internet. They just wanted to stick it to one corporation they don’t like. I don’t like reddit either, but i think we should thrive for a Fediverse that upholds decentralization, open source and non commercialization of social interactions. All the large Internet corporations want to create the opposite and have been quite successful so far.
They will come, and they will go. Let them.
I agree with you. It’s short sighted to give in to a separate corporation to “beat” the first. The only way to beat Reddit is to stop using it and forget about it.
The goal should be to remove the ability for a single entity to control the public flow of discourse.
I’m off to buy a Lemmy sticker to put on my thinkpad
Have you considered making the world less negative?
Showed as white on white on my UI, so here’s the picture below.
A few pointers for new joiners:
Is there a reason why you’re promoting [email protected] now? Ask Lemmy communities already exist on both .world and .ml, creating another community seems kinda counterproductive to me.
Feel free to have a look at [email protected]
Yeah, shows my image editing fu. Thanks for pointers! I did do a search but turned out my fu is not particularly strong there either…
This is perfect tho, it outs light mode creatures as the monsters they are. /j
No worries, thank you for this post, it’s nice to welcome people from Reddit!
White theme? Oh god, how do you not… you know…
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Welcome to Lemmy. Here’s your Molotov, the guillotine is just down the hall. First left.
we are
legionsquad.
Let’s be real, we ain’t touching grass, let alone take action.
Actually I volunteer in a community centre
Honestly I’d expect more action for Lemmy than left leaning Reddit accounts just cause people here have taken steps to make a difference
I tried. But got:
Speak for yourself, friend!
We never said they’re real.
Yes, of course, strictly in Minecraft.
I’m loving it already! And…I’m not scrolling through ads too!!
Every time I end up on Reddit the amount of ads makes me recoil. You’re free now!
Reddit has ads? I use Librewolf/Firefox with uBlock so I didn’t notice, lmao.
Back with the API fiasco is when I stopped using Reddit because there’s no way I’m using the official app with the amount of ads there are
Dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens… 112,744 to be inexact…
Lemmy Total Users by Day: 1,352,936 for 3/12/25.
Divided by 12, that’s 112,744 and some change… probably a couple of baker’s dozens in there…
Looks like ~53k monthly active users, I think that’s a better stat, since it doesn’t include people making new alts and abandoning their old accounts.
Then that’s 4,416 dozen, give or take a baker.
But all in all, I’d say that lemmings are much more active than Redditors - just based on responses to my posts and comments. I’ve earned 15k karma on this account, far more than any of my vastly older reddit accounts. Take that for what you will, but I’ve personally found the community here much more active, especially as of late.
Content quality is drastically better too.
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Happy to be here! I love finding alternative platforms to the big ones, I’m a forum nerd and soon I’m thinking about moving one from phpBB 3 to either Discourse or Node.bb and having it join ActivityPub. I hope more people will join lemmy soon!
That would be cool!
This is my first post, on my first day here, and it feels pretty good.
Here, have some beans.
We don’t do pay-a-social-media-ceo-to-win around here, we do beans. Practical, eatable, 100% all natural digital beans.
Some other users may be able to gift you a proper lemmy kilmister commerative gold token, but I don’t have the jpg.
EDIT: oh right, a possibly useful warning:
About a month or two ago, lemmy seems to have attracted its first mass spam bot, dming thousands of users with basically a phising email.
If you get a message from ‘Fediverse Chick’, that’s not her, someone stole her image, just block the user.
Or come discussing her at [email protected]
It’s kind of a rush picking a username knowing most are still available.
UltraGiGaGigantic2 is still available
I know! I hadn’t even thought of that until I saw someone’s was like “mee” and now I need to get another account. It’s like how people get caught off guard when I tell them my 20 year old email is just my name with no numbers or special characters.
Haha it’s great because there’s always another instance where your username will be available.
Or you can choose to be something different on each instance.
I just came over from Reddit too. It took me a day to settle in and understand how federation worked but now it makes total sense to me.
Start posting stuff with us welcome welcome everyone :)
and the best part is that if a name is taken on one instance you can just try another!
So tasty names still available
(There always will be many good names available since every name can exist once on every instance)
Nicknames are per instance so your favourites are always available somewhere.
The tankies have been notified. I expect you will receive a proper welcoming in the not so distant future.
Oh god, oh no. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife…
Welcome!!
Welcome in.
Hey, does anyone know when a new user can upload an avatar? I’m still being denied.
I believe its a instance setting so it could be different then mine, but I couldn’t upload for a few weeks on .ml
As someone who’s been on Lemmy for a year, TIL avatars are a thing lol
Pfft!
Why not ? I little personalization is not bad.
Very true, I just didn’t know about it, maybe due to the app I use.
It take a few week on Lemm.ee IIRC. Most people wait for a bit, if that’s really important for you you can have a look at https://lemmy.zip/.
You can export and import your settings from your settings account using the default UI
Reporting for duty.
