I described it as “Mastodon’s Reddit”. Which is inaccurate, and I’m not happy with it. How would you phrase it?
If you had a hundred small Reddits talking to each other like one big Reddit, oh and with fewer fascists and no ads.
What would win in a fight, a hundred Lemmy-sized Reddits or one Reddit-sized Lemmy?
I’d love to know if my enormous blocklist of instances and communities is unusual or if most people end up curating their global feeds massively to keep them interesting. Anime, porn, US-specific politics, authoritarian-friendly politics, furries, wojak-style barrel-scraping memes - I don’t want to downvote most of these just because they’re not my bag, but I suspect I end up with a tiny fraction of the total Lemmy+Piefed content.
I tend to block at the user and community level, my only instance block is feddit.de and that’s only because I don’t speak German and those folks are such prolific posters it felt like I was touring central Europe every time I’d go to the All feed.
Blocking what you’re not interested in is the second best part of Lemmy, IMO.
reddit without the reddit users
Decentralized and noncommercial reddit
First thing asked “Decentralized?”
And it’s one of those things where those who care already know, and those that don’t care won’t : “get it” by you explaining it.
“Decentralized?”
“Like email” is a quick way to explain that.
“Oh, I’m good. I don’t need another email. I don’t even use the one I have”.
Is how that explaination would go.
Nah, probably more “like an email : doesn’t matter if you’re @gmail or @outlook, multiple servers can communicate together”
It really isn’t, I had no idea what people were on about when they said that and it sidetracked me from actually reaching a proper understanding. The analogy makes sense and seems apt, when you already understand the concept but not when you don’t.
I found it pretty easy by explaining that if reddit is a website, then Lemmy is a search engine that just has a similar feel to it.
It isn’t accurate, but gets the point across to those who don’t understand tech.
Reddit.
Without the cunt on top who put it down.
And there won’t ever be one, because there’s no chair for him to sit in.
I’ve learned it’s a mistake to try to describe the fediverse to people. It’s right up there with getting them to care about privacy
I’d just describe it as Reddit, but less bots. Or reddit but less toxic. Just focus on what might draw them in and send them a link to lemmy.world or whatever home server you think they’d like
“less toxic” can be interpreted in different ways. For example, I don’t always find people on Lemmy to be more open-minded across tribal boundaries. But you can perhaps find your tribe and experience less toxicity that way?
Like reddit but mostly politics and no videos.
The worst part about fediverse is there is not enough users for discussions about a specific tv show or anime 😕
They don’t need to know what the fediverse is. I’d tell them it’s a smaller Reddit without the many assholes and narcissistic mods.
Social media for antisocial people
It’s reddit but instead of r/ we have c/ and there are different servers, not just reddit.com, but most of them talk to each other. Also the devs are leftist authoritarians
tankies, don’t use .ml“Imagine a hydra with an infinite number of heads. Some of the heads are arguing, some have got their necks knotted, and some are french-kissing. One of them is wearing a pirate hat.”
It’s essentially reddit but, decentralised like email, aka. you don’t have one entity controlling all email.
It’s user focused and free from corporate overlords, it’s a lot friendlier, kinda feels like the old Internet
Nerd reddit
Haha like saying something is boomer facebook
I call it “socialist Reddit” or “anti-social media”
Communists instead of fascists
I’m neither.
Nor I, but I’d rather have the ocassional far left twat than the facist investation that other social media platforms are suffering. Also the extremists are mostly concentrated on a few instances.
But OP asked for a “quick” description of Lemmy.
Its like reddit without the content and with silly keyboard warriors. But at least not big tech. :)
Ive been here two years and have made 5500 comments so I guess im quite an active user of this place. Its not too bad. But absolutely an huge echo chamber.
