Just a reminder we are the future of social media.

Public opinion seems to be souring on all the big corporate social media sites, and I truly think if we're able to get the word out about federated social media platforms, people will jump ship.

Also, it's hard to dislike a platform that isn't showing ads, selling user data, or generally making decisions for the enrichment of shareholders.

It’s so weird, I don’t even notice the lack of ads most of the time (pihole, never leave home, so it’s roughly the same experience I'm used to)
But when I go out? Oh man fediverse is the only site I’ll use because I know it’s safe from ads. The other privacy/user-focus stuff is just a bonus.
(I don’t have any friends around here, so just sort of go out to be out, and usually for food)
- Inevitably there will be a fediverse instance with ads, but whether or not people want to use it will be up to the individual.
I honestly don't think we're there yet.
Remember, something like more than half of all people still don't use an ad-blocker - some people want ads, or at least want that they provide money to keep the service going, and similarly with selling user data (to the extent that people bother to think about it at all).
Never underestimate the level of entitlement thinking on behalf of new users - like, "Which instance do I join? Wait, I have to choose!? Nvm, I'm out already." (and for Mastodon, this has much greater implications than for Lemmy)
Also, one single reply to a comment in chapotraphouse on hexbear.net, followed by a second reply somewhere on Lemmy.ml, almost made me turn away from social media entirely, thinking that this place was fast becoming not really all that different than Reddit after all - I mean, these are leftists, aka liberals, these are/must be my people, right, R-R-RIGHT!?
The Fediverse is not for the uninitiated, and requires significant setup work to even be pleasant much less enjoyable, depending on where you go and the users' innate level of insensitivity.
Though you and many others are working tirelessly to make it better by offering great content - thanks!:-)
- As someone who is much more centrist/liberal, I had to block a whole bunch of leftist communities recently just so that I could keep enjoying the Fediverse. I would have greatly prefered not to, but so much of leftist content on here is far too cynical to any other position.
Fediverse is the future of the internet
You might inspire some of us to create a Facebook, Instagram, X account just to spread the word of the Fediverse.

Doin' muh best to shitpost.

You're all welcome, citizens!

Heroic Trumpet Music

Farting sounds

I’m doing my part too!
- I'm doing my ~~part~~ fart too!
I have many, many sovereign citizens to keep us alive.
- Okay, now I am imagining that you are imprisoning sovcits in your basement and farming them for insanepeoplewhatever content.
And I'm doing my best to keep it spam-free and ad-free.

Gonna be honest, a lot of times I feel like I don't belong here, I'm still figuring things out. I'm not a "techy" type person (that seems to be some kind of prerequisite) and I barely know how to explain the fediverse to the layman, but I left reddit when they fucked over Joey (my preferred reddit app) and read enough to give reddit the middle finger and never look back. It's been nice, really. I spend more time outside of the internet now. But I believe in the fediverse, I think it's the right thing to do. I still check up on lemmy daily, but I get much more value and human connection and only spend the time that is appropriate on lemmy instead of endlessly scrolling. Most days I end up in some Wikipedia rabbit hole. Just like the good ol' days. Learning new things, meeting new people. That's what I love about the internet.

Honestly this is great, non-techy people making the transition is a good sign and something the system needs to gain mainstream appeal.
Also, people who aren't techy are less likely to accept hacky workaround BS and complain until it's fixed on a system-wide level, and that's needed to mature the platform to something anyone can use. It's getting there but it's still got a lot of rough edges.
I enjoyed reading this. I came over from reddit when they started banning people for protesting. That showed me that reddit was not what I thought it is.
I‘m a techy person. I run servers for friends and customers, partly with fediverse services on them. Lemmy being one of them. I donate both time and money to lemmy and other services I enjoy and use.
The fediverse is a great thing imo. I hope it succeeds.
Gonna be honest, a lot of times I feel like I don't belong here, I'm still figuring things out.
I left reddit when they fucked over Joey (my preferred reddit app)
Are you me? I thought I was relatively tech-savvy, and then I moved to Lemmy. Also, Joey was the best.
A way I have found to explain federated social media to people, that seems to work is this: Imagine reddit, but instead of one company, with one administration, owning the whole site, it is a bunch of different reddits, that are independently run, that choose which other reddits they wish to associate themselves with. When you log into one instance, you automatically can see, and interact with, all the other ones that one chooses to associate with. You can have accounts on as many instances as you would like, even having accounts on instances that do no associate with each other.
- I just say: "It's like email. There are different email servers, but they can all talk to one another. If there are things you really like, you can subscribe to them, and if there are things you don't like, you can block them."
  Or replace "email" with "instant messages".
Hey, I also was a Joey user. I am pretty tech savvy (I'm a software dev and a former sys admin). I'm not a Linux daily user though, so I still understand that out of place feeling. Like I have used Linux for things, but after working on my computer all day for work, I don't exactly want to deal with roadblocks or tinkering on my computer in the evening.
I have also noticed that I spend less time scrolling on here than I did on Reddit, which is a good thing for me. It's a place where I can satisfy that itch without getting lost in scrolling of posts or comment sections for hours.
left when i saw too many reposts and way too many story-comments i was sure i'd seen before
which led me to realise reddit has been completely astroturfed
- Oh yes, good point. That's a big part of my problem when it came to my reddit experience in the end. I mean shit, I was a redditor since 2009. It was hard to leave but also not.

Admins. Thank you. Users. Thank you.

Mods?

Too busy abusing their mod powers to enforce their political views in most communities.
- That sounds like me in World News exactly. Excellent assessment.
  (I'm even more draconian in Lemmy Shitpost.)

im taking a shit

This is what Lemmy is all about, right here. Just a good, honest nutsack taking a simple shit.
Same
- nice
- Add me to the shit list

Ehh. What's the average age around here? I'm guessing it wasn't the youth that migrated from Reddit.

I'm OP and I'm 50 and female.
- Old fucker. Your lot taught me an absurd amount of shit on IRC.
  I'm 41.
I'm in my 20s, is that considered youth?
- @Wilzax @Underwaterbob yeah 😁
I’m 33. Joined up during the APIcalypse and ensuing exodus from Reddit.
- Look at the baby over here. I remember 33... Actually not really.
Some sorta survey/census for the fediverse might be cool
- We've had lots of them. It's depends on the community but we're generally older than r/, more female then you think, and slightly to very 'techie'.
I am in my mid 20s the kids call me old and the adults call me a kid.
Im interested in this as well
I am 17 lol
I think it'll be skewed based on reasons people are here.

I'm doing my best to look at memes 💪

I still haven’t been able to give up reddit but I have always been a lurker there. Here I’m trying to make a conscious effort to participate in conversations. I’m trying to be positive, kind, and thoughtful because that’s what I want lemmy to be.

I started to think of Reddit as just an occasional Google search result necessary evil and have successfully ignored it ever since. Log off DKC, there's a better world out there.
In all seriousness I think eventually conventional social media will start to feel very siloed like AOL did as more people join the fediverse. I can't imagine using a site that I couldn't look at everything from anymore, save for stupid ass Facebook which I do solely for sovcit material. Why would I want to look at crap ads and AI when I can be here?
- I started to think of Reddit as just an occasional Google search result necessary evil and have successfully ignored it ever since.
  This is my experience. I try to search elsewhere, but consistently still find good info there. Only when I exhaust other options I go crawling back.
Thank you!
Similar here. Reddit has become, for better or worse, just another Facebook. I include in my search queries when I need. I get in for specific communities and get out immediately afterwards.

The thing that I love most about Lemmy and the wider Fediverse is the sense of actual community. Many of the users feel like actual people I could meet in real life. It's essentially a digital cafe. Sure as hell not going back to Reddit or those other shit Big Tech sites.

That's it! I post a lot (you're welcome all) and I feel like I have friends I talk to in the comments every day.
Every day I am thankful for the work that has been done. It is life changing.
Yeah, Reddit was like that about a decade or more ago.
The current level of bot activity there is actually insane.

What I like about the fedi is I don't care if it's a "success" in the same sense that the closed social media sites have to be. It's not like this project has quarterly profit targets to hit or else it'll have to enshittify or else the investors pull out and we're all screwed because there's no more app.fediverse.com monolith or whatever.

Nah it's just us doing our thing and enjoying ourselves. The activity around here already reached a critical mass a while ago, to the point that there's more content than I could hope to enjoy, so anything from here is vegan gravy.

Just out of curiosity, how much does it cost per month to run a Lemmy instance? Not that I'd want to do that myself, I'm just grateful for our admins that keep Lemmy up and running.

feddit.uk clocks in at under £40/month. That's hosting, and backups. lemmy.zip is similar.
Plus our time, but we're obviously doing it as a labour of love.
It depends. I run an instance with a whole two users and it costs me about $25 a month.
But if I let 200 users join, I would need beefier hardware and a higher bandwidth limit.
However running an instance like Beehaw is probably on the order of hundreds, not thousands of dollars a month.
I'm curious as well. I want to selfhost a personal instance, but CGNAT is getting on the way. I can always pay for VPS, but then the recent shenanigans involving CSAM images potentially being synced from rogue instances scared me.

Just trying to take it easy for all those sinners.

Everyone one of my shitposts is making history

Hey, shitposts are like manure that helps other posts grow.

For Lemmy.world a donation would help keep it alive without all the crap. Servers are cheaper then they were, but still not cheap.

OMG! Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
It's not easy keeping things up sometimes, but we're always looking for ways to deliver more for less, while still keeping things snappy.
It's hard, but without the community, we would just be some nerds with too much time on our hands 😅
Much love for y'all!!!
Yeah but on the other hand Lemmy world sucks and it would be good for the overall health of the Fediverse if they ran out of money and had to shut down. Give that donation to a smaller instance who actually needs it. World is already the biggest and they don't need to get bigger.
- I don't think we should be wishing for the demise of the largest Lemmy instance. However, I definitely agree that focusing resources towards growing small and medium sized instances is good for the fediverse.

Every minute you use lemmy, spez's penis becomes 1 millimeter smaller

I lurk!! But, thanks y'all.

Not anymore!

Thank You, BotM! I migrated here from the corporate social medias as soon as I was aware. I'm still transferring my OC over from IG (not an easy task) to Pixelfed. And I use similar talking points to inform people, often about the very existence of a non-comercial social media. Very few people, maybe 2, since July '23 have even heard of the Fediverse. We shall persist!

I'm just learning about Pixelfed from your comment. Any suggestions on where to start or instances to subscribe to?
- I signed on to https://social.photo/. And I'm sure I had darned good reasons for doing so at the time. LoL With federation, I'm not really sure it matters which instance one signs onto, as long as it's not some tankie/nazi crap, of course. And of course one could self host one's own instance.
  It appears to me that, because of the absence of advertising, it is incumbent upon individuals to 'evangelize' and spread the fedi-gospel. :-D
I truly believe the fediverse is the future. People will tire of the AI and all that nonsense and fade away from all the big sites.

considering that this is a bsd user, yeah makes sense.

Coming from a self hoster, shits up when it's up. Otherwise it's down.

I charge nothing and you expect no guarantees of service :)

That means everything I am doing is becoming trendy, which makes no sense.

That's the most delusional shit i've ever heard

There's always one in the comment section. And today, it's you!
Thanks for doing your part.
- One of what? Quite sure I had contributed to the Lemmyverse more than most people here, I have nothing left to prove. Thx

I don’t know. Sounds like communism 🙃

No you smell like communism.

Well, that reminds me that Mastodon has huge, unresolved problems, such as tags being part of the post's body like Twitter rather than being a separate field like Tumblr.

Reading tweets with a hundred hashtags at the bottom seem really thirsty for attention, which is bad because Mastodon wants to fundamentally work with these, yet doesn't have good in-post integration for them. It makes interactions less genuine, more performative.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and Mastodon won't be good tomorrow either. In the meantime, you can vote to make it better on https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10743.

Try Catodon instead. It's a much better UI and federated.

o7

<3

It's true, we are za warudo.

Doing my part O7

Now my username is not completely meaningless.

Your presence and attention are the most precious thing on the internet.

Am I the only one who has Firefish crash for them?

The Firefish instance I was on moved to Sharkey instead. As far as I know Firefish is no longer being developed.
Firefish is gone, but Catodon has taken Its place.

Almost all of you hate me. I'm like second or third against the wall.

Oh boy...

*Random mods on some instances, however...

Every morning /kbin is working on some issues.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.