Fediverse @lemmy.world Die4Ever @programming.dev 1d ago

A Reddit post promoting the Fediverse that actually gained traction (and Reddit deleted the top comment for promoting Lemmy)

www.reddit.com /r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

I haven't seen Reddit give so much attention to the Fediverse in a long time. Maybe we can help them and answer some questions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

https://www.404media.co/decentralized-social-media-is-the-only-alternative-to-the-tech-oligarchy/

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I bet the fediverse wouldn't censor a post about reddit because the fediverse isn't a bitch.
Reddit took action faster about Lemmy than they did responding to the epidemic of CSAM subs.
- I left reddit because they kept resisting the removal of subs that directly used the platform to sell CSAM under the guise of a specific niche of porn which normally is legal. Direct contact with reddit to explain why it was CSAM went nowhere.
  
  Welcome here!
- That sounds right for the company whose CEO was appointed moderator of r/jailbait. This was before you had to accept an invitation to be moderator, but fuck Spez regardless.
It made me make an account here. I also convinced the group chat to move to signal last night.
- Based
- Welcome, pal!
- Hey, can you go to /r/Cleveland, and convince them all to move to /c/Cleveland?
  
  And /r/ClevelandGuardians to move to !clevelandguardians@fanaticus.social?
omg the top comment just got deleted with over 500 upvotes

I think it was when it was edited to include specific links to Lemmy instances, instead of the join-lemmy.org website

I still see the comment on Spaduf's profile, but it shows as deleted in the post

I think maybe the link to lemmy.world is what triggered their filter? because that was edited in
- Reddit is scared. Good job getting the screenshot.
- Gotta be. It was right after I made the edit.
  
  actually I think it was mander.xyz for some reason? and it doesn't seem to happen in r/fediverse
  
  no wait, something else is also doing it, midwest.social is also doing it, lemmy.world is clear, infosec.pub is clear, ttrpg.network is not allowed
  
  no idea how Reddit or r/technology chose which instances to ban lol
- Oh crap
Let's fucking go, this is great to see! Remember to be nice to the new users if you see them around.
Ah, a worthy reason to dust off the ol account
- Yep! I'm on there right now directing people to Lemmy
  
  Hey, can you go to /r/Cleveland, and convince them all to move to /c/Cleveland?
  
  And /r/ClevelandGuardians to move to !clevelandguardians@fanaticus.social?
- Just saw your comments there, quite funny
  
  Lol thanks I try
Would if I could but I deleted my account and Reddit has been blocking my connection for months anyway.
- old.reddit.com always works for me, even for posts or communities which they force you to log in and/or use the app to view.
- They block cookies comrad.
@spaduf@slrpnk.net , could you maybe edit your comment to something like

"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users

https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)

https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU

https://vger.app/ if you want an app

Feel free if you have any questions"

join-lemmy isn't the best for user onboarding: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536?scrollToComments=true
- Hell yeah, Voyager. 🤘
  
  Hey, question about Voyager, I'm using it, and if I'm on my main feed and hit the back button, it opens a list of subs, and there seems to be nothing I can do to get back to the feed without refreshing it. It's veru frustrating because I keep losing track of the post I was just about to tap on. Do you know anything about this?
- also what's the best alternative for Mastodon? a lot of people there already tried Mastodon and didn't like it due to UX/UI issues
  
  I would be good to list Mastodon as well as an alternative, and also listing Mbin might be good too? but then maybe you're putting too many choices lol
  
  I'm using Akkoma and it's great, although I found that it's a bit hard to find a good instance compared to Masto and Sharkey.
  
  Honestly I think the answer is BlueSky. For all the problems that people have with it, it's going to be much more successful in getting people off the Nazi platforms. What's more X->BlueSky->Mastodon seems easier than X->Mastodon for most people.
  
  Misskey's probably the most polished feeling, though under the hood it's apparently a total mess.
I would help, but I honestly don't have the password anymore. I don't think I signed up with an email, but if I did it was a dummy one. I wish I could help.

Edit: Also, I didn't know about this bridge for Mastodon:

if you want your Mastodon posts to also show on Bluesky then use this bridge https://fed.brid.gy/ you only need to follow the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy (~~note: is this a typo?~~ It is not a typo. It will follow you back and make sure to accept the follow) and it will automatically bridge you
- the bridge is pretty nice, I would recommend everyone on compatible platforms to use it (Bluesky, and probably any AP microblogging platform, but I've only tried it with Mastodon)
  
  Do you know how I connect Pixelfed to Mastodon too? Or is it automatic and I just do search maybe?
Frankly I don’t want Redditors here

If there’s a single group of people I hate it’s Redditors. Just fuck them (haha zecks, my wife left me smh, I want this guys wife)

In an alternate universe I would be like a ted kaczynski of anti reddit sending hot packages to the authors of most painful comments
- I hope more people with niche interests will come to Lemmy - this is the only use case for this kind of social media for me, and Lemmy's a bit lacking in this regard.
  
  But yeah, I'm not looking forward to those redditors who assume everyone's a cis man and stuff :\
- Im sorry to inform you that:
  
  Lemmy is a reddit alternative
  
  What you did right now was very redditor esque
- how did you find Lemmy? did you find out through reddit?
  
  ive been here over a year now and I sure did. haven't used reddit since.
  
  if you didn't come here from reddit, I'd be curious to hear where you did come from before making a Lemmy account.
- Lemmy is mostly people who used to be Redditors. People are people.
  
  That's the truth. For people remembering how large was Lemmy before the API fiasco, the vast majority of people here came from Reddit.

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