Welcome, hope you like Linux memes…and beans.
Lots of beans. All the beans.
Linux Beans? Mmmm. Go so well with a nice Malbec.
The top two mistakes I ever made on the Fediverse were unknowingly posting in Chapotraphouse in hexbear.net, and similarly in Lemmygrad.ml. Lemmy was practically unusable for me until I realized I could block those instances (and later lemmy.ml), which improved my happiness here by >99%, no joke.
Definitely it's worth paying attention to how instances work.
I'm the same way.. I don't like to block people because I want to know what everybody's saying... But I had to block hex bear. I normally just scroll all and they were everywhere all the time everyday and it just got too much.
I used to be quite proud of myself for never blocking anyone on Reddit, ever. Also I was a mod of a couple of gaming subs, so it wouldn't have worked in those anyway:-). But eventually I realized... it wasn't helping my state of mind, and rather it was affecting my irl relationships too. So I stepped back from modding, and finally blocked a particularly onerous troll account that I did not want to ban as a mod, but I sure did enjoy blocking him as a normal user.:-)
There's a saying about the only thing we must not tolerate is intolerance, and it doesn't quite go far enough imho as to state the consequences of failing to block intolerance - that they drag us down to become more like them:-(.
They have some... interesting political viewpoints, that is for sure. The thing is, regardless of that, it's like a self-styled "alpha" person who looks down on everything that they refuse to understand themselves - they dish out an insane amount of criticism (that's the literal sole purpose of a place like ChapoTrapHouse, read its very own community statement of purpose), yet cannot handle even the slightest wisp of not even criticism but honest questioning in return (anything less than obsequiousness right off the bat).
They are often derogatorily called "tankies", due to how they believe in the conspiracy theory that no casualties occured at Tiananmen Square, ignoring all the videos, photos, and first-hand accounts from people who were actually there. Also, Russia and China are "communist", more importantly are "not" doing genocide, and instead it is the USA that is doing "genocide", not just supporting others doing it but directly I mean, as best I can tell meaning for the reason that it is capitalist and that somehow capitalism = genocide (but again, their preferred nations are "not" capitalistic, nor "doing genocide" in their minds, in complete defiance of all facts otherwise, most especially those experienced first-hand by e.g. someone who directly lost a family member to such).
But again, their political viewpoints aren't the main thing, it's what that reveals about how they approach the world. i.e., consent does not matter - or rather, it must but only when directed at them, yet never in reverse. i.e. remember that style of logic that stopped working for you when you were 5 years old? ("I know you are but what am I?") Yeah, they are still using that - and somehow it works!? Also styles that tbf have baffled experts for years, like gish gallop and reverse gish gallop, etc.
And since they have existed in echo chambers for many years now, they actually believe this stuff. The problem is, they also still believe it when they leave those echo chambers and come over here, to "leave their mark" upon any conversation that doesn't go 100% their way. You'll see it yourself soon enough - if you haven't already - though Lemmy.World already defederates the worst of them, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net. As I mentioned, you might also want to block lemmy.ml.
Also, Innuendo Studios has a cool video series about these matters, titled "Why Are You So Angry", and then another much better one albeit a bit less related so for this topic more of a follow-up after that one, titled "The Alt-Right Playbook" if you want to follow up further, but basically it's a super-deep rabbit hole that ultimately may literally end democracy on earth, on the one hand, but also it affects how much we are allowed or not allowed to talk about things on the internet too, without huge push-back from bullies.
Yeah, after the API changes I created a lemmy account
Welcome! Watch out for Hexbear and the .ml instances, lots of disinformation and propaganda
Welcome to Lemmy. Glad to get new people here.
Just a quick FAQ because newbies tend to get some common things wrong:
Q: What is a "community"?
A: A community is basically a subreddit that lives in a specific instance
Q: What are we called in Lemmy?
A: Most people use "lemming"
Q: What is an instance?
A: An instance is basically a server. For example, you registered at lemmy.world. lemmy.world is an instance. With the power of federation, you don't need to register at other fediverse platforms to interact with stuff there here (only applicable to federated AND supported fediverse platforms). For example, mastodon.social can mostly interact with lemmy servers (instances)
Also, don't mind the old looking minimalstic UI of lemmy. A revamp of the UI with a more modern design is being developed as we speak
Any questions welcome.
Welcome! You might want to check out !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca for tips and stuff.
Welcome ! Have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world for communities that might interest you
Welcome!
Wilkommen, amigo!
Happy hatching day!
new.reddit.com still works it seems. I think they're going to take Old.Reddit.com offline, the bastards. If they do that, I may end up back here at Lemmy fulltime. I know none of you want that!
That's the final nail for a lot of people
Not gonna happen. They'll just re-lube the old condom while Reddit rapes them again.
Wow uh maybe pump the brakes on the hyperbole there boyo
Jesus dude
I'm.....Imma be over here....was n....nice meeting you....
Christ lemmings are fucking fragile
Same issue here.
I think it's just a temporary issue, but I really will stop using Reddit if old.reddit.com goes down. There are niches that just aren't on here... but that UI.
The UI is unacceptable and an exercise in everything wrong with modern UI.
I like how much it obsesses over your post's engagement metrics. I feel like that creates toxic incentive's, but... shrug. What do I know?
Weird, it's been down for me since June of last year.
Literally thousands. That's all the humans that are left.
Funny how they have the audacity to complain about this place being botted when their bot problem is so, SO much worse.
Yeah there really are not that many here, and while there are probably more who hide in the background, it's nowhere near what the Reddit scabs/stans claim when they talk shit about Lemmy and alternative platforms in general.
Another strength of decentralized social media
It’s beautiful. I’ve been here when world was down and the rest of Lemmy runs business as usual.
Same here, lol
Nooooo, the poor 100 users and 2 billion bots!
Who cares? Reddit has historically had a ton of outtages. Why even post this?
It's like honestly delusional behavior. Just a huge echo chamber repeating the same boring shit over and over. It's ironic because one of the reasons that people came to Lemmy was to eacape the Reddit circklejerk culture.
True that. It's incredible how terrible reddit is from the technical point of view. You can clearly see that even if they have good engineers there, they aren't getting any resources to do their job properly.
Think of all the poor bots that can't repost!
In some faraway data center fan noise has reduced somewhat for the duration.
Good! Now stay down!
DAILY MAIL is a shit SHIT source.
But fuck reddit.
It's cool you can call stuff out on here. I tried that on Reddit and got banned. Then called out the mods and got banned from the site for harassment 🤷♂️
Reddit can't die off fast enough. It's clearly past its prime
Reddit is against free speech and their mods get mad if you disagree with them even if you're right.
Worst part was, it was all really civil I thought. Like, "Hey, this sounds like X but it might be Y"
Turns out the dude was a piece of shit, but still... While I consider myself pretty left leaning, I also like to make sure I've got my fingers pointing in the right direction. Call the piece of shit out for cases where they are without a doubt being a piece of shit. Not for areas where there some room for personal interpretation.
But according to some mods, we should just blast people over anything regardless of verifiability. And trying to further explain the dangers of enforcing nonsense like they're doing is apparently considered harassment.
Their approach:
Me: Appalling the ban, stating the nuance of the post.
Mods: "No, don't contact us again."
Me: Huh? But this, though...
Mods: "No, contact us again and we'll report you for harassment"
Me: I'm all for pointing fingers, but this is dangerous...
"We're muting you now, and also reporting you for harassment"
Reddit admins: "How dare you harass the mods with civil conversation! 7 day ban!"
Me: Appealing Reddit ban, stating the only harassment thus far has been from the mods. Show me where I was harassing.
Human admin: Nope, harassment. Ban staying.
Meanwhile, conspiracy, conservative, and canada subreddits continue to exist no prob...
Reddit can't die soon enough. It's clear that the site is compromised big time.
As someone who modded a couple subs in the hundreds of thousands plus range on reddit. Most the decent mods left during the exodus. Those who stayed tended to be the powerhungry types who wanted to push a certain narrative.
Yea, it's obviously time for reddit to die.
We may have our opinions about the qualities of Reddit. But the Daily Mail? I feel dirty, just having a link to that dump on my screen.
Voyager has an option to block specific websites/keywords which may be useful to you (depending on your device of choice). Not sure if other front ends have that but I think it's worth looking into.
All corporate social media needs to die
Eventually it will, these for-profit venture capitalist companies always eat themselves sooner or later, it's only a matter of time.
Not just the US. Can’t access it from NZ either.
I definitely prefer the vibe of lemmy but there’s still communities I visit on Reddit for reviews and discussions about more niche topics.
Use Lemmy
What's Lemmy?
Hell yeah
Hang on, I'm 3D printing a tiny violin.
I was looking something up and of course Reddit came up but kept telling me “YOU BROKE REDDIT”.
What a shitty way to express an issue that your site is causing for users. Just go ahead and blame the users. That’s great for noobs who don’t know anything and will legitimately think they did something wrong on their end.
Look, I hate reddit as much as the next person, but if you don't realize that page is a joke, you're too dumb for the internet.
Of course it's a joke, but also...
Whether intentional or not, it does kinda reflect the spirit of toxic insensitivity. Also, however it started, they left it that way even after this fact was pointed out to them.
Somewhat tangential question: Why do so many sites have links to an external status monitoring site, but when the site is down and you go to check the status on that external status monitoring site, it says everything's fine? What's the point of the status site if it doesn't actually acknowledge that there's any sort of outage nor provide any info on it?
There are a few options off the top off my head
- the route/connection between the monitoring and you is OK; between the company and the monitoring is OK; but between you and the company is not OK -- this means that, so far as the monitoring can tell, the site is up.
- The status checks run at some interval and you're hitting it before that interval
- There's some threshold of errors that needs to happen first so tiny hiccups don't register as full-blown outages.
- the monitoring/metrics are poorly-designed
There are probably other cases. I don't know the architecture in this case, so I won't speculate at any others.
Maybe it's not automated and whoever is responsible isn't awake yet.
Yeah, I thought of that a few minutes later and was too lazy to edit. I also thought maybe it's semi-auto and someone needs to verify it manually before allowing the UI to show
At one of the tech companies I worked at, “uptime” was one of the primary metrics that was advertised to customers. There was never a written policy, but management HIGHLY discouraged updating the outage dashboard unless the world was literally on fire, because it made their vanity metric look bad in advertisements.
…yes that’s as dumb as you think it is, but it’s quite common in the tech industry.
You mean redditstatus.com? Might be linked to internal ticket portals.
If you ask because of the domain, it might be to be resilient if theres an issue with the TLD of the company e.g. status.example.com vs status-example.com
There are a thousand dozen of us!
Not thousands enough
Oh he's just juicing his beetle.
Everyone please be nice to the influx of newcomers
If you cannot resist the urge to blurt out your alternative socioeconomic views try your best to at least do it gently
I use Arch.
/s
Just log in on another server... Duh!
I was wondering why it kept giving me a "you broke reddit" error. Not that Im visiting reddit for funsies, but its where just about every troubleshooting search result takes me, which is frustrating.
Here is the GitHub page: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin
My bad. That is the software side.. If you want to register and join a server try: https://joinmbin.org/servers
What’s “reddit”?
^/s^
Nice. ☺️
Well, at least I will just post on lemmy more
Apollo sideloaded stopped working so I’m back to Lemmy. Seems like an API issue.
Again, if reddit keeps malfunctioning, eventually it will lose all its functionality and one day shut down for good.
HAHA
Ask kbin.social
It can happen because communities and users are monolithic. You lose your home instance, you have to create a new account somewhere else. The community is located in the instance that goes down, you can no longer participate in it and its former members all have to scramble if they want to participate.
There's a number of ways it could be improved, but I get the impression the devs and admins were really interested in a poor man's Reddit and are into that sort of monolithic instance control and quite opposed to the transparency that would required to do it any other way (like having the author of upvotes or downvotes visible or the name or an identifier linkable to the mod who performed a moderator action show up in the mod log any longer). At this rate, all I see it is becoming more monolithic and eventually more drama between instances (which there is already plenty of).
which there is already plenty of
Please elaborate
impression the devs and admins were really interested in a poor man's Reddit
No, not at all. It's just that sh*t things happens and instances goes down. Remember that kbin (and now Mbin) is development by software engineers doing their job in the free time. And instance owners also. Most don't get paid for all this work, and if they do.. we are talking about 5 dollar per month.
At the same time devs also have families, full time job and other things. While I heard from the Lemmy dev is able to full time work on Lemmy now.
Your user is still linked to your home instance. If that goes down, you don't have access to it. You can still browse Lemmy from other servers.
You can make your own instance. Not everybody's cup of tea, but in the future it will likely become easier. It will only go down when you let it
That is sad. So you know if there is any work or solution here? Maybe sync to different instances or just assume it is still you because you have the key to some algorithm and have some data saved in your client?
The solution is making your own instance. You've basically got a copy of your own of everything you follow on the fediverse. If it goes down for a while, messages are indeed queued for a reasonable time. And even if you do miss them, things like comments, up and down votes will act as 'reminders'
I hope AI is okay 🙏!.... It wasn't us, oh great begin!
Yup even 3rd party clients are having issues
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That's it.
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Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-Reddit posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.
If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
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Let everyone have their own content.
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go to feed...
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The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules
Rule 1- No brigading.
**You may not encourage brigading any communities or subreddits in any way. **
YSKs are about self-improvement on how to do things.
Rule 2- No illegal or NSFW or gore content.
**No illegal or NSFW or gore content. **
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-Reddit posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.
If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.
go to feed...
Reddit being down is how I found out about this place. This is literally my first post here. Thanks for sucking Reddit!
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