Welcome to Lemmy. I love you.

Welcome to Lemmy. I love you.

Love you too

Welcome to lemmy Costco. I love you!

Lmao, I couldn't help myself.. but seriously welcome everyone. lol

Great list!

For apps, there is also https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

!boostforlemmy@lemmy.world saw it's official release and the announcement over on Reddit gave us a bump, much like when !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world was officially released a while back.

Also there might have been a (albeit smaller) bump a few days ago due to Reddit removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization.

The boost believe it or not came from the launch of Boost for Lemmy which was a popular Reddit client.

Another reason could be that this week, Relay for Reddit start charging... Or should I say, Reddit started charging Relay... Anyway.. First post and all that.. Hi

I just left today because relay went into subscription mode. It's nothing against dbrady I know he does his best (made the best app for Android afaik, and even his subscription isn't a money grab) but fuck reddit charging people for using their social media. Don't want snap insta tic tok Facebook twitter etc... to start charging us.

Fuck that shit. I'm old and I remember what the internet used to be. I'm having a hard time accepting everything becoming a fucking subscription (looking at you YouTube).

Also, I'm using boost for Lemmy and I quite like it. If anyone can suggest anything else/better to try I'd be grateful.

Edit: this is my first comment 🥳🥳🥳

Relay Pro had to move to a Subscription model for 10/01, as API costs are now being enforced. Both that and the SafetyNet requirement means those of us on custom android phones can't use any premium Reddit app, so RIP.

For me the infinity subscription bypass stopped working so I finally made the switch

Throwback to one of my favorite comments on Lemmy: https://lemmy.world/comment/1572043

@Squorlple@lemmy.world

This is the only way to browse!

Holy shit that is hilarious!

Like seriously, I've already said countless things that would give you the boot on reddit, and I've been allowed to just say it without even getting downvoted.

So we're back to the "Old Internet" rules of "Just don't be a dick"

can attest to this. used to being banned on reddit for some very mainstream (yet controversial in terminally online spheres) opinions. i hope lemmy moderators never become what reddit moderators have become

I think for some people, there is zero difference between the two. These kind of people are "you are what you do" kind of people. Lazy people have lazy behavior, unproductive people have productive behavior, etc.

It could also be that they take "you are unproductive" to be a sort of shorthand for "Right now, you are being unproductive. How people perceive themselves and others in time can be strange. That can also cause problems with communication.

Anyway, have a great week!

Welcome to Lemmy, I love you

Welcome to Lemmy, this is gonna be great 😄 !

Even i came here after a ridiculous permanent ban

Welcome. Glad to have you here!

I hope there's a "Lemmy Is Fun" app eventually, but I haven't heard whether the original developer is interested. He's apparently working on something with Tildes.

I gave up reddit when I got banned by an automod because I commented on a subreddit they didn't approve of. No attempt to put my comment in context (I was questioning the "offensive" subreddit). No appeal, no one to talk to. Pretty ironic that a site that claims to be for "open conversations" is run like an authoritarian gov. Really scummy site.

So, on that topic of "security" - just remember that whenever you post, your post is essentially sent to every "instance" that is federated (and listening for the community you posted to). Each instance is it's own server running it's own version of an activitypub implementation (lemmy, mastadon, etc).

So on lemmy.world that means your post is sent to literally thousands of servers that you cannot directly influence. If you delete a post, a request is made to those servers to also delete the post, but if that instance is modified or unavailable when the request is sent (it'll re-try, but there's a limit how many times), then it's possible your post will not be deleted and you'll never know.

Keep in mind this also means that anyone, say a government or private company, can establish an instance, federate, and receive the posts of everyone. Their instance may be nearly completely invisible - so you won't know they're collecting that information.

However, lemmy stores and sends almost no information about any user. A user profile does not contain IP address or country or anything. All of that stays in the server logs of the instance you originate from, and never enters the database. So your "true" personal information isn't shared, but your account name, and a link to your account, and the post content (whatever text you add) is shared.

Lastly, images tend to be shared. Lemmy uses "pict-rs" which is a FOSS image hosting server, and when an instance receives a federated post, if there is an image in the "URL" field, then it will ask pict-rs to download that image to its server for easier serving to its users.

😲

Boost for Lemmy was released. Probably.

Reddit got rid of their privacy policy

Relay stopped allowing you to browse reddit for free.

Wait a seccond... good catch!

Danke!

Remember quality over quantity.

But yes, I am glad mor people are joining as well.

Yes, making people pay to use the third party apps, I just posted on !reddit@lemmy.world

I've been loving Liftoff. It's completely free and ad free, feels as good as any of the "big apps" to me

I went from Jerboa to Connect and now am using Boost, which I also used in the past

Usually Photon, occasionally Alexandrite or switching to the regular Lemmy interface.

On desktop? Old “lemmy” I’m just too used to that ui

For desktop, I’m now a 100% Alexandrite user. It looks great, and it actually maximizes screen real estate.

Lemmy lives on my phone and iPad. So rarely venture into the web UI. But I use Voyager On my mobile devices.

Alexandrite on the desktop

Sync for Lemmy. It's just super easy to do what I want - and to customize.

I use Voyager. Been self-hosting it since the day the project released. On desktop I just use the default UI, fits my needs I guess.

I’ve been using Voyager (or wefwef as it used to be known) since day one here at Lemmy. Moved over from Reddit when the API changes were announced, and then any potential negotiations with Reddit and third party app developers broke down.

Avelon on iOS, mlmym on web at the moment. Still looking for a UI that let's me show the local feed of another instance while still being signed in.

I tend to use photon.lemmy.world, but it'd be really cool if I could log in to lemmy.world using tesseract. It's a fork of Photon - so I imagine it also has feature-parity with the official UI - but it's "designed for media-rich feeds and content". It's what they use at dubvee, and db0 also provides it as an alternative

I don't use the default one because it gets confused when lemmy decides to bring a gif in from an external site, and then convert it to a mp4 (it's a pretty hit-and-miss affair in the Gifs Community), though I realise it's ultimately lemmy itself that's causing the problem.

I've been Connect pretty much the whole time, besides briefly trying out a few others. I was a RIF user, so Connect gives me a fairly similar experience

Username doesn't check out.

WELCOME ALL

Hello. This is my first post on Lemmy. Still trying to figure my way around.

You could be banned yes, because it would be https://lemmy.world/u/Kolanaki@yiffit.net that would be kicked. To see the effect of this, compare !sciencefiction@lemmy.ml with lemmy.world's version of it - https://lemmy.world/c/sciencefiction@lemmy.ml - (all the posts by banned user IzzyData@lemmy.ml are missing)

The federated paradigm and its fragmented nature has differences we need to get used to.

Your account is automatically removed after a long time of inactivity

bro my account got banned here. i figured it was my fault thwir server their rules, whatever. then like 3 days later i can log in again.

growing pains i suppose

Try Alexandrite. It looks more modern and the 2-panel view is very efficient.

It might have to do with the release of the app "Boost for Lemmy".

Nothing new from Fuhrer Spez - the Boost for Lemmy client had its first release and brought in a new wave of reddit refugees.

The reason why I'm here is I was permanently banned from reddit that's Possibly why alot of people decided to just hop onto lemmy and give it ago I noticed myself it's alot easier to get banned on reddit nowadays then a few months back before all this started

Me too. The PWA icon label on my phone still says wefwef.

However, unlike Reddit, there's alternatives. You might not like the community on @lemmy.world, but you might like the community on @anotherlemmythatmight.exist.

Because of the federated nature, communities will naturally fracture and focus. Here, a bad faith mod will just kill a community on instance a, and people will move to instance b.

We've already seen things happen like this under the banner of 'free speech', where people believe that free speech means free from consequences. If you think that, there are plenty of instances out there. Lemmy.world isn't one of them.

This means that you can find your favourite community in places with different server rules. Which means it will be the community - the people, the mods, the knowledge, that grows one, not just the fact the names taken.

I somewhat understand the distributed nature of the fediverse, but my question is: how does it differ from reddit in terms of eventually a small handful of people will create all the most popular subreddits (or communities here), consolidate power, and turn it into a dictatorship like reddit.

That's something any community needs to be on the lookout for, I wouldn't assume the worst just yet. Lemmy is entirely community driven, if governance is a concern then get involved in governance and see what you can help with.

Is there anything specific which nreaks on lemmy when you're on a VPN?

I just tag people who argue in bad faith with a note and avoid engaging with them in the future. Don't let a few assholes ruin an entire community for you.

Like the place is run by elitists, yeah.

@LongPigFlavor any thoughts on where you’d go?

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind, that's why.

And a clever comeback will always sting much more than primitive insults.

You should be the bigger person and ignore their bullshit because this isn't kindergarten and you're, presumably, an adult.

That is the beauty of the fediverse. You can go to whichever insurance you want, whenever you want.

Agreed, there's quite a bit of gatekeeping, but I don't think it's because of malicious intent. I feel like the line for what is a damaging conspiracy and what isn't is quite blurry and hard to even think of, so I imagine whoever wrote that rule didn't really think that deeply about it.

That sounds kind of like "your opinion" of what you got banned for. I would imagine it was more about "how" you disagreed.

I can tell you didn’t even read the fucking code of conduct page.

It doesn’t say a goddamn thing about cursing.

Mostly it boils down to not being hateful or attacking people.

Pretty sure you can "cuss" more places than not unless you're using it to hurt people. It should be a spice, not the main course.

I'm not sure Lemm.ee is as "free speech" as you seem to think it is either though.

They also have rules against "personal attacks" and "abusive language"... Kind of vague if you ask me.