primaryuser 95 points 3 years ago

Me, who's already been here for a few weeks, trying to just load a post or make a comment right now with the influx of traffic:

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jcb2016 15 points 3 years ago

So true!

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shawnj2 10 points 3 years ago

Use a non Lemmy.world account and you’ll have more success

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Squiglet 7 points 3 years ago

how does that work

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beneeney 10 points 3 years ago

So each lemmy site is an instance with its own servers. Even though they all connect to one another, they run on their on load and data. So you're on lemmy.world, which is being very overloaded with the influx of reddit folks. I'm on lem.ee which is buttery smooth, yet still able to see posts and comments from world, since it's all federated

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Barbarian 8 points 3 years ago

You just make an account on a smaller instance (easiest way to find them is at the bottom of the page here), and subscribe to all the communities you want from lemmy.world and others to start pulling them in.

Then proceed to shitpost as normal.

EDIT: Alternatively, go here, switch the "Software" option to Lemmy at the top, and look for a server geographically close to you.

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clementineholic 5 points 3 years ago

EDIT: Alternatively, go here, switch the “Software” option to Lemmy at the top, and look for a server geographically close to you.

Oh, great tip! Thanks! It's interesting to see which servers are hosted in my state.

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sneezy 2 points 3 years ago

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shawnj2 4 points 3 years ago

Go to literally any other instance and create an account there

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PlzGivHugs 1 point 3 years ago

For a bit more context on what others have already said, Lemmy is more decentralized, akin to email. Lemmy.world is the biggest website for Lemmy, in the same way Gmail is for email, but like email, there are tons of smaller or even personal sites that can all network together. If one site goes down, only content on that site and its users are affected, others are not.

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Squiglet 1 point 3 years ago

How does that work?n

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cattywampus 1 point 9 days ago

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BornVolcano 65 points 3 years ago

Image Transcription: Meme

['Let me in' - a two panel image of a man in a suit standing outside a closed metal gate, and shaking it vigorously in the second panel with his head tilted back and his mouth open screaming. The second panel also has small amount of motion blur. There is text at the bottom of both images.]

LEMMY IN.

LEMMY IIIIIIIN!

^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

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CrypticCoffee 8 points 3 years ago

I appreciate the work you're doing to aid in accessibility. I'm not sure using "unkempt hair" is quite right. I would have thought this is natural afro hair. I don't think the hair description adds to the transcription so is probably better to remove.

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Someusernamehuh 8 points 3 years ago

It's an unkempt afro

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CrypticCoffee 8 points 3 years ago

From a young age, black kids are told their natural hair is unkempt, and often by white teachers. The view of what is neat hair, and isn't neat hair is very subjective. This constant unconscious, and sometimes conscious bias is not helpful. It's often used as disguised form of discrimination.

I'm not saying this is the case with the original poster and think it was a genuine mistake, but it's something we probably need to move away from.

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BarackObama 5 points 3 years ago

Eric Andre says he finds brushing his hair is too time consuming, when asked about it by Larry King. https://youtu.be/7XR4Ml8FijM (11:45)

This question by Larry to Eric about his hair is mentioned in Eric's interview with Talib Kweli. https://youtu.be/irzhJ4mLMF0 (28:36)

If you're an Eric Andre fan, these are both must-watch interviews.

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BornVolcano 4 points 3 years ago

If the character was darker-skinned, I would've used textured hair, 100%. (Edit: I think I got confused by the lighting in this scend, I thought he had lighter brown hair and lighter skin. In the other interviews, it's clear it's naturally textured hair.) Given what I could tell from the character, I wasn't sure if it was non-textured or curly hair made intentionally messy for the sake of the skit, curly hair blowing in the wind with poor image quality, or the person's natural hair type. Especially given the fact that he was trying to get into somewhere that seemed closed, my guess from context clues was that he might not have had time to brush his hair.

I'm not sure which side is correct, or if it's appropriate to use "afro-textured hair" on a person who's natural hair type may or may not be textured. So for the sake of simplicity, I just removed that part of the transcription.

Didn't mean any harm with it, sorry for the confusion! Personally I've always found textured hair a both fascinating and gorgeous with what it can do, so had I known, I wouldn't have put it. (I was also writing it while on hold with the doctor's office, evidenced by how I wrote "engaged" instead of "Engadget" in another transcription haha. So it was also rushed.)

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zahel 2 points 3 years ago

Bruh. It's a skit. Eric intentionally made his hair messy as part of the "unhinged" character

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BornVolcano 5 points 3 years ago

To be safe, I removed the hair description altogether. Initially added it because I thought it might've been part of the character's appearance in the skit. Given the rest of the character's appearance, I wasn't sure if it was textured hair or just curly/frizzy hair blowing in the wind with poor image quality, and whether it was an intentional choice for the source material or just his natural hair type.

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clementineholic 4 points 3 years ago

You're great for transcribing! To avoid the word unkempt, as that can be offensive, I would transcribe the hair as 'clumpy afro-textured hair'.

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BornVolcano 4 points 3 years ago

I thought it was messy or blowing in the wind tbh, since he didn't look like a kind of person who would have textured hair. Looking further into it, I think I was fooled by the scene's lighting.

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clementineholic 4 points 3 years ago

I see you edited the transcription, leaving out the hair description. That's just fine too the way you have it now. Thank you. 🙂

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BornVolcano 4 points 3 years ago

Yeah, honestly my mistaken assumption that he was white combined with poor image quality lead me to think the hair was just a bit messy (mine does that in the mornings when I wake up), and that it was part of the scene in some way. I didn't want to leave out something that might be contextually relevant.

Checking out one of the other sources on the actor, the moment I saw him, I realized my mistake. Definitely his natural hair, and in normal lighting it looks a lot more intentional. His hair type isn't relevant if it isn't intentionally part of the scene, and that very clearly wasn't. So it's best to take it out.

If I'm being honest, I was a little iffy on whether or not to include it in the first place, but I was tired and fed up with Lemmy not loading properly so I just slapped it in and went for it without double checking. Looking back, probably not my brightest move. I'll be more careful about that sort of thing moving forward.

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clementineholic 3 points 3 years ago

I see. It's an understandable assumption to make. That's his natural hair texture. You may see this video he talks about his hair. The thing about afro-textured hair is it can stand up and out on it's own. No wind needed, lol (and I say this as a person with this kind of hair texture).

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BornVolcano 3 points 3 years ago

Yep! I guess with the image quality, I kind of assumed it was a bit like my hair was this morning (which also stood up on its own, and speaking as a person with wavy non-textured hair, was undeniably unkempt haha)

Looking in the other videos, it's clear what I overlooked, and you're definitely right that it's a totally different situation. Mine looks like a total mess when it does that, because it isn't supposed to. Textured hair naturally does that, and as a result, looks good doing it.

Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I wouldn't have even noticed otherwise. My brain just saw fluffy hair and thought he must be in the wind. My brain is not very smart sometimes.

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psud 2 points 3 years ago

Thank you for doing this, I have good vision, but at the time I found this post the image was missing, so your transcription was the only way of getting the context of the conversion

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Deelala0516 61 points 3 years ago

I'm in this picture and I'm actually ok with it.

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SwallowsDick 14 points 3 years ago

Me too

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unminded 3 points 3 years ago

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NettoHikari 55 points 3 years ago

Me, who didn't join one of the huge instances, instead hosting his own instance: "Why is everyone complaining? Lol."

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PillowTalk420 38 points 3 years ago

This is the 3rd time I've seen someone mention they run their own instance. The other two specifically mentioned how it was for just them, and I'm wondering what the benefit is going that extra mile for just yourself. Is it worth it? Or is it simply a case of "because I fucking can?" 🤔

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can 24 points 3 years ago

You don't need to worry about being defederated unless the instance is whitelist only (or you're an ass).

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PillowTalk420 9 points 3 years ago

Does the instance itself hold a record or database of content posted, too? Like, could a personal instance be used to archive your own posts and comments, even if made on another instance through your personal one's account? That right there would be motivation to play with it for me. Well, that and the "because I can" thing.

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can 9 points 3 years ago

As long as a user on your instance is subscribed to all the communities you comment on they should federate as far as I understand. Ask someone more knowledgeable before spinning one up though.

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NettoHikari 14 points 3 years ago

I run an open instance for everyone. The name (FOSSware) suggests that it's for people interested in FOSS (free and open source software) only, but in the description, I specifically mentioned that it's an open instance for everyone, just like with lemmy.world and other popular instances.

I'm running this instance, because I love technology and I'm hosting a lot of stuff for my family, friends and I, as well as some public facing things already. It's a hobby.

Another reason why I'm doing it is that I just want to give back to the community, as I strongly believe that decentralized tech is the future. We were proven time and time again that centralized approaches, where only one entity is in control, is really bad for the userbase.

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c0mbatbag3l 3 points 3 years ago

And the economy, whatever form that economy may be. Content and comment economies online, or the financial one in real life.

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Chives 7 points 3 years ago

I am part of a team that runs an instance for financial discussion, specifically related to direct registration of securities.

For us, the benefit is additional control over the resiliency and transparency of the server and moderation style.

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The_Mike_Drop 50 points 3 years ago

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

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samus12345 8 points 3 years ago

The wretched refuse of Reddit's scheming shore

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Chonk 43 points 3 years ago

Me trying to login in to every instance except the one where I signed up.

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SmokesForBreakfast 18 points 3 years ago

“Oh yeah I think I get it now”

continues to mess up

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irkli 3 points 3 years ago

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unknown_name 7 points 3 years ago

I've registered on at least two, maybe three instances because I could never move from one to the other. I think i may have it working now.

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Darkm0d 6 points 3 years ago

Holy shit im in this boat. My mobile experience has been rough. No idea what I did or if any of it was right. Jerboa, Readtthat, logins, confusion. I'm getting the hang of it on PC and on Lemmy.world. But, fuck ig I know if Lemmy.world's "all" is the true all?

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Barbarian 5 points 3 years ago

But, fuck ig I know if Lemmy.world’s “all” is the true all?

There is no true "All". Every instance pulls in content from communities that at least one user on that instance has subscribed to.

You can use the Lemmy Explorer to go find communities that nobody on your instance has found yet.

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Darkm0d 4 points 3 years ago

I see I see. I will get the hang of it eventually.

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Zoot 2 points 3 years ago

Do you use a regular browser or app for lemmy? It took me a day or two, but its finally all starting to make sense within my Connect for Lemmy app.

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Darkm0d 3 points 3 years ago

Browser atm. Jerboa and onenother app I haven't gotten used to yet.

So far in just assuming lemmy.world is like, a main hub. So I made an account there, and now like, I haven't fully figured out like, I see subs and communities. But I don't fully understand how they are tied to just my lemmy.world instance.

Way over my head 😂

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jininjin 1 point 3 years ago

Same I have no clue. I signed up to Lemmy world and can't find any subs that are bigger than 30 people... Hoping they sort the growing issues.

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Raphael 38 points 3 years ago

Now we need lemmy.in

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sombrero 8 points 3 years ago

I dream of a world with a nsfw community on lemm.ee/c/smash

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Chthonic 8 points 3 years ago

Or maybe lemm.ee/c/datpeepee

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clementineholic 1 point 3 years ago

Not that one. No porn allowed on lemm.ee.

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c0mbatbag3l 4 points 3 years ago

Becky said my tail was big.

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cheeseblintzes 1 point 3 years ago

I am that bitch named Becky

and no I didnt. hmph.

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MrMonkey 1 point 3 years ago

I picked up "lemmyc.com" (lemmesee.com & lemmesea.com) for the same reason.

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TowerofPimps 30 points 3 years ago

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abbadon420 11 points 3 years ago

What have you been doing in the meantime? Don't tell me you have been living an actual life or something weird like that?!

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brenomartins 6 points 3 years ago

He was on 4chan, so it's ok

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RedSky2200 29 points 3 years ago

Hopefully, the momentum of people transferring to lemmy stays. I've had conversations with other Redditors who recognized the importance of third party apps but went ahead and downloaded the official app anyway.

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stebo02 11 points 3 years ago

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RedSky2200 7 points 3 years ago

Tell me about it. Just goes to show that certain people aren't willing to compromise on what they perceive as their home.

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stebo02 3 points 3 years ago

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thesanewriter 7 points 3 years ago

Lemmy also has a really great app environment. Boost for Lemmy is apparently already on the way, as well as both Sync, Slide, and a bunch of new apps too!

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RedSky2200 3 points 3 years ago

You can also try out wefwef.app I'm using it right now and it feels just like Apollo

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thesanewriter 4 points 3 years ago

Oh absolutely. Wefwef is great, I'm actually using it as my desktop Lemmy experience right now. Right now app development is moving so fast that my favorite is rapidly switching, but the three favorites that I'm using the most are Connect, Thunder, and wefwef.

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peterpan520 11 points 3 years ago

How can anyone use the official app after using a 3PA for years? The official app is laggy and bloated...

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nostalgicgamerz 7 points 3 years ago

Addicted to the ecosystem

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RedSky2200 5 points 3 years ago

I honestly don't know. It baffles me. Maybe it's convenient but their decisions completely invalidates the blackout and just confirms spez's words that this will all blow over.

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clementineholic 3 points 3 years ago

I tried the official app soon after it's initial release and didn't like it. Tried again the other day and it was even worse than I remember. It was ugly and slow scrolling on my phone. I deleted it right away. I don't mind using the reddit desktop site, if I go back for my niche communities until they make it to the Fediverse, but I'm no longer using reddit on mobile if I can't use my favorite 3rd-party app. Reddit even made it's mobile website annoying to use, trying push people to its app. I absolutely hate when sites do that.

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nostalgicgamerz 1 point 3 years ago

Ah the Pokémon go / Niantic “protest” method.

“Niantic is taking advantage of the good will from its players!!….. but I’ll still play it…I just won’t like it as much and I won’t buy anything ….”

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DJKJuicy 27 points 3 years ago

Let's do this thing.

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VerdantSporeSeasoning 15 points 3 years ago

Lol, this exactly. I tried to make an account 3 different times, each on a different server, couldn't get sign-up to submit till the third time. I was one of too many trying. Better problem than nobody being here!

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cattywampus 1 point 9 days ago

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ProximaChad 22 points 3 years ago

Me cuz I suck with computers and couldn’t figure out how to make an account. It kept failing and one wanted me to write an essay on why I should be considered. Im a casual reddit users I didn’t want to write an essay. Finally signed up with lemmy.world and I know its slow cuz a lot of people are on it but at least it worked lol.

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Lepsea 5 points 3 years ago

That's me before the blackout, now settled on sh.itjust.works because shit just work

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Pinto23 5 points 3 years ago

I filled out the essay and didn't make the cut :( then I started to understand some more about this stuff and found lemmy.world

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kosanovskiy 22 points 3 years ago

I am honestly curious how long it will take for lemmy to get its first million users. May we win or not. but still nice to see a chance and grow

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troyunrau 17 points 3 years ago

If you trust the totals at https://the-federation.info/platform/73 -- then we're already past 2M users.

But if you look at "Active this month", then it is only 60k users. Lemmy counts activity differently than Reddit. Active means: made a comment or post, whereas Reddit counts any user you had the post in their feed as active.

So this month there's about 2M users, 2M comments, 600k posts, but only 60k of those users generated all of the content.

The only rule on Reddit was: 90% of the users were non-participating lurkers. It seems this might be accurate here too, or at least approximately.

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Barbarian 2 points 3 years ago

There's also a lot of bots. There's like 20 servers with 70k "users" and 10 or less active users (making posts & comments). Doing the math, that should reduce the total by 1.4m. 600,000 real users is still pretty great though.

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El_Segundo 3 points 3 years ago

Win?

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Strangian 6 points 3 years ago

I think in this scenario “winning” would be replacing reddit as the primary link aggregator and online forum. But even if that does happen eventually, it’ll be slow and gradual

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arnoid 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah it’s gonna take a while to replace reddit, and initially This whole Fediverse and instances concept gets a bit confusing and overwhelming to start with. I mean eventually you start to get a hang of it if you really put in effort and I believe in a lot of cases that learning curve is what will stop a lot of users from joining here. But if that hurdle is crossed a lot of people will eventually move here.

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Strangian 2 points 3 years ago

Personally I think it only seems confusing and overwhelming because everyone is saying that is. If someone can understand email, then they should be able to understand Lemmy

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knobbysideup 22 points 3 years ago

Is me! Dig it so far!

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Da_Boom 26 points 3 years ago

You Dugg it

I Reddited it

Now we lem it.

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derpo 9 points 3 years ago

I keep following the refugees. I guess I really am a lemming

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TechGoat 21 points 3 years ago

Oh god I finally was able to log in, 2 days after I thought I failed to make an account because none of the emails went through.

I wish there was some sort of way that I could send CPU power or bandwidth, tor style, to these new decentralized platforms. I totally get that they're having growing pains, and I also get that part of the tradeoff of decentralization is "well, who pays the hosting bills then?"

I'd love to put a percentage of my bandwidth and home server (or even AWS instance) CPU resources towards running an encrypted Lemmy.world instance. I don't want to just run my own barren, empty server like what the Federated system would let me do; I don't feel like that would actually have any benefit to making a reddit-replacement since why would anyone use my instance? No, I specifically want to dedicate resources to helping the popular instances, be able to run.

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plumbercraic 15 points 3 years ago

Holy crap these upvote numbers are something new. Thanks spez 😅

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MangoPenguin 5 points 3 years ago

To be fair you're on the most popular instance, the nice thing about federated stuff is you can join a smaller instance that's not overloaded, and still have access the same content.

I wish they did a better job of explaining that on the lemmy site haha

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thoughtorgan 3 points 3 years ago

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MangoPenguin 2 points 3 years ago

That depends, if you subscribe to a community on another instance, as I understand it the only thing you would be accessing remotely is image uploads, text posts and all the other UI stuff is coming directly from your instance.

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TechGoat 1 point 3 years ago

Big if True. Cool if True! I think I need a, um /c/explainlikeimfive (this sublem probably hasn't been made yet, or maybe not... it's the goddamn wild west out here) of how all these federated stuff actually works and if what you're describing actually would lessen the load on lemmy's servers. I work with servers hardware shit but web server software is magical to me.

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dragonflyteaparty 2 points 3 years ago

I wish they did, too. I thought it was different content for each instance.

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puppy 3 points 3 years ago

Take the money that you would've spend on AWS and donate it to lemmy.world. That would be the best solution IMO.

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imugetsu 21 points 3 years ago

I have a feeling that the user of lemmy gonna be called lemmyin (lemmy in) just like how reddit and their users are redditor

Lemmyin this train. We're leaving reddit!!!!

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troyunrau 21 points 3 years ago

I think "lemmings" or "lemons" are going to be the final winners of that race.

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fsxylo 6 points 3 years ago

🍋!

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mah 6 points 3 years ago

I love being a lemon

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Zoot 2 points 3 years ago

Just dont let it go to your head and become a lemon stealing whore

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mah 1 point 3 years ago

lemon for 2 dollars

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ramplay 1 point 3 years ago

Lemmonist?

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Phreak 6 points 3 years ago

I just wish I knew how to make a top level comment on Jerboa

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ramplay 1 point 3 years ago

The same way you made this comment? The same button is on the main post at the top

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slowcurrent 4 points 3 years ago

Lemmyngs

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clementineholic 2 points 3 years ago

I like Fedditor because Lemmy is a reddit-esque link aggregator on the Fediverse.

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PatFussy -1 points 3 years ago

Lemur

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hmcd 19 points 3 years ago

I had my wife sign up yesterday as a daily reddit user and average tech skills. Based on that experience, I really don't think lemmy is going to go mainstream in its current form.

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reddwarf 10 points 3 years ago

I agree. Had the same thought. Right now I think the influx will be tech savvy users fleeing reddit and have no big problems understanding Lemmy.

However, there will be (I hope!) a larger influx of 'normal' users wanting to check Lemmy out (my theory is that all the content creators are ending up here and the lurkers will start to follow content in the end) will have a hard time. Why bother them with instances or how you pick communities, how the fediverse works? Just allow people to sign-up, no forcing to choose server, one account only, deal with that login/create account when you end up on different servers, etc. Just make the initial access a smooth pane of glass. Later they can deep-dive in the tech if the so choose to. Just stop throwing tech into peoples faces, it really is as simple as that. Like someone else stated, if I drive a car I should not have knowledge about my engine, model/type of crankshaft, timing of the belt, etc. I have a garage for that sort of thing and I will not be bothered with details (unless I ask the mechanic of course).

I said this before and it seems that the 'core' or 'old skool' Lemmy users have issues with that, you should have to know the tech if you want to join.
I hope this will not be a typical open source/low level attitude of admins and tech savvy people where people are just lost in that tech maze. Whatever you need to run in the background, do whatever, just give me an alternative to reddit. This is not me speaking but I fear the average emigrating reddit user will want this simpleness. And why not give it to them, why force people to understand fediverse?

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Nath 9 points 3 years ago

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Varixable 2 points 3 years ago

People follow the path of least resistance and right now signing up to reddit is still that. Give a link to 1 of 10 or so general lemmy instances at the home page, let people sign up and explore. Offer a few links to some deeper understanding stuff for those who want it.

The couple of people I've tried to get to migrate get hit with what they feel is a wall of text trying to understand what the fediverse is, and they're just straight up not interested in investing any time in this when they can still just easily log into reddit and be on their* way.

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reddwarf 2 points 3 years ago

Yep, true. I have all faith in the community to upend reddit in record speed. The awesomeness of the internet and it flowing where it will flow is just too good. Today someone pointed me to this proxy to transform an instance into a reddit UI.

https://lemmy.bolha.one/vlemmy.net/
(replace vlemmy.net with another instance to achieve the same)

This is why I like the internet so, so much. In the end, it will find a way :-)

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nerdblood 7 points 3 years ago

It's basically the same premise. Link aggregator with a forum attached, where upvoted content rises to the top. She doesn't need to know how instances work in order to use it in the same way that she doesn't need to be a mechanic in order to drive her car.

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Trapping5341 3 points 3 years ago

To an extent yes but when you follow a link to a different instance and try to log in with your account you can't. You have to get to that instance in the correct way to interact with it from what I understand.

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MaxMouseOCX 1 point 3 years ago

Agreed, a lot of what makes it cool for some, makes others uncomfortable, a client that abstracts a lot of the distributed nature of the service away would be more attractive to some.

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Tom2day 19 points 3 years ago

I was told there would be a refuge omelet bar!

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abbadon420 9 points 3 years ago

The omelet bar is a lie

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Imotali 2 points 3 years ago

At least it wasn't the cake.

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c0mbatbag3l 2 points 3 years ago

That one wasn't a lie, but the "diet" label sure was!

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ScaNtuRd 18 points 3 years ago

New from Reddit today. This is my first comment. Hello Lemmy!

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SummitGnome 4 points 3 years ago

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ScaNtuRd 1 point 3 years ago

Thank you!

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Desso 16 points 3 years ago

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

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OctopusKurwa 13 points 3 years ago

I imagine Lemm.ee is bursting at the seams by now

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habaneroanalbeads 13 points 3 years ago

I don't speak on behalf of everyone, but we prefer the term r/efugees

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TIEPilot 1 point 3 years ago

Ef U (reddit) Gees

Love it!

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Entheon 13 points 3 years ago

This works a lot better than I thought it would lol

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someuser 13 points 3 years ago

That was literally was me as I tried to make an account for 36 hours

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Martorias 12 points 3 years ago

You earned my first upvote, or whatever it's called here. Bravo!

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stebo02 4 points 3 years ago

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S3verin 12 points 3 years ago

I feel exposed.

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Bimbus 5 points 3 years ago

Same... :D

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BigJim 11 points 3 years ago

stumbles in from reddit and throws up racist memes all over the floor

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BabyJolly 9 points 3 years ago

This was the perfect post!!

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PillowTalk420 9 points 3 years ago

How long has Lemmy actually been around? I only even heard about it because of the Reddit shit, and I had been actively looking for a replacement for almost 2 years.

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notsofunnycomment 10 points 3 years ago

Initial release: May 5, 2019.

Better late than never!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)

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stebo02 5 points 3 years ago

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notsofunnycomment 3 points 3 years ago

Well, what is new is the scale. In that sense we're only at the beginning!

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mah 3 points 3 years ago

Atleast there is more content in the fediverse now!

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Buntilda 8 points 3 years ago

I FINALLY managed to make an account after 4 days of lurking limbo! Hi guys!

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camus 7 points 3 years ago

It's me!

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herbh 6 points 3 years ago

After 16+ years on Reddit, I deleted my comments and posts and then my account. Did the same with Twitter. A little sad but also liberating.

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lemmein 6 points 3 years ago

Lemmein!!

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randomwither 6 points 3 years ago

Me trying to figure out which damn app I can use that won't crash.

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DrSanta 4 points 3 years ago

Love how varied and even a little contradictory all the responses are.

Probably isn't very helpful.

I use Connect and Liftoff. Connect feels a bit more refined but prefer Liftoff's comment styling.

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lennster 3 points 3 years ago

Connect for lemmy going strong on my Samsung s6, love the AMOLED theme, UI feels similar to infinity from which I migrated

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Imgonnatrythis 2 points 3 years ago

Using connect from RIF and pretty smooth.

Issue isn't so much the viewer / interface. Easy enough to adapt or as others have mentioned looks like there is a flood of options coming. The real issue is content. Lemmy is a vertible desert. Most posts on Lemmy are about Lemmy. We need sub migration or this bombs. Instead of reddit mods posting pictures of John Oliver and telling themselves they are revolutionaries, they need to pack the hell up and encourage user base to move here. Can you imagine the smug grin on Spez's face when people are channeling their creative energy to post hand painted John Oliver artwork and Spez memes to his servers? He could give two shits if all of reddit was AI Spez nudes if traffic is up. Leaving and NOT CRAWLING BACK is the only thing truly impactful. If you're reading this you are least starting to solve the problem.

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ramplay 3 points 3 years ago

Android? Jerboa has been working flawlessly on my pixel 5.

Will be checking out Boost for Lemmy too once whenever that gets released

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jennwiththesea 2 points 3 years ago

I switched to Liftoff after Jerboa had issues working on lemmy.world for a bit. Loving Liftoff! Little difficult to find in the app store, so search by name.

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thoughtorgan 2 points 3 years ago

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beppi 1 point 3 years ago

I've been using Thunder, very sleek app for android and ios

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lolreconlol 5 points 3 years ago

Enjoying Lemmy so far! Hoping the communities fill out a bit. Need my communities for IASIP and Walking Dead 🥺

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Matdan 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah, I'm still torn between the old subs and lemmy. Most communities aren't active or created here yet.

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Corey1031d 3 points 3 years ago

I miss r/SquaredCircle so much. I think I've found everything else here though.

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DrSanta 1 point 3 years ago

I'd be down to participate in some old school wrestling talk. I'm not privy on the newer stuff.

70s-mid 2000s my thing.

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DrSanta 1 point 3 years ago

I find it interesting.

Hoping the constant timeouts get resolved. I imagine more users will create server problems though.

I don't think any Lemmy host is making money.

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tobier 4 points 3 years ago

My biggest problem so far is that reddit.com is entered automatically by muscle memory. I need to rewire my brain, or redirect reddit.com to lemmy.world in the router.

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MaxMouseOCX 4 points 3 years ago

You can edit your hosts file so that if you type in reddit.com it just provides lemmy.world's IP address and connects to that instead.

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Imgonnatrythis 3 points 3 years ago

You can also do this to some websites on your coworkers computers with hilarious results

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Morcyphr 1 point 3 years ago

Maybe block it on your router?

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SummitGnome 4 points 3 years ago

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kuro_neko 5 points 3 years ago

Connect dev here, glad you're enjoying it! In the instance about page there is now a list of popular communities as well :)

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Francis_Fujiwara 4 points 3 years ago

LMAO

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sponge9041 3 points 3 years ago

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ConsciousLochNess 3 points 3 years ago

Made an account on sh.itjust.works now and the performance is so much better. Federation is so awesome.

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desmosthenes 3 points 3 years ago

lolol def feel a little homeless

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loudWaterEnjoyer 3 points 3 years ago

Do you have some change?

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riesendulli 3 points 3 years ago

Yup. Need to fix the itch. Using wefwef to imitate Apollo App

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arnoid 3 points 3 years ago

😂😂😂

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Squiglet 2 points 3 years ago

theres hope

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Squiglet 2 points 3 years ago

theres hope

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SiteOtoxiCity 2 points 3 years ago

Hey guys! This is my very first comment ever on the Fediverse. I'm still not 100% sure how this all works. My tech-savvy brother tried explaining it to me, and I think it's like a collection of sites, each with their own collection of subs, all connected through one account, so you have the ability to cross-platforms seamlessly. I'm so happy to finally hop on this lemmingrush like everyone else! :) Hi everyone!

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Buntilda 2 points 3 years ago

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DitmerKlerkin 2 points 3 years ago

I am refugee no idea what’s going on yet but it feels right.

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MangoForEver 2 points 3 years ago

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xigbar 2 points 3 years ago

The memes are already better than reddit’s daily meme reposts

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Tekchip 1 point 3 years ago

Well...damn... https://domains.google.com/registrar/search/whois/lemmy.in?hl=en&searchTerm=lemmy.in

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WaveThrash 1 point 3 years ago

The narwhal has been baconed, I'm ready for the reddit switcheroo to lemmy

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BrudderAaron 1 point 3 years ago

Ah, the old Lemmy switcheroo!

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Getawombatupya 1 point 3 years ago

Hold my narwhal, I'm going in...

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Xylight 1 point 3 years ago

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Xylight 1 point 3 years ago

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Johanno 1 point 3 years ago

So a few months in I can see now lemmy is a great alternative to reddit, but most people are still on reddit and u/spez was right. The uproar is gone by and everybody just lives with a shitty reddit app now and api is now paid.

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spokendotcpp 1 point 3 years ago

Haha :D

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mah 1 point 3 years ago

LEMMY IN LEMMY MAKE AN ACCOUNT LEMMY BEEHAWWAAAAA

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Squiglet 1 point 3 years ago

theres hope