Can we all stop the in-fighting for a minute and realise how awesome the platform we are on is?
We are forming communities on the realized image of the internet that we were told we would have back in the 80s and 90s.
You can make your own home on the web and have your own niche community, not owned by any corporation, while still being connected to the wider internet.
This feels like something out of a sci-fi movie.
Fediverse is old-school internet! With some twists of course, but having new school social media in a decentralized way is great. The good & bad thing is there’s a higher filter for getting on, so people here are nerdy and techy, but most ‘normals’ might not take the time.
This place is fantastic. I’m still working on convincing my husband that it’s going to take the place of Reddit but I’ll wear him down. He thinks because a lot of the posts only have a few comments and 20 or so up votes, it’s not a valid community. I think it’s just getting started and it’s exciting to be here early.
we’re now at 500 upvotes and a custom meme!
@mindfultameprison 's husband: ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
I’m really enjoying the relative lack of content and what feels like an absence of astroturfing or bot content and votes. Way less dillholes and the interactions I see are generally meaningful and kind. I’m slowly building my subscription list of communities and can check in on top posts for the day in the morning and evening. I really felt a compulsion to read most of the posts for the day on my few favorite subreddits (mostly picture based so lots of cool shit to look at and get inspired by). I have those communities set up in an RSS feed for when I’m looking to scroll through stuff.
This may sound like a stupid question, but how do you find communities? Is there a list or anything?
This one is decent: https://browse.feddit.de/
Any community is a valid community, if there’s 20 upvotes that’s still 20 people who saw, enjoyed, and gave it some time, and that matters on the modern internet where there’s a bit more gatekeeping than usual!
I remember Reddit days when 5k upvotes was off the charts.
I remember when they switched the formatting of vote numbers, e.g., from
5,238to5.2k, and realized it’s getting mainstream (which is not bad in itself, but… there’s something with a small community).
It is not as resourceful for asking a specific technicial question, but other than that, I am actually enjoying the smaller communities. It feels a lot more civil.
It has been quite emotional to see this community grow! I was a lurker here when Lemmy only had hundreds of users and to see such a vibrant and diverse set of instances form has been wonderful! I hope to see this platform returning some of the nostalgia from the Golden Age of the Internet. An internet for fun!
There’s been infighting? Why?
What I’ve seen was Nazis doing Nazi things and some people not reacting as decidedly antifascist as other people would have liked.
Meanwhile, over on my home instance, I have been pleasantly shocked by the near absolute lack of nazis.
I, for one, welcome the lack of nazis
Ditto! Shout out to @[email protected] for helping keep our instance nazi-free
I mean, I feel like the system was built precisely to hinder nazis, provided other instances do their job.
Obviously this is going to result in a parallel nazi-lemmy just like the old web’s commonplace forum structure allowed the creation of storm front.
Also terrorist-lemmy, pedo-lemmy, and others.
The admins just need to defederate properly. You need to sign up with a server that aligns with your preferences.
Also, if lemmy takes off it will be labeled as a nazi pedo terrorist app by media and recruitment woll be heavily censored on established websites.
“bUt ThAt’S cEnSoRsHiP”
Belive it or not, straight to nazi lemmy.
We are forming communities on the realized image of the internet that we were told we would have back in the 80s and 90s.
Exactly! Back in the 80s, tech enthusiasts would run their own dial-up message boards in their homes. The Fediverse is like that, but with all the benefits of modern technology. Anyone can run their own instance if they have a decent internet connection (usually fiber). But it is more than just message boards: they can run Lemmy, Mastodon, Wordpress, and even things like Tor and NextCloud, and instantly contribute their computing resources to the larger Fediverse community.
I’m not that well read on this subject, but you can do this in your house or with a VPS? I always thought there was some conflict with residential internet and selfhosting?
@Ramin_HAL9001 @crazyminner
To add to that, it became dirt cheap to get hosting. Like under a pack of cigarettes per month cheap.
Did a little analysis over on my blog going over the shoestring methods for those interested: https://blog.lionscade.de/show/7Just wanted to say I appreciate your reference of the Dodo.
Reject modern life, return to Dodo
Cheers mate.
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I keep telling my wife how awesome the Fediverse is. She doesn’t share the same sentiment I do, but she also doesn’t care about Reddit. I’ll win her over one day.
we just need to find her brand of community and have you show her a few posts a day. Whats she into - succulents? scary stories? funny videos? CATS?
we can do this
I’m enjoying the ride. Love it here!
That’s why I like this place. Feels very old school somehow. And it’s an actual protocol, like back before everything was the same handful of companies running everything with their own BS software.
The freedom of expression is relieving and oddly something I forgot existed. There has been so much censorship and polticial correctness that it has ruined what made the old internet fun.
I would love to see Youtube be next in federation migration!
I agree.
BUT some degree of infighting means we’re alive and engaged with the platform. I think it’s healthy infighting.
Exactly. No human community exists without infighting. Infighting is not a good thing, but it is a good sign – a sign of growth.
There is a significant difference between constructive criticism and infighting. Infighting is often fueled by emotion and can be seen as toxic, harsh, and genuinely unappealing.
Constructive criticism on the other hand is a great way to provide another view point to someone who may not agree with you. It is up to them to decide on how they want to use this new perspective.
Right, but social media (and any social movement) needs to have some degree of blood-pumping excitement. Constructive criticism is super important, but so is passionate people yelling at each other. The important thing is that we’re emotionally mature enough to handle each other’s passion. If infighting leads to people crying “defederate now!” then that’s a problem. But “constructive” criticism can lead to the same fracturing.
Let’s just ride the waves and steer this thing somewhere cool and strong! And it’s fine if “infighting” is part of the engine that keeps the digital blood pumping.
It’s only infighting because we’re all members of a living community. Other wise it’s just fighting
Where’s the fighting?
No you shut up!
🥊
You taking to me? Or chewing a brick???
'Coz you gonna lose your teeth eitherway.
The fact that everything is just “working” feels great!
Apps like Jerboa have made it so seemless to transition from deaddit.
Looking forward to the upcoming features that make the communities easier to join for the layperson.
Cheers!
I’m honestly really impressed by the fact that it is just working.
In les than a month Lemmy saw an exponential growth and from my point of view it was always very smooth. It was a bit slow from time to time but knowing that all of that is just running on a bunch of servers puts together by few passionate relying on donations or just their personal resources.
