I described it as “Mastodon’s Reddit”. Which is inaccurate, and I’m not happy with it. How would you phrase it?
If you had a hundred small Reddits talking to each other like one big Reddit, oh and with fewer fascists and no ads.
What would win in a fight, a hundred Lemmy-sized Reddits or one Reddit-sized Lemmy?
I’d love to know if my enormous blocklist of instances and communities is unusual or if most people end up curating their global feeds massively to keep them interesting. Anime, porn, US-specific politics, authoritarian-friendly politics, furries, wojak-style barrel-scraping memes - I don’t want to downvote most of these just because they’re not my bag, but I suspect I end up with a tiny fraction of the total Lemmy+Piefed content.
I tend to block at the user and community level, my only instance block is feddit.de and that’s only because I don’t speak German and those folks are such prolific posters it felt like I was touring central Europe every time I’d go to the All feed.
Blocking what you’re not interested in is the second best part of Lemmy, IMO.
Reddit.
Without the cunt on top who put it down.
And there won’t ever be one, because there’s no chair for him to sit in.
Like reddit but mostly politics and no videos.
The worst part about fediverse is there is not enough users for discussions about a specific tv show or anime 😕
“Imagine a hydra with an infinite number of heads. Some of the heads are arguing, some have got their necks knotted, and some are french-kissing. One of them is wearing a pirate hat.”
It’s reddit but instead of r/ we have c/ and there are different servers, not just reddit.com, but most of them talk to each other. Also the devs are leftist authoritarians
tankies, don’t use .mlI call it “socialist Reddit” or “anti-social media”
They don’t need to know what the fediverse is. I’d tell them it’s a smaller Reddit without the many assholes and narcissistic mods.
Social media for antisocial people
Nerd reddit
Communists instead of fascists
I’m neither.
Nor I, but I’d rather have the ocassional far left twat than the facist investation that other social media platforms are suffering. Also the extremists are mostly concentrated on a few instances.
But OP asked for a “quick” description of Lemmy.
Reddit in slow-motion.
Interconnected group of reddits. Any such reddit is called a ‘instance’.
Instead of having one instance, you have multiple independent instances that can see each other’s content and post on each.
That makes them federated. Some instances filter what their users can see, others don’t. They can be self-hosted.Unlike in the OG reddit, votes are transparent, and you can see if users got banned somewhere with the reasons why.
I’ld describe it more as “reddit, but without a single company owning all the login servers. Anyone (wirh money) can make their own server and make subs on there, even have their own rules, but you can still visit other servers all on one account, so nobody really has control over all the subs to make up stupid rules for them.”
It’s the dumbed down explanation, but it’s essentially the difference for non-nerds.
News and discussion, but you start from a chosen community and work towards global connection. Also, no ads, no making you the product, and volunteer-based development and moderation.
Reddit with a slightly more community centred ownership structure so it’s a bit harder to enforce unpopular decisions.
A bunch of smaller Reddits all combined together, without karma, and more tech-focused content.
