We out here shilling for Big Lemmy
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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Not a huge surprise that one of the largest reddit replacements gets suggested frequently is it?
In their defense, for someone who has never heard of Lemmy/the fediverse, it's reasonable for them to be cautious. So many other platforms are VC funded, do guerilla marketing, have hidden agendas, etc. It's especially bad on Reddit with all the AI astroturfing now.
I've seen a bit of that in the Canadian reddit comms, where new users are initially concerned that they're joining another american tech startup's platform. Once they learn how the network works, how the software is open source, and (specific to lemmy.ca) that the site is managed by a non-profit and the servers are in Vancouver, they're more excited about it :)
Fair point. Good to see Canadian people being excited about Lemmy.ca!
Don't forget about sh.itjust.works! But yeah it's nice to see some strong Canadian representation. And it's nice to see that Lemmy is slightly less US-centric than reddit.
I would even go beyond that, there's only one top 20 server hosted in the US, and it's not obviously US-centric (programming.dev)
The general atmosphere here is, though. There’s still lots of US defaultism over here.
I'll never understand why !politics@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world are US-specific when LW is a European instance
It would be interesting to see a geographic breakdown of the Lemmy population.
Maybe, but at least some folks have less of it. Me, for example. On Reddit, I generally assumed most folks were from the US, or bots. On here, I generally assume folks are equally--if not more--likely to be from a country in Europe, or Canada. I also see way more German representation here than I did on Reddit.
(I think Canadian representation really expanded a lot, and European too, after Trump got elected and Reddit started sucking elon’s dick)
Now that you mention it, it has been a lot better lately. That seems likely given the explosion of Boycott US and Buy European communities lately. It has definitely improved since six months ago when US election discussion was shoehorned into every comment section.
Less than Reddit, but still a fuckload.
I mean I guess the people who spend their times on english speaking internet forums has a large chunk americans, you know, given the US population is 300+ million, while Canada, Australia, New Zeland, Ireland and Britain don’t even make half the US population when added together.
Most of Europeans speak English even if they're not from the UK, Ireland or Malta
I think either these people just aren't aware or don't understand that the biggest alternative will be suggested more, or they're arguing in bad faith because they want to prevent people from leaving Reddit, something that is not at all uncommon on that sub, unfortunately.
That top comment is the exact same feeling I have
I like Lemmy well enough, it’s just a way smaller community; maybe I’m not spreading myself around enough over there, but I’ll close the app, check back in three hours later and still see many of the same posts in my feed - stuff just doesn’t seem to cycle through as fast over there.
I changed my feed by default from active to hot and that seems to have increased the amount of new posts cycling through but yeah, at the moment the sheer volume of content just isn't here
But at the same time every minute on Lemmy is a minute less on Reddit so I'll continue to support it
just got shadowbanned for a simple comment removal to responding to someones joke, and the mods thought my comment wasnt a joke. and reddits filter autoshadown bans now. i went on shadowban sub, and alot of people are getting shadownbanned as soon as they create an account.
Is it weird that I view a finite amount of content as a feature? It satisfies my desire to scroll while being a lot less addicting. Ofc if you have some niche interest you might be screwed. I never used reddit much in the first place and never made an account over there so I might be an outlier.
Same. I have a hard time not pulling that slot machine wheel if it's there. It's nice to have a feed of just the topics I requested from the communities I know are well moderated. Despite spending less time and consuming less content I actually feel more informed.
Hide read posts setting. It helps
Just for context, aussie.zone suffers from a 4 days delay with LW, which probably doesn't help: https://aussie.zone/post/18681158
Some day LW will enable parallel sending lol, hopefully soon. I'm really curious how much it will help.
Let's wait and see, but it doesn't seem like it will be that soon
What are they doing, sending data by schooner?
The details are in the linked post
Better safe than sorry
I usually just stick with subscribed/scaled, but personally I view not being flooded with low quality content as a feature.
Subscribed/Scaled is my go-to, and then switching sort to New Comments if I'm bored and looking for active discussions.
But to get a good Subscribed feed going you have to really scour !newcommunities@lemmy.world !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl for a while.
I love the discussions on Lemmy. They feel much more meaningfull than on reddit. Reddits top comments are always some dumbass meme or one liner. Then the people who actually have good arguments are being downvoted for being wrong (and hidden).
I also love (but perhaps that is a voyager app thing) that downvoted comments on lemmy aren't hidden by default.
No matter if someone disagrees with you or views things differently, you should always allow them to express their opinion. Sticking your head in the sand isn't good for anyone.
I'm also on aussie.zone and All with Top 6h seems to cycle pretty decent. And if I run out of stuff I switch to All Active.
Top 6h represent!!!!!
I usually switch between Subscribed/Hot, Subscribed/Top 24 and All/Scaled, All/Hot and All/New, for a mix of what is the "talk of the town", and discovering new communities and content. I think that there is actually a lot more content already, than what people may think at first glance.
I'm an All/Top (6 hours) junkie.
redditors and accusations of botting go hand in hand
half or reddit is bots anyways. and they are only targeting the lowest hanging fruits.
They should probably just stay on Reddit then
That looks like a healthier discussion than I would have feared below the post.
Like it or not, Lemmy/Piefed/MBin are the best replacement for a reddit-like experience, the other alternatives I have seen suggested have even more problems with active user count, or are much more specific and not aiming to be like reddit at all (e.g. Hackernews)
We're enthusiastic. Very enthusiastic.
Where's the love for piefed bots? I'm ~~god's~~ rimu's strongest soldier
Does piefed have any apps yet?
There's https://codeberg.org/freamon/pferd, https://github.com/jwr1/interstellar for now
Soon, there [might] be voyager and tesseract support.
Piefed is awesome 😎
fedipiebros rise up :muscle: (i dont have an emoji picker installed yet :^c)
I am still sad, that, in another universe, past me probably said "Who cares that Piefed has worse documentation at the moment, just go with anyway", when setting up my server. But without prior hosting experience, I went with the more established Lemmy, even though PieFed is literally just better concerning its features.
It's an amazing feat, hosting a service like this, so I like to think this 'other' self would deserve to feel proud of themselves irregardless of the compromises they've had to make. Although I would love to hear how you managed to bridge that trouble yourself.
I for one, certainly haven't been brave enough to host anything like this ;p.
It couldn’t possibly be that the platform is good!
Right? What about kbin? Are there any other Reddit-like sites?
Mbin and Piefed
Ironic considering there's bot accounts right in the comments under that post at the bottom. Fairly obvious too, like who tf even calls people "commies" lmao, McCarthy characterAI sounding ass, it ain't the 1980s anymore.