I described it as “Mastodon’s Reddit”. Which is inaccurate, and I’m not happy with it. How would you phrase it?
Reddit for nerds and political extremists.
A collection of message boards.
Reddit in slow-motion.
Reddit with a slightly more community centred ownership structure so it’s a bit harder to enforce unpopular decisions.
Many parallel reddit-like services which can interact with each others’ content if they choose to allow it.
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 don’t even know what Lemmy is but I use it.
“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.”
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.
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.
Reddit12 years sgo
Don’t talk about the fediverse with undesirables. /S
A bunch of smaller Reddits all combined together, without karma, and more tech-focused content.
I’ve learned it’s a mistake to try to describe the fediverse to people. It’s right up there with getting them to care about privacy
I’d just describe it as Reddit, but less bots. Or reddit but less toxic. Just focus on what might draw them in and send them a link to lemmy.world or whatever home server you think they’d like
“less toxic” can be interpreted in different ways. For example, I don’t always find people on Lemmy to be more open-minded across tribal boundaries. But you can perhaps find your tribe and experience less toxicity that way?
Its like reddit without the content and with silly keyboard warriors. But at least not big tech. :)
Ive been here two years and have made 5500 comments so I guess im quite an active user of this place. Its not too bad. But absolutely an huge echo chamber.
