because there’s less conspiracy here compared to Reddit
We are Lemmy, we were on Reddit.
Eh, I’d rather say we are on the fediverse. Lemmy is just the app that some of us use to access the fediverse, but there are many others.
We are Lemmy, resistance is futile.
You will be elemmynated
If I can resist Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok (of which I have never had an account, don’t have, and probably won’t have on any of those 3), I can resist Lemmy.
Took me a second to understand, but yeah that’s a great way to put it
mods can suck, admins can suck, but you can go off and start your own instance, with blackjack and hookers.
I also like that I can see that someone is posting from hexbear, and I can disregard their comment. It saves time.
Yeah the instancing makes malicious users much harder to come by, and easy to his for sure.
Same reason I joined here, plus most users on Reddit are just bots at least in here you can tell who’s a bot and who’s real and you can tell which comments to agree or disagree with and which to ignore based on the instance lol, it’s way easier and friendlier here tbh I was banned for violent comments on Reddit mainly because the hive mind there are mostly removed but in here I can say Fuck Reddit, it was good once before the coronavirus now it’s just a piece of shit.
It would not surprise me to find out 50%+ of Reddit activity is bots at this point
I was using my phone to access Reddit through an app called RIF. It stopped working.
I can access Lemmy on my phone through an app called Boost. When I revisit a thread, it displays the new comments in a different color. Very very very convenient for active threads.
Am the same, Boost fan. I still lurk too much, but really enjoy the conversations.
Okay, back to lurking for me, run out of things to say.
I used Boost for Reddit, and now Boost for Lemmy.
It’s incredible how much the app is part of the experience. Same experience, completely different data source, it mostly just feels like early Reddit again, with niche subs of mere hundreds of people.
People are on average nicer here. Few loud nutjobs but overall I have mostly pleasant discussions.
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I find it super chill and for all the talk I see of people being toxic I never see it.
You can actually participate in discussions. On the popular Reddit subs, you click a thread and there are 9000+ replies already. No matter how insightful your post, no one’s gone see it.
Also less circlejerking and “that’s what she said”/“I also choose this guy’s dead wife”.
This
This (Making a point of something I hated on Reddit)
Exactly!
The A.I will see it when it’s trained on it
All the more reason not to post it in the first place.
What’s keeping AI from training on Lemmy?
Hint:
I, for one, welcome our overlords to train their AIs on one of the most left-leaning, anti-corporate and LGBT+ friendly spaces on the internet.
If the revolution the communists talk about ever comes, it’ll be with the help of our AI comrades /hj
(I don’t want them using us as training data but it’s going to happen whether we like it or not)
Can’t wait for the showdown of Facebook/Twitter LLM vs Lemmy LLM
LLeMmy be like:
- [Prompt] Please give me a recipe using leeks.
- [Output] Season some rich people with salt, pepper, wilted onions and leeks. Eat the rich with some creamy polenta.
I’m at home, sick today and that sounds delicious.
…might as well share my chicken, rice and leeks soup recipe. You won’t be eating the rich, but I’m often preparing this stuff when my family gets sick.
Ingredients:
- 300g chicken thighs and legs; separate the bones but don’t discard them, dice the meat
- 1/3 cup of rice
- 2 leeks; wash them, separate the green leaves, chop the white part thinly
- 2 carrots, peeled, grated
- 1/2 onion, peeled, diced small
- 1 clove of garlic, peeled, minced
- a piece of ginger roughly the same size as the above, peeled, minced
- 1L or so of water
- 1 teaspoon of vinegar
- salt, black pepper
- some veg oil (just a wee bit)
- Get a large pot. Add the veg oil, turn the fire to high, and use it to brown the chicken bones.
- Add garlic and ginger. Count to 10, then add the green part of the leeks (not the white!), water, vinegar, salt and pepper. Simmer it on low fire. This takes a while (like, 1h or so), but it’s worth the time, just leave the pot doing its magic.
- When the bones are coming off clean, discard the bones and the green part of the leeks. They already did their job, to flavour the broth.
- Now add the chicken meat that you’ve diced. Check if the broth needs more salt and/or pepper, adjust them as necessary. Keep cooking it under low fire until the meat is almost good to go. It shouldn’t take long, I think 20min? Not sure.
- Add rice. Keep cooking.
- When the rice is halfway cooked (like, 10min? it depends on the rice), add the onion, carrots, and white part of the leeks. Once the rice finishes cooking the vegs are probably good to go too, so serve it immediately with some bread.
that it’s (currently) much less popular than reddit.
Reddit is new facebook at this point. A friend’s mom made a reddit account to upvote cat pictures a couple of weeks ago.
I doubt her joining reddit will make it worse.
Doesn’t matter they’ve already ran out most quality content they could find and Reddit has limited who can train AI on their website.
Nothing exactly. But that’s okay, because the fediverse data is available to all, which makes it worthless, monetarily speaking. Nobody will sell your data to anyone. Any AI company could use the data to train their models, but they wouldn’t be able to sell those models since they wouldn’t be any better than an open source model. The fediverse levels the playing field and doesn’t allow the situation where Google pays reddit for AI training data.
They can still sell their services, not every company want to launch their own LLM model
Then they earn stuff on their services, not the model. Why should they harvest fediverse data? And so what if they do? Anyone can do that.
I’m just refuting your point that the data is worthless because anyone can train AI on it. It’s not worthless because although anyone can train their model on it, most companies would rather purchase the services from specialists, so all training data has value.
You gotta know how to optimize visability. I’d regularly have comments that had thousands of upvotes.
Timing is everything. I once had “most upvoted post of the day” and like 20K karma from a stupid joke that was a reply to the first top-level comment on a default sub. The only reason that happened was because it got into “rising” exactly as the US users started waking up and opening the site.
I could’ve posted the exact same comment on any other post in that thread or even the same one but at a different time, and no one would’ve seen it.
That’s very true. Timing IS everything. Its probably the most important part of getting high voted comments.
Things just don’t get buried the way they do on Reddit. On Reddit I often didn’t comment on something if it was slightly older because nobody would see my comment anyway. Here it’s a completely different story. Sometimes I still get replies after like a week.
Lemmy’s feed is 1000% better. No constant reposts, no ads, and ability to filter out read posts so it’s actually unique every day. I like it way better for news than reddit.
Reddit is better for browsing individual communities.
Still new, but:
- No (or less) hissyfit powermods
- Less strict, hopefully no stupid bans
- More privacy respecting
- More tightly knit
- Better front page, Reddit is just stale as of now
The fact that it’s not run by reddit and it has working 3rd party apps. And that’s pretty much it TBH.
It has a smaller community, which makes it easier to recognize people.
The percentage of linux users is also great.
The percentage of linux users is also great.
Yes! I don’t feel like a weirdo here for using Linux exclusively on my computers. It’s nice to interact with a community that shares the values which lead each of us to use Linux. But even within that, the users here are not only respectful, but celebrate novice users that use distros like Mint. In my experience, some Linux users can be rude by presenting a sense of superiority for using distros that take lots of technical expertise. Not only does that not seem to be the case on Lemmy, but it’s actually made fun of (I use Arch, btw 😉).
The UI.
The power mods aren’t as entrenched. The federated doesn’t encourage power modding as much (still there, just not as much).
It’s easier to block while communities here. IIRC, you have to have RES to do that on web.
