Ive been on reddit for more than a decade. Kinda bittersweet, but its not the first time I have moved on from an internet site. I just cant support reddit and sucking up all my posts for AI purposes. Feels terrible and spammy. Ive been a reddit premium holder for many many years.
Anyways, what communities do you recommend?
I just want to say that creating a precedent of not allowing AI models to train on free content essentially means that when the models get cheap enough for average joes to train their own, average joes won’t be able to.
We’ll have to use the models owned by huge corporations with deep pockets, because those will be the only legal ones.
Maybe I just haven’t had enough coffee yet, but I’m having a hard time determining which side you’re on. Are you saying it’s good that reddit is doing this?
I see myself as advocating for one set of ideas out of a sea of ideas and an ocean of such sets. Sides are for basketball games.
Generally speaking, I’m a libertarian but to me the word is about liberty not lack of responsibility.
I’ll take:
- UBI
- Free drugs
- Corporations competing with one another to provide basic necessities
- Personhood granted liberally. When it doubt, give it rights
- AI being trained on copyrighted material
- AI or its owner being taken to task when the AI publishes copyrighted material verbatim without attribution
- A free market specifically because freedom allows the little guy to get ahead before the big guy builds the mechanism to keep him down
- Simple government
- Red commits
Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.
Reddit’s deal is about locking content away from trawlers until they pay for it. Here, it’s free for all of them. They can even set up their own servers and the fediverse will deliver it to them in real time.
Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.
Yeah that’s the thing, part of the reason why I’m so confused. Reddit can literally just crawl any posts on Lemmy, it’s exactly the same in that sense. Public is public, after all.
That’s a sort of realpolitik view of the web, based on using tech and engineering convention to control information flow on the web.
But the web standards we’ve used to regulate things aren’t in agreement with the new legal framework people are trying to implement, and if we allow them to make their legal argument unopposed, they will add new layers to the tech to change web standard behavior into dystopian centrally controlled network behavior.
I agree the web is an open platform, and I agree that copyright law is clear. But these people are not operating on trying to follow existing rules. They’re trying to create new rules, and they have the power to do so.
And no, they do not RTFM . They think a greenfield rewrite is the best move for society, because they have zero respect for the engineering decisions of yesterday, not for the challenge or the value of maintaining existing systems.
Try the Lemmyverse community search and use whatever keywords you are interested in. Subscribe to a bunch of communities and see if that brings interesting stuff to your front page. If you notice you’re seeing uninteresting stuff from certain communities, unsubscribe to those and keep on refining.
Also, if you’re interested in unexpected factorials, here’s the community for you.
!unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz
It’s still pretty small and quiet, but anyone is welcome to post their factorial observations there.
Can we get a bit more info on your likes and interests? What subreddits did you subscribe to? I’m happy to recommend some but since I enjoy things like !metalmemes@lemmy.world that have dependencies such as being a metal fan, knowing a bit more about what you’re looking for will help.
But regardless, welcome aboard and I hope you like Star Trek and Linux references!
As someone who mostly left behind a 13 y/o reddit account with a ton karma when the api nonsense happened, the fuck is reddit premium?
You’ve never heard of Reddit Premium in 13 years? It’s the paid account that got rid of the ads and used to give you a few hundred coins per month. It was like $60/year.
I thought reddit gold was the paid account. I haven’t heard of these coins either.
And what is this AI news ?
Welcome to Lemmy!
I found that a large number of communities have been named after popular, and less popular, subreddits. So I found them easy to find. There was an old r/Redditalternatives post that has a decent range of communities to start out, which I’ve copied below. It is similar to the default subreddits.:
*Note:*The “World” hyperlink takes you to the Lemmy.World communitiy.
General
- Asklemmy (ee, world)
- Showerthoughts (ee, world)
- General discussions (ee, world)
- Mildly Infuriating (ee, world)
- You Should Know (ee, world)
- No Stupid Questions (ee, world)
- Mildly Interesting (ee, world)
- Memes (ee, world)
- Lemmy Shitpost (ee, world)
- Videos (ee, world)
News/Politics
Pets and such
Gaming
TV and Music
Pics and Art
Technology and Science
- Technology (ee, world)
- Science (ee, world)
- Fediverse (ee, world)
- Android (ee, world)
- Hardware (ee, world)
- Privacy Guides (ee, world)
Sports
Others
Also a little plug for !microblog_memes@lemmy.world which is our WhitePeopleTwitter replacement.
Thanks for this! I’ve been here since the 3rd party app shutdown and this is great!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !showerthoughts@lemmy.world, !general@lemmy.world, !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world, !youshouldknow@lemmy.world, !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world, !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world, !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world, !videos@lemmy.world, !world@lemmy.world, !aww@lemmy.world, !cat@lemmy.world, !retrogaming@lemmy.world, !nintendo@lemmy.world, !music@lemmy.world, !pics@lemmy.world, !digitalart@lemmy.world, !mobilewallpaper@lemmy.world, !wallpapers@lemmy.world, !technology@lemmy.world, !science@lemmy.world, !fediverse@lemmy.world, !football@lemmy.world, !nba@lemmy.world, !nfl@lemmy.world, !foodporn@lemmy.world, !3dprinting@lemmy.world
lmao
Easy there bot, don’t hurt yourself.
I would actually recommend !anime@ani.social instead. The admins of lemmy.ml are weirdly hostile towards anime, but ani.social is an anime-specific instance.
I’m kind of new here too, why do all these communities have both a lemmy.ee and lemmy.world version? Is it just that someone happened to set them up on both instances so now there’s two, or is there some kind of crosspost/mirroring going on?
What a saint!
Oh, by the way: If you’re a fan of the classic “Old.reddit.com” look, the Programming.Dev instance has an identical interface: https://old.programming.dev/?sort=Hot&listingType=All .
It’s federated with Lemmy.World so all the same posts will appear. I’m partial to that on Desktop browser, and stick with https://p.lemmy.world for mobile.
It works on .world as well!
The only thing that is unfortunate about the old.lemmy.world site is that the block feature is broke. I try to curate my All feed by blocking spammers and communities I am not interested in, but nothing happens when you click the Block button on any post.
Interesting, I tried a simple test with a user and it worked fine, blocked them on the first attempt. I actually had difficulty unblocking them later, though, I don’t think it “stuck” and had to refresh and/or navigate to a different page, and then unblock them and it worked
/shrug
Sweet! I didn’t know about Old.lemmy.world. Thanks so much!
Oh thats great thanks! Ill def be using that.
Yeah both lemmy.world and us have the same alternate frontends at the same subdomains (apart from voyager in which they went for m for mobile and we did v for voyager)
Links for all four of them
- Photon (p.) - world | programming.dev
- Alexandrite (a.) - world | programming.dev
- Voyager (m. and v.) world | programming.dev
- Mlmym (old.) world | programming.dev
These front ends already added a lot of value for me than Reddit when using the desktop site.
@AGD4 great list!
@mesamunefire once you get your head around how to use urls from your instance, another useful directory is the Kbin Collections - like multireddits.
These are basically multis that Kbin users curated and made public so that others from kbin can subscribe to them, but since it lists all the communities you can manually add what you want in your lemmy.world account.
Welcome fellow ex-pat
What subs did you like and maybe we can help find substitutions.
One thing to note is that anything you do on the fediverse is visible in the activitypub so be mindful of that if there’s aspects of your online identity you want to keep private.
Not that it’s less secure than putting everything on Reddit but what you “like”/“upvote” and dislike/downvote show in the activity log even if your client/site doesn’t necessarily show it.
For me it’s no big deal but thought I’d just add the caveat.
So what kind of stuff do you like/looking for?
If you like star trek you’re in luck as there’s
I like 3d printing so there’s
I bailed around 8 months ago, I felt the same way and that was only 3 years into it. I block a lot of news type communities in all You’ll notice some communities are similar/same as it is the local vs all of lemmy instances
!memes@lemmy.ml !asklemmy@lemmy.world !privacy@lemmy.ml !retrogaming@lemmy.world !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world (prequelmemes is small here mostly not active) !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world !lotrmemes@midwest.social !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
I will say star trek is more popular here and its pretty good !risa@startrek.website
Fediverse postings are probably also being used for AI training. Just so you won’t be too shocked when it eventually comes out in the future.
Sure, but it hits different when there is a company of ill-repute specifically profiting off of your data acting as the broker.
It depends on how much content you’re looking for. You can’t get the “infinite scroll” like you could on reddit, the user base just isn’t there. The closest you can get is browsing all, but it’s still limited. Search for communities based on your interests and then follow the communities that seem most active, as there will likely be duplicates. I left reddit last year when they killed the apps. I will say two things about my transition to lemmy: One, the content I do get is more tailored and specific. Two, I spend less time attached to my phone because new content isn’t pouring in by the second. I view these as positives.
Welcome!
See this post on !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca for a guide how to find communities / resources that help
https://lemmy.ca/post/11285664
I recommend subscribing to more things that you might have on Reddit, and hunting around on the pages linked above for stuff related to your interests
Aside from the general recommendations, I’ve had the most fun finding stuff I’m into and posting/commenting to build a little momentum in the communities.
Most recently I’ve been into chess, so I’ve been fairly active in !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz and !chess@lemmy.ml
Did you remember to delete all you posts and comments before deleting your account? Because fuck Reddit!
Why? Unless you’re in a few location in the world, they won’t actually delete your valuable data.
Deleting your account only deletes your username from posts and comments. Why leave behind useful content?
Fuck Reddit!
But they would keep that information behind the scenes and only display [deleted] or whatever it said.
You’re missing the point.
No you’re missing the point, unless you live in a location that has laws to force companies to actually delete your data, they won’t actually delete it and thus deleting your account will achieve nothing.
No one gives a shit if Reddit stores your posts in the background, hidden from the front-end, it’s about removing useful content from the public.
Thus… Deleting all your posts and comments before deleting your account.
- Sort by new
- Subscribe to stuff
I prefer to sort by either hot or active, then I sort by New once I’ve run through everything. But you do you.
Agree, I start my day on active, but once I’ve seen all those I do top six hours, then new.
I start with hot, then go backwards through those. I like to start general and then go granular.
- Block stuff you don’t want to see. I block porn, sports & country specific ones that I do not speak the language.
Just hide NSFW content. 98% of that is porn.
Just switch between all and subscribed, and subscribe to communities you like. It won’t be long before you have a decently curated subscribed list.
Don’t be afraid to block communities so they don’t show up in All.
You should expect things to work more like the early Reddit days when there weren’t a lot of subreddits.
I’ve found a few cool ones looking at trending.
This is pretty good advice. Also, by “early Reddit days“ they mean 18 years ago, “early Reddit days,” not, “when you were new to Reddit.“
That’s how I did it. Many of the Reddit subs have counterparts here.
I want to stress that you are expected to block communities you’re not interested in.
There’s no content curation between instances (an instance is like a niche mini-reddit, but seamlessly connected to this one), so you will end up with US Politics next to Furry porn, next to Star Trek memes, next to NZ local news, next to sports statistics, next to AI Porn, unless you start blocking.
Upside is you can get great science content, AND local news, AND your favorite porn, AND your brand of shitpost/memes in your feed/subscriptions without any hassle.
I started an alt account on here for the porn subs and went to a porn specific instance, and my god, that was a lot of blocking, almost not worth the effort compared to what I have on my Reddit porn account.
My biggest peeve is people who start many dozens of porn starlet comms with a handful of posts, or celebrity stalking comms with a handful of posts, or the myriad US sports teams fed by some bot.
I wish there was a way to just block whole categories of comms, now I’ve had to resort to blocking the user starting them, which seems like overkill.
There are tons of moe-related anime communities that annoy the hell out of me. It’s insane and stupid af.
My biggest pet peeve is when an up and coming thot takes one pic and spams it everywhere.
I end up blocking a ton of content creators as a result of that. I don’t need to see your same exact pic in 20 different communities.
My biggest pet peeve is that i don’t know what a pet peeve is.
So. Much. Furry. Porn.
I e basically gotten to a point where my subscriptions make up such a long list of things I’m even tangentially interested in that I don’t even browse all anymore. I locked so much of the furry porn, but maybe opening all of the communities to block them manually made my feed think I was into it?
There’s no algorithm feeding you content on Lemmy, which I think most of its denizens regard as a good thing. I certainly do. You’ve got to self-curate! Of course, some of the curation occurs at the instance level, with admins defederating other instances. But you’re free to make accounts on any number of instances, or even host your own! I think Lemmy’s really grown on me.
And yeah, there’s lots of furry porn, if you’re into that.
It’s almost all on a couple instances. I don’t remember if lemmy supports instance blocking yet, but several apps do, so it’s a lot easier to block that way.
Lemmy supports instance blocking as of version 0.19. Some clients also support instance blocking for pre-0.19 instances.
My client is just set to not display nsfw posts. I never see it and I’ve blocked very few communities.
Lemmy doesn’t cater the All feed to you like other major social media platforms - it doesn’t take into account which posts you open, which posts you upvote, etc.
To add to this, block users too. The community is so small here that you start to recognise names of annoying people and trolls. I’m all for a robust discussion, but if I know someone is always going to argue in bad faith or they’re literally here just to stir shit, it’s just easier to block them. Didn’t really work with Reddit, but here it’s got a decent impact.
Unless yee be thee knights who shan’t let the filth slide 🫡 not without a fair comment back.
It’s not everybody’s job!
But if your mental health can take it, not blocking anybody should make this place more inviting to others, especially new users. (Quick example would be a news story about a politician where there are only a few top level comments which all miss the mark. If I see them, I can call them out, which means a newcomer perusing the comments Is more likely to think Lemmy a place for high-quality discourse.)
Like I said, it’s repeat offenders that I block. I’m not blocking everyone I disagree with our anything like that. There’s some edgelord Reddit behaviour occasionally and I’d prefer that stayed back there.
I’ve blocked so many users who ONLY post negative news stories. And porn.
I use different sites for those, tyvm.
I’m not gonna name names, but imo Lemmy already has a couple of its own Gallowboob-types who just mass repost any and every shitty meme they see to multiple communities, and have already gotten high off their minimal Lemmy-celebrity status. I get Lemmy needs content, but personally I have no interest in seeing Lemmy just because a place for Reddit hand-me-down memes. So yeah, there are definitely a few users that blocking them will significantly improve your Lemmy experience.
Just to piggy back you can also block entire instances, which becomes more useful when using discovery sorts like scaled. Like if the entire instance is in a language you don’t speak, block that shit!
I can block from all? … thats great news!
I’d recommend filtering by all instances (servers) and see which ones show up, which is kind of like r/all. Just a word of warning that everyone and their dog seems to have a NSFW community with three niche images that make you wonder how that’s even a thing.
