Ready for this
I’m here to help the place grow. Let’s do it!
Probably we can thank king Trump and the magnificent 7 horseman.
Glad it is increasing.
Joined up yesterday and have been pretty happy so far. Have been looking for an alternative so i could ditch reddit since the API changes and had no idea this place existed until i saw a random thread yesterday
Welcome! We’ve got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you’ll have to post before you can leave.
We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian “communists” who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the “gold standard”), but here they’re mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .world account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
We have an entire instance dedicated to popular 1960s television show Star Trek (don’t go there)
There are dozens of us!
!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you’ll have to post before you can leave.
Keep in mind that subscribing to this community means that it’ll take over your feed.
/j, but it’s also true
In terms of sorting the “tankie triad” least bad to worst though it’s definitely: ML, Grad, then HexBear. At least I sometimes have decent interactions with people from ML, can’t say the same about the other 2 though.
Edit: Actually put this as a reply to the correct comment this time. :/
I deleted the other one as I replied to the wrong comment.
so basically a right wing propaganda/astroturf instances, no thanks had enough of that on reddit.
They’re actually mostly anarchists/communists, so left wing
^ one of the bigger Tankies around, “good posts” aka anything pro-CCP, pro-Russia, pro-NK and nothing not
Anything otherwise is considered “liberal”/Western propaganda/“CIA something or another”
Just wait till they break out the random blog links and YT videos lmao
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And you’re the biggest anti-communist “leftist” around.
NOoo TAnKiES AREN’t CoMmUNISt They’RE AuthoritArIan. Every time you say that you only show your ignorance. Read an actual book, or stop talking nonsense. Stop trying to fabricate a pacifist communism, and just admit that you are anti-communist full-stop.
- Friedrich Engels, On Authority
- Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
- V.I. Lenin, “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder
- Michael Parenti, Anticommunism & Wonderland
Stop trying to fabricate a pacifist communism
Ah ok, so if authoritarian communism is the only form of communism that exists then eroding human rights ever further in the pursuit of it is A-OK then?
Sorry, I don’t subscribe to that, I personally would love to see the fall of capitalism in my lifetime, but not at the sacrifice of basic human rights like freedom of speech and inviting even worse censorship.
Skill issue, I would simply choose liberal reforms, despite their never succeeding.
He’ll never read a book.Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
Hmm yes, century+ old books that predate the CCP coming into power by like 25 years and well before modern age concerns like the power of the internet could even be imagined
Y’all keep arguing theory with books that are incredibly dated and blog posts based on that dated info when most of us are talking about what the Chinese and Russian governments are doing today.
Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided against each other!
Welcome!
There’s a ton of good apps that use the API.
Welcome!
If you’re new, I definitely recommend checking out https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding new communities to subscribe to, rather than just browsing “all”. There are a lot of weird communities out there when you just browse “all”…
https://sub.rehab/ is also good.
Sub.rehab is super outdated and https://fediverser.network/ is easier and crowdsourced.
Thanks, hadn’t seen that one before
Block the weird communities if you dislike them so much.
Welcome!
Welcome! It’s a great, homely place that still feels a little bit like the old internet.
In addition to the already mentioned Lemmyverse, two other great ways of finding active communities are !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
still feels a little bit like the old internet.
Yes! I miss it.
The old internet never went away, not on a technical level for sure. What changed is that big corporations had dominant positions from control over user bases and then they squeezed us for profits so hard that it’s no longer worth it to use them. This process seems to have accelerated since the end of the era of easy money in 2022 which is why we’re seeing things pop off more than it used to.
What happened 2/12?
Just got here and started a regional community for the American Midwest. Come on down!
https://lemmy.world/c/midwestI totally understandable i’m actually using a timer app timer now so i can keep track of how much i’m using it and try to lower it each month.
Reddit is a tough one because your brain loves new information. It devours it. It wants it.
You know it’s so simple to just click a different app and go back to infinite scrolling the way I’m used to.
I’m not a fussy user, I don’t get all up in arms over changes in functionality or whatever. It’s also nice not to see orange man on the internet whenever I scroll
I’m one of those 50k. Glad to be here!
Big uptick last few days. I’ve heard there were more redditors coming over after more dumb stuff occurred recently. There was the Luigi hat thing recently.
I had previously used lemmy a while ago, but wasn’t too impressed. Then after getting frustrated with reddit time and time again, I tried again, but couldn’t find a simple way to get back here. The other day, a post on reddit detailed a very simple way to get here. And now I’m here. (and loving it very much so far)
Just curious, what was difficult about finding a way to get back here?
Is it because the various instance names are hard to remember?
My theory is that’s why so many new people end up on Lemmy.world. Many of the other popular instances have host names / domain names that are more difficult to remember and to tell someone about verbally.
Yeah it was definitely partly due to the domain names. But a big part of it is that I’m kinda a dumb ass when it comes to this stuff sometimes. I think I went on the playstore and searched lemmy? I honestly can’t remember. But the guide I followed was pretty much tailor made to dumbasses/lazy people. I’m so glad I saw it
Can you link the guide? I want to spread it around we need more guides
https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/s/tNPMI1eHJx
Here’s the guide I saw
When I joined I first went to lemmy.world because I didn’t know you could see other instances stuff.
Luigi is insanely popular among basically everyone even right wingers. Being firmly anti Luigi is a choice for sure, a bad one
Neat
🥔
I’d be here more if I didn’t need to re-log in every few pages. It’s annoying, and I haven’t found a solution.
“What?! Logged out again?! Well, screw it, at least Reddit doesn’t log me out every time I refresh a page.”
Is this something that should be really celebrated? I mean, the reason I joined is because it’s not reddit. And I feel that this place will turn into reddit 2.0 if we’re not careful.
That can’t be true. we only have 466 judging by the upvote count. xD
(check again:-)
