Fediverse @lemmy.world Die4Ever @programming.dev 4d ago

A Reddit post promoting the Fediverse that actually gained traction (and Reddit deleted the top comment for promoting Lemmy)

www.reddit.com /r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

I haven't seen Reddit give so much attention to the Fediverse in a long time. Maybe we can help them and answer some questions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

https://www.404media.co/decentralized-social-media-is-the-only-alternative-to-the-tech-oligarchy/

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Reddit took action faster about Lemmy than they did responding to the epidemic of CSAM subs.
- That sounds right for the company whose CEO was appointed moderator of r/jailbait. This was before you had to accept an invitation to be moderator, but fuck Spez regardless.
- Reddit currently has an active and massive beastiality sub. They don’t allow real images, but they have comment threads with discussion and advice. Just as with r/jailbait, people post fishing for the real stuff.
- I left reddit because they kept resisting the removal of subs that directly used the platform to sell CSAM under the guise of a specific niche of porn which normally is legal. Direct contact with reddit to explain why it was CSAM went nowhere.
  
  Welcome here!
I bet the fediverse wouldn't censor a post about reddit because the fediverse isn't a bitch.
- People here censor all kinds of shit they don't like lmao
  
  Mods!! This one, right here. Thanks
It made me make an account here. I also convinced the group chat to move to signal last night.
- Based
- Hey, can you go to /r/Cleveland, and convince them all to move to /c/Cleveland?
  
  And /r/ClevelandGuardians to move to [email protected]?
- Same! It was two groups and I didn't actually have to convince anyone. It turned out we all had Signal all along, but were binding eachother to stay on WhatsApp, I dunno, through some weird ass inertia I guess.
- Welcome, pal!
omg the top comment just got deleted with over 500 upvotes

I think it was when it was edited to include specific links to Lemmy instances, instead of the join-lemmy.org website

I still see the comment on Spaduf's profile, but it shows as deleted in the post

I think maybe the link to lemmy.world is what triggered their filter? because that was edited in
- Reddit is scared. Good job getting the screenshot.
- Gotta be. It was right after I made the edit.
  
  actually I think it was mander.xyz for some reason? and it doesn't seem to happen in r/fediverse
  
  no wait, something else is also doing it, midwest.social is also doing it, lemmy.world is clear, infosec.pub is clear, ttrpg.network is not allowed
  
  no idea how Reddit or r/technology chose which instances to ban lol
- Oh crap
- Is 500 upvotes that much on reddit?
  
  On lemmy its huge, but on reddit i have seen posts with twice that in niche subreddits
  
  For a comment it's a lot yea, especially since the thread was still pretty new. It was the top comment in that thread by a large margin.
- I ditched reddit and switch to lemmy in 2023. Actually I deleted my reddit account and scrambled every post and comment I made back then, but ai bros restored everything, which is a good thing, because I was able to upvote your comment. My old password still works. Thanks for your effort. Spread the word!
Let's fucking go, this is great to see! Remember to be nice to the new users if you see them around.
Was reading through the thread and holy shit I swear half the comments are anti fediverse propaganda.

I wonder how long till the post gets removed.

Edit: would it be immoral for me to mass bot the thread with AI powered pro fediverse propaganda?
- Aside from what Blaze mentioned, that's also not really the kind of publicity that we want. Better to just respond to individual users and encourage them to try Lemmy out.
  
  We should really avoid antromorphizing non-humans. Call them bots, like most of them probably are.
- they got me with the propoganda forsure, it seemed complicated was actually super simple, every comment will act like its so hard to swap over or signup when once you do look it up you immediately see why its better at its core
  
  I never played WoW or anything like that, but aren't there several WoW servers and you have to decide which one to be on when you start the game? People managed that.
- Was reading through the thread and holy shit I swear half the comments are anti fediverse propaganda.
  
  Some comments are suspiciously skeptical. If they were this skeptical before joining then they never would've joined Reddit lol. Someone just tried to tell me that the report button on Lemmy doesn't do anything.
  
  https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/m8i99k6/?context=9
  
  And people talking about bots too lol Reddit will literally repost a 1 year old post with identical title and copy-paste the top 100 comments from the original too, talk about bots! And they aren't labeled as bots! At least bots here are labeled and you can hide them all instantly.
  
  And then they ask for extreme details on how everything works and try to become a master at it before even signing up. Is that how they signed up for Reddit and Discord? I doubt it.
  
  No way these people were that closed-minded and stubborn when they were signing up for Reddit.
  
  People are scared of new things and grow complacent once they find their place in a community or on an app, in this case. It's the same reason people will argue to death about needing Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook, whatever, and not leave any of them
- would it be immoral for me to mass bot the thread with AI powered pro fediverse propaganda?
  
  You can try, but you'll probably get flagged
  
  U would be surprised what u can do with an account list a proxy list and a tor connection.
Ah, a worthy reason to dust off the ol account
- Yep! I'm on there right now directing people to Lemmy
  
  Hey, can you go to /r/Cleveland, and convince them all to move to /c/Cleveland?
  
  And /r/ClevelandGuardians to move to [email protected]?
- Just saw your comments there, quite funny
  
  Lol thanks I try
Would if I could but I deleted my account and Reddit has been blocking my connection for months anyway.
- old.reddit.com always works for me, even for posts or communities which they force you to log in and/or use the app to view.
- They block cookies comrad.
@[email protected] , could you maybe edit your comment to something like

"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users

https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)

https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU

https://vger.app/ if you want an app

Feel free if you have any questions"

join-lemmy isn't the best for user onboarding: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536?scrollToComments=true
- also what's the best alternative for Mastodon? a lot of people there already tried Mastodon and didn't like it due to UX/UI issues
  
  I would be good to list Mastodon as well as an alternative, and also listing Mbin might be good too? but then maybe you're putting too many choices lol
  
  I like Sharkey
  
  didn't like it due to UX/UI issues
  
  That's my biggest beef. But I think maybe it's "ugly like a Mazda truck", as in, it's plain and weird until you get to driving it and then it's just simple and great.
  
  That's my hope anyway.
  
  Misskey's probably the most polished feeling, though under the hood it's apparently a total mess.
  
  Honestly I think the answer is BlueSky. For all the problems that people have with it, it's going to be much more successful in getting people off the Nazi platforms. What's more X->BlueSky->Mastodon seems easier than X->Mastodon for most people.
- Hell yeah, Voyager. 🤘
  
  Hey, question about Voyager, I'm using it, and if I'm on my main feed and hit the back button, it opens a list of subs, and there seems to be nothing I can do to get back to the feed without refreshing it. It's veru frustrating because I keep losing track of the post I was just about to tap on. Do you know anything about this?
I would help, but I honestly don't have the password anymore. I don't think I signed up with an email, but if I did it was a dummy one. I wish I could help.

Edit: Also, I didn't know about this bridge for Mastodon:

if you want your Mastodon posts to also show on Bluesky then use this bridge https://fed.brid.gy/ you only need to follow the account @[email protected] (~~note: is this a typo?~~ It is not a typo. It will follow you back and make sure to accept the follow) and it will automatically bridge you
- the bridge is pretty nice, I would recommend everyone on compatible platforms to use it (Bluesky, and probably any AP microblogging platform, but I've only tried it with Mastodon)
  
  Do you know how I connect Pixelfed to Mastodon too? Or is it automatic and I just do search maybe?
Frankly I don’t want Redditors here

If there’s a single group of people I hate it’s Redditors. Just fuck them (haha zecks, my wife left me smh, I want this guys wife)

In an alternate universe I would be like a ted kaczynski of anti reddit sending hot packages to the authors of most painful comments
- Lemmy is mostly people who used to be Redditors. People are people.
  
  That's the truth. For people remembering how large was Lemmy before the API fiasco, the vast majority of people here came from Reddit.
- Im sorry to inform you that:
  
  Lemmy is a reddit alternative
  
  What you did right now was very redditor esque
- I hope more people with niche interests will come to Lemmy - this is the only use case for this kind of social media for me, and Lemmy's a bit lacking in this regard.
  
  But yeah, I'm not looking forward to those redditors who assume everyone's a cis man and stuff :\
- how did you find Lemmy? did you find out through reddit?
  
  ive been here over a year now and I sure did. haven't used reddit since.
  
  if you didn't come here from reddit, I'd be curious to hear where you did come from before making a Lemmy account.
  
  how did you find Lemmy?
  
  via Mastodon. I still mostly use Mastodon (but I follow hashtags so its a little like an un-curated RSS feed in that respect. I've been on Mastodon for a couple years. I also use a couple other Fediverse projects eg Freindica, Bookwyrm and GotoSocial
  
  did you find out through reddit?
  
  no.

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