Serious question, as I‘ve barely seen any mention of Lemmy on Reddit. None of the Mod posts regarding the Blackout mentioned Lemmy as far as I‘m aware. Would it be against the TOS to start a coordinated promotion?
er, nothing? I found out about lemmy from reddit
I dont think it’s againts rules, I found Lemmy because of Reddit.
I found Lemmy through Reddit because of the protest. If anything, it works.
I found it on Reddit and seen it around, it‘s spreading. Might write some comments myself too, as long as I still have Apollo to do so; so far I am liking it here.
None of the Mod posts regarding the Blackout mentioned Lemmy as far as I‘m aware
Rumor has it they banned a lot of mods and communities for encouraging exactly that to their subscribers, so it was considered quite risky.
Something weird happened to me, I was no longer subscribed to two of my most active subs after having been subscribed for a decade. So when they went private I was locked out. I had only messaged one moderator about the protest and they went private.
I am trying to spread it on reddit but I am just a drop in the sea
Many drops make a puddle
I’ll join the drops
I found out about lemmy from r/EDC where they mentioned in their B.O. post they would be at https://sopuli.xyz/c/edc
here’s the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/145fxdb/reddit_is_killing_itself/
Hey :)
Welcome to lemmy. I’m the asshole mod that made the post lol.
Hey there :)
But why “asshole”? Almost every sub posted a similar thing and I see nothing wrong with that post unless I’m missing something 😝
Also curious, did you run into my comment by chance or did you actually get pinged when I mentioned the EDC community?
Just happened across it lol
You know how reddit is though. Any moderation is going to draw ire from someone. Since I decided to be as transparent as possible about how I moderate and why I make the decisions I make, more people saw the moderation, so there were more “someones” to get annoyed lol.
A couple of the automod posts had some folks get nasty, though I removed those once the initial two day no activity protest was over. I could have just bailed and let reddit replace me eventually, but I’m not able to do that, ethically. I made a commitment, so I’ll make sure to find at least one mod to replace me next month before I stop moderating entirely.
I’ll still hang in to lend advice to the new guys and make sure they aren’t just going to trash the sub, but then I’m out entirely
Nothing so far.
The automod post I have set up at r/edc links to the sopuli.xyz/c/edc version.
At r/knives, we have both the lemmy and squabbles versions linked.
Neither myself, or the mods I comoderate with at the knives sub have faced any issues. This could change, but as long as you aren’t spamming the hell out of it, they aren’t coming after mods, or users doing it here and there.
There was the new sub, r/lemmymigration, that got pulled down then reinstated after backlash though, and the person running that got banned for a bit. There’s also been reports of anti-protest mods requesting, and getting, senior mods removed in their favor. All of which is bullshit that merits huffman getting kicked in the nads, but it was expected.
In my experience lemmy was the most suggested alternative on reddit and then tildes, the only time i ever heard abou kbin was the day before the blackout with the subreddit ban and then during it.
Funny, I mentioned joining Lemmy on reddit and had someone go “join tildes, it’ll be easier” and then I went to tildes and in the first comment chain about rexxit there was a guy like “now I know it’s much harder to join tildes than Lemmy” and I didn’t know what was going to be easier or whatever but I liked the federation idea so I came here lol
I did hear of Lemmy first, with immediate criticism about supporting the CCP and so on. The second alternative mentioned on Reddit was kbin which is where I went first.
Unfortunately kbin runs on PHP and you can really feel the site lagging at times, no clue why someone would port a stable Rust code base to this mess. lemmy.ml is lighting fast in comparison and has working federation.
I did also try sh.itjust.works as an alternative Lemmy instance (which would be nice as it blocks lemmygrad.ml), but it’s in Canada and I’m in Europe, so the latency is noticeable.
So now I’m here, oh well.
I’d never heard of kbin at all until I actually signed up to a Lemmy instance.
I’d heard Lemmy mentioned somewhere before (I’ve searched for reddit alternatives a few times in the past as I got increasingly annoyed by their pushiness towards the app), but only really took notice of it a few days before the blackout when I saw it mentioned many times on reddit.
Yeah, I only got an actual link to kbin during the blackout here on lemmy, it was surprising to hear they got so many people so fast. It’s nice they did, i just don’t remember seeing anything about them on the alternatives subreddit or anywhere else.
Kbin seemed to be pushed more on Mastodon than Lemmy was, during and in the run up to the blackout. Lots of people giving new things a go this week, even from places other than Reddit!
Oh, that makes sense then! mastodon, much like twitter is still a big mystery to me.
It’s a whole new frontier! :D
It is! And I do want to figure out mastodon, if anything, for their Crafting/art community, but I’m having a bit of a hard time figuring ou if/how can I go around visiting other instances I know its possible somehow because users from different ones show up for me, but mastodon is the one in struggling with. It’s not like lemmy or kbin where I can see stuff, they prompt meto make ne an account before I can see anything and I just don’t know how to find the people in the other instances from mine yet. :(
The easiest way is to search for hashtags and click through to profiles that look like they post interesting stuff. You can also check out https://fedi.directory/ where there are suggested accounts to follow for all kinds of different topics. If you’ve not made an intro post there yet, do that too with the tag #introduction and any other tags you’re interested in, that way people will come to you!
Also what kind of crafts and do I already follow you there? 👀 lol
Kbin I think is really new, I’ve only heard it mentioned fairly recently, and I been exclusively using the fediverse for about a year now
I like the kbin UI and ergonomics a little more than Lemmy.world, but the underpinning tech isn’t going to scale efficiently, being based on PHP. I have a sign on over there too. It’s comfy, but intermittently unusable or unresponsive. So there are some teething pains here, but Kbin is also part of the fediverse, and will hopefully start opening up more federations soon. That should hopefully reduce some load and more users.
The more the Fediverse at large is able to draw off the Rexxit™, the more we all win.
Pirate family on reddit exposed me to the wonders of lemmy, so at the very least piracy mods are based. Indefinite black outs too instead of that weak 2 day protest.
Don’t think it’s against the rules but people will be annoyed if you just throw Lemmy into every conversation. Just spread the word where it’s motivated.
Redditors in general just aren’t that into lemmy. Most redditors come here expecting to find a 1 for 1 replacement pre-warmed with millions of users and brimming with reddit culture.
Not having an algorithm to tell people what they want to see is a bigger impediment to attracting users than most people realise.
Additionally, I think mods are reluctant to direct users to any other community as they will give up lordship of their own fiefdom. Sorry, I acknowledge that I have probably an unfairly dim view of mods. I’m sure some are amazing, but certainly many are self-obsessed power trippers. They act in their own interests to preserve control rather than acting in the interest of the community.
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Lemmy development really needs another couple weeks or a month. There are over 100 instances peering and it’s really pushing the database systems hard with the 100,000 users already. Database tuning and query optimization in the code is the order of the day. I also think some of the new front-end apps for web and smartphones would help.
I’m genuinely asking and don’t mean this the way it sounds, but is this supposition or have you observed this yourself?
Everyone says their own instances aren’t very resource intensive. Even the larger instances like lemmy.world don’t seem to have huge specs.
Although there’s a lot of subscriptions there doesn’t seem to be an overwhelming amount of content being produced. The most active threads in /home have like 150 comments over 2 days? I don’t have the data and this really is mere supposition but it just doesn’t seem like that much load.
I did see they pushed a new version with some db optimisations so that’s probably an indicator that you’re right. Also things just feel unstable. Unusually long page load times or 500 errors just occasionally. Things definitely aren’t great I’m just not certain that db linkages are the problem.
I tried around three years back and this is what I got: https://lemmy.ml/post/34509
