Oh look it’s this tired meme that was just posted 15 minutes earlier
I’ve made my choice
Reddit is fun croaked for me last week, now I’m all Lemmy!
Unless lemmy crashes, then I lurk reddit signed out with browser.
As the crashes and maintenance here become less frequent and the platform is more reliable I’m ready to leave reddit in the dust entirely
Lemmy doesn’t crash, the .world server does. Just use a smaller instance like lemmy.zip or lemm.ee
Only reason I use lemmy.world is for community discoverability. Until subscriber counts are federated, it only shows the amount of subs on your instance, and on average the most subs are on lemmy.world. I have a backup alt for when lemmy.world is down
I’m clearly not understanding this platform as well as I thought, I should probably watch a video or something!
The memes and boobs are great, but I’d love to get more reliable news and local information, seems like every Canadian one dies or is unpopular (fair enough given the limited user base which is still kind of nice)
And the news + politics seems to crash, but that’s because I’m still using .World …I think?
The way it works is that there’s not one lemmy site, there’s many different sites, or “instances” that people can host on their own servers—lemmy.world and lemm.ee are two of these. The catch is that they are “federated”, meaning that a user in one instance can see, vote on, comment on, etc posts from another instance. That’s why you can be on lemmy.world and see posts from !memes@lemme.ml. So if lemmy.world goes down it’s as simply as typing in another instance to your address bar :^)
It’s more like email than a regular platform. Each insurance is a Lemmy “provider” but from any instance you can reach every other instance. It even used the @server for user names and communities like email. It also means you have a technology@lemmy.world, technology@lemmy.ml, …
Since when is Jerboa the “official Lemmy app”? It’s not even the only FOSS app and I’m not aware of any connection between the Jerboa and Lemmy developers, let alone the various admins of the lemmy communities that Jerboa accesses. Use a different app if Jerboa isn’t working for you
Edit: I was wrong, just looked at github and it looks like there is an affiliation between lemmy developers and Jerboa. But it’s still not the official app of any of the instances, so it’s not like Reddit where the devs and admins are the same entity
Then don’t use it? Lol
Isn’t the freedom to use whatever app we like a large part of why we’re on Lemmy now?
Sync is amazing. Voyager and Thunder are also great if you only want foss.
I went back to reddit out of boredom a couple of days ago while lemmy.world was doing it’s thing. It dawned on me how shitty things have gotten there over the years. It’s more active, sure but the comments sections are full of hot garbage 99% of the time unless you’re in a small community. And the sheer quantity of comments basically guarantees you won’t be seen or responded to unless you appeal to lowest common denominator bs.
The engagement you get here is much higher quality. It isn’t nearly impossible to have a real conversation and get deep about any given topic. I miss my hobby subs and go back every now and then for those but I’m otherwise all in on lemmy
Yeah the Lemmy apps are lightning fast compared to the official Reddit app. I’m really giving up on Reddit soon.
Lemmy: “Use Lemmy”
Me: Uses Sync or any other non FOSS app
Lemmy: “No not like that!”
Are the lemmy police coming to your house and confiscating your apps? If you hadn’t said anything about using sync, no one here would know or care. People complain and get elitist about everything. I’m sure there’s someone out there who looks down on others for not using the “right” brand of q-tips. Does it matter? No. Will the fact that it doesn’t matter shut the q-tips elitist up? Also no
There is only one Q-Tip! And if aren’t using them then you are doing it wrong!!
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It’s equate or nothing baby! Anything else entering your earhole is sinful and immoral. I will commit acts of violence to enforce this
“LEMMY POLICE, FREEZE! Sir/Ma’am and or otherwise, you are under arrest for the following crimes against lemmy. Use of an unapproved app, 2 counts. Pointing out elitism, 5 counts. Making comparisons between lemmy and reddit, 10 counts. Criminally bad meming, 5 counts. And expecting better of lemmy, 1 count. You have the right to stfu.”
