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  • This is Lemmy bruh. We still be burning discs on the reg.

    Seriously though, I still like to listen to CDs in my car. Something about making that perfect 20 song banger mixtape just hits different. And then slotting old CDs and having no idea what songs are on there but usually being pleasantly surprised. Spotify/Bluetooth is too easy and casual, I tend to pay more attention and enjoy the music more when listening to CDs.


  • I don’t think OP is totally against reaction memes or GIFs.

    But I think in this particular screenshot the quality of the memes is very low and the quantity is too high. Like they’re all just very common reaction memes of peoples faces, and they’re really not clever or funny at all in the context of the thread. So it’s just a bunch of jackwagons all trying to make the same lame, tired joke and upvoting each other.

    Reaction GIFs can be good content but they have to be clever and fit the situation. Reddit threads are extremely watered down at this stage and there just aren’t enough unique, interesting comments to make it worth wading through all the slop.

    I don’t think entitlement has anything to do with this though. Anyone who used the internet and Reddit for a long time (and/or uses Lemmy now) knows that the current version of Reddit is flooded with low-effort basic content compared to how it used to be. Just commenting doesn’t do anything, because the onslaught of low-effort drivel and badly executed memes totally drowns out everyone else from having any kind of substantive discussion.








  • Thank you for your service 🫡

    I’m the same as the other guy, my rule is that I only post/comment about Lemmy when I use my reddit acount.

    I used to only comment a few times per month when I used reddit but as soon as I started using Lemmy I started making hundreds of comments per month. Especially in the first few months, I got to 1k comments super fast. Since then I’ve slowed down a bit but still way more active than I was on reddit. This is my alt account btw.

    It’s so much more rewarding to participate on Lemmy for a multitude of reasons, but mostly because it feels like people actually care enough to read my comments and respond. On reddit it often seemed like shouting into the void. Plus, it’s a great feeling to be a part of something that’s community based and not just soulless corporate slop. Every time I check reddit, it feels so miserable and I wonder how I ever tolerated that site for so long.





  • Communick is a nice option. I have an account there too. Unfortunately many Lemmings are weirdly hostile to it being a paid service, so it hasn’t gotten much traction.

    I think having more small business type Lemmy servers would be a decent solution to the onboarding difficulties people are discussing in this thread. There’s definitely a chunk of users who just need the security of having someone to contact if they are confused about something or something isn’t working. And if they’re paying for it then the provider has an incentive to give them customer support.



  • This is a good point. And also reddit is astroturfing hardcore, it’s likely that many comments are coming from botted accounts and especially upvotes are heavily manipulated.

    I’m not disagreeing with the fact that a lot of people genuinely struggle to get started on Lemmy. But just pointing out that perception is actively amplified on reddit, because they obviously want to discourage people from joining Lemmy.

    It’s not a conspiracy at all, I’ve seen countless positive comments and posts about Lemmy removed over the past year or so. They know about us and they are worried.



  • You can find the defederation info quite easily just by asking, or going to the blocked instance tab on whatever server you’re wondering about.

    Your other questions are somewhat ambiguous, so there’s no easy way to simplify it into a data sheet. Because of the fact that the vast majority of instances are federated with each other, it also doesn’t matter that much.

    I don’t think that kind of numerical information would really make the decision any easier, it’d be more likely to confuse people even further.

    Servers are either general purpose or with a specific focus. Ani.social, ttrpg.network, slrpnk.net, are servers that clearly advertise the specific content they host and focus on. And obviously the geographical/language based servers (feddit.uk, aussie.zone, lemmy.nz) do the same thing. That’s pretty easy to figure out imho.

    The distribution of joined communities just seems way more complicated than necessary. Number of users is already the most widely available stat, just go to fedidb or lemmyverse and you can easily see the list of instances ordered by monthly active users.

    https://lemmyverse.net/?order=active_month

    I do think a cheat sheet about defederations would be nice to have though, I might try to make one when I have a chance.