If we’re comparing services run by enthusiasts to a service run by a commercial company, then I’d like to add my five cents: at least lemm.ee is much more stable than reddit.com.
Fedora Linux IT support for obscure things that break and other Linux and Windows subs because I kinda like to see what boneheaded mistake Microsoft will make next
Because unfortunately some things just didn’t transfer. /r/anime equivalents are dead as fuck. Same with game subreddits. Tv subreddits. Anything properly discussion based.
Lemmy is great for face value mindless reddit scrolling but let’s not pretend it’s some great dialogue for the vast majority of posts where people just want to share hobby interests vs shit post or politic post.
That’s the face I made about a week into trading Reddit participation in for Lemmy participation or just break-from-social-media time. Conversations feel more genuine, there’s less overbearing moderation (at least in my experience), and if there’s nothing new on Lemmy I’ve probably spent enough time reading forums anyways. I’m only keeping my 13-year-old Reddit account to keep track of old favorited posts and specialist forums like specific video game tips.
I can’t agree with you more. I have save posts, and niche subs (but I’m not active, I’d just hate to lose them). And on Lemmy I’ve never seen a thread with deleted comments only. There are less comments here, less people, but quality people.
My only problem is that all and every topic will be about politics or linux. While I’m all for being stuck in a little linux bubble, I hate the politics here. Some dislike the linux topics as well.
I miss niche communities, but the switch was well worth it.
with all the Linux people here you can’t get answers? I would think if there is anything lemmy would be great at it would be that. I can see googling Reddit archives but you don’t need the app for that.
To be fair though, the chance that every Lemmy instance goes down at the same time is so much lower than Reddit going down. Sure, my instance might be unavailable, but I’d be able to hop onto the next one and continue.
Considering the distributed nature of the fediverse, the only way I could imagine the entire thing going down is either a botched update that everyone somehow manages to install at once, or a very sophisticated distributed attack.
The latter would be the most realistic as someone could find a way to poison the ActivityPub protocol or there’s a bug in it and then a message would go to all servers simultaneously.
What happens if the instance which hosts the community is down but other instances are online? I just made a post to a community on an instance that doesn’t exist anymore, but will other instances get that post, or is it reliant on the instance which hosts the community coming back online?
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