Excuse some software ramblings and rants, but been making a number of changes and trying some experiments as of late and feel like talking about them some here.
First off, Telegram got largely yeeted a few weeks back. The app is still on my phone and I haven't deleted my account. But it's probably coming. The company's flirtations with ways to make money have long been a little concerning. The CEO really tipping his hand with a Tucker Carlson interview broke me.
So in light of that, let folks know I'd rather pivot to other ways to chat. There's no perfect replacement, but basically iMessage, Discord, and Signal are all gonna take over. With a preference for the first two but the later still a strong option.
I've also been flirting with Lemmy and Kbin as Reddit replacements, as Reddit did a great job making me loathe them as a company. Alas, both of them suck. Also peeked to see and Narhwal 2 is a $4 a month sub. To just get a decent UI. 🤣
New here. Migrated from Reddit. Still trying to figure out Lemmy - what’s everyone’s experiences like coming from Reddit and does Lemmy serve as a good alternative? Pros and cons/differences?...
Welcome. Its been great for me so far. Whatever instance you are currently on the amount of politics and echo chamber does matter. So feel free to comment and enjoy. If you have a complaint try another instance (or even Kbin) to see if this helps. Also to note that there is much more control about what communities and people you can interact with
I've been discussing this on Mastodon too, but more focused on features and limitations related to federation rather than people being dumber in one place or the other. But I also want more open conversations, which is one of the things I believe ActivityPub helps with.
So instead of voting for Lemmy I'll go ahead and say I prefer Kbin since I've found it easier here to interact with posts from other fediverse platforms.
Just read carefully the rules of each group/magazine/community as everyone is free to tidy up their spaces as they wish, reasonably or not.
I had a 3-month ban from a community once and had no idea until I did a mod log search on my own username about 6 months later.
Thinking back to how I could possibly have failed to even notice, I think it's just that kbin still displays the comments of banned kbin users so I was probably still getting interactions through that.
In strict technical terms, yeah it’s okay, albeit with the shortcomings to be expected of a smaller development team. In terms of population and activity with this format, I think it may be at the top compared to alternatives as well.
There’s still others and other software options though for this format that people could try, which honestly may even be technically better, but lacking population/activity means they’re in an odd spot.
The first of these you’ll read about on here are likely Kbin/Mbin, possibly followed by PieFed or still-in-development Sublinks. Kbin/Mbin is definitely the runner-up in terms of federated Reddit-alternatives, as it was one of the few options available at the time people were leaving Reddit.
PieFed and Sublinks have emerged more recently with different priorities and approaches compared to Lemmy, but with the same desire to offer a federated option for people to deploy.
The last you may read about around here would be of stuff like Discuit, Lobste.rs, Raddle (and any other sites built with Postmill), Tildes, and the like, which are all most like Reddit in terms of their being stand-alone sites, unconnected to any others running the same underlying server software. However each of these, I think, may have lower population than the cumulative population of the Lemmy network of sites.
All that said, cutting to your last question: ultimately it heavily depends on the instance/site you settle into.
Lemmy isn’t a monolith, which is both its greatest strength and weakness compared to Reddit. You may be able to find a Lemmy instance/site that heavily blocks out politics and moderates lightly, but the irony of this is that it means it may have to be overly-policed to achieve that, and might appear less active in the process from heavy disconnection/defederation from any instances/sites that permit political posts/discussion.
Right now though, much of Lemmy is heavily political, and it’s arguably because of lax moderation to keep political posts/discussions to relevant communities, which is itself probably in part because of lacking moderation tools to enable lighter touches to redirect posts/discussions.
Nevertheless, it’s possibly the best option fitting the format available at the moment given the rest, but if Lemmy and federation doesn’t suit you you might check out Tildes or Discuit. Although be advised: Tildes remains invite only for now.
Honestly I think any general/casual discussion community would welcome posts about those subjects as well, which there are a number of across Lemmy sites to check out.
Five days ago I made this magazine on Kbin social but wanted to test out mbin so I decided to make it here as well. I look forward to seeing how this magazine turns out....
I’m looking for a place to upload some video. By now i’ve found playeur.com and rumble but i would love to hear what you guys are using. Thanks in advance.
Peertube is the Fediverse equivalent of YouTube, the Fediverse being what Lemmy (where you are), Kbin (where I am) etc. are also a part of.
As far as I'm aware, it's a matter of finding an instance you resonate with, create an account and share away.
Do bear in mind that since it's the Fediverse, Peertube instances aren't usually backed by a large organisation with bags of cash, so if you can afford to donate to your instance, at least consider doing so.
I'd also recommend not using Peertube as a be-all-end-all storage for your videos. Always keep a copy for yourself. People do this with YouTube and they shouldn't unless they're OK with suddenly and forever losing that content at some unspecified future date. The same can happen with PeerTube, but the reasons are likely to be different (instance closing rather than unexpected account deletion).
Corporation-backed video hosts include: Twitch, Dailymotion and Vimeo. You could probably also host on Facebook. While these are options, they might make you feel as unclean as I did typing that out.
@Badluck Esto era literalmente una prueba para la federación con #Kbin. No buscaba ningun tipo de reacción.
Para fotografía y vídeos hemos solido usar más #Pixelfed desde @Detuned pero el tiempo dirá si eso sigue así, porque hemos tenido algunos problemas subiendo contenido ahí y por ejemplo terminamos subiendo estas capturas tan bonitas de Deathloop aquí: https://mastodon.social/@tuneintodetuned/109841037039062148
@tuneintodetuned Y ya que estamos he seguido probando más peculiaridades de #Kbin y #Lemmy a raíz de esto. Gracias, @Badluck@Detuned que sin ti no lo habría comprobado antes!
@Badluck Prefiero #Kbin ahora mismo. Comunica mejor con el fediverso en general. Para navegar hilos es como Reddit, y ahora mismo es la página más cómoda desde la que interactuar con el fediverso de ese modo. Pero no hace falta que te hagas cuenta si no quieres. Desde #Mastodon puedes crear hilos en grupos o responder a los mismos con tan solo mencionarlos o usar su hashtag como ha pasado aquí en el de https://kbin.social/m/gatos/microblog . Estos días estoy ayudando desde esta cuenta a que eso pueda ser más fácil para todos los que hablamos #español. @tuneintodetuned
Not going to downvote you, partly because I only downvote spam and partly because kbin doesn't federate downvotes so I can't even see downvotes from you and vice versa.
But I fundamentally disagree. One of the lessons of Nuremberg was that obeying orders isn't a good enough reason to commit war crimes.
One of the corollaries to that, for me, is that obeying rules isn't a good enough reason to be complicit in covering up war crimes either.
If a secret is a crime it's more treasonous to keep it a secret, because the people of our nations haven't voted to leave the Geneva Conventions and go out and commit war crimes.
Kbin is an example. But just due to the nature of the protocol, it has to be stored somewhere but Lemmy also just lets admins view all the individual votes directly in the UI.
Kbin users seeing who downvotes their posts is potentially an issue, but I don’t want to discourage downvoting bad or harmful content for just that reason. The end goal is that bad content gets removed and offending users acted on. So if a Kbin user is abusing the system to harrass or abuse, they should likewise reported and banned.
Ooh thanks for the step by step. I was able to identify the one kbin user who downvoted me over the past 24 hours. 😜
Yeah, given this I won’t recommend that kbin users downvote just anything since the platform doesn’t protect their privacy. Lemmy users should be good tho. Thanks! 😊
@Gamers_Mate Oh, 100% Everything around Kbin aside, Ernest had a ton of stuff going on in his personal life that should totally take precedent over this here.
I did see the post about applications for instance-wide moderators, which Kbin definitely needs. But I don't believe any action has been taken past the announcement yet.
But that's really interesting. I just checked and I got a notification for your last comment over on my Mbin account as well. I don't know if maybe it has something to do with the fact that my Mbin account is subscribed to this magazine as well and got looped in as well or what? I may have to look into it and see if either it's just a bug or if I'm doing something wrong lol.
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I’m looking for a place to upload some video. By now i’ve found playeur.com and rumble but i would love to hear what you guys are using. Thanks in advance.
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David McBride: former army lawyer sentenced to five years for stealing and leaking Afghanistan war documents (www.theguardian.com)
Complete bullshit. Regimes that punish whistleblowers harder than war criminals reveal themselves as dreaming of tyranny....
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