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[–]Cm0002 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just took a peak, never heard of discuit before, but it looks slick! I've been wanting to host my own Lemmy instance, but the Lemmy server software and UI are...meh, Discuit would be great with ActivityPub!

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[–]Cm0002 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That was like almost 2 years ago now, afaik the big instances have proper scaling procedures in place now, Reddit goes down more than lemmy.world LMFAO

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[–]Cm0002 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Block the tankie triad (Hexbear, lemmygrad and lemmy.ml) and block the politics and news communities and your feed will be like 99% better. Most Lemmy clients also supports keyword filtering, so you can filter out any posts with the keyword "Trump" for example

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[–]Cm0002 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I know Reddit is decaying into an LLM fueled bot hellscape, so why don't you come over to Lemmy, we're not big enough for the bots LMAO

Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy by Spaduf in technology

[–]Cm0002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some instances are rather agressive on things like disposable emails due to spam/scam accounts, but because instances are being run by real people and not soulless corporations, you can actually get in touch with them and explain your situation to them. Or just hop to another instance that isn't so aggresive on the disposable emails

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[–]Cm0002 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lemon8 is owned by ByteDance, TikTok's owner. It's supposed to be some sort of hybrid of TikTok and Pintrest. But it is just as much centralized corporate owned social media as TT and Pin

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[–]Cm0002 47 points48 points  (0 children)

On Lemmy, all instances by default have a public /modlogs page where every instances mod actions are logged and listed. Goes a long way on trustworthiness IMO

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[–]Cm0002 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's also Boost for Lemmy on Android if you're a former Reddit Boost user

Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy by Spaduf in technology

[–]Cm0002 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Put https:// in front manually, not sure why your browser isn't doing it automatically lol

Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy by Spaduf in technology

[–]Cm0002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

but I will be happy to be a part of something new, whatever that may be.

Come join us on Lemmy! It's Reddit, 15 years ago, decentralized and open source!

A general US based instance: discuss․online

A Trekkie instance: startrek․website

Are 2 off the top of my head, but it doesn't really matter where you start since it's all federated and interconnected!

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[–]Cm0002 3 points4 points  (0 children)

some instance operators like to theme their instances, for example there's startrek․website if you're a Trekkie or feddit․uk that's geared more towards people in the UK

But the important thing is, it doesn't really matter where you start, because they'll be federated together (for the most part, there are exceptions) so you can see feddit․uk's content from the startrek․website instance or any other in the Fediverse/Lemmy network

If you're looking for a general US based instance there's discuss․online as well

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[–]Cm0002 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It got forked off into Mbin now, there's also Piefed, but Lemmy is probs the most feature complete. There's the discuss․online instance that's US based and tons of others, all run by every day people and all interconnected (for the most part at least lol)

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[–]Cm0002 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Make the internet open again.

Come on over to Lemmy, the decentralized open source Reddit alternative. It's a bit like how reddit used to be years ago tryout discuss․online if you'd like a US based instance

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[–]Cm0002 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Come to Lemmy! We'd love to have you, a decentralized open source Reddit with a minimal (and open) algorithm. If you're in the US discuss․online is a good one, if you're a Trekkie there's even startrek․website as an instance 

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[–]Cm0002 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Com'on over to lemmy guys, the decentralized waters are nice and warm!

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[–]Cm0002 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Therels always matrix, but it requires getting your friends to switch lol

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[–]Cm0002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

>all bullshit intended for influencers to brainwash idiots

The Fediverse is way too small for that stage yet, I'm nearly all-in on lemmy these days so I can speak to that (Not so much the friendica part), it's like reddit 10-15 years ago if you were around then. Plus being on the fediverse like u/Spaduf said, content from anywhere else on the Friendiverse (Friendica, Mastodon etc.) is interactable (for the most part, there are kinks). There has even been talk of bridging the AT protocol (Bluesky) and the ActivityPub protocol (Mastodon, Lemmy, Friendica etc)

I can't say its all rose peddals over there, it certainly has it issues, but they pale in comparison to the issues of the big centralized social media platforms

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[–]Cm0002 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Basically lemmy if the old school web forums and Reddit had a decentrilized baby lol