It's good to see Lemmy getting some love, athough I did get a chuckle at the "this whole fediverse concept is so hard to get your head around" stuff. They are so used to being fed what the algorithm delivers that they are lost without it. It's so touchingly Orwellian.
“this whole fediverse concept is so hard to get your head around”
Respectfully, I think this is because join-lemmy.org is confusing. Here are the simple instructions I give people:
Go to https://kbin.social/ and start reading.
If you want to join, click "Log In" at the top, and then "Register"
Everything else they can figure out as they go along.
Tbf, it is a bit difficult for the average person to wrap their head around.
For instance, did you know that water can come in multiple forms!? Woah... :-P
Makes sense since those are the two best alternatives.
They totally miss that kbin federates with lemmy and mastodon whereas Lemmy doesn’t microblog. Also, the list 4chan as a Reddit alternative and 4chan is a cesspool.
Offering 4chan up as an alternative to Reddit is like taking your cheat day from Doritos and ice cream to putting pubes you got from a Taco Bell toilet in your crack pipe.
Damn! I cannot get that imagery out of my mind; it’s suddenly seared onto my minds eye.
Well done
list 4chan as a Reddit alternative and 4chan is a cesspool.
Well yeah, it's a Reddit alternative.
😜
Okay, yeah. There is the cesspool there too, but we’re comparing nuclear bombs to rotten apples here.
Which one is which again? /s :-P
I think reddit is the nuclear bomb🤣
Reddit = rotten nuclear bomb it is then!:-P
Well its definitely not wrong though
I honestly have no idea what the difference beteeen kbin and lemmy is. I’m on Lemmy; what the hell is kbin?
Lemmy is a community led content aggregator similar Reddit. Mastodon is a microblogging platform similar to twitter.
Kbin combines the functionality of both and federates with both. Think of it as twidder or rettit. Insert a smash up yourself.
Lemmy was created by a couple pro-China pro-Putin “communists” and one of them is full on genocide of Uyghurs is not happening because they do not consider them people.
Kbin was created by someone who wanted a place for friends.
Do with that information what you will.
Wait a god damn minute… this is the first time I’ve heard of this China crap. Also… is there a kbin app yet? Benefit of Lemmy is useful apps.
@ArtemisApp is an app in beta right now by @harriet
As for lemmy. There is a lot to parse. It involves supporting tiananmen square massacre. Being kicked out of Reddit’s r/socialism for being too much for them in a militant way. That sub has pointed to many instances of support for genocide, how Russia is better off with Putin and how they’re defending their countries by killing any dissent. They’re known as tankies for their pro-tiananmen stance and how that saved China as a country.
Many defenders of lemmy say if that bothers you, just avoid their original instance or ones influenced/administered by them; but that both requires you to be aware of everything about them and all the lemmy instances,and it requires you to know that the instance you join has no further development by the creators of lemmy. Who updates the code? Who is the developer of this instance, and do they accept further stuff from the originators of this part of fedi.
Plus isn't there a link to donate to the original developers on all Lemmy instances? The "Support Lemmy" one I mean, unless an admin has modified the source code to remove that I suppose, and continue to do so each time they receive an update. That seems to bother many people as well, even being on a different instance that the original creators do not administer personally.
Nice!
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