This includes some porn subreddits as well as subreddits like /r/Drugs. Apparently due to being “unmoderated”, but some were not. What are your thoughts?
Edit: apparently also subreddits like /r/transgender_surgeries are banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated. Edit 2: seems like at least some (?) bans are being undone, like the above mentioned ones.
I think the main barrier to entry for Lemmy is having to pick an instance. For a lot of people that is confusing and they’ve never had to do it before. There are definitely people who would give up because they don’t understand what to do.
As someone on lemmy who had never had to pick an instance before, it’s not that hard. The instances have descriptions similar to subreddits. You just pick one that sounds friendly. The problem is lack of content diversity. I’m still on reddit for niche topics, some of which are actually not that niche.
It was confusing for me.
Day 1 ‐ “What’s an instance? Which one is the main one?”
“There is no main one.”
“Which one is the biggest?”
“Well, Lemmy.World is the biggest, but you’re not supposed to pick…”
“I picked Lemmy.World.”
confusion comes from not knowing if youll get all content, most give you all content
Hello I’m very new. Why not Lemmy.World?
The idea being that reddit is one centralized service, with one “instance” and therefore if Spez says fuck you, you don’t have much recoarse.
Whereas on Lemmy, there’s many instances. So if the crowd spreads out evenly, no single instance gets too big, and therefore too powerful.
If the instance owner of Lemmy.world tells me to go fuck myself, I can tell him to go fuck themself. I can just go to lemm.ee or sht.jstworks (or however they spell it), or I could even interact with Lemmy from another service entirely. I could go to mbin, or piefed. Actually I have accounts on both that I don’t use.
After picking Lemmy.World innitially I tried a few others, but didn’t see the need to switch. Mostly I’m looking for a good stable instance that isn’t going anywhere. Which Lemmy.World fills those boxes.
But that doesn’t mean other people are wrong with what I’ve said. I appriciate all the people on other instances because choice makes monopolies disappear.
I’m sorry, I misinterpreted you saying “I chose world” as a negative thing.
I’m also on World and I like it a lot!
It was important to me to find a place that was similar enough to reddit to let my transition be easier. I’ve been on reddit for like 14 years and I just wanted an alternative that is close to what I knew.
I like world a lot, but in general I like the whole idea of the Fediverse.
Well, it’s not the instance itself that I’m playing up as a negative. It’s my reasoning without hearing any other arguement on the subject before making my decision. Which is pretty much how I made that choice. I wanted the default Lemmy. Well, there is no default. So I picked the biggest because it was the biggest, and therefore the closest thing to a default.
And a lot of people here don’t like the fact that was how my decision making process went due to not knowing what a fediverse was. I STILL wouldn’t say I’m proficient at using peertube. I “get” it, but I’d still say I’m right back to not knowing which instance to sign up for. Especially since on peertube it matters a lot more.
I’m also still trying to learn all this stuff. I’ve never even heard of Peertube.
Imagine youtube…except it’s a broken disfunctional mess with no content.
For me, it was kbin.social - but kbin and lemmy didn’t play well together when I joined (and now it’s in its current state). Then I picked lemmy.world - and they went down one day due to the influx of users. Then I picked sh.itjust.works and I’ve been happy ever since. I’ll be staying here until the day I spin up my own instance.
One of us…
well porn ppl all goto lemmynsfw anyways
Good point
Or yiffit!
I hope they are ready for the influx.
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Yes, and it shouldn’t be a user-facing thing to pick an instance. Also identities shouldn’t be tied to instances.
NOSTR is not populous enough, its content is mostly waves of repetition from Twitter, Reddit, even Fediverse, but they’ve done the relays thing right (you use an initial list of relays, then clients exchange lists of relays, simple and not the most efficient way, but still functional enough for Gnutella, BitTorrent etc). Except the concept of a pubkey being an identity is naive. But if your NOSTR identity is not as important as your Facebook profile or phone number, then maybe it’s fine to make it a pubkey. They have paid or limited relays too, which store only events from their members. I don’t remember how it’s done.
It has the stigma of being done by cryptobros for cryptobros, but the technology itself involves no blockchain.
I still don’t like NOSTR, they’ve made some things simpler than acceptable. I like how it shows that the relay model works and even scales.
The usual issue brought up about Nostr isn’t the cryptobros, it’s the lack of moderation.
NOSTR has NIP’s for moderated communities, I don’t remember how many clients support that.
People always underestimate advertising. That is what I think is actually holding Lemmy back.
With good ads people would learn how to sign up fast. It’s not like it is harder than email.