Welcome to Lemmy. Here’s your Molotov, the guillotine is just down the hall. First left.
we are
legionsquad.
I’m loving it already! And…I’m not scrolling through ads too!!
Closest thing to an ad I’ve seen here was that weird girl who was DMing everybody.
Every time I end up on Reddit the amount of ads makes me recoil. You’re free now!
Showed as white on white on my UI, so here’s the picture below.
A few pointers for new joiners:
Yeah, shows my image editing fu. Thanks for pointers! I did do a search but turned out my fu is not particularly strong there either…
This is perfect tho, it outs light mode creatures as the monsters they are. /j
No worries, thank you for this post, it’s nice to welcome people from Reddit!
White theme? Oh god, how do you not… you know…
Is there a reason why you’re promoting !ask@lemm.ee now? Ask Lemmy communities already exist on both .world and .ml, creating another community seems kinda counterproductive to me.
Feel free to have a look at !fedigrow@lemm.ee
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Just be warned, those dozens are all actually one person.
It’s me. I just enjoy talking to myself so much I made lemmy
Well, I didn’t expect us to have an existential crisis today, but here we are.
That’s okay, we’ll get past it again
Hey me, it’s you!
Are you Drone Rights?
And blaze, and db0, and descalines, and ada and pugjesus, I’m everyone. I’m even you
Dessalines is a Drone Rights alt? Makes sense.
Obviously! We’re all a little conflicted inside this brain, but we get by
I have several personalities, so I guess you can say there’s dozens of us.
Dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens… 112,744 to be inexact…
Lemmy Total Users by Day: 1,352,936 for 3/12/25.
Divided by 12, that’s 112,744 and some change… probably a couple of baker’s dozens in there…
Looks like ~53k monthly active users, I think that’s a better stat, since it doesn’t include people making new alts and abandoning their old accounts.
Then that’s 4,416 dozen, give or take a baker.
But all in all, I’d say that lemmings are much more active than Redditors - just based on responses to my posts and comments. I’ve earned 15k karma on this account, far more than any of my vastly older reddit accounts. Take that for what you will, but I’ve personally found the community here much more active, especially as of late.
Content quality is drastically better too.
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BuT WherES aLL My KaRMA?!? /s
fucking happy to be here!
Here. You’ve got four of it.
Maybe I’ll updoot, maybe I’ll downdoot who knows? You don’t have to worry about internet points here
Same here
Can some people who are willing to post something other than American politics and Reddit bashing posts join lemmy soon, I’m sick of my entire feed being nothing but all these negative topics
Right there with you, it’s going to be a long four years…
Just block the subs. Or subscribe to communities that interest you and stick to your subscribed feed.
Blocking all of the political and news communities can help
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca has a pinned post without active non political communities
I think Lemmy is a bit too complicated to attract the kind of light-hearted users that made Reddit shine. It’s daunting unless you have nowhere else to go.
Idk, I came here with no idea about the instance system, I joined one that was near the top of the list, realised it was entirely Tankies, and made an account on the instance this account is on. I think people are likely to have a similar experience.
Hear about Lemmy -> join one of the first instances they see -> realise how things actually work -> make an account on an instance that’s properly researched and more aligned with the person
Took me 3 tries to get one I liked. I wish new users were put in some “default instance” with no defederations so users can pick and choose where to go better.
Like window shopping
It would take someone being willing to host something like that, and every other instance agreeing with the idea. It’s a nice idea, but I really don’t think that it’d happen, too many moving parts, too many people to convince, and honestly too much risk of ending up a hotbed of unsavoury content, CSAM etc.
People on
- !gardening@lemmy.world
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee
- !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz
- !askouija@lemmy.world
Seem to be doing fine.
There is a pinned post with non-political communities on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Use an app with filter lists. Add american political terms to filter. Experience gets muuuuuch better.
You can also block certain users who post in a certain way.
Feel free to practice blocking users on me.
For those of us using Firefox there was a post on !youshouldknow@lemmy.world on how you can use uBlock Origin to create word filters.
To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)For example:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)Remarkable functionality. Thanks for helping me and everyone else out
Have you considered making the world less negative?
More Star Trek memes!
Star trek is very political lol
Be mindful of the smug “Lemmy Culture” hipsters, they’ll eventually weed themselves out or self segregate though as more normies flow in.
I welcome the masses.
nazis can stay the fuck out, though.
Same!
That’s right! Don’t be coming in here and bringing no f****** culture.
Welcome. I think you will like it here. We’re kind of like reddit except we aren’t trying to make money from you, or your content. And we are more likely to follow the golden rule. And swear. Lots of swearing.
and we don’t limit or kill 3rd party app support, but rather support them, and even have a page about apps for lemmy which are, 3rd party
How come theres been an influx of users recently? Did reddit shit the bed again?
Yes they started banning thousands of active users for “inciting violence” if you say things like “fuck Elon musk” or “my favorite character in super Mario bros is Luigi”
The Luigi thing is ridiculous and Nintendo will probably sue
Someone need to give them an idea, if we know one thing it’s how Nintendo likes to sue.
Well i can understand that - the best character in super mario bros is Yoshi
Tru
I still don’t understand this whole Luigi thing…
They seem to think if they censor hard enough that people will stop hating murderous billionaires.
You mean you weren’t familiarised with the Luigi Mangione story?
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Yup. I’m new to Reddit and Lemmy.
Well, someone murdered the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and it is alleged that this guy named Luigi Mangione did it. The media went into a frenzy trying to make us hate Luigi, but since most Americans experience what is like to live under a system that treats healthcare as a way to make profits, nobody did. They even tried framing this as a left x right issue instead of a class issue but even many people on the right didn’t think Luigi did anything wrong. Luigi is also a conventionally attractive dude, so it’s hard for the media to play with people’s preexisting prejudices. After many attempts, they seem to have decided the best approach to this was to suppress all speech on the matter. They are trying to frame this murder as an act of terrorrism and seem to be very scared of the public response to this. Reddit is trying to ban any mention to Luigi (even Nintendo related ones), and also has banned many people who did as little as upvote a comment related to him.
Kind of a lot 😅
Interesting. Thanks a lot.
Reddit recently started doubling down on far-right actions. Like making it so you can be banned for just upvoting a post that breaks the rules, or banning you for saying the name “Luigi.”
Personally, I recently got permabanned for being truthful about fascists.
I got a warning today about upvoting violence. The only thing I have upvoted in the last little while is pro-Canada stuff like elbows up. If that gets me kicked off Reddit then fuck them and fuck spez the little pig boy.
For some people, Trump has shit the bed (invasion threats, trade wars etc) and has stimulated a number of people to move away from US-controlled services and products.
say luigi and get warned
what did luigi do to you, reddit?
DOZENNNNNSSSSSS
It took every person on this platform to get us to 600. Bots I’m calling on your power.
There might even be scores now
A veritable smorgasbord
I like to read this word the same American way Louis Rossmann once said it if it’s written like this. If it’s written smörgåsbord my inner voice gets a Swedish accent.
I wish I had used that spelling instead lol
Certainly a number of us
Happy to be here. Leaving reddit for this place was a great decision. 💪
Welcome!
