Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2

alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgmod to Technology@beehaw.org – 167 points –

hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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I'm surprised how quickly I've adapted to fediverse, Mastodon just didn't fill-in for twitter in the way that the lemmy instances have, once I learned how they work together.

Now that I have gotten over the first hump, it feels new and exciting enough to make up for the lack of diverse content. I really think lemmy/kbin can be the platforms that push forward an interoperable, self-custodial social media.

I agree, the inherit fragmentation in the fediverse architecture has a certain negative impact on the microblogging experience for me (but I still won’t go back to a centralized platform ever again), but for Lemmy/kbin it fits perfectly. Link aggregation sites are already fragmented into separate communities by design.

I even view the fragmentation problem in niche communities as a feature not a bug. Don't like the coffee community on one instance? Try checking out the coffee community on a different instance. You might like the second group of people better

Seeing as you've mentioned it, do you happen to know of any coffee communities on here?

Edit: I've found !coffee@lemmy.world

Yepp, it works surprisingly well. I assume one of the similar communities will eventually "win" on one of the instances, like with similar subreddits over time. Also some instances will go full specific, like nature or movies or gaming etc. See the growth of lemmynsfw already, lol.

I'm really liking it a lot. I wasn't too amused by Mastodon either, but as you say: for link aggregation, for specific communities, for discussing topics (and not being about people, but about topics) this is a perfect match.

Presumably it's only going to get better over time. I was afraid I'd lose this part of the internet when Reddit went full corpo, but to be honest the quality of discussion on Lemmy makes up for the diminished content.

Honestly, my discussions have been nicer over here on the fediverse than they were on most parts of Reddit.

It's like small town, big city. Smaller communities are usually happier and more friendly.

I do want it to continue growing, but I will be enjoying it while it lasts.

For sure. Which is another great thing about this decentralization. If a community gets too big and has too many asshats, you can easily break off into another instance!

I don't think Lemmy will be immune to that, but I think the decentralization will help a lot in controlling that negative aspect.

Same. Ive already started using lemmy as a place to find solutions to my problems. I just dont google "problem reddit". I go to lemmy search bar and browse "specific keyword not working". Been working with certaib topics, and its only gonna get better from now on

Oh yeah, Lemmy has a usable search bar! Kinda forgot that it can be useful after using Reddit for so long.

What I am also doing is when the solution is only on reddit, I will create a new topic with it in a lemmy instance.

Also important topics should be backed up in internet.archive.

Same. Good mobile and desktop UI, and a passionate community are big wins here.