I am new here can someone explain how this works? (self.asklemmy)

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So i was earlier at mainstream social media apps, by it was very shitty(dumb people), then I went to reddit, after some while I realised it's also shit(clown people and dumb mods, like no freedom). So now I found this. I have few queries- 1.How does fediverse and lemmy work, couldn't find much on the Internet and AI wasn't much help either. 2.Whats the environment here? 3.What all words and how freedom is allowed here? 4.What are some general rules/unspoken tradition to follow if any? 5.Anything else u wanna tell about

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[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Most has already been spoken too re. the main devs of lemmy generally being fascist weirdos (I suggest making an account on piefed as well); so, on a somewhat lighter note the main gay af community, 196, split into three separate versions because the mods of the original comm decided to move to .world from blahaj.zone for some convoluted reason. The original comm was locked and someone set up a new comm still on blahaj because .world can be a cesspit sometimes. After much user... feedback the original comm on blahaj was unlocked; however there was already a replacement comm set up on the same instance. This left us with three separate 196 communities. Two on blahaj.zone and one on .world. The one with the cool logo (/c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone) is the newer most active one now.

[-] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 hours ago

I'm betting a week before you crash out at a communist.

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

We call em' tankies 'round these parts.

[-] graynk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I only have 2 points to mention.

You will find stupid people everywhere.
On Lemmy people can be nice in a lot of places, but there are also a lot of aggressively stupid people who hold the most batshit insane opinions you've ever seen (unless you've been to 4chan, then it's nothing of note). Sometimes it can feel like you're on Twitter. Use the block button generously, you can even block entire instances.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Fediverse is a large network of servers which are allowed to communicate with each other. Some fediverse servers refuse to communicate with some others referred to as "Defederation". Each "instance" as we call them has its own hosts, owners, admins, and rules.

The major flavors of fediverse instances are Piefed, Lemmy, and Kbin/mbin. They're open source frameworks used to build the instances.

I strongly strongly strongly advice against instances which are still federated with Hexbear, a Chinese propoganda botnet, such as Lemmy ML or Lemmy Today, and I actually advise against all lemmy instances in general because their codebase maintainers are anti-trans, pro-genocide, pro-Trump, and pro-Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[-] TastySoup@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Wait, whaa? You mean lemmy.world, too? Can you please point me to a source for this? I joined on lemmy.world just as a reddit refugee when they killed all the 3rd party apps and I'm still only partway familiar with how the fediverse works haha (why I opened this thread)... I've had a good experience on lemmy.world so far, I obviously don't want to inadvertently support those initiatives, though...

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 points 6 hours ago

So the Lemmy framework developers only officially host the Lemmy ML instance themselves but they are responsible for all the feature pushes and merges in the code. They use this authority to throw up a banner asking for donations on every Lemmy instance, and when asked why the Lemmy World team hadn't taken the banner down they said they explicitly do support them including with their own donations.

You can find more information on the Lemmy developer's extremism on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works in the post "Documentation of Lemmy.ml's Extremism"

[-] TastySoup@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Oooooof. Guess I gotta learn how to move myself to another instance now, and if my fave app will even work with that instance. Heh. Sigh. How disappointing. Really appreciate you calling it out, explaining it, and sharing the source.

[-] aaaa@piefed.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

There isn't any mechanism for migrating your accounts, you would just make an account elsewhere and abandon this one.

I'm not sure how much it matters that you're using Lemmy software when you're on an instance that isn't the the devs', but money talks I suppose. Generally instance owners pay attention to changes and keep things configured in a sane way

But just the same, the same team that runs lemmy.world also run piefed.world if you still think you feel you need to switch to different software. It's what I did. But you can move to piefed.social if you'd rather ditch the team entirely

[-] TastySoup@piefed.social 3 points 2 hours ago

You answered what I was confused about in your post. I just had to re-read/let it marinate. I'm on piefed.social now, thanks again for your help! :)

[-] TastySoup@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Ah interesting! I thought we could migrate accounts, is that a feature with Bluesky? (I think maybe that's what I was thinking of...) I like using the Boost for Lemmy app (it was initially Boost for Reddit before the API shutdown so I kept the app and changed to Lemmy), and when I go to the add account screen there's a whole big list of instances for me to choose from so I guess I just need to research/find a list of who owns what and start over again. Haha. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! :)

Edit: Or are all these different instances I'm seeing here still using the same Lemmy software. I think I may have misunderstood the "software" part of your comment initially... But now I'm even more confused. Haha. Yay for tech rabbit holes! :)

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago

People are stupid everywhere, but there are fewer people overall here and that makes a surprisingly big difference.

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 hours ago

Instances communicate with each other to sync posts from the communities on each instance. This requires the instances to be federated. Some instances are federated with almost everyone. Some instances are defederated from instances their admin(s) have deemed troublesome.
Left leaning, but not particularly friendly to women as a whole. Not big on sports. Lots of Linux.
You'd have to expand on that
Communities not subreddits
Prepare for beans

[-] CombatWombat@feddit.online 5 points 8 hours ago

One thing it's easy to miss about the fediverse is that it's not just lemmy users here. You'll see folks from friendica (which is like facebook) or pixelfed (which is like instagram) or mastodon (which is like twitter) or one of a dozen other services in the comments. Each one of them has a different culture and different ways of interacting, so assuming everyone is gonna act like you're used to from reddit is going to serve you poorly. My best advice is to always be actively kind to other people, and try not to complain too much about the mods or the admins -- no-one's get paid to be here (and many of us are actively paying for server fees) and no-one can stop you from saying anything you want, because you can always start your own community or stand up your own instance.

[-] 6_Electrons@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

so I'm curious about the other platforms being here - how do I tell who they are?

How can I interact with those platforms from my lemmy instance?

Its something I don't understand but think would be awesome and improve my lemmy experience greatly if I had those as part of my lemmy feed if thats possible?

Thanks in advance

[-] CombatWombat@feddit.online 3 points 6 hours ago

Mostly, you can’t tell. There are some tells, for instance comments will often start by at mentioning op, and posts to communities will at mention the community in the post body, but oftentimes you just won’t notice. There’s a reasonable chance you’ve already read and/or replied to someone on another service already.

I haven’t used lemmy in a year or so now, but last I knew, lemmy did not support following users directly. Piefed does, and I’m told mbin does as well. And let me tell you, having the capybara every hour account (@capybarahourly@mastodon.social) and the zoo twitter mirror account (@zootweetmirrorbot@mastodon.ai) in my feed has, in fact, greatly improved my experience.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago

@finitebanjo@feddit.online explained pretty good but I want to reiterate that the instance ultimately dictates what is allowed or not. the software has defaults on some blocks and defederations but its up to the instance maintainers to keep the defaults or change that. each community then may or may not have rules. communities do not by default federate community posts the way most of the software works. It needs a user of the instance to subscribe to the community. piefed did something to allow auto subscribing to sorta fix that and its possible that has made its way out since most all the ecosystem is open source but im not sure. there are often multiple communities that have the same subject and often on different instances. some communities seem to limit or do not federate at all. Like the dedicated nsfw instance and an anime instance has communities that people only see if they have an account on the anime instance. this I think came about from changes that allowed for private communities. a bit annoying for me though the lazy bum who does not want to make multiple accounts but does want to see it all. my own instance has all the piefed defaults. its kinda stage for piefed but pretend I did not say that as it kinda rubs people the wrong way. but it generally gets the new stuff first. I don't change because again lazy and honestly the piefed defaults when I look them up pretty much line up with things im fine not seeing. for pure philosophical reasons I should move but man I like getting the new stuff fast and I like how piefed does stuff.

[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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