• epicstove@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      15 hours ago

      Instead of 1 big website like reddit, there’s a bunch of smaller websites like reddit. These sites are united in a way as users from one site can view, comment on, etc on other sites.

      Something similar is Email. Even if you made your email address with Google to have @gmail.com at the end of your email address you can still send and receive emails from anyone.

      • adm@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        14 hours ago

        Unless your community or community owner pisses off all the other communities or just community leaders.

    • Baggie@lemmy.zip
      11·
      23 hours ago

      It’s pretty close to Reddit, but it’s like a whole bunch of smaller Reddits that share posts between each other. The individual Reddits (instances) are generally grouped by hobby, political affiliation, or geographical location, but not always.

      You can tell what instance something or someone is from by looking at their name or title. E.g. I’m from lemmy.zip, you can see it after my user name.

      The reason that it can’t be bought by a billionaire is that even if one instance is bought out, compromised etc, it can just be removed from the group at large, and it continues like nothing happened. I’m simplifying a bit but I hope you get the general idea.

  • not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    151·
    1 day ago

    y’all don’t have to boycot every american, just their economy, so if a based person hosts a lemmy server that helps the open free internet and should not be boycotted

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    Some Instances Allows Tor:

    😎

    -Comment posted on Tor Browser via the Tor Network

    (Not sure how much good it does, since I kinda already revealed the city I live in through my personal anecdotes. But I suppose I can create another throwaway for more… spicy… stuff)

  • civil_drive@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    Lemmy reminds me of Reddit when I first joined more than a decade ago. I just hope it doesn’t go to shit like Reddit has the last few years.

    • xye@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      17 hours ago

      My oldest Reddit account was just one year shy of being able to vote (just rolled over to 17) and it stung a little to hit that delete button yesterday. Lemmy very much reminds me of the days when I joined. However, users here frequently point out not having any niche subs on Lemmy - that was exactly what we had to contend with on Reddit. Except making a sub became competitive and you had a lot of speculative sub creation etc. It was exciting because it was new, but that isn’t the case now. The attitude I see missing on Lemmy then is this desire to create communities, and instead lament they don’t exist. Be the change you want to see everyone.

    • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
      5·
      2 days ago

      I hope it won’t but I won’t be surprised if it does. The internet itself is decentralized, and that wasn’t enough.

  • kingshrubb@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 days ago

    Is the Sync app no longer being updated/maintained/developed? I am having problems with it. Upvotes/downvotes are no longer being showed. Shame because it is my fav Lemmy app.

  • DeMonstratio@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 days ago

    I highly recommend “boost for lemmy” don’t know if boost is european but lemmy is so gopd enough for me.

    My only problem is lower userbase but I guess that will get better

  • LUC@lemm.ee
    15·
    2 days ago

    stupid question, but anyway: does it have admins? so is Lemmy less censored than Reddit?

    • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      391·
      2 days ago

      Every instance has an admin. They are listed at the bottom of the sidebar of the instance.

      The good thing is that every team of admins can manage their instance and the communities hosted as they want.

      So if an admin wants to censor a certain topic on their instance, people will just move the community to another instance that would accept it.

      A good example if !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, which cannot be accessed from lemmy.world.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      Lemmy has admins in the way that email providers do.

      Another example: my instance blocks porn. Those who agree with this policy may enjoy this instance, but it doesn’t impose its rules on anyone using other instances who can access that content freely.

      It’s kind of like email. They are all connected, but the rules are set by your provider and those who are willing to communicate with you. There is no one person who can set the rules for everyone.