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yeah, the ui is a total ass, but its fun
Dude it’s 2025 is that good ass or bad ass
Good ass. It’s not perfect but it respects your boundaries, tries its damnedest, down for any fetish/kink, there when you fall asleep and when you wake up.
I still don’t fully understand what Fediverse and instance means.
Fediverse = universe of federated instances.
Federation = many entities connected together and interoperating, etc
Instance: every individual Lemmy site with its own domain name runs an instance (a running copy of the software) on its server.
Those servers are talking to each other so users on one can talk to users on another server. That’s federation.
Lemmy isn’t hard, it’s just different
It’s not even that different really.
Lemmy isn’t too hard, it’s just annoying at times. Like when your instance hasn’t downloaded the content of a given community and it just looks empty until you subscribe to it.
Wow, so that’s how it works. I signed up to a couple because they interested me and hoped in the future something would be posted, or I would, and then saw a heap of posts.
It wasn’t dark magic after all. Perhaps it was psionics?
But, after all that it’s still better than Reddit.
My account was shut down without notice a few weeks ago. The server providing my account shut down. All comments, saved links and history was gone.
How do you explain this to a non-technical user while reassuring that this is a great system?
“you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you’re still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you’ll fucking starve to death?”
This is exactly what happens with Churches. Someone starts a “hip” new church plant. Everyone leaves the local long-established churches. Long established churches shut down. Church plant falls apart because the guy starting it doesn’t know what he’s doing. No Church.
I could’ve sworn it was because young folk were disenamored with preachers and churches who are nothing more than whited sepulchres but what could I know
A little pain in exchange for longtime gain?
Oh no, TIL that the Fediverse is “exercise” - no wonder most Westerners avoid us! 🤪
It’s crazy to me that whatever program you used to make that account on that server didn’t automatically force a backup location on the same device where the account is used. On Android, some folder. On desktop, some folder. And it’s crazy to me that we can’t just import all of our votes, comments, and posts in that backup to another account on the same device or another.
That is a terrible system. No answers from me. Just questions
Doing that requires content addressing. It’s what atproto is built around (bluesky’s protocol) but nobody’s made a proper forum variant of it yet
honestly I just want a tool like powerdeletesuite for reddit where it at least asks the server to overwrite and delete your posts / comments and downloads a copy for you. Every time I bring this up somebody says “oh they’re not actually guaranteed to delete your info” and like yeah? fine. I at least want the chance to ask, in bulk, to make it a little harder for random people to just easily read through my shit. And also I want the ability to download everything.
“Choose an instance that provides monthly reports, including finances, such as !home@lemmy.zip”
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I have to say this is my experience too. I’m a boomer and whatever stumble upon here is purely coincidental.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Type a word for something you might be interested in, and if there’s a community it should come up there. The main problem is still that the fediverse doesn’t have enough people to support niche (or even kinda niche) interests yet
3 legged dung beetle jump racing isn’t niche!
But you are here all the same. We appreciate you!
watching and participating in the boomerification of millenials (in regards to lack of tech literacy/ competance) is quite upsetting.
After you block a few hundred groups of anime and nonsense it’s surprisingly enjoyable.
I’m still mad at the 196 mods for causing even more 196 commies to be made for me to block.
HOW MANY MORE MOES DO WE NEED???
Who is moe and why is her midriff so popular???
Isn’t moe the bartender in the simpsons?
At least 1 more than the fucking aigen communities, I swear I have to block a new one every week.
What if I told you at least 50% of the moe communities content are aigen 🥹
Just means I have blocked them! If it has ai in its name or only posts ai generated content, its gone (except fuck_ai, for obvious reasons)
IDK, lets keep going until we find out!
Block the ani.social instance and it takes away 90% of the anime groups.
Sorry about that, some people don’t know ani.social exists and create comms on the wrong instances. They’re supposed to show up in my local feed, but now they’re in yours and you don’t even appreciate them!
When you block that many groups how many new posts do you see? And how do you sort the posts?
I have only blocked a few groups but added a filter for posts containing trump or elon in the title as I get plenty of that crap from other sources.
Regarding the anime and furry posts, they come in waves so it’s not constant or if I want to get a break from the yiffing I switch between sorting by Hot, Scaled and Top 6hrs.
Not who you are asking, but I block a lot of communities (almost all of them political, when I want to look at political stuff I will go to other sources.) But I also sub to a lot of communities. It is possible for me to reach the bottom of my feed, but since I mostly check it between doing other things, it takes anywhere from a few hours to most of the day. And that’s with me setting it to “Top Day” as my primary filter. If I’m really bored I’ll do a pass through Top Week or Top Month. If I’m STILL bored, I’ll set it to Active or New Comments, but usually by then it’s like, “Okay time to go do something else” and I’ll try to find some other activity to do.
This is a feature, not a bug IMO.
Yet they have an email provider.
That’s just laziness/willful ignorance. The fediverse is just spicy emails
It is complicated, and I like a little barrier to entry.
It’s like needing to know the password before being let into the treehouse.
“Fuck spez!”
“Yes, yes, come in, come in!!”
Yes me too, try PeerTube it is even more complicated.
Oh man it really is too. I spent the better part of a day trying to find a good instance to join to post and I couldn’t figure out the various keywords and stuff; every time I thought I found a fit it was basically the opposite of what I needed. Then I gave up and stopped even wanting to do it.
Yeah I join two neither are great. And unlike here you can’t see anything outside your instance. Guess I will keep posting to YouTube until they get their shit together.
I find it is a lot easier to search through communities and instances on a desktop. Mobile is clunky even through some of the apps that have been developed are pretty good.
Tbf, PieFed’s categories of communities and user-customizeable and shareable Feeds greatly simplify the UX in working with communities (ironically more so on a mobile than desktop, surely an oversight that will be fixed soon).
I kinda love that people are willing to deal with these various technicalities and unknowns as a worthwhile compromise as long as it’s not [input any walled-garden here]
Cheers to all the brothers and sisters out there helping out their siblings!
@threeduck@aussie.zone you’re getting famous
Fedi-famous (the best kinda currently)
Ascending among such legends like The Picard Maneuver, SatansMaggotyCumFart and Nicole, the Fediverse Chick!
Leaving out our boy Stamets and Flying Squid (on hiatus IIRC) smh
I settled on three names because I would get a “you forgot about X” response no matter what =P
Kolanaki… Munted Crocodile…
