I'm curious if anyone feels like sharing stuff.
I will say this: Even though it has been rocky at times, I think for the most part the site is in a pretty good place. I'm glad most people here kinda have the same idea as me and just trying to have a good time, talk about random stuff without having to make every single thing into a huge debate or whatever. I see a lot of respectful and mostly good discussions without people resorting to calling some a fascist or some other annoying thing. We've got so much hostility everywhere on the internet, I'm glad almost everyone here just vibes and shares cool shit ya know?
:fry: g*mer threads today have had the fastest & highest engagement
:soviet-hmm: anti-gamer aktion may need to be increased
It's nice to have a group of people with similar views to hang out with, you know?
I can't fucking stand reddit anymore. I will go there when someone links a thread to downvote fash or post a troll comment but yeah. Just being away from fucking reddit is a blessing.
i pretty much only use like 6 subreddits now and stick to that. I've liked a lot of the grill pill discussions in r/AcidMarxism a lot, some really cool stuff goes down there
yeah even if they are my natural predator, i guess it's true :rat-salute:
We need more people. I miss r/chapotraphouse so much. We need to use this platform to brigade Reddit.
i don't disagree with having more people here, but i highly doubt there will ever be a melting pot of lefties and weirdos like that sub. For me personally, I tried out so many other leftist subs for a few months after the ban and none of it was the same. There is a ton of wolves in sheep's clothing everywhere on reddit. So much bad faith shit, even in leftist subs. There are a few more very niche ones that are good, but sometimes the circlejerky shit gets to me idk, maybe that's a bad word to use but that's how it feels. I also think it's important and good how inclusive it is here for the most part. A lot of people can = some really rough times for others. The moderation here is solid in taking care of bad actors or reactionaries. it's hard to manage huge numbers in a way. The high activity in the old sub was pretty awesome though, no doubt about that.
Site is unquestionably bad, quite similar to reddit, huge time waste like almost every website by design, making us all stupider
Oh well, I'll keep drinking that garbage
You all need to eat more fucking fiber and potassium I can tell by the way you all post
the content here is not funny, and many of the posters are sad and bring me down when i see them post about how depressed they are.
This is by far the biggest difference between the site and the old sub. The old sureddit was actually funny.
CitationsNeeded has undergone a terrible name change and needs to IMMEDIATELY return to it's true name of Shrekland.net for anything remotely good to ever happen again
The least one thing I can say about this site is two, just like all numbers that are not one.
maybe we should have an official site line that is supported not by vague debates that get derailed quickly but by whatever data we can find. this could take a form of weekly threads in c/struggleSession where people air their frustration or doubts and actually try to convince rather than dunk. that could open many bad faith actors to keep us busy infighting but discussion within parties is always important. it allows for self-criticism. feds will always be in parties and websites will always have bad faith actors just work with it
doesn't matter why, they did. it's too late now though :sadness:
def has a similar vibe I've experienced on the Fediverse, I enjoy smaller communities.
not familiar with fediverse but sounds cool. bigger isn't always better IMO. I just made a post the other day about how there was actual tulsi stans on the CTH reddit and that is like the tamest shit you start seeing when a community gets so big. idk i got a lot of thoughts on this type of thing but i feel like it's not all that big of a deal in the end. if it grows it grows, a lot of people here are cool and good and the ratio of cool and good people to annoying people is very small which i like a lot
The fediverse is a collection of servers that all speak the ActivityPub protocol so they "federate." Lemmy, what Hexbear uses, is going to support federation down the line which will be based. The biggest use of ActivityPub is with twitter clones like Mastodon. There's a bunch of cute servers - mostly lot of tech and FOSS focused but also queer instances. I'm on deadinsi.de. .
yes there's a lot of cool and good people here, though I haven't made any friendships like I did on r/chapo so still waiting on thatabsolutely. plenty of shitpost accounts, more of a twitter vibe than reddit vibe. Here's a good account
every new esvrld follower is a nail in the coffin of common decency
Wow I’m surprised someone else has heard of them, do they have a large following?
I think it's a small pond, so within a certain area of the network the most active posters can reach pretty far. and afaict xe's online at least 12 hours a day.
Indeed, it's a pretty comfy space. yes xe is an extremely online poster we can only hope to emulate.
the fediverse is one half ex-tumblr leftist queer furries, one half european fossbros, one half 8chan neoreactionaries.
on the queer servers you'll find a lot of leftists but there's definitely fashier parts of the fediverse and just plain old liberals.
Lemmy currently supports Federation, but the Hexbear devs forked it right before that happened.
TIL. glad they got that worked out. Any timeline for the hexbear devs to rebase it? I understand things are rocky rn.
No idea, my impression for the last few months has been that all development has been paused, but I could be wrong.
It's unfortunate because it's been my strong opinion that federation should have been a top priority feature. It likely would have prevented some of the major schisms that have happened, cause people could set up a new instance and still hang out here instead of just leaving forever. It would also open up the "pipeline" that people want Hexbear to be a part of, since you just need to get people somewhere on the Lemmy fediverse, rather than trying to get them to make the jump to a pretty niche communist forum with both feet.
Yeah that’s an excellent point. I believe like half the devs stepped away after the last schism which is why dev is slow rn. Hope to see it improve though.
As nice as that would be, I think that the fork was a major mistake; although I sorta understand their reasoning which was "Using Rust makes it difficult to recruit more devs", but now we don't have any devs at all. Things are in a bit of a no man's land, since Hexbear has some much needed moderation features and things like pronoun tags that would go away if we reverted to mainline Lemmy. Would be nice to be closer to mainline Lemmy so we could still get updates (like federation), but still have the additional tools that were developed (I think Lemmy merged some of them in, but not everything).
I think they started rewriting everything in Node or a framework like that while mantaining full compatibility with the Lemmy API, not sure if it ever got deployed (you can check the repo).
You can use a single account to post on any other fediverse server. And the servers themselves can share posts easily.
