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submitted 1 year ago by chrizbie@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I'm just curious to know how y'all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

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[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 year ago

Pretty good, it's my Reddit replacement (except for Google searches where I still put site:reddit.com, searching Lemmy doesn't work that well..).

Choosing an instance sucked though.

I went like:

sh.itjust.works: Found out they're Canadian, the latency was too much for Europe
lemmy.ml: Overall pretty good, I liked that NSFW instances were defederated, so I could browse All without seeing porn. Till I realized there is a slur filter that censors your comments and others. So if someone calls you a 'bitch' on the Fediverse everyone can read it, except you. You see 'removed'
lemmy.world: Largest instance, plenty of local content, good policies overall, but the stability was awful (due to DDOS)
lemmy.zip: Smaller instance, full federation, super fast and in the EU, I'm staying there for now and moved all my subscriptions and blocked communities (mostly porn, again, I like to browse All) over

[-] doot@social.bug.expert 4 points 1 year ago

I run a tiny eu instance and am open to registrations

[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

The problem with tiny instances is reliability and trust.

If you lose the motivation to run it tomorrow it's gone. If you run out of money? Gone. If you're the only admin and you die? Gone.

In addition to that you can read everything I do on your instance. Like all my "private" messages.

If an instance admin is scummy they could even modify the Lemmy code running and save away all passwords and emails in plaintext. Not an issue for me as I use a custom email and random passwords for every service, but it can fuck over random people.

So professional bigger instances do have their benefits too.

[-] doot@social.bug.expert 1 points 1 year ago

dude, all I ask for at registration time is a nickname and a captcha... reddit, twitter, fb and google all read your shit and train ai models and make billions of dollars every month

I'm sure your shitposts are top secret but idk, what's your threat model?

[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Losing all my comments and posts?

[-] doot@social.bug.expert 1 points 1 year ago

also, you can just export them?

[-] doot@social.bug.expert 1 points 1 year ago

embrace the ephemeral bro, I had a 15y/o reddit account (still do but fuck em)

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