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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

https://join-lemmy.org/instances

For mods: I hope it's okay, if not feel free to remove it, but as a lot of people were commenting on the other thread while the reason of the change had been given in the top comment, I thought it was worth it to make a dedicated post.

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[-] Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

this place still feels much emptier than reddit :(

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 47 points 2 months ago

That's a good thing. Less argumentative assholes and memelords rehashing the same tired old crap.

[-] credo@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

*Fewer argumentative assholes.

:)

[-] Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I just got fairly downvoted and made fun of on a post of mine asking about jobs where they dont have a dress code- and someone called me a fucking anime girl or some shit. I guess it was from the Text emojis I was using- but like damn that was my second post here on this site😒

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

wow that's harsh why'd they...

sees username

That checks out ig

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

To be fair I've seen the comment, it wasn't really welcoming.

People complain we're only so many people here, but when I see this kind of interactions it definitely doesn't help

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 5 points 2 months ago

Yup, too many hostile group in here it easily drown up the good one. It's especially harsh when people decided to post and all they get is downvote for no reason.

It was my reddit username and I love that name so damn much cus it was funny- now reddit wont fuckin give me my account back and im still pissed off about it ;-;

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 3 points 2 months ago

Why would it matter though? It's not the worst offender and have nothing to do with what they asked.

[-] bigboig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Paraphrased, "I don't wanna bed rot at home for my job." "Yikes, what a main character."

Lmao hope they were making a poor joke

[-] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

There always has to be at least one asshole, but that is everywhere you go on the internet. Just downvote, block if you want and move on.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Sorry to hear 😔

Yeah some people here can be dicks. I’ve needed to block a couple people, and join an instance with disabled downvotes, and now it’s a lot better.

IDK about that. Honestly it seems like a lot of the assholes just went here.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Good news is that here they stand a much better chance of being moderated by competent admins, whereas Reddit admins moderate to save face of their website, not because they actually care about the rules or people getting hurt. Most of the assholes I knew of at the beginning of joining Lemmy aren't here anymore, they were banned, either on their home servers or by a good amount of the others.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 28 points 2 months ago

Hard to compare though, one is in the hundredth million of active user, one barely scratch 50k, kinda different league.

[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Half of that 100 millions are bots tho

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Even if that was true they still have 100x the people.

[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yes yes, just to say that I believe Lemmy has (proportionally) less bots

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

We understood what you said.

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

That's a good thing for me. There's an actual end to the scrolling and since there are less people, the engagement rate is way way better than reddit. While there is still some drama cough ^vegan ^cats cough, it's still a better place in my experience. Although I miss the niche communities, but even the niche communities on reddit has pretty much imploded because of the monetization making the mods implementing some strange policies that neuters what made the subreddit great like trustull or formuladank.

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Use the All function and when something bubbles up to you that you like, subscribe to it.

Took me a few weeks before I could stop browsing all. Using Voyager helped.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

It looks live you've been here for two months, how is it so far? You mention Lemmy being emptier, which topics interest you? Maybe we can suggest you a few communities.

[-] Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

tbh- I had made my account 2 months ago, but ONLY STARTED USING IT just a week ago cus I was locked out for whatever reason. I had forgotten about it then but now im desperate for a reddit replacement because reddit wont answer back my 20 appeals :' )

Im interested in shitposting, Costume construction/cosplay, I also ask a lotta questions n stuff, Home DIY improvement is a new one... That should be most of it.

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago

Here's my tip - subscribe to a bunch of things of interest, and set your subscribed feed to top for the day. You'll likely see a bunch of interesting posts.

Then browse all, top for 6 hours, and you'll see some wide variety (except for days following a debate like today, that'd going to skew political heavily for obvious reasons).

You'll find new and interesting communities to subscribe to, and make your subscribed feed all the better.

Personally I have different accounts for different interests, and for a few of them I rarely leave the subscribed/top for the day. They are more focused, and without a good multi-community feature that's universal, its the next best thing.

Hope you enjoy it here!

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Then I guess you already know

For general discussion we also have !casualconversation@lemm.ee

There are a few threads with other active communities on !newcommunities@lemmy.world, feel free to have a look there too, maybe something will catch your interest!

[-] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've been here never. 😄 (or for centuries, depending on your client 🤣)

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Reddit has millions of active users.

[-] demoman@lemmy.one 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Does anyone know what the requirement is to be considered an active user? Does this count lurkers who don't post or does simply viewing content include them? Sorry if this is answered somewhere else, I'm just curious and lazy

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 months ago

Voted, commented or posted

[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

In the last month

[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago
[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago
[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Also want to thank Blaze, love the amount of posting and commenting you do!

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you !

[-] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

So lemmy.world is still excluded from the list but the active users from it are counted in?

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

lemmy.world is so big that it breaks federation to geographically distant lemmy instances. Driving more users to it wouldn't help anyone and defeats the purpose of decentralisation.

[-] voracread@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

How does geographic location impact federation?

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

So, in its current form, lemmy sends federation packets in serial form. It can send them to multiple instances in parallel, but the feed between any two given instances is serial.

And serial means that the second packet doesn't get sent until the first packet has been processed. Add in geographic latency, which is relevant at multiple steps of resolving any given AP packet, which adds to the per packet processing time, and now, lemmy.world is producing packets faster than it's possible for a geographically remote instance to process them, no matter what hardware they're running on.

The problem would be resolved with parallel sending, but that's not currently a thing that lemmy allows for, and apparently, is not trivial to implement either.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

I still feel bad for aussie.zone and their 1-week delay with LW

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, essentially.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 2 months ago

Is this only users on Lemmy instances?

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it's a site dedicated specifically to Lemmy. So Mbin and Piefed are not counted, neither is Mastodon or any other service. :)

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago
[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 5 points 2 months ago

Thanks! I haven't seen that site before. Happy to see PieFed on the rise!

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What's up with July 29, 2024?

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Someone probably setup a farmbot

this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2024
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