Apps like Voyager per the meme help it feel more Reddity for me and that has boosted my adoption
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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Lemmy’s originally Canadian just saying 🇪🇺🤝🇨🇦
I'm new to this app, how does it work
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.
Unless your community or community owner pisses off all the other communities or just community leaders.
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.
US billionaires aren’t even all American. All billionaires are bad.
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
Some Instances Allows Tor:
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-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)
Some Instances Allows Tor:
Basically every instance except lemmy.world allows Tor
Shouldn't this be posted on other socials instead of Lemmy?
Feel free to, but also be ready to see your post removed anc your account banned
I posted it to Reddit, let's see how it goes
Please report back
I haven't had any issues posting this kind of content to BlueSky and Mastodon.
Already got banned for pro Luigi posting.
Me, too. You have my sympathies.
I have decided that nothing of value was lost
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This actually got me pumped and Im American. Long live the resistance.
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Can’t stop the signal.
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.
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.
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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.
What, didn't even notice! Thought that I somehow disabled it myself.
I had a sync sub but since it got abandoned I just cancelled it. Most images or videos wouldn't load, as well as some comments or some random shit. Using voyager now and won't look back. It's much better since the first time I tried it
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