It’s somewhat similar, but there are a few differences.
One, the instance matters. You’ll see users as [email protected]. The somesuch.blargh is the instance. An instance with .ml is often a sign of tankies. 196 has a high proportion of trans individuals. db0 leans technical. World is more conversational and broad. Lots of smaller ones around too with less defined reputations/communities. If you want to be a piece of shit, there are actually instances for that too. They just get defederated. (No one outside the instance will see it)
Two, advertisers are evil. There are no ads here. No one wants to make a community that advertisers approve of. The focus is on maintaining the community, not a business. You might see things that offend you a little. Unless it’s actually hateful or illegal, grow up and deal with it. If it is hateful and illegal, report it. Mods are generally pretty good in a lot of places. Learn to use ‘block user,’ ‘block community,’ and ‘block instance’ to improve your feed. There’s no company algorhythmically trying to force you to see things.
Three, the maturity level is higher here. Reddit is the big name so it has all the teens. Lemmy leans toward older, more technical, less popularity focused people. There’s still plenty of silliness, but it’s not usually the same kind seen elsewhere. It’s a good thing.
Four, no karma. Your points aren’t about you. They are to help sort post and comment quality individually. So, if you are getting some downvotes because you said something a group of people didn’t like, ignore it. The points won’t follow you to the next post or comment.
Three, the maturity level is higher here. Reddit is the big name so it has all the teens. Lemmy leans toward older, more technical, less popularity focused people. There’s still plenty of silliness, but it’s not usually the same kind seen elsewhere. It’s a good thing.
This deserves a special highlight. The low-effort “insult-jokes” that get repeated on Reddit don’t fly here. Attacking people instead of their message goes directly against some community rules (a lot have a sidebar rule of “be civil” and repeated offenses do result in bans.) If somebody leaves a nasty comment, don’t engage - just click the button below their comment with three vertical dots, click “Create Report,” and comment the number of the rule being broken. We’re actively trying to avoid that particular aspect of Reddit toxicity here, so it’s better to report and move on rather than get dragged into the mire yourself.
Since we’re a smaller community, your posts and comments are more likely to get responses here. You will eventually start to recognize some names popping up over and again due to this. If you felt trepidation from seeing that you have a response on Reddit, you may find it slowly fading while being here. It’s really a breath of fresh air. I used to get anxious knowing I had responses on Reddit, knowing that 9 times out of 10 (pulling numbers out of my ass here) it would be someone coming in with an insult or a “gotcha.” But here, it’s usually a friendly response or a polite disagreement. The mods can be quick, too - one of the few times somebody replied to something of mine with a nasty comment, I never even saw it because the mods had already blocked the user by the time I checked my messages.
Speaking of messages, it’s important to note that due to the nature of the fediverse, they aren’t truly “private.” Not that they’re being shared publicly, but rather that federation across instances means even your messages go across multiple servers, not just to your intended recipient. (I’m not an expert on this, but this is my understanding. Others might have more information on how this all works.) So it’s smart to be careful what information you share, even in direct messages.
I’ve recently jumped onto masto as well. It is far more effective for networking. Its horrible as a news/current affairs feed.
I find Lemmy and Masto complement each other well.
Piefed is supposed to be one that brings the two forms of presentation (lemmy style and masto style) together but you’d have to ask a piefed person how effective or useful that is.
I’ve tried Pixelfed as well, really nice people there. Lemmy is full of cynical bastards (like me), Masto seems full of really motivated and productive people, but Pixellfed I found only genuinely nice people.
On the downside, i found it a bit limited. I suppose because it doesn’t really revolve around a social centre (lemmy’s all and local feeds) like Lemmy does so I couldn’t really orient myself very easily there. Maybe because its feed based and there was only one person I knew a little about there.
Hah! I was not aware. I’ve been on piefed for a year or so now and never noticed any mastodon integration. I guess that could be both because it doesn’t work, or because it works really well, but… I’m thinking the former is more likely.
Counterpoint from my personal opinion: instance doesn’t matter, don’t assume people have certain views based on that, try to avoid stereotyping or being a dick to anyone, spread acceptance and love to everyone and if someone’s a dick to you just block them or ignore and move on.
As with Reddit, the strength is in niche communities, and while Lemmy is still obviously way smaller, there are still some great niche communities here if you look for them - just try not to be put off if it turns out to be basically just one person keeping a community alive by posting regularly.
Engage! I’ve actually posted and commented way more here than I ever did on Reddit cos it feels like people actually reply and pay attention to stuff here and the mobile apps are great (boost, sync, etc)
It’s somewhat similar, but there are a few differences.
One, the instance matters. You’ll see users as [email protected]. The somesuch.blargh is the instance. An instance with .ml is often a sign of tankies. 196 has a high proportion of trans individuals. db0 leans technical. World is more conversational and broad. Lots of smaller ones around too with less defined reputations/communities. If you want to be a piece of shit, there are actually instances for that too. They just get defederated. (No one outside the instance will see it)
Two, advertisers are evil. There are no ads here. No one wants to make a community that advertisers approve of. The focus is on maintaining the community, not a business. You might see things that offend you a little. Unless it’s actually hateful or illegal, grow up and deal with it. If it is hateful and illegal, report it. Mods are generally pretty good in a lot of places. Learn to use ‘block user,’ ‘block community,’ and ‘block instance’ to improve your feed. There’s no company algorhythmically trying to force you to see things.
Three, the maturity level is higher here. Reddit is the big name so it has all the teens. Lemmy leans toward older, more technical, less popularity focused people. There’s still plenty of silliness, but it’s not usually the same kind seen elsewhere. It’s a good thing.
Four, no karma. Your points aren’t about you. They are to help sort post and comment quality individually. So, if you are getting some downvotes because you said something a group of people didn’t like, ignore it. The points won’t follow you to the next post or comment.
Rule 0 is still ‘Don’t be an asshole’ though.
196 isnt a server maybe your thinking of lemmy.blahaj.zone
It’s the 196 community
This deserves a special highlight. The low-effort “insult-jokes” that get repeated on Reddit don’t fly here. Attacking people instead of their message goes directly against some community rules (a lot have a sidebar rule of “be civil” and repeated offenses do result in bans.) If somebody leaves a nasty comment, don’t engage - just click the button below their comment with three vertical dots, click “Create Report,” and comment the number of the rule being broken. We’re actively trying to avoid that particular aspect of Reddit toxicity here, so it’s better to report and move on rather than get dragged into the mire yourself.
Since we’re a smaller community, your posts and comments are more likely to get responses here. You will eventually start to recognize some names popping up over and again due to this. If you felt trepidation from seeing that you have a response on Reddit, you may find it slowly fading while being here. It’s really a breath of fresh air. I used to get anxious knowing I had responses on Reddit, knowing that 9 times out of 10 (pulling numbers out of my ass here) it would be someone coming in with an insult or a “gotcha.” But here, it’s usually a friendly response or a polite disagreement. The mods can be quick, too - one of the few times somebody replied to something of mine with a nasty comment, I never even saw it because the mods had already blocked the user by the time I checked my messages.
Speaking of messages, it’s important to note that due to the nature of the fediverse, they aren’t truly “private.” Not that they’re being shared publicly, but rather that federation across instances means even your messages go across multiple servers, not just to your intended recipient. (I’m not an expert on this, but this is my understanding. Others might have more information on how this all works.) So it’s smart to be careful what information you share, even in direct messages.
Yeah
The no karma is actually good
Makes you not conform to general public as much as it makes you wanna be yourself
Maturity level is higher here? I’m yet to see that.
Ah shut up, poopy pants
I assume you haven’t seen Reddit lately. Being mire mature than them is a really low bar nowadays
Thats sounds fair. I wanna network and connect with people in the SaaS industry, any recommendations?
For networking mastodon side of fediverse would be better for it. There you can follow, and talk with individuals. Not the hive mind of a community.
Technically you can talk from lemmy to mastodon, but it’s better to make a mastodon account.
Thank you man, let me set up an account.
I’ve recently jumped onto masto as well. It is far more effective for networking. Its horrible as a news/current affairs feed.
I find Lemmy and Masto complement each other well.
Piefed is supposed to be one that brings the two forms of presentation (lemmy style and masto style) together but you’d have to ask a piefed person how effective or useful that is.
I’ve tried Pixelfed as well, really nice people there. Lemmy is full of cynical bastards (like me), Masto seems full of really motivated and productive people, but Pixellfed I found only genuinely nice people.
On the downside, i found it a bit limited. I suppose because it doesn’t really revolve around a social centre (lemmy’s all and local feeds) like Lemmy does so I couldn’t really orient myself very easily there. Maybe because its feed based and there was only one person I knew a little about there.
About piefed, it’s pretty much lemmy but written in python iirc. Maybe you’re thinking about mbin?
Nah, I’s thinking Piefed, but I’ve never tried it so I’ve no idea how successful that part was. Obviously by your comment not very 😆
I don’t really know why mbin isn’t more popular. I tend to forget about it.
Hah! I was not aware. I’ve been on piefed for a year or so now and never noticed any mastodon integration. I guess that could be both because it doesn’t work, or because it works really well, but… I’m thinking the former is more likely.
Imma go ahead and make Masto account too then. See how much I can connect. Thank you for the heads up friend
Piefed isn’t like Mastodon at all. In fact, it can’t (yet) follow mastodon users. Following other forumverse users is an upcoming big feature.
I don’t really see Lemmy as being used for networking, it is possible, but most people here are even more careful of their anonymity than on reddit.
Aaah I see
Counterpoint from my personal opinion: instance doesn’t matter, don’t assume people have certain views based on that, try to avoid stereotyping or being a dick to anyone, spread acceptance and love to everyone and if someone’s a dick to you just block them or ignore and move on. As with Reddit, the strength is in niche communities, and while Lemmy is still obviously way smaller, there are still some great niche communities here if you look for them - just try not to be put off if it turns out to be basically just one person keeping a community alive by posting regularly. Engage! I’ve actually posted and commented way more here than I ever did on Reddit cos it feels like people actually reply and pay attention to stuff here and the mobile apps are great (boost, sync, etc)
… SaaS as in everpure, vast or dnn?