I described it as “Mastodon’s Reddit”. Which is inaccurate, and I’m not happy with it. How would you phrase it?
Reddit for people who like making their life more difficult
At the same time, easier, in that there is a lot less toxicity and bots targeting the lemmyverse
Like recently, I found a reddit thread that had a pretty obviously racist meme.
It was extremely highly upvoted, but something really felt uncanny about it, because I know racism is ramping up, but this was too blunt to feel natural to me.
Then, so many comments defending the racism were there it was odd.
That’s when I decided to look into the profiles of these comments and 9/10 of them were a year old or less, with very few comments or completely hidden profiles.
It was one of the most blatant bot/troll farm attacks I’ve ever seen and kinda shocked me.
All of there comments seemed very humanly written, but the account ages being all similar was too big a tell for me to think it was organic.
Basically, I think we’re cooked if people keep using centralized websites and or if we dont have a way to figure out what is genuine from what isn’t.
The average person goes with the flow and doesn’t think too hard about things. If through trolls or bots a country, nation state or group of billionaires can change what appears to be public opinion, we’re fucked.
A non-Fediverse person wouldn’t know Mastodon, would they?
Usually I say it’s like a thousand different tiny Reddits that all subscribe to each other. No central owner, no central operator. If any one of them gets unruly, the others can just shun them.
THEN I sometimes say “do you remember Mastodon?” And half the time they are like “oh yeah! That Twitter alternative!” And I say yes like that but for Reddit.
I don’t think a non-Fediverse person would be very familiar with Mastodon. They’d be more likely to go “What, like elephants?”.
I would keep it really simple, and just go for “Reddit alternative”. The whole Federation and decentralised business is going to be a sledgehammer if you introduce it to someone who’s not familiar with the concept.
Reddit in slow-motion.
I’ve found comparing it to email works well. It’s about the only (mostly) decentralised service that most people have used.
“It’s like Reddit, but is decentralised, like email is.”, “This makes it far harder to manipulate to hide information.”
Reddit.
Without the cunt on top who put it down.
And there won’t ever be one, because there’s no chair for him to sit in.
It’s reddit but instead of r/ we have c/ and there are different servers, not just reddit.com, but most of them talk to each other. Also the devs are leftist authoritarians
tankies, don’t use .ml“Imagine a hydra with an infinite number of heads. Some of the heads are arguing, some have got their necks knotted, and some are french-kissing. One of them is wearing a pirate hat.”
I call it “socialist Reddit” or “anti-social media”
News and discussion, but you start from a chosen community and work towards global connection. Also, no ads, no making you the product, and volunteer-based development and moderation.
I don’t even know what Lemmy is but I use it.
A bunch of smaller Reddits all combined together, without karma, and more tech-focused content.
Nerd reddit
Interconnected group of reddits. Any such reddit is called a ‘instance’.
Instead of having one instance, you have multiple independent instances that can see each other’s content and post on each.
That makes them federated. Some instances filter what their users can see, others don’t. They can be self-hosted.Unlike in the OG reddit, votes are transparent, and you can see if users got banned somewhere with the reasons why.
I’ld describe it more as “reddit, but without a single company owning all the login servers. Anyone (wirh money) can make their own server and make subs on there, even have their own rules, but you can still visit other servers all on one account, so nobody really has control over all the subs to make up stupid rules for them.”
It’s the dumbed down explanation, but it’s essentially the difference for non-nerds.
Reddit12 years sgo
