How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person?

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• daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reddit for people who like making their life more difficult

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  • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    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.

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• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you had a hundred small Reddits talking to each other like one big Reddit, oh and with fewer fascists and no ads.

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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What would win in a fight, a hundred Lemmy-sized Reddits or one Reddit-sized Lemmy?

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  • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’d love to know if my enormous blocklist of instances and communities is unusual or if most people end up curating their global feeds massively to keep them interesting. Anime, porn, US-specific politics, authoritarian-friendly politics, furries, wojak-style barrel-scraping memes - I don’t want to downvote most of these just because they’re not my bag, but I suspect I end up with a tiny fraction of the total Lemmy+Piefed content.

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    • felbane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I tend to block at the user and community level, my only instance block is feddit.de and that’s only because I don’t speak German and those folks are such prolific posters it felt like I was touring central Europe every time I’d go to the All feed.

      Blocking what you’re not interested in is the second best part of Lemmy, IMO.

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• JakenVeina@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Social media, but it’s setup lile e-mail, so there’s no one single company that owns everything or enforces universal rules. Anyone can do their own hosting and still communicate with everyone else.

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• kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  reddit without the reddit users

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• squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Decentralized and noncommercial reddit

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    First thing asked “Decentralized?”

    And it’s one of those things where those who care already know, and those that don’t care won’t : “get it” by you explaining it.

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    • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Decentralized?”

      “Like email” is a quick way to explain that.

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    • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I found it pretty easy by explaining that if reddit is a website, then Lemmy is a search engine that just has the same feel as reddit.

      It isn’t accurate, but gets the point across to those who don’t understand tech.

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• jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s reddit but instead of me/ we have c/ and there are different servers, not just reddit.com, but most of them talk to each other. Also the devs are tankies, don’t use .ml

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• theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve learned it’s a mistake to try to describe the fediverse to people. It’s right up there with getting them to care about privacy

  I’d just describe it as Reddit, but less bots. Or reddit but less toxic. Just focus on what might draw them in and send them a link to lemmy.world or whatever home server you think they’d like

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  • canadaduane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “less toxic” can be interpreted in different ways. For example, I don’t always find people on Lemmy to be more open-minded across tribal boundaries. But you can perhaps find your tribe and experience less toxicity that way?

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• spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “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.”

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• doesit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Reddit in slow-motion.

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• Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Like reddit but mostly politics and no videos.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The worst part about fediverse is there is not enough users for discussions about a specific tv show or anime 😕

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Social media for antisocial people

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They don’t need to know what the fediverse is. I’d tell them it’s a smaller Reddit without the many assholes and narcissistic mods.

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• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Reddit for nerds and political extremists.

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• Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Reddit with a slightly more community centred ownership structure so it’s a bit harder to enforce unpopular decisions.

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• Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s essentially reddit but, decentralised like email, aka. you don’t have one entity controlling all email.

  It’s user focused and free from corporate overlords, it’s a lot friendlier, kinda feels like the old Internet

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• boydster@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nerd reddit

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  • mang0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Haha like saying something is boomer facebook

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Its like reddit without the content and with silly keyboard warriors. But at least not big tech. :)

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A collection of message boards.

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I call it “socialist Reddit” or “anti-social media”

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Communists instead of fascists

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m neither.

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    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nor I, but I’d rather have the ocassional far left twat than the facist investation that other social media platforms are suffering. Also the extremists are mostly concentrated on a few instances.

      But OP asked for a “quick” description of Lemmy.

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• T156@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• cynar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.”

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• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Instead of having reddit, you have multiple reddits that can see each other’s content and post on each.

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  • Airowird@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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• SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If reddit had many servers not just one. Thats how I do it, since people dont understand mastadon either. And using the word instance is ludicrous. It confused me early on myself

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• canadaduane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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• krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Reddit12 years sgo

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• AstroLightz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A bunch of smaller Reddits all combined together, without karma, and more tech-focused content.

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• klemptor@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Many parallel reddit-like services which can interact with each others’ content if they choose to allow it.

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