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

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• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reddit but better.

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What exactly do you want to describe? People know social media apps/sites like this one.

  I’d rather describe what federation means. For that I always found the e-mail comparison useful. Then I’d add that there’s different apps around that but this one’s most like reddit, which I used to use.

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• abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Communists instead of fascists

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m neither.

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    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Social media for antisocial people

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• kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  reddit without the reddit users

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• squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Decentralized and noncommercial reddit

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Decentralized?”

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

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    • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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