To a Redditor: Basically Reddit
To a social media user: Like other platforms except there's no following and no one looks at who's posting the content
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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At least here in kbin I can push a button that sets a user to be followed.
Still a bit sad I can't follow peeps on here. Have to do this on mastodon
You can subscribe to a lemmy user's rss feed (I know it's not the same, but close)
Ok, thanks for the headsup. I will do this then.
It's a federated reddit alternative. The most I've ever had to elaborate is to clarify that "federated" basically means "decentralized." I've never tried to explain it to someone who can't figure it out from that.
The federated part is what confused me the most when I was looking into making the switch.
The ideology behind it is simple, but the term "federated" made it sound like some government thing.
federations are decentralized
in under 10 words
Reddit like email social media
did it in under 6 word's
livakivi
It's like multiple reddit sites, but they all work the same and the content and users are synced between them. So you can pick any one of them, follow topics and contact users from all of them, and if one site goes haywire we just ignore or block it and move on.
The way that I explain it is quite similar to yours. It works, but you need to emphasise
- that unlike in Reddit, there's no central group of admins controlling the whole thing; and
- that each instance has its own communities, and those are equivalent to subreddits.
otherwise users start associating instances with subreddits.
That’s how I explain it as well. It’s better than the email analogy I see all the time. Obviously using reddit as an example only works if the person you’re talking to knows what reddit is. Otherwise, I just change it to something they know (i.e. facebook, discord, etc.)
more toxic than reddit these days and that's saying something.
frankly I'm tired of even mundane, apolitical comments resulting in angry rage filled replies. not as nice a place it used to be
Peculiar.
I don't see this behavior.
Are you referring to a news or a politic community?
almost any community really if it's on world. I prefer stick to my home instance
Peculiar.
I am subscribed to some .world's but I don't recall such behavior.
- Like Reddit, KBin and Lemmy are 'link aggregators'
- This means, in subject driven Communities (sub-reddits), people post links or images or their thoughts and others comment on them
- Reddit is software that's installed in one central location (server). This means it is owned and controlled by one single commercial entity.
- Kbin and Lemmy are both software that are installed in multiple locations (servers), owned and controlled by multiple people and can be installed by anyone. This means no one can ever own or control the entirety of Lemmy.
- Reddit, KBin and Lemmy can be accessed by users via websites or apps.
- Reddit is centralised. If it disappeared tomorrow, it would be completely gone.
- KBin and Lemmy are federated. If one instance (server) disappeared tomorrow, all the others would be unaffected and carry on as normal.
- All instances of KBin and Lemmy can talk to all other instances of KBin and Lemmy, as long as they are federated.
- Rule breaking and/or toxic instances/servers can be defederated by other servers/instances.
- Reddit, KBin and Lemmy are all free to use. However, with Reddit you must contend with invasive privacy and advertising. The way to support KBin and Lemmy is to donate to the development team and the server/instance your account is on.
It's like Reddit was before they started trying to monetize it and screw over the better apps. It's probably impossible for it to get screwed up like Reddit did. Fewer users, though, for better or for worse.
Activity pub and the feddiverse are literally the email of social media. Everyone uses email and has a basic grip on it. You at gmail.com can mail someone at hotmail.com and vice versa. So the host you choose doesn't really matter much.
Mastodon and other similar clients give you a classic twitter like experience. With linear feeds and no algorithms to manipulate what you see. What you want to see is what you will see.
Lemmy and other similar clients give you a reddit like interface. Again with no complex manipulative algorithms. And the ability for much better moderated and curated experience than reddit.
Peertube gives you a YouTube like interface and focuses on video content.
Pixelfed is a Google photos or similar interface focusing on images.
They're all activity pub. And can even interoperate. You can post to Lemmy from mastodon etc. Though that's a bit more advanced currently.
does using an analogy about an unrelated topic work
What do you mean?
My guess?
Maybe.
Should look into the analog first before being certain though.
I just tell them there are pirate subs (comms), that get's their attention rather quickly.
Piracy and porn... The secret to every social networks success...
Just like how people can use different browsers to get to content on the internet, people can use different websites to get to the fediverse.