Reddit needs to be replaced sooner or later. Unless they stay true to their goal and never have capital screwing the community.
A federated and community-based services is the better way to keep useful conversation on the internet to help everyone.
Lemmy and kbin communicate using activity hub protocol, that doesn’t mean they communicate with app using the same protocol.
So it is not necessarily trivial to let a Lemmy app support kbin.
I think e os is running on very outdated Android version. So it might be because older version do not handle transparent icon well.
Also e/os has some modification on icon. It is possible they set the background to the boarder color of the icon, hence hiding the tail.
I would suggest to try a different launcher/icon pack see if the issue persist.
I don’t think that is a good strategy to convince people to leave. Also it adds strains to the Lemmy instances.
Regardless, we already have efficient, electric, self-driving vehicles that barely kill/hurt any person, it is called a tram, and it cost 7 bucks to commute. Cheaper than most car insurance.
Maybe instead of pouring tax money into billionaires’s pocket begging them to make things that are not much worse (just slightly worse), we probably should just build more tram?
I think for a larger general purpose instance, in general they are quite well-fedorated, I think it could be a good approximation of what you want. But the mod can obviously stop federating with a certain instance, because their value do not align.
It basically means contents someone on your instance have interacted with. Either they subed to the community, commented on a post, upvoted a post, etc.
All of these actions requires your instance to ask for information about that post from its instance. And your instance will cache these information (because why not, your instance has already done the work to get the info), and serve it to people when they see “all”.
Basically you can see things outside of your instance, so there is more content than local.
Then you realize that kids who are homeschooled by dumb adult will have the same say as the smart kids that cared.
AFAIK, one of Lemmy’s core developer seems to be a China/Russia apologist, see content on https://lemmy.ml/c/socialism , which is moderated by one of the creator: https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines
He identify as a communist from his profile on GitHub and Lemmy. I am sure there are people (including me), who disagree with his definition of “communism” or “socialism”.
As a left-leaning Chinese, who does not enjoy many decisions made by the CCP, it is obviously disheartening for me to see CCP being protraited as “socialists”, “communists”, or “democratic”. But despite his potentially controversial political stance, it is very likely he is neither a neo-nazi (Nazi and Russia/China didn’t have a good relationship) nor a white supremacists (even his cover art on Lemmy is a picture of Mao, and he allows China apologist comment on this subreddit).
I strongly oppose his political stance, but lemmy is a FOSS project maintained by many; so if the lead developer does something out-of-line, I am sure there exists people can maintain a fork.
EDIT: obviously, when I say “China” or “Russia”, I refer to their current governments, not their people.
I do not want my content to contribute to propertiery LLM that will make billion for large tech company without giving back to the community. Unfortunately I think fediverse have a harder time countering large scale data harvesting than a centralized service like reddit.
On the other hand, I don’t mind open source, privacy respecting (is this a thing for LLM?) LLM to use my content.
People need to bring r/translator here!
It is unlikely for larger instance to go down, but if it did go down, theoretically you should be able to migrate before the instance shutdown. Unfortunately, AFAIK Lemmy haven’t implemented account migration yet: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985
However, other fedi service like mastodon do have that feature, so it should work similarly. I imagine once it is implemented, you will be able to keep all your subscriptions (basically like exporting your communities, and automatically clicking “subscribe” on each one) and likely your account settings. But I don’t imagine your post/comment can migrate to your new account.
What do you need explaining? I am curious.
I have been wanting to switch to Lemmy for a long time, it is my last non-FOSS social media. But I never imagined Lemmy will be popular because reddit is thriving, and I cannot see reason for people to leave.
So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you spez form the bottom of my heart. And I hope you keep down the path you are on and turn reddit into a Twitter dumpster fire.
FOR THE FEDIVERSE!
According to the current readme: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy#features you will be able to delete all your post with account deletion. This also align with the warning text before deleting your account.
Also most instance are hosted by community members, and are community funded. I think most instance don’t have the interest, or even the means to sell your data.
However, by the nature of OSS, everyone can modify the code when they start a instance. So theoretically, the admins can track you. Also by nature of the federation, your data will also be present on other instances that is federated with yours, but what they got should mostly be public informations (namely information of your post). And they don’t necessarily need to delete that info after you deleted your account.
That being said, the privacy aspect of these small community-funded federated service should be order of magnitude better than most other social media site, where their entire business is to spy on you and sell your data.
I think this is what you are looking for: https://the-federation.info/platform/73
I don’t know if it is “all the instance”, but it is a good amount.
And you can see the communities by typing <instance URL>/communities, like https://beehaw.org/communities
I imagine more casual discussion is on the Lemmy community: https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy and jaboa community: https://lemmy.ml/c/Jerboa
For more serious discussion I imagine respective GitHub will be great:
I see a subscribe button in the side bar:
As you can see I entered a community on lemmy.ml from beehaw.org.
All I did is search “gaming”, click on the community, and I got the join option like normal. Can you let me know what does it look like on your side?
I think you just search the community name, if it is on your instance it will show up as community name otherwise it will show up as <community name>@<instance name> like gaming@lemmy.ml.
But in your instance or not, it will not make a difference for your experience, all you need to do is click subscribe, and it will show up in your feed.
Ironically, the most privacy friendly android hardware is Google Pixel, mainly because it can install graphene/calyxos