Instead of 1 big website like reddit, there's a bunch of smaller websites like reddit. These sites are united in a way as users from one site can view, comment on, etc on other sites.

Something similar is Email. Even if you made your email address with Google to have @gmail.com at the end of your email address you can still send and receive emails from anyone.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 hours ago

Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 13 points 8 hours ago

It's pretty close to Reddit, but it's like a whole bunch of smaller Reddits that share posts between each other. The individual Reddits (instances) are generally grouped by hobby, political affiliation, or geographical location, but not always.

You can tell what instance something or someone is from by looking at their name or title. E.g. I'm from lemmy.zip, you can see it after my user name.

The reason that it can't be bought by a billionaire is that even if one instance is bought out, compromised etc, it can just be removed from the group at large, and it continues like nothing happened. I'm simplifying a bit but I hope you get the general idea.

[–] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 22 points 15 hours ago

US billionaires aren’t even all American. All billionaires are bad.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 18 hours ago

y'all don't have to boycot every american, just their economy, so if a based person hosts a lemmy server that helps the open free internet and should not be boycotted

[+] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

So it wasn't Reddit bots after all.
There is plenty of manufactured consent without it.
Same horrible views -Trump.
Europe can continue going down the drain with the US.
Deserved.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

If you don't enjoy the left environment Lemmy has to offer, there are plenty of right wing echo chambers wating for you. I prefer it over the pure hate I read on those, even if I agree to a certain degree about manufactured consent. Maybe jfs just the nature of the Internet these days.

I see hate here too. And hate is nothing that I personally endorse. But I understand where it is coming from, and whom it is directed to. On the right it's just directed towards the hate group of the day©, be it communists, migrants, refugees, gays or trans folk. It's just hate to have a enemy. At least here it's hate against a class that has systematically made 99 % of people suffer for their own gains.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Same horrible views -Trump.

You clearly don't get my comment.
I said Lemmy is equally right except there are no Trump fanboys.
If that's why you feel the need to call it 'left' is laughable.
Possibly from american standards and view, who haven't got a clue what 'left' is and think their Bernie or even their right wing Dem party is 'left'.
Despite there being less horrible bots and banning or whatever, it looks like most views correspond to american ones.
Since Europe in in their sphere of influence and colors our news.
Somehow I was hoping it was only the MSM but when I see all the comments and views here it looks like the population has also shifted further to the right and think what they are told to think.
Many incapable of discussion, parroting MSM narrative and when asked for sources they start name-calling bcs they can't back it up.
Only difference with Reddit is I (mostly) don't get banned if I then return the favor.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You clearly haven't been around here much. There are loads of very far left communities and servers including dbzero, hexbear, lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, and so on. Sure there are right wing and libertarian parts as well on different servers. In fact this place largely attracts radicals and extremists of multiple flavors.

I regularly get canned for not being far left enough actually. Despite being further left than easily 95% of people.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I know of most them, even if I'm indeed new here but was talking about general subs not particularly political.
The views are mostly center at best.

I regularly get canned for not being far left enough actually. Despite being further left than easily 95% of people.
There's the crux of the problem.
Who defines 'left'?
I know for certain in US (who are mostly politically illiterate and use wrong terminology) the slightly less right wing Dem party for a great deal sees themselves as left or progressive.
Which they certainly aren't .

You have the same phenomenon in EU where in many countries you have a socialist party, that is in no way socialist.
As an example the worst being the Labour party.
They follow the same center right route as most 'acceptable' parties. usually Liberal/Conservative that keep the status quo of more and more austerity, chipping away at social policy.
The "socialists" up tp a certain part get away with it by now and then throwing a bone to the public and shamelessly put on a show on the 1 may and scream the internationale.
Where they do what politicians do, lie and pretend to be the party for the people.
When things get worse, and there is nothing more to squeeze the commoners get angry and want to be heard.
Unfortunately mostly by voting extreme right. Others to what is called 'extreme left' the actual real socialists (evil commies, tankies!) who the status quo parties demonise even more than extreme right.
After all they are the real enemy, while fascism is simply ultracapitalism and is less of a problem and when necessary even will be embraced by the traditional parties.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Some Instances Allows Tor:

😎

-Comment posted on Tor Browser via the Tor Network

(Not sure how much good it does, since I kinda already revealed the city I live in through my personal anecdotes. But I suppose I can create another throwaway for more... spicy... stuff)

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 16 hours ago

Some Instances Allows Tor:

Basically every instance except lemmy.world allows Tor

[–] Morph9@lemmy.zip 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Shouldn't this be posted on other socials instead of Lemmy?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Feel free to, but also be ready to see your post removed anc your account banned

[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I posted it to Reddit, let's see how it goes

[–] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Please report back

[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

12 views, no up-votes so far

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/s/XB3bzkDjXM

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 5 points 7 hours ago

Aaaaand it's gone.

[–] rosco385@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago

I haven't had any issues posting this kind of content to BlueSky and Mastodon.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Already got banned for pro Luigi posting.

[–] patrickS@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Me, too. You have my sympathies.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

I have decided that nothing of value was lost

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 20 hours ago

Sorry to hear

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This actually got me pumped and Im American. Long live the resistance.

ヽ(°ω°)ノ

[–] derzeppo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 23 hours ago

Can’t stop the signal.

[–] civil_drive@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lemmy reminds me of Reddit when I first joined more than a decade ago. I just hope it doesn't go to shit like Reddit has the last few years.

[–] xye@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

My oldest Reddit account was just one year shy of being able to vote (just rolled over to 17) and it stung a little to hit that delete button yesterday. Lemmy very much reminds me of the days when I joined. However, users here frequently point out not having any niche subs on Lemmy - that was exactly what we had to contend with on Reddit. Except making a sub became competitive and you had a lot of speculative sub creation etc. It was exciting because it was new, but that isn’t the case now. The attitude I see missing on Lemmy then is this desire to create communities, and instead lament they don’t exist. Be the change you want to see everyone.

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[–] kingshrubb@lemmy.ml 10 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

Is the Sync app no longer being updated/maintained/developed? I am having problems with it. Upvotes/downvotes are no longer being showed. Shame because it is my fav Lemmy app.

[–] deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago

What, didn't even notice! Thought that I somehow disabled it myself.

[–] Kiliyukuxima@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

I had a sync sub but since it got abandoned I just cancelled it. Most images or videos wouldn't load, as well as some comments or some random shit. Using voyager now and won't look back. It's much better since the first time I tried it

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