Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
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2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
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3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
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4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
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5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
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6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
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If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
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Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
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Image Transcription: Meme
['Let me in' - a two panel image of a man in a suit standing outside a closed metal gate, and shaking it vigorously in the second panel with his head tilted back and his mouth open screaming. The second panel also has small amount of motion blur. There is text at the bottom of both images.]
^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^
I appreciate the work you're doing to aid in accessibility. I'm not sure using "unkempt hair" is quite right. I would have thought this is natural afro hair. I don't think the hair description adds to the transcription so is probably better to remove.
To be safe, I removed the hair description altogether. Initially added it because I thought it might've been part of the character's appearance in the skit. Given the rest of the character's appearance, I wasn't sure if it was textured hair or just curly/frizzy hair blowing in the wind with poor image quality, and whether it was an intentional choice for the source material or just his natural hair type.
Me cuz I suck with computers and couldn’t figure out how to make an account. It kept failing and one wanted me to write an essay on why I should be considered. Im a casual reddit users I didn’t want to write an essay. Finally signed up with lemmy.world and I know its slow cuz a lot of people are on it but at least it worked lol.
That's me before the blackout, now settled on sh.itjust.works because shit just work
I filled out the essay and didn't make the cut :( then I started to understand some more about this stuff and found lemmy.world
Me, who's already been here for a few weeks, trying to just load a post or make a comment right now with the influx of traffic:
Use a non Lemmy.world account and you’ll have more success
how does that work
So each lemmy site is an instance with its own servers. Even though they all connect to one another, they run on their on load and data. So you're on lemmy.world, which is being very overloaded with the influx of reddit folks. I'm on lem.ee which is buttery smooth, yet still able to see posts and comments from world, since it's all federated
You just make an account on a smaller instance (easiest way to find them is at the bottom of the page here), and subscribe to all the communities you want from lemmy.world and others to start pulling them in.
Then proceed to shitpost as normal.
EDIT: Alternatively, go here, switch the "Software" option to Lemmy at the top, and look for a server geographically close to you.
EDIT: Alternatively, go here, switch the “Software” option to Lemmy at the top, and look for a server geographically close to you.
Oh, great tip! Thanks! It's interesting to see which servers are hosted in my state.
So true!
Oh god I finally was able to log in, 2 days after I thought I failed to make an account because none of the emails went through.
I wish there was some sort of way that I could send CPU power or bandwidth, tor style, to these new decentralized platforms. I totally get that they're having growing pains, and I also get that part of the tradeoff of decentralization is "well, who pays the hosting bills then?"
I'd love to put a percentage of my bandwidth and home server (or even AWS instance) CPU resources towards running an encrypted Lemmy.world instance. I don't want to just run my own barren, empty server like what the Federated system would let me do; I don't feel like that would actually have any benefit to making a reddit-replacement since why would anyone use my instance? No, I specifically want to dedicate resources to helping the popular instances, be able to run.
Holy crap these upvote numbers are something new. Thanks spez 😅
To be fair you're on the most popular instance, the nice thing about federated stuff is you can join a smaller instance that's not overloaded, and still have access the same content.
I wish they did a better job of explaining that on the lemmy site haha
I had my wife sign up yesterday as a daily reddit user and average tech skills. Based on that experience, I really don't think lemmy is going to go mainstream in its current form.
I agree. Had the same thought. Right now I think the influx will be tech savvy users fleeing reddit and have no big problems understanding Lemmy.
However, there will be (I hope!) a larger influx of 'normal' users wanting to check Lemmy out (my theory is that all the content creators are ending up here and the lurkers will start to follow content in the end) will have a hard time. Why bother them with instances or how you pick communities, how the fediverse works? Just allow people to sign-up, no forcing to choose server, one account only, deal with that login/create account when you end up on different servers, etc. Just make the initial access a smooth pane of glass. Later they can deep-dive in the tech if the so choose to. Just stop throwing tech into peoples faces, it really is as simple as that. Like someone else stated, if I drive a car I should not have knowledge about my engine, model/type of crankshaft, timing of the belt, etc. I have a garage for that sort of thing and I will not be bothered with details (unless I ask the mechanic of course).
I said this before and it seems that the 'core' or 'old skool' Lemmy users have issues with that, you should have to know the tech if you want to join.
I hope this will not be a typical open source/low level attitude of admins and tech savvy people where people are just lost in that tech maze. Whatever you need to run in the background, do whatever, just give me an alternative to reddit. This is not me speaking but I fear the average emigrating reddit user will want this simpleness. And why not give it to them, why force people to understand fediverse?
It's basically the same premise. Link aggregator with a forum attached, where upvoted content rises to the top. She doesn't need to know how instances work in order to use it in the same way that she doesn't need to be a mechanic in order to drive her car.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
I don't speak on behalf of everyone, but we prefer the term r/efugees
Me trying to login in to every instance except the one where I signed up.
Holy shit im in this boat. My mobile experience has been rough. No idea what I did or if any of it was right. Jerboa, Readtthat, logins, confusion. I'm getting the hang of it on PC and on Lemmy.world. But, fuck ig I know if Lemmy.world's "all" is the true all?
Me, who didn't join one of the huge instances, instead hosting his own instance: "Why is everyone complaining? Lol."
This is the 3rd time I've seen someone mention they run their own instance. The other two specifically mentioned how it was for just them, and I'm wondering what the benefit is going that extra mile for just yourself. Is it worth it? Or is it simply a case of "because I fucking can?" 🤔
I am part of a team that runs an instance for financial discussion, specifically related to direct registration of securities.
For us, the benefit is additional control over the resiliency and transparency of the server and moderation style.
I run an open instance for everyone. The name (FOSSware) suggests that it's for people interested in FOSS (free and open source software) only, but in the description, I specifically mentioned that it's an open instance for everyone, just like with lemmy.world and other popular instances.
I'm running this instance, because I love technology and I'm hosting a lot of stuff for my family, friends and I, as well as some public facing things already. It's a hobby.
Another reason why I'm doing it is that I just want to give back to the community, as I strongly believe that decentralized tech is the future. We were proven time and time again that centralized approaches, where only one entity is in control, is really bad for the userbase.
I FINALLY managed to make an account after 4 days of lurking limbo! Hi guys!
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”
I am honestly curious how long it will take for lemmy to get its first million users. May we win or not. but still nice to see a chance and grow
If you trust the totals at https://the-federation.info/platform/73 -- then we're already past 2M users.
But if you look at "Active this month", then it is only 60k users. Lemmy counts activity differently than Reddit. Active means: made a comment or post, whereas Reddit counts any user you had the post in their feed as active.
So this month there's about 2M users, 2M comments, 600k posts, but only 60k of those users generated all of the content.
The only rule on Reddit was: 90% of the users were non-participating lurkers. It seems this might be accurate here too, or at least approximately.
Lemmein!!
After 16+ years on Reddit, I deleted my comments and posts and then my account. Did the same with Twitter. A little sad but also liberating.
Enjoying Lemmy so far! Hoping the communities fill out a bit. Need my communities for IASIP and Walking Dead 🥺