Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

  • VlynEnglish
    321·
    1 year ago

    Pretty good, it’s my Reddit replacement (except for Google searches where I still put site:reddit.com, searching Lemmy doesn’t work that well…).

    Choosing an instance sucked though.

    I went like:

    1. sh.itjust.works: Found out they’re Canadian, the latency was too much for Europe
    2. lemmy.ml: Overall pretty good, I liked that NSFW instances were defederated, so I could browse All without seeing porn. Till I realized there is a slur filter that censors your comments and others. So if someone calls you a ‘bitch’ on the Fediverse everyone can read it, except you. You see ‘removed’
    3. lemmy.world: Largest instance, plenty of local content, good policies overall, but the stability was awful (due to DDOS)
    4. lemmy.zip: Smaller instance, full federation, super fast and in the EU, I’m staying there for now and moved all my subscriptions and blocked communities (mostly porn, again, I like to browse All) over
      • VlynEnglish
        91·
        1 year ago

        The problem with tiny instances is reliability and trust.

        If you lose the motivation to run it tomorrow it’s gone. If you run out of money? Gone. If you’re the only admin and you die? Gone.

        In addition to that you can read everything I do on your instance. Like all my “private” messages.

        If an instance admin is scummy they could even modify the Lemmy code running and save away all passwords and emails in plaintext. Not an issue for me as I use a custom email and random passwords for every service, but it can fuck over random people.

        So professional bigger instances do have their benefits too.

          • VlynEnglish
            61·
            1 year ago

            I own a domain, for example xyz.com, which means I can create whatever email I want, like [email protected].

            The mail server I set up forwards all emails to one inbox. Which means I still get an email if you send it to [email protected] or [email protected] and so on, you get the idea.

            So when I sign up for an account I don’t use a general email (except for banking stuff, taxes, etc.). If I sign up for Facebook (good riddance) I’d use [email protected]. That way I also know when I suddenly get a lot of spam who lost my email or sold it off :)

            • Biscoot@thelemmy.club
              1·
              1 year ago

              Oh nice. I wasn’t thinking along the lines of self hosted email. Thanks for the insight.

              Maybe I’ll try to set up something similar in the future.

              • VlynEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                In my case it’s self-hosted, but maybe there are email providers where you can use your own domain that enable the same feature (it’s called wildcard usually).

        • doot@social.bug.expertEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          dude, all I ask for at registration time is a nickname and a captcha… reddit, twitter, fb and google all read your shit and train ai models and make billions of dollars every month

          I’m sure your shitposts are top secret but idk, what’s your threat model?