[HN Gopher] Lemmy
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       Lemmy
        
       Author : acqbu
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2023-03-14 21:05 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (lemmy.ml)
 (TXT) w3m dump (lemmy.ml)
        
       | mogoh wrote:
       | The lemmy-network is (for now) full of tankies. Just look at
       | this:
       | https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/T...
        
         | ozarker wrote:
         | I mean there's a lot of that on Reddit too. Check out r/sino
        
         | cced wrote:
         | You're egging and reducing a website because it has leftists on
         | it while the paragons of personal responsibility and efficient
         | markets and the banking system are having a meltdown and
         | getting a bailout.
         | 
         | Remind me again what government handouts and interventions are?
        
         | aloisdg wrote:
         | Well you can start your own instance.
        
         | raincole wrote:
         | ...and? You didn't finish your sentence. People say stupid
         | things on a website. Do you think it's a problem or something?
        
         | capableweb wrote:
         | Oh no, a federated network has people with opinions and some
         | with extreme opinions I disagree with, what are we gonna do?!
         | 
         | Not sure what you want to have said with this. People should
         | avoid Lemmy the software because there are "tankies" using it
         | too?
        
         | nerdponx wrote:
         | And Pleroma is full of whatever the polar opposite of a tankie
         | is (not going to use the "f" word but you know who I mean).
         | It's not too surprising that the political allegiances of the
         | core developers affect who is and isn't interested in joining
         | the network.
        
       | megatoaster wrote:
       | What is this?
        
       | interroboink wrote:
       | I struggled to determine what exactly this was, at first.
       | 
       | The docs[1] are fairly clear, though:
       | 
       | "Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, Raddle, or
       | Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post
       | links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the
       | scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and
       | all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to
       | the same universe, called the Fediverse.
       | 
       | ...
       | 
       | Note: Federation is still in active development"
       | 
       | Also a useful post: "What is lemmy.ml"[2]
       | 
       | [1] https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html
       | 
       | [2] https://lemmy.ml/post/70280
        
       | mgiampapa wrote:
       | https://join-lemmy.org/ would be an infinitely more useful
       | starting point to discuss what lemmy is.
        
         | RobotToaster wrote:
         | Worth noting that list misses off a few more popular instances
         | https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
        
         | recuter wrote:
         | Consider calling in:
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3J8FYKZ52w
        
       | r721 wrote:
       | Previously:
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615058 (223 comments)
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438493 (190 comments)
        
       | fisherjeff wrote:
       | Ah man, I misremembered the name of the Lenny chatbot[0] and
       | thought based on the URL that someone had created, like, a
       | ChatGPT version him. Oh well.
       | 
       | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_(bot)
        
       | IncRnd wrote:
       | Now, we just need Lenny [1] to read the stories on Lemmy, and the
       | circle will get completed.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.lennytroll.com/
        
       | mmanfrin wrote:
       | Mastodon:Twitter::Lemmy:Reddit
        
       | arpa wrote:
       | nice reddit clone
        
         | Zak wrote:
         | What's interesting about this is not that it's a reddit clone,
         | of which there is no shortage, but that it's a _federated_
         | reddit clone. It speaks ActivityPub, the protocol used by
         | Mastodon.
        
       | muyuu wrote:
       | Lemmy doesn't seem to offer anything to me. It probably offers
       | something tangible to certain groups with opinions that are not
       | well represented elsewhere.
       | 
       | The fact that it's federated under the hood is not a feature that
       | would matter for most people, at least as far as I can see. If it
       | meant that I can easily move my conversation elsewhere then yea I
       | can see that, but I really can't, and it only further divides my
       | comments across yet another silo.
       | 
       | Would be happy to be corrected if I'm wrong about my impression.
        
       | razakel wrote:
       | Does it like to gamble?
        
         | taylorius wrote:
         | It's all the same to me.
        
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