1. sort by “all” to get a better feel for the fediverse
2. try piefed if you want an easier time discovering communities of interest to you. (similar to lemmy, talks to lemmy, but its not lemmy)

Lemmy is my personal soapbox where I can scream into the void without the fear of corporate censorship.

I almost never get censored on most instances because I act like a normal human being never post stupid bigoted stuff like a conservative jackass lol.

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Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement?

It is a forum Website. The same way every shooter game is not a doom clone and every car is not a Ford clone.

What is the user count vs reddit?

relevancy. As long as you find people to talk with, that is irrelevant.

Is it worth it sticking around?

You decide.

however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.

I would count it as a positive, that Lemmy is not shoving me posts up my ass that I may or may not even want to see, just so I create more content/Data for advertisers. If I want to eat, I go to a community and eat the things I want. I don’t want to be force fed like a pig.

Or even if I want non personalized stuff, I just go to the all tab.

Do you scroll all??? Because that should not be empty. If your subscribed is empty and you want to scroll on subscribe then yeah you have to subscribe to stuff. Personally I just scroll all and then block communities im not interested in. My main examples are sports and meme ones.

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It’s a message board like reddit, with the benefit that it isn’t owned by one corporation.

So if a weirdo server owner goes weirdo, the others can just break contact, which has happened before. If one country creates stupid laws, the servers in the country can simply shut down or move.

Communication flows more like a spiderweb instead of a pyramid.

Let go of user count; return to quality.

To your third question: yes. I actually moved here a couple of years ago from reddit, due to that API nonsense. It’s a smaller community, with much less content. But honestly, it’s better this way.

I think it’s better. Reddit seems mostly bot regurgitated content these days. Also I’m still salty after getting site banned.

It’s an alternative to Reddit in the Fediverse.

The Fediverse is a network comprised of such software (Lemmy, Mastodon, PieFed, PixelFed, etc.)

Federation is the ability for different platforms to communicate using an agreed upon language (in the Fediverse, this language is called ActivityPub).

So if Instagram and Twitter were federated, you’d be able to post your photos on Instagram and have them also be on Twitter, all without having a seperate account at Twitter. All the likes and comments on Twitter will be available on Instagram and vice versa.

And because of this, servers (or instances of platforms) are not really dependant on each other. So even if lemmy.world were to shut down, every other instance will still operate just fine. For example, I run my own Lemmy instance lemmy.asudox.dev. Even if every other Lemmy instance were shut down, my instance will still continue operating without any issues. Any new instance can then link with my instance and start federating. The power of decentralization.

A nice video explaining the Fediverse by the Peertube team: https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD

The video and my explanation are over simplifications. Federation will not work between all instances the same. Mastodon and Lemmy don’t federate fully. For example, Mastodon has no communities. Mastodon users just post (or “toot”, like “tweet” in twitter) on their profile. So you can’t subscribe (or follow) users in Mastodon from Lemmy nor see their posts, unless they post it in a community (which appear as just another user in Mastodon).

If you want to know more about the technical details, check the specification for ActivityPub at W3C.

Yes, it’s like Reddit. But you’ve got a much much smaller population. And it attracts a certain type, you have to have a certain minimum tech aptitude to be able to figure out the fediverse.

You won’t find anywhere near as much content here, and no niche content. You need to browse “all” and will run out of fresh content if you spend too much time doom scrolling. But it’s still good and worth checking out.

It’s similar to Reddit, but one of the defining features is that it’s not owned by a company, or by anyone at all. Anyone can stand up a Lemmy instance and participate as a part of the distributed system. All the instances can interact (federate) with all of the others, or choose not to with specific instances.

Currently there is only a fraction of the user base on Lemmy as on Reddit, so there’s less content. There are also a lot fewer bots and trolls, so conversations tend to be more civil.

Because getting started on Lemmy is slightly more complicated than Reddit, more of the user base tends to be technically inclined, and they tend to be more liberal, so you’ll find Lemmy is more left leaning generally.

I believe the browsing style defaults to “local,” which means only content on your local instance. Change that to “all” and you’ll see more. The other selector let’s you see different sorting views - if you’re new you might start with “top week” or similar to see what has they most upvotes over they last seven days.

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What is the user count vs reddit?

I’m not sure instances actually publish their user counts. You can measure by activity, which adds up to maybe 10 events a second. If you could figure out the average rate per user you could get an estimate from that.

Like reddit but feels like an actual community. Just be forewarned, there are angry troglodytes here, just like any other online forum. Keep the positive, ignore the negative. Many people say to block .ml/etc adresses as they are here only to flame, but I haven’t seen that correlation yet.