Welcome to your new online home!
Whether you’ve just joined out of curiosity after the banning of the original r/TheDeprogram or you’ve decided to leave Reddit for good, I’m glad that you’re here and this megathread is for you!
Instead of having multiple comments across different posts, which might make it difficult to see, you can now ask your questions and post your feedback here.
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ELI5 What is Lemmy? What is Lemmygrad? What’s the difference?
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Can I get a TLDR?
You sure can!
- Choose an Instance (For Marxist/Leftist communities, I recommend one of the following 3. Each of these Instance explain their values and moderation policies):
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Sign up and personalize your profile
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Choose how to browse (You can find a lot of options right here based on your preferences - you can use an app or an alternative front-end)
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Find your favorite communities to subscribe to (Instead of subreddits, here we have communities!)
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That’s it! You’re ready to interact with other lovely users and engage in the community
If you want to share your opinion after joining Lemmy, seek feedback on the best browsing apps, or discuss anything else, feel free to do so right here!
Reminder to check out c/luxemburgism if you’re a luxemburgist or council communist!
I have lemmy.zip am I meant to be able to comment here?
Apprently this works, I have no idea why tho.
I didn’t realize at first, but when I joined lemmy.zip I had to go into my settings and unblock lemmygrad and hexbear before I could see them
oh yea the admin there did that so the libs in zip stop getting ragebaited into every new hexbear and grad post, its been honestly good because then the only zip people we see are those that want to interact instead of just wanting to pick fights
Yes, .zip has a very open federation policy, so we will see posts from not only Lemmygrad and the other Marxist-Leninist sites but also from Lemmy.world and other liberal-leaning sites. There aren’t too many big communities hosted on Lemmy.zip itself, but a lot of users like me use it as a home base.
Allright, sweet. I was worried I signed up to the wrong one since it’s not the ML instance, but I guess this will do for now.
I will say though that there is a small chance if Lemmy politics shift that .zip and Lemmygrad could defederate. In the past, the admin who runs .zip has allowed the users to vote on those sorts of issues (for example, we preemptively blocked Threads.com). But you can always make another account if you get sick of the libs later
Yes :). lemmy.zip federates with lemmygrad, meaning that you can view lemmygrad content and interact with lemmygrad users too, and vice-versa
This was my attempt at explaining it on Hasan’s subreddit:
To clarify, The Deprogram’s “community” is hosted at Lemmygrad:
This address is the equivalent of a /r/ subreddit link.
The “instance” is the equivalent of the host/client/app that “reads” it, which would be the equivalent of Reddit here.
You can use any “instance” you want to subscribe/interact with it as long as it doesn’t block lemmygrad. (Some of the normie instances do because they’re scared of Marxism.)
Some examples of instances would be Lemmygrad, Hexbear, Lemmy.zip, Mander, etc.
The largest Hasan community is hosted at lemmy.world
As long as your instance doesn’t block lemmy.world, you should be able to subscribe to both. I’d recommend just sticking with one instance, as having multiple accounts/instances kinda defeats the whole purpose.
If you want to see available instances and communities, I recommend lemmyverse.net.
imo if you’re putting sh.itjust.works in the list of instances you ought to mention they have a lot of chuds there. huge chud problem. also they’ve defederated hexbear and lemmygrad so
I’ll replace them with a different general-purpose one, thanks.
You could maybe replace world and sjw with zip and mander as examples since they federate lemmygrad
Good idea, done.
I would also like to add, lemmygrad is very different in culture from reddit. There are very few liberals and chuds wandering in because most of their instances have pre-emptively defederated from us. You may still see them on lemmy.ml (sort of the hub instance) but if their instances are not federating they won’t see your comments.
We also moderate differently from reddit and because this is such a tight space you’ll see a lot of the same usernames all over, including the admins. We purposely keep the rules on the instance simple so that there’s not a whole bunch of stuff to remember and due to the aforementioned tight space, we usually act on community reports as sort of sitewide moderation. Don’t hesitate to make reports if you see something off, and please give us as much info as you can in the report so we can make a decision.
Gosh I feel like a Boomer. What are instances and what are federated and defederated instances and how do you know which is which?
What are instances
Instances are servers in the Fediverse, such as your lemmy.zip. In the case of Lemmy, these are servers on which Lemmy runs.
what are federated
Federated is a statement about the connection between instances. lemmy.zip is federated with lemmygrad.ml and vice versa. This means that you can post/comment from lemmy.zip here in lemmygrad.ml, and lemmygrad.ml users can do the same on lemmy.zip.
defederated
Defederated means that the administrators of an instance have severed the connection (the federation) to another instance. For example, lemmy.world defederated lemmygrad.ml. If your account were there, you wouldn’t even be able to see this post. For lemmy.world users, it’s as if lemmygrad.ml doesn’t exist.
You can see which instances lemmy.zip is federated with and which ones the lemmy.zip admins have defederated at https://lemmy.zip/instances.
This is a lucid explanation. Thank you!
Instances are websites that can interact with each other, this ability is called federation, they can also choose to defederate with another website so they stop interacting
Here is the introduccion to lemmy by its developers i think they explain it very well https://join-lemmy.org/docs/index.html
I’d only add that I find lemmy largely a friendly place overall but watch out for hostile libs on the larger instances, especially lemmy.world
But if you’re coming from reddit eh what’s new
Lol so true 😂
Excellent addition!
To expand a bit on this: just like the main 3 leftist Instances I mentioned before (Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net), there are also many different Instances here on Lemmy (such as lemmy.today and lemmy.world).
However, none of those other Instances are openly Marxist/Leftist. In some cases, some of the users from those other Instances can be openly hostile to leftist users because…they’re deeply unserious libs or reactionaries in general lol.
But fear not! First of all, because the mods are here precisely to make sure those unserious users don’t cause drama in our community. But also, because a few of those leftist Instances (Lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net to be specific) have defederated from those more reactionary Instances.
Defederation is simply the process by which a specific (and reactionary) Instance is no longer allowed to interact with/share content with other leftist instances across Lemmy.
It actually tends to be the case that those instances will defederate with us rather than the reverse. Lemmygrad usually just bans individuals who wander in and post/comment in bad faith.
Even though we are not a liberal instance, if liberals are engaging a topic in good faith, they are generally given responses meant to educate on why we hold the positions we do and what socialism is about. If it’s obvious they are not engaging in good faith, they get shit on and usually end up banned.
I love it here.
Me too. I wish someone would deploy a Sharkey instance sharing the goals as Hexbear and Lemmygrad.
What is Sharkey? Is that a reference I’m not online enough to understand?
A fork of Misskey, Japanese equivalent to Mastodon. Trans software devs forked Misskey to make Sharkey.
Besides the three instances mentioned, which are mostly in English language, are there other recommendations, for other languages? I’d be particularly interested in Castellano/Spanish and Portuguese.
i dont know a spanish one, but there is a brazilian instances https://lemmy.eco.br/
you can also look up other instances in https://join-lemmy.org/ for one that gives you good vibes
Lemmy is pretty fun
How do you pull off the emotes? I don’t see an emote button anywhere on Voyager app.
lemmy.zip doesnt have emotes, you could copy the text of the emote and post it and that way it appears
Ah ok, then I guess I’m making a Lemmygrad account instead
It has its own vibe
