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Vlyn, in What was your best and worst experience on Reddit?
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Gated communities on Reddit suck.

A thread hits /r/all, you type out a long comment in reply to someone, hit send… then get an automod message that your comment was denied. Because you aren’t part of that subreddit, or you aren’t verified in that subreddit.

Probably the worst example was /r/blackpeopletwitter. They have open threads where you can talk with people. Then at some point they lock down their threads (make it verified black users only) and your next comment in a chain of replies simply gets nuked. Even though you had a civil discussion and just wanted to continue it.

Often those threads aren’t even about race, just general things happening. Reddit has shitty support to lock things down where the UI doesn’t get greyed out. So you already type a long reply, hit send and only then you get kicked out. I had to block several of those subreddits because I kept running into this issue when browsing /r/all.

Zacryon, in What are your favorite lemmy communities?

What are your requirements for "curated"? A bunch of different people will have a bunch of different interests and would therefore find a bunch of different communities appropriate for a "curated" list.

hikarulsi, in Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit?
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orcrist, in Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit?

Of course it feels new, because it is new to many people. :-)

I felt like people were seeing my Reddit posts and comments, and I feel like people are here, as well. As with any commenting website or service, as the numbers of commenters grow large you need to be relatively quick to reply if you want many people to see what you write. On Reddit, obviously that means it depended what subreddit you were commenting on. And surely it will be the same or already is the same here.

The UI all depends on what client you're using. In my mind it doesn't feel like the early Internet, but that probably depends on our relative ages.

Saigonauticon, in What piece of wisdom about life are you able to provide others?

The most painful lessons in life concern trusting the wrong person.

james, in How do I stop seeing post from 2 or 3 days ago?

Try using a different sort - "Hot: Day" is sometimes better than "Active".

kraiden, in How do I stop seeing post from 2 or 3 days ago?

I'm seeing clumps from the same community/magazine all grouped together when sorted by "active"

My best guess is that the data is transferred across instances in chunks and I'm seeing the content in those chunks! It's far from a deal breaker but there's definitely room for improvement!

Brock, in What piece of wisdom about life are you able to provide others?

The key to a good relationship (at least for me I guess) is honest communication. Sounds broad, but if you’re with someone that you can’t just tell the truth to then you probably shouldn’t be together. Being able to tell someone what you do or don’t like is absolute key. And with that being said, being able to take what they say, don’t take it as any sort of attack, and being able to work together past it will make your life way easier.

Tibert, in How do I stop seeing post from 2 or 3 days ago?

I sorted by New. The "Hot" feature may not work as the reddit "Hot/current", as there wouldn't be an advanced algorithm.

Lemmy is pretty small, so it somewhat works. But if it starts to get very big, there will have to be an algorithm to manage the proposed posts, or it will be unusable.

pipipopo, in I'm obviously old. what is this "rule" trend I'm seeing everywhere on Lemmy?
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https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196 Rule: You must post before you leave.

alex, in What are your favorite RSS feeds or tips?

Here are some feeds in English that I like:

My subscriptions elsewhere (consolidation)

  • https://beehaw.org/feeds/local.xml?sort=Active - the RSS feed for my Lemmy subscriptions (replace the instance with yours if necessary)
  • Loads of RSS feeds for Mastodon hashtags that I enjoy
  • Archive of our own feeds for certain fandoms
  • RSS feeds for each Nebula channel I follow
  • Inoreader allows me to sync YouTube subscriptions, so I do that too
  • A bunch of Medium blogs

Blogs I recommend

Samps, in What piece of wisdom about life are you able to provide others?

Look after yourself!
Help others if you can, but you come first. Don't expend your health to help others, just help as you can safely do. That goes for pollies as well, hint, hint...

Ni, in What piece of wisdom about life are you able to provide others?
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Your advice reminds me of a saying, if you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together

Also my advice is on a slightly more existential note is, 'you can't take any of it with you'. Which I always took to mean don't live for consumerist things, and stuff as its not what is truly valuable in life and it likely won't be stuff and things that you are thinking about in the end.

LostCause, in Teaching children about online manipulation without creating a paranoid world view subject to manipulation?

I have a few thoughts on that one. First, I‘d try and teach that changing one‘s opinion based on new information is good and admirable and that not knowing something or not having an opinion on something one doesn‘t understand is fine.

Specifically for media, something like this paper is excellent though obviously not child friendly, I think even way too little adults are aware of this sort of framing that media and companies regularly do:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334400431_Controlling_the_Narrative_An_Initial_Investigation_of_Doublespeak

So trying to show/explain, how does framing something differently change the perceptions of people?

Another important thing in my mind is teaching something like Plato‘s allegory of the cave, so how we are presented the world is how we see the world and nobody knows everything about it because we only see a small part of it. That ties back in with my point about it being good to question one‘s beliefs from time to time.

webghost0101, in Why don't we use PeerTube to host the videos for Lemmy/kbin?

That would be a great idea to grow that platform. Keep the content on the fediverse instead of links to private companies

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