this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
81 points (91.8% liked)

Ask Lemmy

31291 readers
1807 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Askhistorians and other academic subreddits, along with specific fan communities. Lemmy is just too small to support a good community for a smaller video game, for example. That's pretty much it though I was surprised at how little I missed reddit after switching

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

The number of users, you can get answers to anything there.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
  • Personal insults.
  • The attitude that upvotes and downvotes define right and wrong more than actual reasoning does.
  • People thinking they can extrapolate your whole worldview, background and value as a human being from a comment.
  • Absolutism and binary thinking, where only two opinions are possible: the Right one and the extreme opposite Wrong one, and questioning ANY aspect of the Right one implies wholehearted support for the Wrong one.

But tbh I don't really miss any of those things, cuz they're all here on lemmy too.

[–] some_dude@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

I'm gonna downvite youre comment you reddit libtard. /s

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I don't miss anything from reddit, I can still go there if I want. If anything, lemmy still feels underpopulated if I only browse the stuff I'm subscribed to.

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Working mobile apps. My Jerboa mobile app for Lemmy works great, but if they hadn't have broken all the mobile apps and acted like such shitheads, I wouldn't even be here :)

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My beloved. I kept it on my phone for a few weeks after it was shut out, it still had access to some content and I thought all this would blow over :(

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 5 days ago

I kept it until getting a new phone lol. I remember actively using it when it suddenly stopped working, like a month after it was supposed to stop working

[–] oakward@feddit.org 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A balance between communities. There are communities that are very active and fill my feed. Although those community are OK, I am much more interested in some smaller and niche communities. Those get lost in the feed.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago
  • use alts for different interests (e.g. one account for niche communities, one for memes, one for news)
  • consider https://piefed.social/ as they have personal and public feeds (multireddits)
[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Colorado avalanche subreddit having more than 2 people

All 4 avalanche fans were on Reddit?

/Jk

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago

AskHistorians

[–] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hide on vote was pretty nice. I used rif before they closed 3rd party apps, and I came to Lemmy

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Don't know if you know but we have hide on read in the settings, but I also wish it worked like on Reddit.

[–] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have that enabled, but really miss my hide on vote

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

You can always suggest it on the community of the app you are using

[–] lengau@midwest.social 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] CocaineShrimp@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@remindme@mstdn.social 2 weeks

[–] remindme@mstdn.social 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@CocaineShrimp Ok, I will remind you on Tuesday May 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM UTC.

[–] ProteanG6777@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 6 days ago

wooza ! didnt know lemmy had this function.

[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 5 points 6 days ago

a good solid baseball community, and a sportbook community.

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Activity that isn't political shit.

Convenience of blocking. Voyager is absolute ass in this regard.

Being able to conveniently filter out entire subreddits. (Actually I say that but I did have multiple cases where the block list just straight up stopped working.)

The echo chamber also feels way stronger here. It's tiring. Especially the ACAB wank, which hasn't improved with the rise of Nazi America.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 5 days ago

Convenience of blocking. Voyager is absolute ass in this regard.

Can you elaborate, what is bad?

[–] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

if american: calling ACAB anything other than an extremely rational response to modern slavery is fucking absurd.

otherwise: ok yeah your cops are almost definitely better than American cops but I'm not convinced cops anywhere are a net positive to society other than maybe Scandinavian countries where the main form of punishment is legitimately rehabilitation focused

[–] Two2Tango@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you okay with having all of your stuff stolen? Because no cops is how you have all your stuff stolen

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

There is an enormous difference between "police should be held responsible for their actions" and "we should have literally 0 police".

Believe it or not "ACAB" doesn't mean the latter. Its just a fun little acronym. And just like all fun little acronym or protest chant, it doesn't encapsulate the entirety of the movement, discussion, or belief(s).

load more comments (3 replies)

youtuber communities

[–] auginator@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

My points or whatever. I used to be a huge pot head and made some content people really liked so I had some nice numbers.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

absolutely nothing.

[–] ProteanG6777@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Most subs i follow have a discord anyway, so mostly on discord. For the subs not on discord, I use alternative measures viz; a. ChubbyFire - I still check the space out

b. r4r- I Resort to other pay for play NSFW apps.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 5 days ago
[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 2 points 6 days ago

r/twobestfriendsplay, the second best subreddit for everything

load more comments
view more: next ›