Ive been on reddit for more than a decade. Kinda bittersweet, but its not the first time I have moved on from an internet site. I just cant support reddit and sucking up all my posts for AI purposes. Feels terrible and spammy. Ive been a reddit premium holder for many many years.

Anyways, what communities do you recommend?

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    Honestly, the communities right now are so small I can’t really recommend them. I just browse all.

    I miss reddit because you could have an extremely niche community with 10,000 people contributing. It’s hard to get 10 people going here.

  • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
    6·
    6 months ago

    I was on reddit since 2006, and left a year ago.

    Lemmy pretty much sucks because of a lack of content. The communities are there, but they’re…sooooo quiet.

    Join the communities you’re interested in and ENGAGE!

  • 𝐘Ⓞz҉@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 months ago

    We need to save people from reddit. Ask other users to join Lemmy. People who create memes should flood Facebook, instagram etc with memes to move to Lemmy

  • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Lemmy is very small in comparison, although every time reddit manages to do another silly thing Lemmy grows leaps and bounds. It’s a slow investment in a better internet, and it’s going to take a long time to slowly show the world that corporations don’t have to control everything on the internet.

    That being said I’m partial to !cranetrainexcavators@lemmy.world , it’s rockin’ (…and climbin’, and glidin’)

  • AGD4@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 months ago

    Welcome to Lemmy!

    I found that a large number of communities have been named after popular, and less popular, subreddits. So I found them easy to find. There was an old r/Redditalternatives post that has a decent range of communities to start out, which I’ve copied below. It is similar to the default subreddits.:

    *Note:*The “World” hyperlink takes you to the Lemmy.World communitiy.

    General

    News/Politics

    Pets and such

    Gaming

    TV and Music

    Pics and Art

    Technology and Science

    Sports

    Others

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    3·
    6 months ago

    To be honest, I doubt that any kind of wiping posts from reddit at this stage will help with this AI deal, before the deal was made, Reddit probably took a snapshot of the database, and is selling that.

    Why would they risk user’s sabotaging their big payday? Also, doing it this way makes it much easier to quantify the data they are selling since they are working with a static database dump and not a live database that keeps changing.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      6 months ago

      The historical snapshot is not worth that much because it is already available for free, there are torrents etc. The deal is iirc an ongoing payment for access, which will be relevant because AI trained on old data is always going to be stuck in the past.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    1·
    6 months ago

    I just want to say that creating a precedent of not allowing AI models to train on free content essentially means that when the models get cheap enough for average joes to train their own, average joes won’t be able to.

    We’ll have to use the models owned by huge corporations with deep pockets, because those will be the only legal ones.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.

      Reddit’s deal is about locking content away from trawlers until they pay for it. Here, it’s free for all of them. They can even set up their own servers and the fediverse will deliver it to them in real time.

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
        2·
        6 months ago

        Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.

        Yeah that’s the thing, part of the reason why I’m so confused. Reddit can literally just crawl any posts on Lemmy, it’s exactly the same in that sense. Public is public, after all.

    • MarsAgainstVenus@fedimav.winEnglish
      01·
      6 months ago

      Maybe I just haven’t had enough coffee yet, but I’m having a hard time determining which side you’re on. Are you saying it’s good that reddit is doing this?

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        2·
        6 months ago

        I see myself as advocating for one set of ideas out of a sea of ideas and an ocean of such sets. Sides are for basketball games.

        Generally speaking, I’m a libertarian but to me the word is about liberty not lack of responsibility.

        I’ll take:

        • UBI
        • Free drugs
        • Corporations competing with one another to provide basic necessities
        • Personhood granted liberally. When it doubt, give it rights
        • AI being trained on copyrighted material
        • AI or its owner being taken to task when the AI publishes copyrighted material verbatim without attribution
        • A free market specifically because freedom allows the little guy to get ahead before the big guy builds the mechanism to keep him down
        • Simple government
        • Red commits
  • VanHalbgott@lemmus.orgEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    You could look for foreign communities who speak different languages and practice speaking to them through Lemmy if you wanted to.

    For the longest time, I’ve pursued languages and was just posting on foreign-language communities because I like to learn them and I seek contact with foreigners just to practice my languages.

    Mostly I posted in Spanish and German having learned some of those languages growing up and more recently when I took up learning on Busuu.

    Where I live, Spanish is a more common foreign language because of our Hispanic population and my family too. I also used a DNA kit that showed me what heritage I had (Mostly English and German but I inherited some Mexican from my mother’s great grandmother from when I was little. So that’s also why I pursue languages.

    I also pursue them as sort of a hobby of mine.

    This is just an idea I had in mind from my recent activity here on Lemmy. I’m actually on lemmus.org and moved from lemm.ee but I seek contact with some foreigners for my languages.

    Maybe join lemm.ee or lemmus.org if not that?

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    Just switch between all and subscribed, and subscribe to communities you like. It won’t be long before you have a decently curated subscribed list.

    Don’t be afraid to block communities so they don’t show up in All.

    You should expect things to work more like the early Reddit days when there weren’t a lot of subreddits.

    • KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee
      1·
      6 months ago

      I want to stress that you are expected to block communities you’re not interested in.

      There’s no content curation between instances (an instance is like a niche mini-reddit, but seamlessly connected to this one), so you will end up with US Politics next to Furry porn, next to Star Trek memes, next to NZ local news, next to sports statistics, next to AI Porn, unless you start blocking.

      Upside is you can get great science content, AND local news, AND your favorite porn, AND your brand of shitpost/memes in your feed/subscriptions without any hassle.

      • TheFriar@lemm.ee
        0·
        6 months ago

        So. Much. Furry. Porn.

        I e basically gotten to a point where my subscriptions make up such a long list of things I’m even tangentially interested in that I don’t even browse all anymore. I locked so much of the furry porn, but maybe opening all of the communities to block them manually made my feed think I was into it?

        • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works
          21·
          6 months ago

          Lemmy doesn’t cater the All feed to you like other social media platforms - it doesn’t take into account which posts you open, which posts you upvote, etc.

        • Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          0·
          6 months ago

          It’s almost all on a couple instances. I don’t remember if lemmy supports instance blocking yet, but several apps do, so it’s a lot easier to block that way.

          • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works
            11·
            6 months ago

            Lemmy supports instance blocking as of version 0.19. Some clients also support instance blocking for pre-0.19 instances.

    • boogetyboo@aussie.zone
      0·
      6 months ago

      To add to this, block users too. The community is so small here that you start to recognise names of annoying people and trolls. I’m all for a robust discussion, but if I know someone is always going to argue in bad faith or they’re literally here just to stir shit, it’s just easier to block them. Didn’t really work with Reddit, but here it’s got a decent impact.

      • wellee@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        I’ve blocked so many users who ONLY post negative news stories. And porn.

        I use different sites for those, tyvm.

    • Lemonparty@lemm.ee
      01·
      6 months ago

      Just to piggy back you can also block entire instances, which becomes more useful when using discovery sorts like scaled. Like if the entire instance is in a language you don’t speak, block that shit!