Lemmy feels less anonymous than Reddit, because there are less users and its easier to be remembered. Similar to a small town where everyone knows each other.
But the advantage is that Lemmy allows Tor. 😅
Meh, wake me when it has an i2p presence
As for posting stuff on the internet, I don't care anymore. I just try to not post stupid shit, and be decent to other people.
I’ve had the misfortune of posting on Craigslist Forums and then having at least 1-2 people shit on me or call me a moron
Lemmy is also not overrun by AI bots and sock puppets.
For now!
Everyone here is my alt, except you.
There are only two real users on Lemmy, its just you and me. Get pranked!
/jk
Wouldn't sock puppeting be much easier on Lemmy? Or does Lemmy implement a minimum account age system like Reddit does?
It would be pretty easily though, if anyone starts to think that it's important.
This is what they want you to believe!
this..
I mean, sure, if we're pretending you can't abandon accounts at will and make new ones elsewhere in the lemmy...verse.
The whole idea of "who" is kinda pointless.
Maybe I am the real Vanilla Puddinfudge. Maybe I'm not. What would it mean either way?
I love being able to have the small-forum feeling of my home instance but also feeling connected to communities elsewhere.
Username checks out
Witness me!!!
Hi Mr. Shankles, nice to see you again. /s
The /s makes it sound rude, like it's not nice to see me lol
It's the same with every small forum tbh
Typical Magnus comment.
Praise Kier Klear!
💜 Klear
your privacy is worse on lemmy. anyone can access all your comment and post upvotes and downvotes. your pms are open for server admins to read. both examples need to be fixed imo
Btw, your PMs being available to admins is the same on like every socmed. If you have to use lemmy as your secure method of communication (you shouldn't), at least use PGP, but lemmy isn't meant for that, use XMPP or Matrix or even Signal I guess.
People DM each other on Lemmy?
TIL that feature exists
So can you on reddit.
Your privacy is the same on either. But now, anyone can gain that information, not just Reddit’s investors and partners.
It’s what you write on these platforms that affects your privacy.
So, is it better to host your own instance?
Doesn't change the voting situation. Since your votes need to be seen by other instances, Lemmy needs a mechanism for federating votes. Since instances are untrusted, there needs to be some way of preventing manipulation. Thus, AFAIK, Lemmy simply shares your votes across instances, letting each one tally them up. As a side effect, any server admin of an instance you can interact with can also get a list of all your votes.
Man So much this.
The place is a Village rather than a City.
I think should touch some grass because i may recognise more people here than in the village i am living in for like 2 jears
Username checks out
Oh, you pickled moon dumpling.
It's also not only about upvotes here.
For some of the really prolific posters, yes. But there are also lurkers like me.
I doubt anyone can recognize me when I comment or encounter a comment I made.
Potentially unpopular protip: I've blocked most of the "prolific" posters. My entire feed was becoming repurposed memes from 2015.
I'm happy there are people out there dedicating time to keeping Lemmy "active" but that is not how I want to live my life.
User tags make recognizing people a lot easier. I see tagged users a lot. Voyager even keeps a running total of how many times I have upvoted and downvoted particular users.
There’s one user I have at like -30, tagged as a Nazi apologist. And sure enough, every time I scroll past them, they’re commenting some weird BS.
Sa PH lang kita madalas nakikita, san ka ba nagpo-post pre? 😃
Pakalat-kalat lang ako. Kung saan lang mapagtripan. 😅
Bihira lang din akong magpost kasi madalas wala rin naman akong masabi o maidagdag.
I'm just hanging around at random places. Wherever my fancy takes me.
I rarely post too, since I rarely have anything to say or add.
I will never forget you.
Its impossible to delete anything on the fediverse
I think the internet at large should be viewed this way and the Fediverse is no exception. It’s almost impossible to completely get rid of anything that isn’t under your direct and immediate control - i.e. your own personal email server. I don’t assume that Lemmy/Fediverse is any different.
That said, with the effort to be ”not Reddit” or just another social media platform ready to be potentially abused, focus should be placed on privacy and user ownership and their ability to control their data on the platform.
Its easier to edit than to delete. So if you want something gone you should edit it first
There's a chance your edits won't propagate to all instances though.
It feels like Reddit felt twenty years ago
Reddit 20 years ago was mostly just Reddit staff
And me…
By 2007, reddit definitely felt pretty big to me. But like an overgrown small town maybe.
Look at it this way, in a small town people are more likely to be kind and offer higher quality information when asked. The same things can be said about lemmy.
Agreed…Lemmy slightly reminds me of the early days of Internet forums/chatrooms/etc.
Yes, I’m old.
Definitely found that to be the case so far! Posted the same question to reddit and it was crickets there.
In game theory, a repeated prisoner’s dilemma can become a stag hunt if the probability of future interaction is high enough. Which is essentially what you’re saying.
What happened to FlyingSquid
They started being a huge asshole, and when called out for it just up and left.
IIRC, they were having some health issues. It’s possible that it likely got too overwhelming, and they took time away from Lemmy to focus on their health.
I suspect they're also using an alt now to lurk/comment and not posting like they were. There's a user I saw that seemed to track, but could also be a coincidence. Hope they're good regardless of anyone's opinion, we're all still just people here at the end of the day
Oh 😢
It's OK
Also, blocking people you don't like is far more effective.
who the fuck are you
Get off my lawn!
Yea I made a throwaway so nobody can recognize me.
Try doxxing me now 😉
(But seriously tho, there were weirdos that follow you around and mass dovote 🤷♂️)
Not just that, but they also use those tagging extensions in case they have an opportunity to bring up some shit from the past because they have nothing better to do than to keep tabs on everyone like it matters. Very normal and stable people.
I see all of the same names in like every thread here haha. I remember y'all too. I know you are all freaks
Some people here have a really huge effect. Guys like Stamets, The Picard Maneuver, and MicroWave, I see their posts all the time.
When I first joined, I saw The Picard Maneuver so often that I thought it was a community, not just a single user.
That bastard and the rest of the Star Trek people here! They got me watching Star Trek because of their damn memes. They were often funny even without context, what can I say?
I had literally never watched it before. I've now gone through TOS, TNG, Voyager, Lower Decks (save the last season), and I'm over halfway through DS9. Mother fuckers assimilated me... and I'm ok with it
You and me both...
Oh shit. I thought it was a community until now!
Some of them have major baggage
I guess we are all human
Oh yea, MicroWave feels like a half-bot tbh, no offense. Like I never see this dude made a single comment, only post articles. No wonder why that username is so forgettable.
I've chatted with him before. I think he just likes posting.
Oh, you sour winter adult
Oh, you bitter elder of autumn.
Oh, you salty spring chicken
Ita kinda neat imo. It's like being in a small town and seeing a celebrity whenever satansmaggotycumfart joins the conversation.
Oh, you throwaway account nr 0430.
Voyager enhances his effect by counting your votes on individuals. You start seeing people with big numbers.
I miss that from reddit enhancement suite. I like seeing who I interact with and who interacts with me. I occasionally browse comment activity here on mbin to get a bit of an idea of it.
I use Voyager but I don’t see this. Is it a feature I have to turn on?
You can find it in the User Tags section in the prefs. If you don’t see it, your voyager might be really out of date.
You have a [+3] for me! (Because I have upvoted you three times in the past. If I wasn’t clear about how it works.)
It’s on by default. The number should appear next to the username once you’ve liked one of their posts
Oh, you lime and pepper avocado.
Less anonymous, but more effectively pseudonymous =)
Oh, you farm fresh egg.
Oh, you savory smarch centenarian..
I don't know a lot of people in my small town and I don't know you!
Also because it allows anyone to easily stalk all your comments for some reason. Creepy.
I wanna be stalked! Someone, start stalking me right now!
I NEVER NOTICED YOUR USERNAME, BUT RECOGNIZE YOUR PROFILE PIC MF'ER! I'MA CRANK MY HOG AND GET IT WARMED UP TO START STALKING YOU RIGHT NOW BROTHER! AROOOOOOO!!!
I'm right behind you now. What you never said it had to be online
Yeah, straight edge people still don't drink or smoke cigarettes, even though they're legal. I doubt anything would change regarding the straight edge crowd.
You should check out this company. https://www.punkwithacamera.com/collections/band-apparel-shirt-sweaters-zip-ups-etc/products/nazi-lives-dont-matter
Keep Punk alive boss man
Would that make you fall in love with me too ?
that's some hella good music you make
Is that different than Reddit?
Reddit mixes everyone into the crowd
Nope. It's just that would be the first thing I changed if I were making a reddit clone.
that's why i like it. on reddit, i'm just some other idiot smartass. on lemmy, i'm THAT idiot smartass. i've also done a great job convincing people i live in canada, while all the while i'm up here chilling in canada. fools, the lot of you.
I also like that Lemmy has a displayname field separate from the username and it allows you to make it cooler than just boring plain text. 😏
That's how I can always spot you in the threads lol You probably never even noticed me though. I'm trying to be inconspicuous over here
Haha you are definitely the person that came to my mind but my client only shows the plaintext username now so it's a bit harder to spot you
You just made me realize that my client only shows plaintext usernsmes now as well. Now I'm wondering what username was 👁👄👁 ... it always made me uncomfortable seeing it, dunno why
it allows you to make it cooler than just boring plain text
Agree.
People who find it annoying have grown old and boring, or are too young to have posted on a phpbb with a tacky signature.
Tryin' to make a change :-\
I'm glad connect blocks that annoying crap.
Oh nice, maybe it's time to switch after all. It's been a pending feature on Sync since forever.
Oh, you maple syrup monsoon
Some people actually use the tag feature so that they remember users when they see them again lol
From my experience there is only one poster. They are very angry.
Sorry, Lemmy is just me and my 500 alts
Who are you and how did you get in my sandbox?
Thats exactly why I am using lemmy exclusively for brand awareness
I really don't like that
Oh, you fewer less users
Can I be the guy that's known around town for pointing out that in the given context, it's actually "fewer users"
And yeah yeah, I know about evolution of language and common usage, and all that crap. But it really does just boil down to the fact that fewer sounds more elegant when the object is plural. ie: "There are usually fewer unexpected costs associated with new home ownership", vs "There is usually less unexpected cost associated with new home ownership" (Both are correct in their given context)
It's about how language rolls off the tongue. If we lose that we might as well grunt at each other draw pictographs with our own feces.
/end of rant.
This specific case isn't really to do with the evolution of language, more just ineffective linguistic prescriptivism. Some guy 200 years ago decided they didn't like how "less" had been used for the past millennium so they made up a guideline for what the preferred (like what you just said) then people decided to treat that as an actual rule. Obviously it's still common to use "less" that way even after a couple of centuries of people trying to enforce that rule, it's a good demonstration of how prescriptivism is a waste of time.
Strangely enough, in my experience many prescriptivists who rely on etymological arguments are fine with language changing for this one rule. Makes me think they never really did care about historic usage of a word.
It all just comes down to preference, but what a lot of people prefer is being able to express slightly different concepts clearly.
It's actually about whether the object is countable.
Water -> less water Cups of water -> fewer cups of water
It bothers me a bit, too, but American English is definitely evolving to replace "fewer" with "less".
Yes. But in 99.9 percent of cases, it also happens to be plural, so my eternal hope is that if it can be grasped as "If there's as 's', use 'fewer'", maybe more people would get it.
You look at usernames? I've never done that here or on Reddit.
Even without usernames. There is some people i recognize by topic, opinion and the way they express themselves. If you spend too much time here that isn't difficult.
Even when it's some asshole who's always wrong, I try to remind myself that we're all helping to build a free alternative to corporate social media.
Doesn't help that its the same font size as the comments. Also profile pics, most on reddit don't use profile pics.
And also special fonts that sometimes make it stand out, bigger, and different color.
Like the yittit user @Kolanaki@yiffit.net (I think they moved to another instance after yiffit shut down?)
This is the way.
On reddit, I use RES to hide user names.
I call that a feature.
Sometimes it is nice to know oh that person is a jerk or that person is The PUG!
Considering how new anonymity is for the human race, it amazes me how people treat it like a crucial element of life. Civilization mostly lacked it for thousands of years because almost everybody lived in villages or small towns - about half the people in the world still do.
You may not have been anonymous to the people in your immediate community, but you were largely anonymous to the people outside of it, which is something that has been systematically dismantled in various ways through history. Even things as basic as last names are there to make you visible to outsiders.
From Seeing Like a State, p59:
The invention of permanent, inherited patronyms was, after the administrative simplification of nature (for example, the forest) and space (for example, land tenure), the last step in establishing the necessary preconditions of modern statecraft. In almost every case it was a state project, designed to allow officials to identify, unambiguously, the majority of its citizens. When successful, it went far to create a legible people. 38 Tax and tithe rolls, property rolls, conscription lists, censuses, and property deeds recognized in law were inconceivable without some means of fixing an individual’s identity and linking him or her to a kin group. Campaigns to assign permanent patronyms have typically taken place, as one might expect, in the context of a state’s exertions to put its fiscal system on a sounder and more lucrative footing.
IMO the felt anonymity of Reddit, that comes from the fact that hardly anyone cares to remember your username and you don't directly experience scrutiny, isn't that useful. What really matters is the potential for someone to look over everything you've written (and if they have administrator access, connect that to IP, email, browser fingerprint etc.), and use that information for their own purposes, regardless of their having any connection to or legitimate personal interest in you. In that respect, Lemmy isn't much better (it kind of can't be when the premise is publicly posting writing to the internet), but it isn't worse either.
These days it is either full anonymity or surveillance state
Tech does that
I have a feeling everyone knows who I am, and those who don't haven't blocked me yet.
it's fine. I'm not going to apologize for my opinions because that's somehow worse than defending unpopular opinions.
I'd rather be the person who owns their hill and dies for it than someone who runs from hill to hill because the group thinks it sucks.
Confidently incorrect crowd has entered the chat (me)
I mean, you just mentioned that. Of course someone will disagree, but most probably wont bother. I just wanna know, do you exclude gaining a new perspective from this? Because I'm exceedingly strong willed when encountering illogical or otherwise short sighted points. But sometimes folks just show me a new perspective and I am compelled to agree. Doesnt happen often except in tech questions but here we are.
I know what you mean. When I know what I’m talking about, I am also strong willed. My primary issue is when people come at me with an attitude from the jump. If someone approaches me with normal conversational respect, even if they are a capitalist or something, I am happy to have a cordial chat; if it’s rude from the get go? I will tell them they deserve the death penalty.
Tech issues are a little easier, but those tend to be proffered by the most obnoxious morons who also need to be put in their place by their superiors. People who say stuff like “decimate means reduced by 10%” and pretend technical decisions are entirely objective.
I am completely open to new perspectives and have changed my position based on someone else's opinions. that's just how we learn and grow.
I will not change my opinion because someone said it's dumb or personally attacks me. if anything, I'll double down on that hill just to spite them.
Who needs anonymity? I put my real name, address, social security number, and agenda in my profile. Ha ha. you see no agenda because im just a typical earth man with no agenda of course. lol.
Certain subreddits used to be like this.
But all my favorites have taken one of two paths: