they use the same protocol for federation so you’ll be able to see posts from one on the other, but your own user experience will be different depending on which you go with. try them and see which you prefer. using both is not necessarily redundant, like if you wanted to get both experiences separately, but in most cases 1 is fine
i saw it on the rust subreddit back when it first started out. i didn’t really understand what federation was so to me it was just “Reddit rewritten in Rust” and that sounded cool but i didn’t really get the point or how that would affect the users. commenters seemed to agree so i moved on. then i started caring a lot more about my online privacy in the past year, discovered matrix, then the fediverse, then lemmy while looking for more fediverse alternatives for mainstream social media. i never really got into social media other than reddit, so it was awesome to find a part of the fediverse that offered a similar experience
you can’t really disallow that though, instances should be free to moderate however they wish. there will always be moderation like this in some instances, so just avoid those instances. the only thing that bothers me is lemmy.ml bears the name of the platform, yet says it’s not a default instance, which is misleading but oh well, not a big deal.
which community and which instance are you talking about? lemmy.ml has a very clear left-leaning bias that they like to enforce pretty often with instance and user bans, but not post bans as far as i’m aware, so avoid them as your home instance. i see you’re on a different instance already, though, so you should specify what you’re talking about.
i guess the fact that you have to specify illustrates the beauty of federation!
I really like the look of its default web frontend. The UI is also uniquely customizable so you can do a lot of cool stuff with it. It has cool widgets and stuff too.
I also like how instead of likes you only have emoji reactions, so interactions are much more meaningful instead of mindlessly pressing the like button on everything. Likes from people on mastodon and such are turned into the star emoji, so it still connects well.
There’s also the drive, which is suuuper useful. basically you have your own little storage space to keep some files, and whenever you want to share them you can do so directly from the drive instead of reuploading each time. it’s best for easily resusing memes. It also has facebook-style albums with this but i very rarely use that.
lastly there’s antennas, which are very customizable feeds. like you can have the default followed feed, plus a separate antenna for personal stuff from your friends, plus another one for news. i don’t really use antennas though because i don’t have many people to follow in the first place, so don’t really need to separate them.
i love that misskey tries to innovate and add new features that make social media a better experience, instead of just doing “twitter but with freedom” like other fediverse software. even if twitter itself became federated, open source, and completely freed from corporate shackles, i’d still stick with misskey, and i think that’s the kind of platform that will really get people to switch.
I don’t think there’s a need to replace Reddit, Lemmy just needs to serve as an alternative for those that want it. And I think there’s plenty of people here for a thriving community. I also think it functions perfectly fine for the most part. The mobile website looks great, and we even have a great mobile app. I’m not sure how reports work with Lemmy, but if you do have any gripes then by all means report them. The one major thing I think is wrong with Lemmy (and honestly the Fediverse in general) is how bad federation is. Communication across instances should be straight-forward and seamless, but it’s often just broken.
i think when it comes to algorithms that save you time, simple filters do the job perfectly. like only people you follow vs. specific hashtags, or just full posts vs. replies included, or chronological vs. “good friends” (like in instagram) first. part of the reason modern algorithms are so complex is so they can confuse us and we end up spending more time on the platform. if you’re making an algorithm for ease of use, it should be the opposite of confusing. it should probably be clarified what people mean by algorithms, since that’s a very general word, but most of the time they probably mean the complex and confusing stuff modern social media uses, rather than the simple filters that most of the fediverse uses.
more complex algorithms might be useful for a site like YouTube, since it’s an entertainment platform not a socialization platform, so you just want to see anything that will be entertaining, and discover new content whenever possible.
freelancer.com? I occasionally work on there and was thinking of using Wayland, do they not work together?
apt is easier (probably only because i’m used to it) and snap takes up a fuck ton of space. at one point it took up like a quarter of my entire hard drive, then i started deliberately avoiding snaps