Yes, but how did they suck? It's what I go into detail explaining.
*Nothing personal ofc db0 you run an awesome instance.
Insult acknowledged! Benned for life!
I used to use them a lot before Reddit, but I never really liked them. Too many to list or even remember at this point.
That's a double-edged knife. yes it feels closer and personal, but it also breeds inside groups and cliques. I've been turned away from multiple forums because I was too ASD to fit in with their culture but there was no other space to discuss it. And this can go much much worse than just a culture-fit. Not to mention that if that forum becomes too popular, that culture is anyway lost.
However using lemmy there's the best of both worlds. You can still keep your instance small enough so that you know your local users, but also be able to interact with the larger community without the extra effort I explained. For example there's instances out there like beehaw and hexbear which through have managed to retain their own culture and standards even while federated.
People do and have left communities in the past. /r/Marijuana to /r/trees comes immediately to mind and there have been many many others. But leaving for an entirely different service has a way higher executive cost. Once people are in the fediverse however, the cost to switching primary communities is not that high, and we've seen that away when people moved from !risa@startrek.website to !tenforward@lemmy.world due to mod actions.
Again, the point is that nobody can ever stop you from running a community as you see fit, unlike reddit, which easily ban you and your community for any or no reason. And if your community is run well and the other has indeed power-trippin mods, the people will come to yours, as has happened multiple times before. So no, it's not the same shithole, unless you make one.
Reddit startled the same way. It's aways first the tech weirdos, early adopters and Foss enthusiasts that start it.
Unlike the reddit, you can always make your own instance and host your own communities and nobody will ever ban you. That's the whole point of being distributed.
I'm not a celebrity :D
That was clear from the article as well, where they said they took the opinion of 150 ~~bootlickers~~ moderators
Digg still exists. Death of websites is rarely a complete shutter, but usually more of a steady decline into obscurity
No Banter. No Barter. No Quarter.
📜 ➜ Megathread
⛵ ➜ Not so fast sailor! Do this first
- Use Firefox + uBlock Origin with these optimized settings (Blocks advertisements & malware).
- Change your DNS settings to one of these great choices (Bypasses website access limitations).
- Use a reputable torrent client with a kill switch, such as qBittorrent (Allows torrenting).
- Set up a VPN such as Mullvad or ProtonVPN (Changes IP address to hide identity).
- Bind your torrent client to the VPN (Only allows torrenting when VPN is active).
🗺️ ➜ Bookmark these full backups
- Be sure to save our Megathread for future reference without relying on Reddit.
- A history of the whole wiki (Megathread, FAQ, Guides, and Rules) is available on NotABug.
⚠️ ➜ Uncertainty
- Any links that are not included in the entire Megathread have either not been approved by the moderators or the community, or have been deleted at some point. In other words, use extra caution anytime you sail in uncharted waters.
- That said, as times change, so do the currents. What is seen as a safe route to great treasures now may soon be a shell of its former self or even be riddled with the black plague. Always exercise caution and if you notice problems with any of the sites in our Megathread, please contact the moderators.
🏆 1 ➜ Greatest Treasures
🧭 All Purpose
- All Purpose sites for torrent search engines, aggregators & DHT crawlers in order to find as much public content as possible.
⭐ Anime
- Anime is a type of hand-drawn, animated work created in Japan, although it can also apply to other animation, such as Donghua.
📚 Books
- Books, like manga, comics, and novels, are a recording medium for information that includes pages composed of text, images, or both.
- Old version backup.
🕹️ Emulators & ROMs (Update in progress...)
- Emulators simulate the actions of gaming consoles, whereas ROMs are digital copies of video games extracted from a cartridge or disc.
🎮 Games
- Games require interaction with a user interface or input device, such as a controller or keyboard, to produce fun audiovisual feedback.
- Old version backup.
📱 Mobile (Update in progress...)
- Mobile, or smartphones, are portable devices that integrate computing and telephone functionality into a single OS such as Android or iOS.
- Old version backup.
🎦 Movies & TV
- Movies & TV are works of visual art that employ moving pictures to imitate experiences, perceptions, feelings, and beauty.
- Old version backup.
🎹 Music
- Music is the skill of organising sound to produce any combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or other expressive content.
- Old version backup.
⚙️ Software
- Software is a collection of computer programmes along with supporting files and information geared more towards desktop computers.
- Old version backup.
👟 Sports (Update in progress...)
- Sports refers to physical activity or game, generally competitive, that utilises one's ability and skills while entertaining spectators.
🧰 Tools (Update in progress...)
- Tools for activation, userscripts, download managers, assistants, extensions and a plethora of other supplemental software.
- Old version backup.
📑 2 ➜ Other Treasures
📁 Awesome Piracy
📁 Champagne Piracy Wiki
📁 Ducklink
📁 FMHY
📁 Piratezparty
⚓ ❮ Return to c/Piracy
💀 ❮ Rentry Backup
There’s too much controversy around the official lemmy instance lemmy.ml due to their politics. However I really like the distributed nature of lemmy as opposed to the monolithic and hierarchical nature of raddle.
So I guess, I have to do this myself. This is now the official fallback forum for /r/piracy, away from toxic politics but still vehemently anti-copyrights.
For now I’m allowing the posting of magnet links, but don’t link files directly as I don’t want the eye of Sauron on me.
You can use this instance to browse the previous piracy community too and post with your account from here! They’re unrestricted, so feel free to post links there ;)
It seems to me the only thing you're missing from the functionality you want on lemmy is a sorting system which just bumps any threads with new comments to the top. I don't like that approach myself, but if that's what you want I don't see a reason not to have it. Why don't you suggest it to the lemmy devs? It doesn't seem like it would be difficult to add it.
EDIT: Actually, nevermind, this already exists with the "New Comments" feature. Why don't you just use that? https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/?dataType=Post&listingType=Subscribed&sort=NewComments