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[–] [email protected] 594 points 5 months ago (14 children)

I wish there were alternatives to Reddit. If anyone has a recommendation, let me know.

[–] [email protected] 459 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy think on it and get back to you.

[–] [email protected] 137 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I almost feel like there's an answer there for you, but I can't put my finger on it.

However, last night I had a vision about th singer of Motorhead. I think it means something...

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm struggling to see the connection with Lemmy "Kbin" Kilmister.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Didn't he tour with Mastodon?

[–] [email protected] 126 points 5 months ago (5 children)

How do you feel about Linux and leftist infighting?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Love Linux, but why be redundant about leftists?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Damn Leftists. They ruined Leftism!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The wrong kind of Leftist ruined Leftism, not the right kind.

/s (because this one really needs it)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

leftist infighting

There's a place that doesn't happen?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nobody hates leftists like slightly different leftists.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

You take that back 👊 💥

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Sure but they are mostly Nazi bars and Klan rallies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft

It’s funny because Lemmygrad, .ml and hexbear are almost indistinguishable from truth social of outside of plain text

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Sail the high seas.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Give me leftist infighting over Nazi content any day of the week!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the tankie brand of leftism shouldn't be called that. Their embracing of technocrat totalitarians kind of puts them out of the left field.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You know, for all the complaints I see of tankies, I have encountered 10x more people who incessantly complain about them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

The problem is that a lot of people, specially Americans, have interiorized "red scare" propaganda notions, even when they see themselves as Lefties.

If you don't just mentally go "uuh, commies" at the mere wiff of communal solutions it's a lot easier to actually look at certain ideas and judge them on their actual pros and cons, as is spotting authoritarianism for what it is (whether it claims to want to implement leftwing notions or rightwing ones) and tribalism (of the kind that supports Fascism whilst claiming to be leftwing, and I include both Putin supporting "communists" and Zionism supporting "liberals")

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I don't incessantly complain, but my Lemmy experience had improved massively by banning the most notorious instances.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

IIRC there is an open source project for forums communities.

It's called SMF I think.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Nice avatar lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Simple machine forums (smf)

phpbb

Mybb

paid - ipboards, vBulletin

But that’s all software to run on your own server

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Darn you beat me to it haha

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

ICQ ~~recently~~ is about to shut down so I got nothing for ya

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

ICQ ~~recently~~ is about to shut down so I got nothing for ya

Uh-oh 😏

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We could always go back to html chats. Hotelchat, Webmaze....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Individual websites for niches instead of amalgamation websites

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not sure if serious. 😑

Anyway, before forums, there was a network of servers hosting discussions and to some extent file sharing.

The modern version of Usenet is pretty focused on file sharing and mostly so on paid servers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#:~:text=Usenet%20is%20a%20set%20of,which%20is%20potentially%20widely%20distributed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I know right? Also iirc there was some discord alternative, but I can't quite remember the name... it's just as well, the company owning it probably shut it down. It's not like it's some free protocol that can be used by anyone, sigh 😞

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Besides Lemmy, HackerNews is decent altho way less subject/community driven

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Hackernews is just chock full of techbros who think that since they know how to code, that automatically makes them rational and more authoritative on a subject than most people. Every time I go there I'm surprised by how crappy it is lol

Edit: somehow misspelled "techbros" lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Hacker News might be the most insufferable and childishly naive place on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Love hackernews but if it gained huge traction outside of the programmer community, it'd be corpinated and enshittified in the blink of an eye by a team of MBAs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lobste.rs is pretty active too for tech focused topics

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

But getting membership is next to impossible. I tried maling them and contacting them on their IRC channel, but to no avail.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I have been hearing really good things about this new service called X. Very small and friendly community. You just need to register an account and do 12 easy installments of 420.69 yearly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I've heard good things about Lemmy