Lol I got permanently banned from reddit for “Report Abuse”… apparently the hive mind thought I abused the report button for… checks notes… reporting a post that was LITERALLY a pro-n@z¡ group denying the holocaust happened.

Check out Boost, IIRC you can get it to behave mostly like RIF with some settings tweaking. I haven’t used RIF since like 2016, I found Boost around then and switched full time - Boost’s compact mode was the closest thing to old.reddit.com I could find in a 3rd party client.

I’m also a former RiF user. If you want some recommendations, I highly suggest Liftoff

Hopefully after Tildes, though I wouldn’t blame if he doesn’t want to support two apps.

I think for some people, there is zero difference between the two. These kind of people are “you are what you do” kind of people. Lazy people have lazy behavior, unproductive people have productive behavior, etc.

Some people are intellectually lazy and just don’t care to differentiate. I try not to spend much time talking to them, they tend to be dicks.

Avoiding that is something I learned to do intentionally, I suppose. Labeling the person and not a behavior is more confrontational and psychologically suggests to people that they can’t change. It’s also a lot broader, more sweeping type of statement that suggests all of their behavior is that way.

Thanks, I hope your week is lovely as well.

This idea is also related to a philosophy known as Nonviolent Communication.

https://positivepsychology.com/non-violent-communication/

This is great, even lets out sort by popular.

It’s a little out of date in some areas (so far I mainly noticed the beta/stable tags), but this format is great

Cheers added

☺️ just happy to be back!

The nice thing about lemmy is that if you don’t agree with how a particular instance is run you can always find another that’s more your speed. That isn’t really an option on any other social media network.

I’ve definitely run into some assholes on the platform who can’t separate the user from the idea but by and large it’s a step up from Reddit.

I do hope to stay, but if I were to leave, I’d just stop using social media as a whole or use it very seldomly.

Oh yeah, totally, this isn’t my only account, but it was the first one I made. It hasn’t been an issue for me because I’m not personally going around harassing people, but I am still not on the side of heavy censorship and I don’t think this war social media has been on will ever succeed in creating the bubble room world they seem to want. People will always talk with emotion and use vibrant language no matter how much they try to create a squeaky clean Internet.

I’m not and feel free to browse my content history, but I’m also not afraid of someone calling me a bitch online, lol.

I don’t know that I’d agree that “name calling” is necessarily “hateful” or “attacking people”.

Sometimes people behave like dumb fucking cunts and I don’t see why we shouldn’t be allowed to tell them that.

Hmm, interesting, thanks for that!

I only joined lemmy.world because it was the first one on the list in the tutorial I read when setting this up. I’m still brand new here and trying to figure out how this all works.

It’ll click for you soon. It’s essentially a bunch of individually owned boards like reddit that are all interconnected. You can see posts from all the instances, and if you don’t like the posts in one instance - you can block it or filter it out.

What made it “click” for me was when someone explained it like email addresses. You can send emails between Gmail and Yahoo Mail just fine, and two email addresses with the same username are distinguished by their @ handles. So like “Example@gmail(dot)com” is a different address than “Example@yahoo(dot)com”. They’re entirely separate accounts that can send emails to each other.

The fediverse is very similar. My account @lemmy.world is separate from the same username on another instance. And the same goes for communities. There may be communities on certain instances that naturally grow and absorb the smaller ones, but there’s nothing stopping you from making your own identical community on another instance, with its own rules, moderators, and content.

Federation is simply the process of connecting two servers together. The same way gmail and yahoo can talk to each other via a standard protocol, federation allows the different servers to talk to each other. This occasionally causes weird things when one instance federates with another, and you suddenly get flooded by posts from that new server. But that’s just your Home feed catching up, since all of those posts are now considered unread.

Federation isn’t an automatic process in the sense that new servers announce themselves and get connected automatically. Instead, federation happens when a user from one instance tries to interact with another instance. For example, maybe you have a community over in @examplecommunity(dot)com. The first time you (as a Lemmy(dot)world user) try to interact with that examplecommunity server, the two will federate and begin the process of sharing posts.