Finally deleted my reddit account after the AI news. What communities do you recommend on lemmy?

Ive been on reddit for more than a decade. Kinda bittersweet, but its not the first time I have moved on from an internet site. I just cant support reddit and sucking up all my posts for AI purposes. Feels terrible and spammy. Ive been a reddit premium holder for many many years.

Anyways, what communities do you recommend?

BonesOfTheMoon ,

I am making the insane people Facebook one really fun these days.

DudeDudenson ,

Just browse all and take the time to block every community you don’t like the content of

n3m37h ,

Yeah, so much furry porn and hentai it’s not funny

laverabe ,

Lemmy is very small in comparison, although every time reddit manages to do another silly thing Lemmy grows leaps and bounds. It’s a slow investment in a better internet, and it’s going to take a long time to slowly show the world that corporations don’t have to control everything on the internet.

That being said I’m partial to !cranetrainexcavators , it’s rockin’ (…and climbin’, and glidin’)

Kolanaki ,
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!tenforward

!foodporn

!pillow_talk

chiliedogg ,

Honestly, the communities right now are so small I can’t really recommend them. I just browse all.

I miss reddit because you could have an extremely niche community with 10,000 people contributing. It’s hard to get 10 people going here.

Otkaz ,

Hopefully reddit will keep fucking up and lemmy will grow. I really like it here with no ads but miss feeding my niche interests on the reddit subs. Most have subs here but they are just empty.

ilinamorato ,

Be the change!

RampantParanoia2365 ,

Are you suggesting a Multiplicty type scenario?

ilinamorato ,

Like…making a bunch of clones of yourself to date Andie MacDowell??

If you can, I guess…I just meant, post a lot. But the clone thing is cool too

swordgeek ,

I was on reddit since 2006, and left a year ago.

Lemmy pretty much sucks because of a lack of content. The communities are there, but they’re…sooooo quiet.

Join the communities you’re interested in and ENGAGE!

Bob_Robertson_IX ,

Same.

Not just is there a lack of content here, but the echo chamber effect is so much worse here than it was on Reddit.

Yoz ,

We need to save people from reddit. Ask other users to join Lemmy. People who create memes should flood Facebook, instagram etc with memes to move to Lemmy

salvador ,

You’re an idiot - you’ve wasted a decade

stoy ,

To be honest, I doubt that any kind of wiping posts from reddit at this stage will help with this AI deal, before the deal was made, Reddit probably took a snapshot of the database, and is selling that.

Why would they risk user’s sabotaging their big payday? Also, doing it this way makes it much easier to quantify the data they are selling since they are working with a static database dump and not a live database that keeps changing.

chicken ,

The historical snapshot is not worth that much because it is already available for free, there are torrents etc. The deal is iirc an ongoing payment for access, which will be relevant because AI trained on old data is always going to be stuck in the past.

stoy ,

Ah, I missed it was an ongoing payment, I thought it was a single payment for a db export, then it makes sense to erase comments

VanHalbgott ,

You could look for foreign communities who speak different languages and practice speaking to them through Lemmy if you wanted to.

For the longest time, I’ve pursued languages and was just posting on foreign-language communities because I like to learn them and I seek contact with foreigners just to practice my languages.

Mostly I posted in Spanish and German having learned some of those languages growing up and more recently when I took up learning on Busuu.

Where I live, Spanish is a more common foreign language because of our Hispanic population and my family too. I also used a DNA kit that showed me what heritage I had (Mostly English and German but I inherited some Mexican from my mother’s great grandmother from when I was little. So that’s also why I pursue languages.

I also pursue them as sort of a hobby of mine.

This is just an idea I had in mind from my recent activity here on Lemmy. I’m actually on lemmus.org and moved from lemm.ee but I seek contact with some foreigners for my languages.

Maybe join lemm.ee or lemmus.org if not that?

DelightfullyDivisive ,

I’d use Lemmy Explorer to find communities that interest you. The link I just shared is sorted by subscriber count, so it should show the most active communities at the top.

marth_21 ,

It also auto searches “trees” FYI

DelightfullyDivisive ,

That’s kinda hilarious. I was looking for cannabis related communities too. Believe it or not, I haven’t had any cannabis today, either. 😄

tgxn ,
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Haha, that’s cause the url he copied included his search 😂 lemmyverse.net/communities?query=trees&order=…

omnomed ,

^This is the way.

tgxn ,
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Thanks for sharing my website! I’m glad people find it useful 😁

DelightfullyDivisive ,

Thanks for creating it!

intensely_human ,

I just want to say that creating a precedent of not allowing AI models to train on free content essentially means that when the models get cheap enough for average joes to train their own, average joes won’t be able to.

We’ll have to use the models owned by huge corporations with deep pockets, because those will be the only legal ones.

MarsAgainstVenus ,
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Maybe I just haven’t had enough coffee yet, but I’m having a hard time determining which side you’re on. Are you saying it’s good that reddit is doing this?

intensely_human ,

I see myself as advocating for one set of ideas out of a sea of ideas and an ocean of such sets. Sides are for basketball games.

Generally speaking, I’m a libertarian but to me the word is about liberty not lack of responsibility.

I’ll take:

  • UBI
  • Free drugs
  • Corporations competing with one another to provide basic necessities
  • Personhood granted liberally. When it doubt, give it rights
  • AI being trained on copyrighted material
  • AI or its owner being taken to task when the AI publishes copyrighted material verbatim without attribution
  • A free market specifically because freedom allows the little guy to get ahead before the big guy builds the mechanism to keep him down
  • Simple government
  • Red commits
Blackmist ,

Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.

Reddit’s deal is about locking content away from trawlers until they pay for it. Here, it’s free for all of them. They can even set up their own servers and the fediverse will deliver it to them in real time.

ipkpjersi ,

Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.

Yeah that’s the thing, part of the reason why I’m so confused. Reddit can literally just crawl any posts on Lemmy, it’s exactly the same in that sense. Public is public, after all.

intensely_human ,

That’s a sort of realpolitik view of the web, based on using tech and engineering convention to control information flow on the web.

But the web standards we’ve used to regulate things aren’t in agreement with the new legal framework people are trying to implement, and if we allow them to make their legal argument unopposed, they will add new layers to the tech to change web standard behavior into dystopian centrally controlled network behavior.

I agree the web is an open platform, and I agree that copyright law is clear. But these people are not operating on trying to follow existing rules. They’re trying to create new rules, and they have the power to do so.

And no, they do not RTFM . They think a greenfield rewrite is the best move for society, because they have zero respect for the engineering decisions of yesterday, not for the challenge or the value of maintaining existing systems.

Hamartiogonic ,
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Try the Lemmyverse community search and use whatever keywords you are interested in. Subscribe to a bunch of communities and see if that brings interesting stuff to your front page. If you notice you’re seeing uninteresting stuff from certain communities, unsubscribe to those and keep on refining.

Also, if you’re interested in unexpected factorials, here’s the community for you.

!unexpectedfactorial

unexpectedfactorial

It’s still pretty small and quiet, but anyone is welcome to post their factorial observations there.

HootinNHollerin , (edited )

!newtolemmy

!trendingcommunities

!newcommunities

!communitypromo

Also the voyager app has a service to find similar communities based on your subreddits

juxta ,

I couldnt tell you, im starting to block most of the communities that im coming across. All they post about is trump or echo on about some political stance. Its like they are just trying to either piss people off to get reactions or whip eachother into a political coma frenzy. It feels just like reddit to me, im starting to think Lemmy has the same bot problems.

Ill probably just end up using lemmy for inane memes and or porn, as i have yet to come across anything informative. I haven’t really done any serious looking tho, so… shrug

I_Clean_Here ,

Sounds like you need to take a break, man.

juxta ,

Ya prolly.

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