Mastodon toot:
Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
Mastodon toot:
Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
Not quite. I went here initially because I got permabanned on reddit. But I now realize reddit is a shithole so I like it here. I do wish there were more active niche communities and I really wish you could comment while on VPN, which you cant for some reason
Why can’t you comment while on a VPN? I’m on a VPN right now and I’m commenting.
Also, I hate to tell you this, but reddit is the way it is because it’s so popular. If we had the amount of people necessary to make niche communities thrive, it would be just like reddit. Well, at least as far as the people posting and so on. There wouldn’t be any of the weird administrative stuff because it’s run much differently. But the fact that the system is just like reddit’s means that it attracts the same kinds of people and encourages the same kind of behavior.
Just like you can only find the specialty stores in the cities, where you’ll also find parking and traffic problems
Reddit has additionally deteriorated because it’s pushing more and more algorithmic content surfacing. The home page there is now closer to a facebook feed than the old default ‘Hot’ sorting. You also get pushed random subs and posts at the bottom of pages. Comments are also buried or surfaced depending on some algorithm not directly tied to upvotes.
Plus a ton of the users are now coming from mobile and are “app first”.
Lemmy.world blocks posting from Tor and some VPNs.
Looks like your shit just works, while it’s not like that in the whole world
Its Tor that blocks, try changing servers to a non tor instance.
As far as I know my VPN doesn’t use Tor but I’m still blocked. It does keep me from commenting 99% of the time, which I’ve concluded is a good thing, it means I spend less time here, although it sometimes feels bad being a lurker.
Edit: I looked into it and Tor was enabled on that specific VPN profile. Now I can comment while on VPN, which means my only limiter is my own willpower, yikes