What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is link aggregator software that exists in the fediverse, meaning it connects with other “ActivityPub” software like Mastodon and other Lemmy instances. Basically, you can follow and interact with communities here on Lemmy.one, on any other Lemmy instance, or even from your Mastodon account!

What is Lemmy.one?

Lemmy.one is a general-purpose instance of Lemmy—a self-hostable, decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators—hosted by myself (Jonah). I am the administrator of the Mastodon server mstdn.party, and the founder of privacyguides.org.

This instance is generously supported by our contributors, if you use this instance to interact with the fediverse, please consider a monthly contribution to support my work.

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What are the rules here?

  1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism
  2. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
  3. No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
  4. No content illegal in the United States, Germany, or Finland
  5. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
  6. Do not spam or abuse network features.

As a general-purpose instance, we do not have heavy moderation in terms of what topics people are allowed to post about, however all users are expected to follow our rules at all times, and generally be nice and friendly on the federation.

Please report all content you see which might violate our rules for evaluation. If you are on a remote server, please forward any reports of our users to our server for our moderators to take action, we pledge that remote reports will remain confidential within our moderation team and will not be used for any form of retribution against the reporter.

    • srpwndEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      In the instances sidebar there is following written about it:

      Downvotes are disabled on this instance, because it is a very small community. If you see something against the rules, report it. If you see something you don’t like, go find something you do like and upvote that instead :)

      Personally, I am okay with this being implemented and agree with the reasoning.

      • JonEFiveEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, I didn’t catch that before I joined. I wish I had, but I didn’t even realize disabling a core feature would be on anyone’s mind.

        That’s also a pretty weird stance considering that lemmy.one doesn’t have many local communities by design. So the idea is to disable downvotes because lemmy.one is a small community when most of the interaction is with other servers that don’t have features disabled?

        It might be time to revisit that opinion with the current level of growth here. Or I might need to seek out another instance. Downvotes are a valuable part of self-moderating communities.

        • InnominateUserEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Have you found another instance? And if so, why did you choose that particular one? I’m also considering another instance due to this ones stance on down voting.

      • RevaneeEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Shouldn’t this apply only for communities on lemmy.one? I think a user registered on lemmy.one should still be able to downvote when interacting with an instance in which it is enabled. Do you know if this is a technical limitation or something that can be configured?

    • smartwater0897English
      7·
      2 years ago

      I think it’s good that it’s disabled, since people downvote when they disagree, and it creates the same echo chamber as on reddit.

      People need to be OK with others opinions and be able to read and move on without needing to punish the person for his opinion.

        • ctrl_alt_cheatEnglish
          17·
          2 years ago

          Agree here. Disabling downvotes is dumb and it doesn’t help discouraging echo chambers.

            • CeruleanRuinEnglish
              9·
              2 years ago

              Just adding my voice to the chorus here. A downvote allows for balancing out the follower effect.

                • CeruleanRuinEnglish
                  2·
                  2 years ago

                  I understand the notion to disable them as a precaution when a bunch of unknown users might be coming in, just to discourage negativity at the start, but it’s definitely not something I want as a permanent feature, and if lemmy.one doesn’t have plans to enable it at some point, I will probably be looking for another instance where dissent isn’t suppressed as a general principle.

    • livejamieEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I wish downvoting was enabled on this server and it would be interesting to see if they open it up to the community to see how others feel about it.