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

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 37 minutes ago

Lemmy.world blocks posting from Tor and some VPNs.

[–] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago

Looks like your shit just works, while it's not like that in the whole world

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

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".

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 hours ago

Just like you can only find the specialty stores in the cities, where you'll also find parking and traffic problems