I'm a slashdot refugee who just had a 16 year stopover on reddit :)
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I am here on mobile using Mlem. Mlem has an interface superficially like Apollo, but it doesn't have nearly the polish and features, like swiping posts to the side to up/downvote. I didn't realize (until I lost it) how much that single capability improved QoL. Until an app comes along with better UX and QoL, I probably won't stay. (I don't doomscroll on my computer either).
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It's got late 2000s Reddit vibes, which I like. I had to remove the Reddit browser bookmark because I suddenly realized I was browsing it again and must have opened it subconsciously. I'm trying to stay here dammit lol.
digg dΓ©jΓ vu
i'm just excited that i was able to make an account... lemmy.ml didn't want me. anyway, i'm just here to browse and see what i find.
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So glad to leave that dumpster fire of a website
so. um. my question is, in mastadon even though you have an account with one instance you can still see/follow/whatever people from different ones (unless the admins made it private) is this the case with lemmy or am i stuck here and would need to go make some other places?
thanks
edit: NOW i see the tab switching from 'local' to 'all'. Derp
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Thanks, where's the coffee machine, please?
Excited about the possibilities of the fediverse!
I'm having trouble navigating through lemmy. The Frontpage was different before I created an account. Could someone explain the instances? I logged in to lemmy.world does that mean the content on the rest of lemmy is off limits? I have to create an account for each instance?
I see there is lemmy.ml and others
Edit: I get it now. Thanks for the explanation
I have to create an account for each instance?
No, that's actually the beauty of it all.
Could someone explain the instances?
Imagine if now every subreddit would be located on its own server, not somewhere in a Reddit headquarters. So r/funny is now running on server with address my-server123.com and thus have address my-server123.com/r/funny. r/europe is now running on eu.gov and thus have address eu.gov/r/europe. etc. Good, but lets say I want to create a subreddit r/myFavoriteYoutuber but I don't have a server. No problem, I contact people at r/funny and they allow my subreddit to run on their server, so its address will be my-server123.com/r/myFavoriteYoutuber. The "my-server123.com" and "eu.gov" is what we'd call an instance.
I write some extended explanation after lunch :)
This has some pros and cons:
You might say - ok but I don't care about instances, servers and whatnot. Also now instead of one Reddit website, we have thousands of them! Do I need to register everywhere? I don't want this, I just want to to come to Reddit and browse stuff from everywhere!
... and this is possible! Instances can communicate with eachother so with account on one instance you can connect (not login) to all the instances you want. Basically your browser or smartphone app just now needs to download posts from different servers instead of one giant Reddit server. But it needs your help, you need to specify the address of the instance otherwise it doesn't know where to connect. This is the same as email, if you want to send an email to John Smith, you don't just write recipient as john.smith, you need to write the server also so john.smith@gmail.com
So if I take the example from previous comment, you cannot just write that you want subscribe to r/funny because your app or browser doesn't know where the r/funny is. You'd need to write funny@my-server123.com or europe@eu.gov. And voila, that's basically Lemmy
Easiest thing to do, click Communities up at the top, then click "All" right below "List of communities"
This will show you all of the communities from all of the federated lemmys (sorted by number of users), and allow you to subscribe to them and easily interact with them from your lemmy.world account. Once you subscribe to the ones you want, you can go back to the main lemmy.world home screen and click Subscribed, which will give you a list of posts from your subscribed communities, much like the Reddit home screen.
So far itβs been good. There is a bit of a learning curve, setting up on mobile devices was a little challenging. Seems to be working well now. This thread has been really helpful for me.
Website seems pretty neat. Glad to have a proper alternative to Reddit as it continues to burn to the ground lol.
As the saying goes, fuck /u/spez!
looking good, already feels better
Digging it so far. The only thing that I have noticed, and this may just be due to the large influx of people coming to the site, it's been taking literal minutes for me to submit a post or edit my profile
DIGGing it
I just got here, figuring things out slowly
I'm scared and confused and don't know where all the cat pictures are.
Iβve lamented the loss of what I called βold internet energyβ β the feeling of a largely-nerdy community forming around something new. I felt it on early Digg and on Reddit for a good while, until the last 7-10 years or so after mainstream users started pouring in. I feel that here again. βTis nice.
Thanks! It looks more like a Discourse forum than Reddit. I'll reserve judgment for now but after so many companies took their own platform usage we need something like this more than ever.
Digging it so far. Some technical issues but I think they may just be due to the mobile app I am using (sometimes when I open a post, the comments displayed are the ones from the last post I looked at). But it feels much more.. Democratic? Than reddit did.
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Hello world :)
Loving it - federation is great, hardly ever even know which instance I'm interacting with from kbin, which is a good thing as it means the federation is working and mostly seamless. Can't wait for some apps to come out and streamline the experience, hopefully some more people will start coming here to populate a lot of the communities that I'd like to participate or lurk in. Right now there's a lot of... uh... shouting into the void trying to fill the space. I'm posting way more than I ever did on reddit just because like... somebody has to do it, right?
I like it so far but it's strange and feels like I'm exploring the web with no experience.
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I like what Lemmy's got going on - noticed there's no upvotes/downvotes on comments, but if that's my only gripe, it's a very minor one. Currently lurking and replying from a Mastodon account, but it's a bit janky (I have to copy links back to my Mastodon instance to find the post to reply to it), so I'll probably end up registering for a separate Lemmy account too.
Actually, looking closer, I can see that Lemmy comments *do* have a points value like on Reddit - might just be Lemmy hiding the buttons because I'm not signed in. Probably should get that account sorted out... π
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