I feel kinda dumb.. I truly did not get the whole fediverse thing and panicked trying to guess where most of us refugees would go, I made an account on mastadon, kbin.social, karab.in, lemmy.world and maybe a few more I now cannot recall, all same username as my Reddit account.. I assume now that was overkill? I hope there is a way I can merge them all together at some point.. and Oddly enough, this was my last instance(? That's what lemmy.world is right?) that feels less confusing than all the previous ones I tried..

Growing pains but in time I think this whole fediverse thing will grow on me!

[–] mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I think creating too many accounts as you try to find a home and figure out what instances are is a normal thing. I certainly did it as well 😂

You can think of each instance as a separate reddit website. The magic of the fediverse is all these separate full on websites are still the same thing and can interact with each other!

[–] TheGruesomeTwosome@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I'm quite enjoying it so far! mlem is surprisingly great

[–] LetMeDropThisMic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I just spent a little time today creating my Lemmy.world account and trying to find equivalents of my favorite subs from Reddit. I really question whether Reddit will survive the uprising that has spawned. I think the IPO is going to go very poorly, then Reddit will turn into some commercial mess. This is my first Lemmy post, BTW!

[–] Panda@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I like it! Feels kind of cozy! ^_^ It's good to be here!

[–] catac@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hello Everyone! This place feels really good! refreshing Hell yeah!

[–] JacobCorrigan@c.im 2 points 2 years ago

@immadeofgold

This is a very different experience! I'm currently posting from a Mastodon server to a Lemmy server. I'm excited to see how a federated web can serve creators and users alike.

[–] blisscast@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hi there! I'm having trouble uploading pictures, but other than that, it's nice

[–] lrabbt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm finding it hard to get rid of the "Open Reddit"'s muscle memory

[–] Klinkertinlegs@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

That was easy for me. Apollo was Reddit for me. I deleted my account, removed that app, and now the barrier to entry of reaching Reddit would be going to the mobile site, so… I’d rather have all my teeth pulled with a rusty pair of pliers. Addition cured.

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[–] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you! :D Allthough I still have some hope left that we don't have to stay permanently, this feels promising ^^ There isn't an iOS Client though, right?

[–] bulbousnub@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's in TestFlight, see !mlemapp@lemmy.ml

[–] gts@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Looking good so far!

[–] Mr_Jabroni@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I'm trying to understand it still. I understand you can visit communities from any other instance, but are communities shared between them? I mean, if there's an r/NFL in lemmy.world, can lemmy.ml also contain an r/NFL and would those two be two different things?

[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have a look at this post, which will help you find some communities to join: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827

In short...

Your account (and every account) has a home instance. Both you and I have our accounts on lemmy.world.
And every community (aka subreddit) also has a home instance. The home instance for this community happens to be also be lemmy.world, same as our accounts.
But through federation, the posts from each community gets copied from the communities home server onto each subscribed user's home server. So you can subscribe to any community on any server that lemmy.world federates with.

So while it's possible for multiple instances to have an nfl community, it's not necessary since you can sub to the NFL community on another instance and that's totally normal and expected. Think of it as the subreddits name includes its instance name, so [!nfl@lemmy.ml](/c/nfl@lemmy.ml) is just a different subreddit than [!nfl@lemmy.world](/c/nfl@lemmy.world), just like on Reddit you could have competing subs named /r/nfl and /r/nflfootball. And just like reddit, when things start to calm down, I think you will see that in cases where a bunch of dupe subs exist... one or two with active mods start to dominate on user count and those end up being the most interesting. It will be a bit wild west for a while though. Lemmy is a lot smaller than reddit, though, when I find dupes of a topic I care about, my strategy had been to subscribe to them all and I'll cancel the ones that flopped a few months from now when it's clear what is active and what's dead.

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[–] paorzz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's all new, if a bit confusing, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it like I did with Aim, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and now Lemmy.

[–] bwok_bwok@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So far, so confused 😕

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[–] Alpagu@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Test

[–] F1nn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I really like the UI. The sign up process was a little rough though. The idea of the different servers and signing up via those servers was a little jarring at first.

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[–] Recant@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I'm a big fan of it. The website is great and I'm thankful that I can interact with posts and comments on other servers. I think for most people's adoption the picking of a server to join is intimidating because there are so many options.

To draw more users it needs to be made abundantly clear that you can interact across servers.

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