👋 to all the newcomers, let me know if you need any help getting settled in!
This whole fediverse thing is a bit strange after 10 years of rif. But Reddit was going downhill for quite a while. Hope this takes off!
After 3 weeks of use, it still confounds me.
I think I’ve figured everything out, except how to link to posts across servers. That still drives me mad. Some of the apps (like Connect for Lemmy) are doing URL rewriting, but I can’t assume that’s happening for everyone.
It’s pretty strange coming from Reddit. Each instance has its own communities but you can access all of them from the instance you signed up in? Like the equivalent of subreddits within subreddits. Or maybe I’m just unused to it.
I’ve been trying to think of a good metaphor, but I haven’t landed on one yet. The best thing I’ve thought of is the old saying:
Whereever you are, you’re here.
Federation (for lemmy) is the concept of the different instances sharing sublemmys, posts, and comments with each other. So you can be on any instance and interact or subscribe with things from another.
The strong caveat is: some instances turn off federation with others. For example, Beehaw has stronger moderation, and they had problems with users and spam from a specific other instance (lemmy.world was one, I think). So in that case, Beehaw turned off federation with lemmy.world. That means that if you were logged in to Beehaw, you would not see any new content from lemmy.world until they turned federation back on.
edit: I thought of one more thing. For communities that are run by their developers, like Minecraft, Lemmy is a great solution. They could host their own Lemmy instance (lemmy.minecraft) and lock down so that only their sublemmy - /c/Minecraft - is created. But when they federate, they get all the other content from other Lemmy instances.
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As a user, you could sign up with lemmy.minecraft or lemm.ee, etc., and still see everything you want and sub to the /c/Minecraft.
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As mods/admins, they only need to focus on their Minecraft thing. And they have complete control over that, because they can literally shut down the entire instance.
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And reddit still has a long way down. Look at Facebook, it never died, it just lost most young users and it grew stale with conspiracy theories, blind hatred and fake news.
It’s the walmart-ification of social media. They’re self sustaining because of their size, but that’s not enough to make them an enjoyable experience. Just corporate, sterile, and lots of bored people.
It’s like buying from a supermarket and getting pretty much everything in one stop (most of it being mediocre) VS getting local, yummy, Bio, more expensive products from 5 local small shops.
My first post as a refugee! Glad this place is here to fill the void.
Welcome, Bill!
Joining the party as RIF kicks the bed :')
You’re all the technology-savvy intelligent ones who figured out Lemmy right away, months ago. I was trying to get into Lemmy even before July 1st but finally figured it out today November 10th! I finally got into Lemmy today. It was nearly as difficult as applying & repeatedly being rejected for competitive employment somewhere. sheesh.
Very sad to say goodby to RIF after 9 years. Lets get this party started and I got some learning to do in this new environment.
Gonna miss RIF.
Me too.
Yup. Little pang of sadness seeing it finally gone. I got years of procrastination out of that app.
Sync for android here
The Dev from Sync announced a new Lemmy app it’s actually a WIP. Just wait a few weeks.
And it’s out now :) It works brilliantly, as you’d expect.
I joined 2 weeks ago, I technically am a migrant lol but I feel like a veteran already .
WELCOME REDDITORS!
Tell us about the before-times, gramps!
We used to struggle without our beloved pre built subreddits!
We had to pray to our instance develop lords with praise for giving us space!
Fr fr tho this experience is historical and I’m learning just as much as you! I learn if there’s a community missing that you used to frequent, make it yourself!
I ended up making !onepiece@lemm.ee to fill my GOAT manga needs
that is cool. there is no such thing as too many graphs, so don’t be shy in the future 😆
Do we have a dataisbeautiful yet?
I joined a few weeks ago but after RIF died just over an hour ago it looks like I’ve found my new home.
I straight up don’t know how to use Lemmy. I feel like I need to relearn how to ride a bike.
Set feed to All. Scroll. See interesting topic you want to see more, subscribe to community. Interested in specific topic? Search for community in communities page. Once you gather enough subscriptions, set feed to subscribed. Scroll.
I’ve been here for a bit more than a week now and my biggest advice and is to take it as it is. Take a deep breath, accept that this is Lemmy and not something else, and that you’re feeling it out. This is not relearning a bike, this is getting in a peddle boat for the first time. Similar, yes, but also it’s own thing.
Yeah it’s different, you’ll burn in pretty quick though, just have to get used stuff being spread across a bunch of instances. It feels pretty natural after using it a while. The designers try to make it easy. It’s kind of like email where each community has two parts to its name.
ok, so i have been here for like a whole hour now so i’m a pro! Jk I still don’t get a lot of it but I did find this cool map that shows you large communities! https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
Also check out lemmyverse.net
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
Second ever comment here. I watched Apollo shut down live, went to sleep and then immediately tried opening it up again after waking up, out of habit - girlfriends still asleep and I got so used to browsing Reddit for a bit before we get up on weekends, it has become muscle memory.
Using Wefwef currently and it’s nice, awesome work especially for a web app.
It’s 2am here and I just did exactly the same thing with rif. Gonna take some getting used to…
Give it an hour or so
Wow. Wefwef is really great. Thanks for making me aware of it.
I just joined after Apollo stopped working. I’ve been over at squabbles since the black out. No idea how this place works. Excited to dig in and figure it out though!
If you aren’t sold on the interface then check out wefwef.app. No affiliation - just spreading the gospel. It feels like Reddit on Apollo, but here instead.
welcome!
edit: just realized this isn’t even my instance but w/e, welcome to the fediverse!
2 things that really helped me: https://browse.feddit.de/ to find communities then search in the communities tab with name like community@instance.name
if it doesn’t pop up try typing !community@instance.name then community@instance.name again to see if it comes up
basically new communities wont show on your community search tab until someone else on your server has searched and subscribed or interacted
lemmyverse.net too!
Same—finally had to do the thing, and my god, finding communities to follow has GOT to get a lot easier if this is gonna work out
Which bit are you struggling with? Would be useful to know how it’s looking from a newbie perspective so we can make our explanations more effective. Also, welcome! 😄
We are still going on infinity.
Just uninstalled RIF this morning when I opened it up like I always do when I wake up.
It was a good run but dang. Now I’m trying to figure all of this fediverse stuff. The app Jerboa on Android seems to be working pretty well.
I just joined today and could use some assistance finding communities that I’d fit into. I’m into Cybersecurity and all matters of computing. If anyone has a suggestion please reply and thanks for having me :)
I’m not subbed to any, but I see a TON of them as a scroll through All. You’ll be in good company!
Welcome!
https://lemmyverse.net/communities This is a good start in search for communities. You can enter your home instance(in your case lemmy.ca) by clicking on the house symbol at the top right and then search for communities like “security”.
When you click on one, it’ll automatically lead you to the adress based on your home instance and you can immediately subscribe to them form there.
https://lemmy.ca/c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works could be of interest for example
Another refugee here. Coming from Sync.
I can’t wait for syncforlemmy!
Ooh yeah. This is my future!
Curious… since Lemmy is still starting up, do we have the subredditd or the subcommunities setup here or is that still in progress?
I hope spez chokes on his narcissism.
Hoping everything goes down in flames. Although I bet that he wouldn’t think it was because if him.
Haha, guilty. I went to mindlessly pull up RIF at about 7 pm CT and it wasn’t loading comments, then I went oh, right, UTC it’s midnight. And now two hours later here I am on lemmy
Same here, I just got back from spending a day at the museum with my nephew, and after getting home I tried loading up RIF. Got the “429” and just sighed before looking up a mobile lemmy app.
Welcome!
Same story here but with Sync on Android. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
Yep here after sync death. Can’t wait for the new app
Sync is coming to Lemmy so it will be like you never left.
