current lemmy status

I feel that, while lemmy is still a work in progress, it is already pretty adequate for solving this need. If you want to subscribe to other instances you can do it from within your insance by going up to communities and searching. You can also click the all tab and see a bunch of instances from around lemmy that your instance is federated with.

I think mastadon struggled with this because the twitter model is to follow people and depending how far removed the servers are this can be trickier. Compared to lemmy where people interested in a single subject will likely target and find the subject theyre interested in and bring themselves together naturally.

Furthermore I think some people are splitting up and dividing into sub instances and tiny subjects a little prematurely. Reddit didnt get super esoteric with it's subs until it got big and the larger subs either declined or got too noisy to talk about certain things. Like for example how beehaw has an operatingsystems instance instead of a linux, ubuntu, macos, windows, fedora, archinux, opensuse, openbsd, etc. Right now there arent enough of us that we dont need to subdivide.

Very true. It would be sad to build up a persona on a smaller instance to then have it go dark and take your user with it. Other than losing your collection of "upvotes," you can just recreate a new user with the same display name on another instance and keep going. 👍

Holy crap, you can do Slack style emoticons? Huzzah! 🎉

Let me see if I underatand this correctly:

If I create an account on a random, small instance. And then go to the "all communities" feed. I can automatically see all communities that are in my instance. In addition to that, I can see all communities of other Lemmy instances, that are "federated". But I cannot see other communities from other nstances, unless I go on there, find the communitis and manually subscribe to them (I believe there are other ways to get them to show up, like using the search etc.?)

So, as a normal user. Who's just looking for a replacement for /r/all, wouldn't joining the largest lemmy instance that is fedarated to many others (Just by how many users it has, because it's the users who link instances by their actions?) make perfect sense?

This is the way. If you don't like the moderators, don't play on their servers. It's that simple.

I agree with you

This is something I also find strange. If I click a link to an instance, I want to view their content and not visit their homepage, where I am not logged in and cannot do anything.

I think this occurs because people haven't gotten used to linking to communities on other instances properly.

They usually post the direct link like beehaw.org/c/technology . Instead they should start using the federated link which is more instance agnostic like this: /c/technology@beehaw.org . This link will load the community from your instance.

assuming the servers are properly federated you should be getting a link that is still on your server. i mean, you got to this lemmy.ml link alright at least

wait, i think i get what you mean, like if you get an external link while not browsing on your instance? you should just be able to paste that link into the search function to find your instance's version of the post

Can you elaborate on your experience a bit more? I can't say I have had any issues as you've described. If something doesn't look right, or isn't working the way you expect, it might actually be a bug.

Created mine on feddit.de to get the german equivalent of Catastrophe as a username. And also because I live in Germany

To potential new users, also consider https://discuss.tchncs.de/ as Feddit gets hit really hard currently

How's it work if I get banned from one instance? Yet I can still comment in that instance I got banned from? No clue how that works

I applied to 3 instances when I decided to join and lemmy.ml was the only one that responded so there's that.

If the registration process just picked a random instance for you, maybe something nearby, and assured new users that they can visit communities and interact with users across instances, very few would pick the biggest instance.

Profit motive ruined Reddit so you’ve come to a place created by communist then get upset that the people who made and operate it are communists. Yeah that’s more than a little silly.

Oh no ;_;

Any recommended communities? (or ones to avoid)

It's not silly at all. I also made an account there before realizing the admins are tankies. It honestly sketches me out about Lemmy in general considering they're the two lead (and currently only?) devs. Casts a big shadow over all of Lemmy when the devs are posting Xinjiang genocide denialism and their instance is at the top of the recommendations on join-lemmy.org. With lemmy.grad pretty high up there too.

Is it possible to move instances once I'm registered or do I have to create totally new account on other instance?

.world reporting in

.world rise up!

yes!

lemmy.world in particular doesn't block any instances

see for comparison:

https://lemmy.world/instances

https://lemmy.ml/instances

https://beehaw.org/instances

Same

Same. Nice to see that there is a decent sized cansdian community on here

I did the same, let's go Canada.

Joining lemmy.ca is the patriotic thing to do ❤️🇨🇦

Screw your generic server URIs...

Iusearchlinux.fyi has a meme in its name!

you are marked as 'robot account' on leemy.sdf.org

I picked it because all the other instances asked a bunch of questions and then you had to wait for approval.

Yeah. It needs to be explained much better. Compare it to email or something

bro' i didn't even knew that there was a documentation

Docu-what now?

Seriously, if the average user needs to understand distributed systems to play in the fediverse pool, they are going to land back at Reddit. Just get people in the door (any door) and fight the technical debt that creates later.

Sure, it's a shit plan. But, it's the only way to really capitalise on the current moment. With both Twitter and Reddit blasting away at their own feet, there is a real opportunity for something better to step up. The fediverse can be that thing. But, not if people end up gatekeeping it. Less Stallman style, "RTFM!" And more, "hey, welcome. Let's get you set up."

I recognize it's easier said than done obviously and I don't have a good solution to propose; but if there was a way to make the app UI more user friendly it might help the understandability of the fediverse and subsequently lower the barrier to entry. Unless someone can figure out how to make it more seemless of an experience, it's gonna be hard to get massive traction

What does this mean?

Is Lemmy made by them?

They actually defederated with lemmy.world due to spam, kindof sucks, as users will miss out on communities on lemmy.world, lots of which were not spam.

Yes

I joined one that won't curate what I can and can't see. Or ban me because they wanted to.

yeah. i think the other problem is that people don't know if the instance would be good performance wise. i.e. i joined lemmy.ml because it was the one i found first.

A good way to handle it would be to have an instance list. with number of users vs maximum users. like joining a server in a video game. if i see its super full, i'll pick another server. of course, we'd need some large banners to make sure people know they won't be missing out on other instances.

Personally, I'd rather this not turn into another voat debacle. No offense. I'm on an instance that doesn't block it by default, but I have blocked most of the major lemmygrad communities so they don't pollute my all page.

Redditors and their eternal addiction to echo chambers.

Also Hexbear >

+1 for sh.itjust.works no wait for approval and a bit active. I tried to start a community but it didn't work, but then I searched for the communit (audiobooks) and there was one already on lemmy.ml so all good in the end!

Hello, kumpel.

Ehre Bruder - oder Schwester

burggit has none banned.

It's mainly only beehaw that censors other instances. I dunno why you'd even want to be there anyway, you can't make any communities.

So much this. If you want to bring up federated community as a selling point you should also tell the user if your instance block any other instance.

I tried subscribing to a specific feddit.de community using Jerboa and I haven't been able to yet. Not sure whether I'm misunderstanding something or whether that's not possible.

Functionally it's not very different. Everyone on a different federated server can access all the other "subreddits." However, your account is hosted by the server you joined. If it were to go down, I suppose your account would disappear.

Good question, it varies by server. Beehaw.org for example limits sub creation to admins.

No you don't need an additional account. You can follow communities from wherever** you are.

** some instances might be blocked