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Lemmy being so confusing is partly why I was upset about Reddit taking a dump. I don’t understand the difference in all the Lemmy things or what to sign up for. I was excited about Sync because it seems to make it easier to understand and see everything. I just want something that will replicate a frontpage which is what Sync is trying to do. I don’t have the desire or time to learn the ins and outs of it all.
It’s actually not that complicated. Lemmy just works like email. You can use different email providers (lemmy calls them instances) like gmail.com or yahoo.com and they work together. What you call subreddits is called communities and they are managed by a instance. If one instance does something that you don’t like, you can use another. They all work independently but exchange data. If you have any questions see this. Hope this helps
FYI lemmynsfw.com is down right now. That’s why you couldn’t log in.
😱
Not our lifeblood!
Back up now though
good to know
Looks like it’s back. You can log in for science 🤣
…Unless they do a massive defederation like Beehaw.
There’s instances that are federated with both though. I’m on one of them.
You’ve just got to keep in mind that it’s not completely clean. Beehaw defederated from 2 of the largest instances making it useless for most users on the site.
Oh for sure. I started at beehaw and ended up on tf because I wanted access to everything.
It is what it is The fedi drama makes it kinda interesting lmao
Fine by me, what they did is actually a feature of the Fediverse. People fear what they don’t understand and based on comments at the time, there was a lot of misunderstanding.
Do you mean beehaw misunderstood or the defederated instances misunderstood?
Defederated instances took it too personally, it was by design. Beehaw may have jumped the gun acting quickly and we can disagree with their reasoning all we want, but that’s their prerogative to isolate/protect the community they have. It’s a feature, not a bug.
What instances did they defederate from?
For all new users: I’d recommend picking an instance that:
-Is geographically close to you first -Has the same “moral compass” as you (ie if they allow NSFW content or are defederated from instances that has sensitive content) -That isn’t hammered by too many new users
It’s not that hard to check out this info, usually after a day or two on Lemmy you’ll figure these things out.
Is there a good resource/wiki on what instances are out there?
https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
ljdawson should add this instead of lemmy.world
https://join-lemmy.org/instances and https://lemmyverse.net/ are good starting points.
Switched to lemm.ee because lemmy.world is down like every other day, for multiple hours at a time. Been better so far.
That’s the beauty of lemmy, there’s always options
My instance lemm.ee is sooo bad, totally don’t join our awesome club so I get longer load times. 🤫 How can we bare having not banning the evil porn and federating with all the other instances!
Also a cute lil instance at https://literature.cafe/ opened up too.
After what happened with lemmy.fmhy.ml I am a bit scared of joining “less popular” domains to be fair.
I recall the lemm.ee instance owner saying somewhere that .ee is the country code for Estonia and he is a citizen of said country himself.
Although IMO that whole freenom-Mali government contract expiration thing has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way regarding uncommonly encountered domains
Valid. I really like how the AT protocol does it. Their account portability is really something ActivityPub desperately needs. Even account transfers on Mastodon isn’t a proper solution.
Has this actually been tried though? As far as I know, while the AT Protocol has a form of federation built into it, the last time I checked BlueSky was the only actual implementation of it and its not possible to run your instance without building it up from scratch and designing your own implementation of the protocol(?).
Who the hell knows lol, they still have a wait-list. Idk what they’re even doing over there at Bluesky. I just like the idea of the AT protocol, but we’ll see how well it actually materializes
Hello fellow lemm.ee user 👋
This interaction makes me happy.
too late, going to register on lemm.ee now!
You can also pick instances that are more lax and federate with everyone, then filter instances you don’t want to see, on sync. Huge feature
Is there some kind of tutorial or explanation for beginners who only came here because of sync and don’t understand anything that’s going on.
On one side this experience is really simple and easy, sync makes it very much like Reddit. But I see some people have @signs in their names showing their on different instances… Does that mean my comments aren’t seen by all people and what the heck is an instance and what an I doing?
I’ve seem this metaphor around and will try to replicate here. Lemmy (and kbin) instances are like email providers, you can have an email from Google, outlook, Proton, etc. and they all can send emails to each other. Lemmy instances are like this, if you have an account in an instance, you can see content and interact with all the other instances.
Some instances don’t talk to each other (defederate) for a myriad of reasons, but mostly because of political opinions and trolls. Here’s a link with a more in depth explanation of how defederation works, from when it happened with one of the big instances on lemmy: https://lemmy.world/post/149743
Come to sh.itjust.works, we have the best name.
Lemmy.WTF Which of course means “What The Fediverse?!”.
I used to see reports that you could “carry over” your account from one instance to another. Do you have any details on this, or whether this also works between different services (e.g. KBin and Lemmy)?
This works on Mastodon, but not on Lemmy/Kbin (yet). Migration between Lemmy and Kbin in general could be tough since they’re completely different softwares and Lemmy lacks support for several Kbin functions (such as Boosts and Microblogging).
Account migration between Lemmy instances has been requested on GitHub but I don’t know much beyond that. If you just want a profile redirect it might not be too complicated, but migrating full post and comment history is a different story.
Scripts have been created to transfer settings and subscriptions from one Lemmy account to another, however:
Being able to link/synchronize accounts a cross instances would be huge for continuing to use lemmy when your main instance is having trouble or goes down.
And I think if accounts were globally federated so that you could just log into any instance, it would take away the main complaint many people have when they claim lemmy is confusing.
How does sync work on pc?
You can use Voyager on PC. Works on mobile as well.
Sync is a mobile app, but you can sign in to lemmy by going to your instance’s website (for you it would be lemmy.world). Remember, sync is only a way to view lemmy, it doesn’t power lemmy
RIP vlemmy
My first account. RIP
Same here. Almost quit lemmy after that
A good list of communities to subscribe to are here: https://lemmy.world/post/2216085
Great link, joined a couple of neat art subs. Thanks!
Nice. Please share a couple. I’m always on the lookout for new communities.
The Far Side, Digital Art, and Comic Strips were the subs I subbed to. Some neat artwork in there!
Yep! Currently communicating with you from my own instance!
Unless you identify as a communist then your instance is preemptively banned from lemmy.world
This is why we need more instances
@[email protected] Account migration isn’t possible yet. But you can sign up to as many instances as you like with the same username and email. Also you can post to any KBin or Lemmy instance as long as it’s federated with your home instance.
However sometimes there’s issues, like right now with me not being able to reply to you directly.
What if the username isn’t available on all of them though?
But you can sign up to as many instances as you like with the same username and email.
But, like anywhere else, I would strongly suggest to use different passwords.
Absolutely!
