You don’t need to join lemmy.world. Just a heads up.

    • philboydstudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      As to why, basically anyone is allowed to run their own copy of lemmy and some people actually enjoy doing it. There is more nuance of course. For instance, the owner can block other people’s instances for whatever reason so no one on their instance sees content from the other instance and people from the other instance can’t comment or vote in their communities.

      There are definitely pros and cons to this approach, but the cool thing about it is the whole thing is back in the hands of real people and not owned by a bunch of investors.

    • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lemmy is a bunch of servers that talk to each other instead of just one server that holds everything. A Lemmy “instance” is one of those communicating servers. You can join any of the ones that talk to each other and see the same content. You can sign up at any of the websites you see in people’s usernames here (e.g. mine is lemmy.sdf.org), it’s good to sign up for the slightly smaller ones to better balance the server load.

    • invader_from_Saturn@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You can think of instances like communities, You can join different communities with different rules and all these communities are connected to each other. So no matter which instance you choose, you’ll still be able to interact with people from the others.

      Now the reason for the existence of different instances is the same reason why there are different communities in the world. Some people feel more comfortable in groups of people with similar tastes.And having multiple instances ensures that no instance “owns” the social network.

    • Inctura@citizensgaming.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The reason why is to make sure a single entity doesn’t hold all the power.

      Reddit is only failing because the corporation holds all the power. If we replaced Reddit with another single site, the same thing would happen again. The site would sell out and it would be whored out to advertisers.

      On Lemmy, if one site tries to go corporate, people will just move to another instance. The power is in our hands and no corporations can take it away.

    • wither.@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Just think of it like different email providers. Ex. Gmail, Hotmail, Protonmail etc, they can still talk to each other just fine but are run by different groups with their own rules.

      • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
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          1 year ago

          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(?).

          • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
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            1 year ago

            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

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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

  • MdRuckus@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m on a few instances for this reason. Too many people on lemmy.world making it unusable most of the time.

  • trimmerfrost@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Some posts and comments don’t show up on some instances. I prefer to stay with the bigger ones for that matter

  • Metaright@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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)?

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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:

      https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

      https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

      • penguin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.

  • stands_while_poops@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • jaybirrd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It bothers me that people find it out so supremely confusing and it’s definitely an issue that needs to be addressed because it’s definitely keeping people away. The fact of the matter is, you can go to any Lemmy instance and get that front page experience because the r/all equivalent of each instance shows threads from every other instance (minus defederated, etc but that’s beside the point).

      Sync helps in that it is a familiar and polished look and feel for those who used third party Reddit apps, but outside of that it’s just another Lemmy app.

      Probably the biggest factor in the confusion is fediverse terms being used to describe the fediverse, which is basically speaking nonsense if you don’t already understand it.

      There’s this: Lemmy is a federated link aggregator where anyone can start an instance and communities within that instance and all the instances can communicate and share information. Doesn’t it sound amazing?

      Then there’s this: Lemmy is like a version of Reddit where there’s a whole bunch of separate reddit dot coms. You can sign up for whichever one you like to be your home “reddit”. The reddits are all connected, so you can subscribe to subreddits on the other reddits while just logged into your home. You can also post to them, comment, and see the posts and comments from your home.

      I’m sure there’s some analogy out there that really boils it down well much better than mine, so please share if you think of one.

      • Onfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        So there will be duplicate of the same subs? For instance, I found two personalfinance in two different instances. I found it counter effective having multiple subs of the same name.

        • ThenThreeMore@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yes. This was an issue for Reddit too, especially when it was young. Over time a lot of the subs consolidated or one became clearly more popular and the smaller withered. But off hand I can still think of r/doctorwho and r/gallifray which were serving the same community in the same way.

        • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Reddit had fractured subs all the time too, everytime someone for fed up with overzealous mods.

          Just subscribe to them all.

    • feugnis@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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

    • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      There’s instances that are federated with both though. I’m on one of them.

      • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.

    • SeedyOne@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.

        • SeedyOne@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 year ago

          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.