how are yall feeling about the website?
I’m excited to be a part of something new
Well lets see, my self promo spam to begin :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OHEFg9GbBA
edit: also fuck spez
Seems sluggish, rough, and low population, but fuck spez so I’ll give this an honest chance.
A bit confusing, but I’m really excited about this. I hope the ‘choose server’ part when you sign up gets streamlined a bit. It’s very confusing for new people. My first post on Lemmy by the way!
Still a young community, hopefully this’ll be able to take on Reddit someday in terms of user growth and usability
Glad to see an alternative is gaining traction! The inversed colours for up and downvotes will take some getting used to!
To double-check that I understand Lemmy correctly: the equivalent to a subreddit is a server, right? So within lemmy.world there aren’t necessarily subforums/topics/subreddits.
So far it’s been good. There is a bit of a learning curve, setting up on mobile devices was a little challenging. Seems to be working well now. This thread has been really helpful for me.
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Yes, your account would be gone.
I know that its pretty normal for Mastodon server operators to publicly commit themselves to anouncing that they are going to shut down, so users can take action accordingly (Was it 90 days, not sure?).
Additionally, Mastodon has a functionality that lets you transfer your account to a new server you choose, while keeping your followers and followings.
Lemmy doesn’t have a similar functionality. I suppose this is something in the works. Ideally you would take your community subscribtions with you (instead of followers/-ings).
I’m not sure about this (I need to verify) but afaik the account should be virtually gone if that were to happen
I’m waiting for some new communities to pop up, but the layout is good.
I’ve started photography and [email protected] would be great to see you in either
Both my links are doing weird things, if anyone knows how to do this please tell me!
is there any advantage of using one instance vs another? I made accounts on both kbin and lemmy.world, is it all the same except whatever UI i prefer?
When i visit some communities in kbin, it tells it the posts might not all be up to date
You can join communities hosted on another server than the one you registered with. Some posts might take time to update because I am guessing the two servers need to communicate the changes.
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!
How is the federation supposed to work regarding logins? I made my initial account on lemmy.world but I’m unable to login and subscribe to communities on other federated servers. I presumed the primary server I setup on would allow me to subscribe and comment on communities on other servers?
Let’s use /c/videos on lemmy.ml as an example. If you use the url lemmy.world/c/[email protected] , you should be able to subscribe to it.
So then could you have, say, a 3D printing “subreddit” on lemmy.ml as well as lemmy.world? And if you had no idea of the one on lemmy.ml, you would never see the posts submitted there, correct?
Edit: I think I understand now. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. You would be able to see it on your instances “all” page only if one other person from your instance went and subscribed to that other community (from the other instance). So it essentially grabs the content from that other instance and shows it on yours, without actually having to go and sign up for that other instance.
I have finally managed to create an account, so do we have CSS like original reddit? Other then that lemmy seems pretty cool
It doesn’t look like we have the same css feature yet, but you can start your own lemmy instance just to host your community and customize the hell out of it.
So glad to leave that dumpster fire of a website
Digging it so far. The only thing that I have noticed, and this may just be due to the large influx of people coming to the site, it’s been taking literal minutes for me to submit a post or edit my profile
The old Reddit Hug of Death is slowing down the server
Figured as much lmao. Hopefully a decent chunk of the new users stick around. I’ve been on way too many sites where we’d get a large influx of users with only 0.5% becoming regulars.
Also I hope we get some real content moved over here instead of just talking about reddit and reddit issues. I felt like that was 95% of mastodon posts about how mastodon is good and Twitter is bad. Here’s hoping Lemmy can be more than an echo chamber.
Mastodon is well past that and is a extremely viable platform. It was def like that during the initial Twitter exodus though; people were bitter
That’s good to hear. Twitter was never really my bag so I didn’t really stick around on Mastodon, not because it wasn’t viable, but because that format isn’t my favorite. Might have to pop back over.
Thanks, where’s the coffee machine, please?
