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If you experience issues or problems with this instance (lemmy.today), this is the place to discuss them. Or if you just want to ask questions about how something works. Anything related to the instance or lemmy itself.

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Welcome all new reddit refugees :) (self.lemmytoday)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by mrmanager to c/lemmytoday

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Just wanted to say hello to everyone new joining the instance lately. Seems like reddits ideas of introducing paywalled subreddits got a few more people to think twice about using that site.

I just wanted to encourage new users to install a good mobile client for Lemmy. The web interface is OK but the mobile apps really take Lemmy to another level by being much faster and more user friendly.

I personally like Boost for Lemmy and Sync but there are many others to choose from. More are linked in the sidebar.

After you do that, make sure to subscribe to many communities. You see a list under the Communities tab and you can choose to subscribe with a click.

You can also go here and see all communities in the entire lemmy universe:

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Me and @Buelldozer@lemmy.today are trying to keep the bots and spammers out and it goes pretty well so far.

Hope you like Lemmy more than Reddit, most of us here do.. :)

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[–] smokebuddy 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I took the reddit story to imply more that they were going to start competing with substack/onlyfans/patreon/exclusive discords where people could set up paywalls for content, more than that reddit itself would start blocking access to popular subreddits.

I've been on this instance for awhile and I really like what you do here. Lemmy as a whole seems to be a much better community. I still post comments on the other site occasionally, but any OC goes here and hit or miss as that content may be at least it's real people seeing and responding to it rather than throwing training data into the void.

One last edit, I'd encourage new users to look into how deleting works on the fediverse it's not quite like reddit it's stickier

[–] mrmanager 5 points 3 months ago

Thank you!

Yeah since the content is federated, it's no guarantee that anything is actually deleted. Someone could listen to everything that is posted on the entire lemmy network and copy it in real time to some other database.

So never use real names or give up personal details if you care about your privacy online.