My experience has been great! Iβm trying to open up and contribute more to help this place grow. I made accounts on lemmy.ml and mastodon.social. While initially it was hard trying to find people and communities to follow, I think Iβve got the hang of it and am finding new content every day! There were some good posts on Reddit that helped me find lists of Mastodon users and Lemmy communities. By the end of the month Iβll be telling all my friends to hop on and helping them with the migration.
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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Liking it so far. Found some great communities and have enjoyed it. :)
What lemmy instance should I use? I registered lemmy.ml but I heard itβs very political. Should I change?
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I'm pretty inpressed with how much everything is improving in such a short time frame. Feeling optimistic.
Had some issues getting an account with loading going infinitely until approved, which is just confusing as a new user as there was no notification about it timing out, and almost led to some duplication by accident. But so far it has actually been pretty smooth other than that, I like the UI and the community focus a lot.
This part was super buggy for me too. Signed up, filled in form, click button... Nothing happens. Tried lots of times and no messages to user, nothing.
But it turns out my account had been created, there was just no info about it.
But these things will be ironed out. :)
Its a double edged sword, a lot of the communities are small and do not have regular posts. A few I joined are effectively dead ATM; the flipside is I do find the comments and conversations to be more engaging with less of the toxicity of Reddit.
Unfortunately, I've been getting some 404 not found of some communities/magazines of some instances that are not from the instance I'm using, e.g. I'm using kbin.social at the current posting account, but let's say that I tried to access something like https://sh.itjust.works/c/skincareaddiction there's no issues whatsoever (since it's the main instance where that community spawned off) but if I tried https://kbin.social/m/skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works then I would get the aforementioned error code. I find it pretty inconvenient that caching/indexing of certain less popular (which I assume is what is happening) community working clunkily, it feels not as reliable than using a centralized service, but I guess that this is the price to pay for a decentralized system.
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