Moving over from reddit as well and it would help if there was a summary for what the new terminology are such as microblogging and magazines and if these terminology have the same meaning across the fediverse.
Also when I subscribe to a community based in Lemmy why does Kbin show only how many people are subscribed from Kbin. It doesn't impact usage but it did add to the confusion. I'm probably still using the wrong terminology.
Otherwise I'm liking what I'm seeing and hoping to be on this long term :)
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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Once I added a few different instances it became much better! Content will come. But the best users from Reddit will migrate along with us!
Is there one overall community just mirrored across all instances? Or is the “Nintendo” on lemmy.ml different than the “Nintendo” on bee.haw or whatever? (Just an example - no idea if these communities exist)
It's accessible from every instance that is Federated with the other. So for example if I'm on sh.itjust.works and there's a Nintendo community on lemmy.ml, I would be able to access it just by searching !nintendo@lemmy.ml for example. The same goes for other communities on other instances, you would just replace lemmy.ml with the instance url.
I really want to like this but the fact that two separate Nintendo communities (for example) can exist on two separate instances is a non-starter for most users and very nearly for me. Is there not a mechanism of some kind to join them so anyone joining their instance's Nintendo community gets plugged in with every instance's Nintendo posts? This will truly confuse most new people coming in from Reddit where communities had single canonical names.
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Ok that makes sense… but in this example, they are still two distinct communities? E.g., the comments are different in each?
yes, they are distinct
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I don't understand how federation works and the different instances and how communities with in that regard. But otherwise I'm happy to leave Reddit and still have similar communities talking to my interest.
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It's a change. Harder to use initially but then I'm sure I'll get used to it and enjoy it more
Very good so far. I understand that server owners are needing to make changes to optimize for a large number of users migrating, so any slowdowns or service issues are completely understandable.
I really like the idea of a federated "reddit style" forum. Gives power back to the users.
I'm confused but have been figuring things out.
Mostly it seems that many of my Reddit subs are reconvening on different Lemmy servers (.ml, .world, .can) and I can't yet figure out how to combine them or view them under one account?
I'll keep trying.
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Worried about the future of fediverse, all it takes is a few external bad apples and servers will start defederating. Also even less internal bad apples who decides to make specific desirable features proprietary with the goal to amass the majority to users. Both of these are bad for the fediverse.
I miss more intuitive comment collapsing, I used it a lot to skip conversations faster than scrolling through them.
The whole federation thing is not intuitive for new folks. Although watching the lemmy.ml bubble is pretty funny.
I'm interested in reading more about Lenny's privacy and internal workings, ~~but this information is pretty hard to find.~~
I'm concerned about a reliable deletion mechanism Lemmy doesn't care about your privacy
Reddit thread of the same story
I'm also concerned by some posts which I hope are not true:
Lemmy's creator banned from r/socialism for posting neo nazi literature
I'm waiting for apps to pick up the slack. Using Jerboa right now but holding out hope for a Sync switchover 🤞
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Fine.
To be fair, I used Mastodon long before Elon acquired twitter, so I'm pretty comfortable with federated social media. The fragmentation inherent to federation might make small communities difficult to form, but it also protects against the eternal specter of power-tripping mods, so I can't complain.
I just hope it doesn't have the same memory utilization as the Mastodon web client. Seriously. I flat-out can't leave a single Mastodon tab open in the background, because it'll eat all my RAM. No other social media I've used does this.
It's actually pretty good, especially once you figured out how to subscribe to communities on other instances. I'm a bit miffed, to be honest. I was thinking about making something like this and I found that it already existed.
A few things I would change on the web interface:
- Long text post should have a "show more" instead of having to click into it
- Clicking on the title should bring you to the article if it's a link. Clicking on the comments should bring you to the discussion.
- Please. I have no iOS development skill but need an iOS app that's not in beta.