Lemmy reminds me of how Reddit felt between 2008 ~ 2013ish.
There seems to be a disproportionate number of longtime Reddit users defecting to Lemmy and I think that the self-selecting nature of Lemmites(?) is why there are such great vibes here.
Ok so different instances have different rules on who and how communities can be created
some require that you ask the admins, and they create it and give you mod priveliges.
some allow you to create communities on an ad-hoc basis.
some only allow admins to create communities and give no mechanism for users to do so.
Generally you can only create communities in instances you’re apart of, but you can be given moderator privileges for communities across instances, provided the admins of the instance where the community allow it. If you don’t like the community creation requirements of a server? Create an account on another instance and start a community there.
Community names are unique only to the instance they are created on - meaning you might want to do some research and check if the community already exists on other instances.
Otherwise redundancy means different versions of the same community on different instances can have lightly more or less palatable rules and moderators, therefore catering to different people of the same group.
There is talk of adding an option to, on a per user basis allow an option of browsing a combination of communities across instances at once. But it’s hard to say whether this should be incorporated into the backend as an API addition or to let the various frontends implement it based off of the data they can already get from the API.
Truth. I still love Infinite, though. I may be in the minority for that, but it’s such a bizarre atmosphere and the imagery and soundtrack really stuck with me. Welcome to the circus of VALUE!
Oh geez, I’d forgotten about the circus of VALUE! Gotta emphasize it like that 😂. I think I found Infinite to be more of a mixed bag. Creepy but in a different way. All I remember is being killed by George Washington 😂
There’s a map of subredits and their new homes, seb.rehab. Many are official others are just copies. You can filter the list to just lemmy communities and kbin magazine.
Wx is great, but it is really complex for someone who didnt attend classes in meteorology. Sure it is usable, but a lot of its functions are not geared for the average user IMO.
When you make a post, the top line where you can put a url has a small image icon under and to the left of it. You can put your image there and it’ll show up on the main page without having to click through. I just learned this a couple of days ago when someone pointed it out to me. I was doing it like you are now.
The platform is just a platform. Ultimately, it’s the people that make it great. So when all the cool people were leaving, I joined 'em. I did it from Digg to Reddit and now from Reddit to Lemmy.
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