So I just started with the fediverse, I heard about it for years, but never did the real jump to go full in. For now I started with lemmy because it seems to be the easiest option. I wanted to do a small recap of tip, tricks and general usage flow....
As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it’s pretty hard to keep track. I’ve been browsing for about a month now, here’s a list of popular communities I’ve subscribed to that others would find interesting!...
You're on a kbin instance, and it is the main one so most of them are probably already there. If any of them is not, just click the search button at the top of the screen and enter the name you see above without the ! and without the space before the @. e.g. "[email protected]", your instance will then look it up and subscribe you to it if found.
It might take a while for threads to begin to appear if it wasn't already there though.
You're on a kbin instance, and it is the main one so most of them are probably already there. If any of them is not, just click the search button at the top of the screen and enter the name you see above without the ! and without the space before the @. e.g. "[email protected]", your instance will then look it up and subscribe you to it if found.
It might take a while for threads to begin to appear if it wasn't already there though.
Being a mod doesn’t change anything. If the community is from your instance it will be accurate. If not, in the sidebar under the name of the community there is a link to visit the community on the site of the home instance. You can click that to see the community on it’s home site amd that will show the accurate count.
Subscriber count isn’t really that helpful though, better to look at the active user coints, which seem to be mostly accurate regardless of which instance you are viewing from.
I have been using Lemmy for 20 days, at first I opened an account at Lemmy.world because you can join without writing a text and waiting approval. I have been enjoying the experience overall but despite the admin teans best efforts Lemmy.world has been experiencing some serious performance issues. If you want to avoid that join...
I thought that was built in to all Lemmy clients. All non-home instances I’m subscribed to are presented as @instance because the instance location is just as important as the sub’s name.
lemmyverse.net/communitiesOnce you go to the site on the top right there’s an icon of a house click it and set your local instance. From there you’re free to search all communities by name and by instance location and once you click on them it will open using your local instance automatically. From there you simply have to subscribe
Combining them doesn’t make sense to me. There are situations where there are two big communities from two big instances with the exact same name(ie. c/reddit), but the content and the mod approach(rules etc.) aren’t the same.
So, I think it’s a good thing. You’re interested in discussing a topic but don’t feel comfortable on the community you found? You can just go find the same topic on another instance!
Its very easy for people to just camp on identically names communities on Lemmy.world, wait for confused newbies to their community because they’re also on lemmy.world and then the community is split (potentially no longer having mods on the new instance).
The potential lack of modding/mod engagement in the future is what concerns me most.
The way I see it, the fediverse itself is the conversational arena, not any particular community within the fediverse. Communities limited to a single instance shouldn’t have primacy, because some of those instances don’t even want their communities open to certain other instances on the fediverse. Since some of the biggest communities keep defederating each other over petty moderator politics, it’s absolutely a good thing that the the fediverse has multiple communities for the same topic, or even with the same name. As long as you’re on an instance that doesn’t defederate other instances, you’ll see them all and can interact on them from a single account. More than that though, people wielding too much centralized power always turn out to be dicks, so anything that maintains decentralization of power is good.
Yup, and afaik bluesky is just another corporate competitor to Twitter, so migrating there would still leave users vulnerable to the same basic hazards of Twitter, namely that they’re still at the mercy of the whims of some CEO or board of directors. It’s just a hope that those “leaders” are better, and will remain better.
The right wingers demonstrated the folly of that when they tried to migrate to parler only to have passport info and all kinds of shit demanded, STILL get censored by their own fellow right-wingers, and eventually had the rug pulled out from under them.
There’s no reason to place your trust in a centralized corporate entity. Better to have something like this, with a good (not hateful) community and multiple points of redundancy. If lemmy.world went down there’s tons of alternatives that take literally no effort to migrate to, if you don’t like the moderation (or lack thereof) on one instance you can easily move, etc.
Granted, I don’t use Twitter so I can’t judge the relative ease of use, which I reckon will be the main factor for most normal users, less-so for someone already on Lemmy since that seems to self-select more for tech savvy.
I do know that the transition to Lemmy was very easy for me, and if it doesn’t already exist a dead simple instruction post could be written up to get people up and running within minutes so long as the author doesn’t bog the reader down with too many choices (ie, just suggest one good-enough client for Android and apple each, point people towards lemmy.world and don’t confuse people with all the various instances, and let them expand outwards from there organically as they get the lay of the land).
Every Peertube instance has its own focus, rules, etc, so the one you browsed may have had educational materials but that is not representative of every instance.
I found beetoons.tv which at least seems to have some gaming stuff. When you browse any Peertube instance if you see a gaming video pay attention to what server it lives on and that might be one worth looking at, it is after the @ in the person’s username.
Yeah, those are very good concerns, and in his position (I understand the instance is named after it’s admin), I would be wary. But he pays the operating costs and he opens himself to liability, which means the decision is his to make. I can only say it’s the one instance I know of that seems to be leaning into the spirit of self-determination through self-hosting.
You aren’t logged out per se, you don’t have an account on that instance so will show as not being logged in there (which you aren’t). What I tend to do is save any community links to a notepad app and then go back to my own instance and paste the link into the search box or just search using the communities name.
Nobody can “get ahold” of an instance in any meaningful way. Accounts can be migrated to other instances. Instances that act poorly get defederated.
If Meta buys lemmy.world you know what happens? Everyone migrates to other instances, lemmy.world gets defederated, and Meta now has a completely useless instance name and not much more.
I was under the impression that accounts cannot yet be migrated to other instances, you can just create a new account on another instance but you’d start with an empty account without your previous posts. And your name might already be taken of course.
I’d love to have a migration option though because that would solve a lot of problems.
Lemmy.ml, to my understanding, was always meant to be a pilot instance from the devs of lemmy. Beehaw is kind of its own forum. There is also sh.itjust.works, but that has been caught up in some federation drama, and I don’t think people like the name. Lemmy.world has been the right server at the right time to absorb everyone and I guess they have been able to keep up with sign-ups. Kudos to them.
I’ve signed up for a bunch of them and still haven’t decided where I want to make my main.
Same story for me, although I keep coming back to Lemmy.world in the first instance, at least for the Lemmy instances (also explored kbin, tildes and squabbles). Mixed feelings about Lemmy.ml as I think there’s virtue being on the instance the devs run as it seems unlikely to go away, although there has been the talks around political views. From the political side, I do hang out more often than not in tech spaces though so I doubt it’d actually impact anything I’d want to engage in discussion about.
Also have an account with Beehaw which was my first but silly as it may seem, the name of that one puts me off a bit. “Lemmy.world” sounds like something I can more easily communicate to a friend verbally, for whatever that is worth.
Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts.
If you go to the community search bar and search for say, “gaming” you’ll get multiple results. The one that’s just “gaming” is your home instance, any with an “@instancename” behind them are from elsewhere.
Mod work in general is going to be a tough issue for everyone to solve. Different places will have different norms they want to enforce, and a limited volunteer staff to push that agenda. But there’s nothing that can’t be automated. Automate the creation of AI mods, automate the selection of user mods, automate the banning of objectionable comments and users using a combination of both humans and AI to both handle the workload and adhere to community regulations. If these tools can be developed as part of lemmy, automated moderation can become an available option for all instances, which hopefully will mean that moderation here will be better quality and lower cost than moderation on that other social media site, I’m forgetting the name.
Getting Lemmy right
So I just started with the fediverse, I heard about it for years, but never did the real jump to go full in. For now I started with lemmy because it seems to be the easiest option. I wanted to do a small recap of tip, tricks and general usage flow....
List of popular communities you should visit!
As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it’s pretty hard to keep track. I’ve been browsing for about a month now, here’s a list of popular communities I’ve subscribed to that others would find interesting!...
YSK: Subscriber count on communities only show the numbers of users subscribed from your specific instance. The real number might be much larger than you think.
You can use lemmyverse.net to check actual subscriber numbers....
YSK: If you want faster and less buggy User experience, move to a smaller instance that is hosted close to you.
I have been using Lemmy for 20 days, at first I opened an account at Lemmy.world because you can join without writing a text and waiting approval. I have been enjoying the experience overall but despite the admin teans best efforts Lemmy.world has been experiencing some serious performance issues. If you want to avoid that join...
r/Android is now on the Fediverse! (www.reddit.com)
Android news, reviews, tips, and discussions about rooting, tutorials, and apps....
Is it a good thing if there are identical communities on different instances?
Is it worthwhile to try to get mods to combine them? It just seems like a bit of a waste when trying to grow a community and its split in two....
Bluesky invite codes
Since Bluesky reopened for signups, does anyone have any invite codes? If so, feel free to DM me. I want to get out of Twitter.
Is there a video gaming platform on peertube or an instance that deals with questions in this regard?
Hi, I was redirected here after asking about this topic...
Would darknet market discussion be allowed on Lemmy?
Hey guys,...
How do you find a list of communities of another instance?
I don’t know if I make sense, For example, I am on lemm.ee and I want to find or browse all communities in Lemmy.world
Preparing for Future Corporate Influence
The Fediverse as it stands now is super ambitious, prospering, and honestly really exciting to see and be a part of....
How did Lemmy.world become more popular than Lemmy.ml?
I don’t understand how Lemmy.world developers managed to surpass both Lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org instances in user activity.
YSK: If you're on Lemmy.World or Sh.itjust.works you should not subscribe to any Beehaw communities
Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts.