Lemmy

12538 readers

5 users here now

Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

nutomic@lemmy.ml

226

my thoughts on lemmy so far (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by nanashi@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

199 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Welcome! The biggest hurdle is right at the beginning. Choosing which server to register with.

After that it's got enough similar to Reddit, that it should be easy to post to your registered server and other federated servers as well.

[–] lavenderdreams@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Am I going to regret signing up to lemmy.ml rather than a more specific instance? Still wrapping my head around all this. Could I sign up on another instance w/ the same username if that instance wasn't federated?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think so, but if you notice a server that has significantly more of what you want and less of what you don't want you can go and join them later!

So long as the user isn't already taken on the other server!

[–] lavenderdreams@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thanks!

[–] exterstellar@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can sign up on any and as many instances as you want, and still be able to view any content and community from any other instance. This is the point of federation.

[–] lavenderdreams@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Got it, makes sense!

[–] Xer0@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only thing I don't get, is I've seen posts on a different site (beehaw) showing up here. I kind of know how the fediverse works sort of, but is beehaw basically the same as Lemmy running the same software? I managed to sub to a couple of beehaw things from here which is cool, but it looks like a separate site. Do you need to sign up on both?

[–] DuBois41st@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I'm also new to this, but I think I understand the basics;

I think beehaw does indeed run the same/custom software as Lemmy, and they are associated through the Fediverse.
I signed up on beehaw, so assuming you can see this comment, you do not need to sign up on both
beehaw is slightly different from other lemmy servers in that downvoting is disabled: I literally don't have the option to downvote you!
servers can associate with any other servers they want, or block servers they don't like. For example, beehaw blocks lemmygrad (I think this one is quite commonly blocked, since its very large and visible, but also politically disagreeable to many users. I'm not sure if there's a way for users to filter out servers manually.)
I think if a server is blocked by your server, you can still specifically choose to subscribe to it. I'm not entirely sure on this, however.

If any of what I've written is wrong, hopefully someone will correct me à la XKCD