I am a RiF defector and I have to admit that Lemmy is looking pretty promising! Screw the corporate scumbags!
And I, a RiF detector, playing in the K bin.
Gotta admit, the Fediverse is looking pretty sweet. A surprise, to be sure! But a welcome one.
Mastodon really helped get people acquainted with the Fediverse after the whole Twitter shitshow. My sincere hope is that the Fediverse continues to take off. Corporate-owned social media is failing at every turn.
I’m having more iterations and more interesting ones in Mastodon that I had in twitter during the last few years.
Mastodon reminds me of the early days of twitter, which is amazing.
My biggest lack of understanding is still regarding access: So, if I choose to access the Fediverse via Mastodon, can I still subscribe to Kbin and Lemmy “subs”?
I love the federated nature of all of this, I just wish it was slightly easier to put into a metaphor. I’ve seen some graphic charts that try, but it’s still a bit confusing. I’m on KBin and I like it a lot, but I have no way of knowing if I’m missing a ton of content or not!
I agree it’s a bit confusing. I think app developers are really working to try and give people an easier onboarding experience. But I’m old enough to remember when people thought Twitter and Reddit were “way too complicated” for the average person. With technology, people seem to learn over time, and devs find ways to make things easier for average users.
Lemmy is only threaded content so no mastadin. Kbin however has threads posts but also microblogging. So kbin can interact with lemmy and Mastadon.
Thank you!!
Happy to help. I’ve been learning a lot so if there’s anything that you want cleared up let me know and I can try.
Yea im kinda excited to transition back to smaller form communities. I remember back in the day when i was on bbforums with like 40 other people, and that was a lot of fun actually
Agreed! Over the years, I learned that in smaller communities, people engaged more, got to know each other, and had fun chatting on the same topic!
One of the nicer things I’m enjoying seeing after moving to Lemmy from Reddit, is seeing posts about the internet of 10, 15 and even 30 years ago and people having the same experience I had as well!
But also being reminded that the internet of today is definitely not how it used to be and finding like minded people who share the same values is something that’s sparked my old interest in “being involved” in online communities again.
I keep going to Reddit out of habit but am trying to check Lemmy.world more often. Still trying to wrap my head around the whole architecture–I understand it at a functional level but still getting a hang of how it is to actually interact with various servers and communities. Anyway. I hear only a Sith deals in absolutes and /U-who-shall-not-be-Spez’d sure seems to be dealing in that way. May Reddit go the way of MySpace and the net return to a more decentralized and organic space.
I was a long time Redditor–a prolific lurker but infrequent poster. I never used third party apps, but Reddit’s CEO behaved like such an asshat that I haven’t been back since the blackout began. Dumped Facebook and Twitter for the same reason: their horrid CEOs. Found my way to Kbin and am enjoying it! Hopefully the the good content will keep on flowing.
Hell yeah! I’m having a blast too from Lemmy.
Any recommendations on kbin?
I am still figuring things out, but looks like kbin is federated with lemmy, it is just a different server and they make UI look more like reddit.
Kbin isn’t actually lemmy at all.
I said it is a different server. But I was able to see communities (it calls them magazines) from lemmy on kbin server.
I feel a little guilty using Starlink, but it’s the only half decent option out here.
I am a sync refuge. Happy to be here!
It’s going to take awhile before things go back to normal but it’s nice seeing new communitys pop up
I feel welcomed.
Death to Reddit.
Still trying to figure this out. Need a decent Apollo style app to fully move in. I’m so done with Reddit. I already nuked the content they let me and deleted a few accounts. Definitely phasing out.
https://lemmy.world/comment/415872
i really like the Memmy app, it’s really quite nice.
Click Communities. Subscribe to a bunch. Click on your name and go to settings. Set Type to Subscribed, this defaults your home screen to show only posts from subscribed communities. Also make sure the Theme is litely or litely-red.
How do I connect this account to stuff outside lemmy.world? Do I need multiple accounts? Thanks btw.
You don’t need multiple accounts*. Lemmy.world is a federated instance of Lemmy. That means you can see not just the *local *content that fellow Lemmy.world users post here, but content posted by any other Lemmy federated instance. If you signed up for Lemmy on the instance sh.itjust.works rather than Lemmy.world, because sh.itjust.works is federated as well, any posts you make are visible to me because both of our instances are in the Fediverse. That’s to say, they agree to mirror content for the sake of building a large shared network of information.
*The only reason you’d want another Lemmy account is if you were joining an instance that wasn’t federated. That’s to say, someone or some group decided they were going to make their own Reddit-style site using the Lemmy software and keep all of its content private. You’d create an account with that site, sign in and the only content you’d ever see is local.
I moved here immediately when I heard Sync was making an app
Sync is so great. Out of all the 3rd party app creators, I’m happy that it was Sync’s creator that’ll take the first stab!
no love for the Relay expats?
Relay was my go-to app too
Relay is/was a gem! People found RiF and never looked back. After finding relay, I just couldn’t go back to RiF.
Former RiF poweruser checking in. I hope this is the start of the great migration. (and hope the RiF developer comes with!)
Frankly I’d be okay with plenty of reposts since I came to this sub so recently.
Also post engagement
Wowza where did 1.6k people suddenly came from. A million more on the way?
Good relations with the memes, we must have. If to succeed as a meme hub, we want.
