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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by hllywluis@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I'm a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It's definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it's great to see something that isn't Reddit growing in popularity!

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[–] bzImage@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing with lemmy it seems that you can install your own instance and the "federation magic" shares content between instances, but not accounts ?? !!!

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, if what you mean by "not sharing accounts" is that your user account is only able to be signed into from the instance you registered on. This is an issue because it means your account is tied to an instance, and if that instance goes down, so does your content. Lemmy is working to implement account migration between instances (Mastodon already has this feature rolled out), to fix this concern.

[–] phil_m@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

There's a github issue for that: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/506

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does you content go down or just your ability to log in again?

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I may be wrong, but I believe the communities hosted on your instance's content would be lost as well as any content you posted on your own instance, for instance comments on another instance's community would remain.