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This question is especially for people who have joined in the last week. Have you used other fediverse platforms or is this your first time really using one? What do you think of it so far? Are you aware that you can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account?

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[–] ThorfinnOfThors@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes this is my first time and my first comment too :) Glad to be here

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[–] cities@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, it is my first time, and don't know what i'm doing

[–] Dandylion@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Also first time, also don't know what I'm doing! But I'm having fun and am not going back to the other place

[–] r4tzt4r@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I think I will understand only what Jerboa makes easy to understand. I mean: there's a search function so I lool for things there. There's a gaming community, so I suscribe. The frontpage or whatever show me posts from servers (?) I'm not subscribed to, so I will lurk there (like in this instance).

I don't know if I there's another way to find communities or "sublemmies" or whatever. Basically I see, I comment, I post, and I hope to find things related to my hobbies.

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[–] TechnicolorRex@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is my first dip into the fediverse.

I have no interest in a personal page like twitter or facebook / meta, so no plans for mastadon as well.

That said, can someone ELI5 the difference between Lemmy and Kbin?

Is there a reference for all the fediverse places outside of those mentioned above?

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[–] fern2k@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Just joined my first instance was kinda difficult but finally got my acceptance email excited for this platform and fuck you reddit

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

I first used Mastodon but I was never one to really "get" or use Twitter either so I haven't actually used it much. This suits my needs far better.

[–] oxydot@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Same, I got a mastodon account but never really used it. Reddit and now Lemmy is my shit.

[–] MaryAnna@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I got Mastodon and liked it well enough but I'm still getting used to it. Lenny, I'll admit, is super confusing, but I can see it's potential and I'm really excited to get more involved. In the 10+ years I've been on reddit, I think I've only posted or commented a handful of times. With Lemmy, I want to make more of an effort to participate.

[–] zelkami@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back when the switch from Twitter to Mastodon was recommended I tried it but didn't really understand how it worked, didn't know how to get to the content I wanted and gave up. This is the first time after that

[–] Ghast@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy's so new that I think a lot of people are still unsure how to curate their feed.

[–] displayerror@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

First time doing anything fediverse related. It took a while to wrap my head around it, but all the reddit drama is helping since people are trying to encourage others to move over and are offering guides/explanations.

[–] 0x0f@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

been lurkin around the fediverse for years, but only recently found lemmy. nice change of pace, never liked the microblogging format so masto never kept me.

[–] notroot@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Nope. I joined a couple big Mastodon instances, then started running a solo on DigitalOcean. It's a hobby. I'll probably give up the self-hosted and continue on a regular Calckey account.

Also played with Pixelfed, and before that all the way back to Matrix/Rocket... and pre-AP good ole diaspora*. Basically, anything but corporate social media. I just don't like it enough to deal with the bullshit.

I liked Reddit though, but haven't been on there for more than a year, now.

Lemmy seems pretty cool though. I'm interested in playing with the tech. Seems like a good way to take my Rust skills to the next level.

[–] Evolone@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, it is. And I literally have no idea what I’m doing or what the fediverse is or how to best utilize it and I have a mastodon account but don’t use it because all of this fediverse/instance stuff stresses me out and I just want a cool community to feel like I’m a part of, not a bunch of stuff I don’t understand and I hope I can feel comfortable here with Lemmy. Oof.

[–] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine there were multiple reddit websites. Reddit.com, reddit.org, reddit.social, etc. Doesn't matter what account you have, you can see communities/subreddits across anyone of them.

That's Lemmy.

When you make a lemmy account, it's more like an email address. You are evolone@lemmy.ml, I am cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml. Someone else is joeblow@beehaw.org. We can all chat and post and have a good time no matter what website/instance we post to.

That's how users work on lemmy. Just like email. Communities on lemmy work the exact same way as users.

If all you're interested in is that, then you can stop there and fully enjoy your time with lemmy as a reddit replacement.

The future potential and complexity comes from the next part:

The fediverse is someone said, "hey, you know how people on reddit can't follow people on Twitter, or people on YouTube can't subscribe to subreddits, or people on Instagram can't leave YouTube comments? Well let's make it so you can.

Now this isn't perfectly implemented at the moment, and there are a lot of growing pains (it's kinda like the wild wild West), but you can make a mastodon account (like Twitter), and follow the this lemmy community !asklemmy@lemmy.ml on it, and you'll see all the posts and all the comments that you would otherwise see on lemmy, just in a twitter-like format.

It's not perfect and compatibility across these decentealized apps is not perfectly impremented atm, but in the future you could theoretically have one giant interconnected web where everything from "Twitter" to "reddit" to "YouTube" to "Instagram" to whatever fediverse equivalent app are all interwoven. And if any instance of them gets a big enough head to pull something like reddit is pulling, or what Twitter has been pulling, the community can just make a new "email" on a different instance/website and continue as of nothing changed. No single website/instance can abuse their power, because another instance can be spun up any time.

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

I'm about 24 hours into Lemmy and beyond bamboozled so thank you intensely for your ELI5 response: really helped. My key concern is who pays to keep all the lights on?

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[–] EGirlEnthusiast@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. Actually made this account today, and here are my first impressions: The learning curve is existent, and likely the largest problem with mass adoption. The way communities work is cool, but not easily explained to end users. But now that i see how it works, i like it better. Now we just need the content and community to thrive.

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[–] Chekhovsgun@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yes and embarrassed to admit I didn't even know what a Fediverse was until yesterday.

[–] jcb2016@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

This is my second comment. Refugee from Reddit

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I've been on Matrix and Mastodon for a number of years, but I'm new to Lemmy. Matrix is already better than competitors like Discord, in my opinion. It has a healthy pool of users including several major tech organizations.

I've never been too active on Mastodon for the same reason I never got into Twitter. I just don't enjoy "microblogging," and prefer mediums that are more oriented towards actual conversation. Lemmy does an excellent job in that respect.

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yes it's my first time. I'm a little worried about long term stability of communities and accounts if individuals get tired of hosting servers, but seems like everyone is really nice and invested so far.

[–] buttermilkDelight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is my first time and frankly I'm a bit confused by everything but I'm willing to give it a try and learn o/

[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

First time for me. I had heard about Mastodon when Elon first bought Twitter, but I never liked Twitter so I didn't look into it. I think it's okay so far. Kind of reminds me of old internet, which I miss.

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

I like it though the no central login is my biggest issue I think I have right now. What works for Reddit is that it’s really easy for a non-technical person to get in to it; Setup an account, login in, find, view, subscribe, post, and comment all in one place. With Lemmy/Fediverse there is a barrier with trying to explain it straight away e.g is it called Lemmy or Fediverse or Kbin etc

I get why it’s better, and I don’t know what a solution could be, but at the moment the simplicity of it in one place will keep Reddit a viable solution for a lot of people who would like it to “just work”

As an example here’s a post from PrequelMemes

squabbles.io is a pretty good reddit alternative. I hear a lot of people suggesting lemmy and other federated options, but those are just confusing to me tbh. Squabbles works very similarly to reddit, so the transition should be painless.

And the reply

Thank you! I’m heading to squabbles.io right now, based upon your description of it!

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[–] ikiru@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

This is my first time using Fediverse accounts but I've always stayed away from other social media other than reddit due to privacy reasons.

I think Lemmy is cool but I will miss all the different communities and information I could find or did find on reddit, but I hope Lemmy grows into what reddit was and what it could have been.

But, yes, I have to admit I am a little heartbroken after about a decade.

[–] ShanJezi@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This is my first venture into the fediverse. Confusing at first, but all the guides are helpful. I'm still unsure how to subscribe to communities I'm interested in

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[–] FreezingInFuckingHell@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea I hadnt even heard of the Fediverse before Lemmy. I had kind of heard of mastodon but didn't really know what it was.

[–] bahcodad@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Same here. We're learning together

[–] kalipike@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, this is my first dip in.

Thus far it seems promising and near, but with a huge downfall of slow adoption/scale to where many instances are hosted in either un-scalable or unstable environments so some instances go down easily.

Apart from that, though, it's very reminiscent of Web1.0 and early Web2.0 and I like that a lot.

[–] Yadaran@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

How do I comment on posts with my mastodon account?

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I first used Mastodon but I was never one to really "get" or use Twitter either so I haven't actually used it much. This suits my needs far better.

[–] PurpleErestor@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Similar situation to some. I tried Mastodon first, but it seemed like more of a Twitter alternative since you follow personalities rather than topics. Been on Lemmy for a few days now and it's a definitely more in line with what I wanted

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I really don’t get it at all and am unsure how to do that with a mastodon account but I’m here

[–] cryomancer20x6@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I had never even heard of the Fediverse before, and I'm extremely active on the internet and opensource projects. It feels insane to me that I had no idea what it was, but now that I understand it - I'm here for good.

[–] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is Matrix considered part of the Fediverse? If so, Matrix would have been my introduction to the Fediverse.

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[–] skillful_garbage@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mastodon was my first, although this feels way more polished for sure. What I liked about Reddit is that you go there for the topics you care about, posted by people you don't care about. Mastodon and most other social media is people you care about, posting things you don't care about. I think I'll stick around here...

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[–] andyj@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

First time, liking the experience though the no central login is my biggest concern. What works for Reddit is that it’s really easy for a non-technical person to get in to it; Setup an account, login in, find, view, subscribe, post, and comment all in one place. With Lemmy/Fediverse there is a barrier with trying to explain it straight away e.g is it called Lemmy or Fediverse or Kbin etc

I get why it’s better, and I don’t know what a solution could be, but at the moment the simplicity of it in one place will keep Reddit a viable solution for a lot of people who would like it to “just work”. And it’s those people that helps build large communities.

As an example here’s a comment and reply from PrequelMemes

squabbles.io is a pretty good reddit alternative. I hear a lot of people suggesting lemmy and other federated options, but those are just confusing to me tbh. Squabbles works very similarly to reddit, so the transition should be painless.

And the reply

Thank you! I’m heading to squabbles.io right now, based upon your description of it!

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

IMO email counts as part of the fediverse.

[–] Sailor_jets@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I self host my own personal Mastodon instance. Opted for an account to use lemmy, let someone else worry about the backend stuff for once lol. So far I think Lemmy is some badass tech with tons of potential, even if it is still quite young as a thing.

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[–] adamantris@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

well, i tried mastodon for a week but quickly lost interest because i never was interested in twitter-esque services to begin with. lemmy on the other hand is quite more my thing because of many funni forum posts and links

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