Asklemmy

Yep, first time stepping into the fediverse, enjoying it so far but still trying to get my head around it. Also hoping that decent apps start to appear, which I would be willing to subscribe to if they had active development.

I tried Mastodon, but Twitter was never my thing anyways, so it didn't really click. This is been a much better experience. I'm quickly getting the hang of how it works.

Been on Mastodon for a while since the Twitter crap. Signed up to a Lemmy instance just now and so far so good!

One question for the more seasoned folk: from my Mastodon client, I can see some Lemmy communities if I search @<community>@<server>, but I can't see any posts. It just shows empty, but the count of posts says there are posts. Is this some sort of lag, or a setting of the Mastodon server I'm on?

Also are these communities associated with an instance, or do they exist across all instances? I'm assuming the former? And what does that mean if there are multiple communities with the same name on different servers?

Yes... just signed up. I had never heard of Fediverse until 3 days ago. I spent the past 2 days reading up on it and bam, here I am. I remember a lot of chatter about mastodon after Elon stuck his head up his ass but didn't pay attention. I glad to see a lot of people here (smarter than me) are as confused as I am. This will be so fun to watch this evolve.

I tried Mastodon and really didn't care for it. It didn't translate quite as cleanly into the decentralized structure I felt. If I wanted to look up a famous person I had to know their instance, which felt like a really messy structure. Still, I have hope for it's future when they clean up a few of the less user friendly elements. Lemmy, I've loved. I think forums like this work way better in this decentralized way. Part of that comes from the fact that forums are anonymous anyways, unlike Twitter-esque social media platforms.

yeah, i did go to mastodon a while ago, but not my cup of tea

I heard about the fediverse before, but never made an account until a few days ago. It is kinda cool how Mastodon, Lemmy, and Kbin can interconnect somewhat, but it does not feel like a fleshed out feature to me yet. There are still too many bugs when interfacing with other parts of the fediverse.

I like how maluable it feels right now. I really feel like if I dedicate a bit of time and effort I can make changes to and improve things. Or at the least break off and do my own thing that interacts with the fediverse.

I don't like how spread out and small all the communities feel. I think piracy has 5 different communities at this point. I am also torn on not having at least a centralized login. I kinda trust sh.itjust.works with my account, but there is little assurance that the instance, and my account on it, won't just disappear or attempt to do something malicious with my email and password.

I want Lemmy to take off and I think it has potential, but I also believe it will take at least another year before I am completely satisfied with it.

I also signed up to Mastodon, mostly to support the digitalcourage.social server, but probably won't be using it a lot. I didn't use Twitter, either, but Reddit. I will probably continue to use /r/flying and /r/synthesizer, as they are so niche that I cannot expect anything comparable here.

I'll have to figure out how to post with Mastodon account on Lemmy.

Yeah i tried mastodon but never really used it

I think that Lemmy is way better, really an amazing project

never heard of lemmy prior to this week - I had heard of mastodon but never really got into either twitter or it. have been looking at some of the other fedi apps, some of them show promise

I tried friendica years ago as an alternative to Facebook, back when Facebook was still for connecting with friends and family. But since none of my friends were interested in it, I quickly lost interest myself.

I checked out Mastodon when Musk bought Twitter, even though I never actively used Twitter. I don't use it as social media, I use it for news aggregation.

Lemmy is now the first Fediverse software I actively use and I really like it so far.

Yes it is! Exciting to discover it.

I was never really interested in twitter or similar services, so I pass on Mastodon.

I created accounts on both lemmy and mastodon. I've found that I spend most of my time on lemmy, though I do find that mastodon has several good news aggregation communities that I follow. Like many other new users I'm hoping that future improvements allow for the ability to combine similar community content across multiple instances into a single feed, though I also see the advantage of keeping them separate in order to allow for different trains of thought.

I've tried to use Mastodon in the past but for whatever reason I was denied to create account xd

Technically, I have used mastodon, but for at most 10 minutes. Lemmy is the first fediverse app I use daily.

Yes, it is my first time, no, I did not know that and created a Mastodon account separately once I heard of it.

What exactly is "fediverse" anyway?

this is at least the first time I invested a significant amount of time in it.

But I used a couple of federated services before that are not part of "the fediverse" and I really like the idea. I used XMPP back in the day and I use Matrix from time to time. I just don't have any friends who use it.

I went to Mastodon first, about the same time Twitter officially went into Musk's ownership. I've only looked at Twitter to find fellow refugees from the friends I was following there, but quickly gave up - some people moved over and I was able to follow them, but most went elsewhere from Twitter (mostly Cohost or Itaku) or just remained on Twitter because "that's where the audience is". But I've been happy on the fediverse - I've found that my corner of it has been a lot less about 'drama' and more about sharing personal experiences or news. It's nice!

This whole Reddit thing has been my first look at the 'threadiverse' as some have called it. I'm looking at kbin specifically if I end up setting up an instance for my community, but I'm all in on this decentralised social media now, and I really want it to win out.

I switched to Mastodon a while back, but Lemmy seemed really empty until recently.

No, but the first time i am planning to use it. I created a Mastodon Account but never used it.

Been using Matrix for the past year now, so I'm familiar with the concept of federated platforms. Lemmy is just a natural next step to replace Reddit. =)

I'm a light user of Mastodon.

Just joined today, and definitely first experience. So far, it SEEMS pretty straightforward. Kinda waiting for the gotcha that trips me up.

I’ve dabbled on Mastodon but it’s not my style. Never was one for twitter. Still getting familiar with the whole Fediverse concept though so if there are any resources or communities anyone would like to recommend I’d be grateful

First time using any fediverse platforms and I still don't really understand how to link other instances with my one account but I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually

well i used mastodon on multiple instances before this, but i only used it for less than a week each time. so i guess maybe i just don't like sites that are like twitter but i did like mastodon, i just prefer this format more

No, but I only start using #fediverse at the end of last year and not until late february I actively posting there. This is my first time using lemmy though, I end up making new account because from my experience, it is better using different account for different segment of fediverse.

This is my first Fediverse, unless XMPP counts, but I never used that across multiple instances.

I curious to see what happens with "duplicate" communities across instance, for example there are a number of "3D Printing" communities. Will one eventually become dominant and the others die off? Or what happens when the admins of one server decide not to continue running it? Will there be a way to migrate accounts and communities between servers?

I've played with Mastadon a bit in the past but not much. I didn't know you could comment with that account. Interesting...

I dabbled a little in Mastodon, but never really got off the ground with it.