knova

@knova@links.dartboard.social

Admin. Music maker from Colorado. Music is at music.knova.net. I also run dartboard.social (akkoma microblog) and links.dartboard.social (Lemmy).___

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Overwhelmed a bit with fediverse redundancy.

I’m a bit confused as to what platform I should look to for my exodus from Reddit. First we have Lemmy which is a direct Reddit alternative. Then we have kbin which is ALSO is own Reddit alternative AND portal to Lemmy/Mastodon. Finally we have Mastodon which is the well established Twitter alternative that doesn’t really...

knova,

FYI, Lemmy uses ActivityPub too. It is fully compatible with other fediverse services. Just not executed as cleanly as kbin.

Have an instance running, now what?

Well, I have an instance running. At startup it outputs federation enabled, host is redacted, but I don't see anything when looking at all. I can't search for other instance communities. I thought I would be able to use my local instance to browse other instance/communities and post there from my instance. Is that not how this...

knova,

I thought I would be able to use my local instance to browse other instance/communities and post there from my instance. Is that not how this works?

That is how it works. What is your instance domain? I want to see if I can access it from my instance.

knova,

Just submitted a test post to you.

When you search for remote communities, make sure you are searching for the entire URL (https://hakbox.social/c/test) or the shortcode (!test)

So for my social community, it would be !social or https://links.dartboard.social/c/social

knova,

hey, this might be a bug - try going to your community tab now, and press the "All" button. See if my community shows up now.

knova,

Interesting. I have a "subscribe pending" from your community. But I've gotten that with other instances before, not sure what it means. Its not like you need to approve my subscribe request.

For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?

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?...

knova,

I'm a bit torn. I really like the Lemmy project, but kbin being able to interact directly with microblogging fedi sites as well is pretty appealing to me. That is my primary social media usage, and it basically seems like a 2-in-1 which is great. To be clear, I know I can tag Mastodon users from Lemmy, and see Lemmy posts from Mastodon. But after looking at the way kbin handles it, it seems more 'native'. Not sure how I'm going to proceed.

knova,

it is still catching me off guard frankly. But I do enjoy it.

knova,

There is a seperate "microblog" tab that is just like the timeline in Mastodon/Akkoma/etc. Not sure if it offers home/local/federated views, the documentation is very sparse.

knova,

Looks great!

knova,

I’d encourage you to follow the Ansible install instructions for admins. I’m a bit more technically inclined than my peers, but by no means a pro. The Ansible instructions were super simple to get going with a Digital Ocean droplet, although you can really run Lemmy on any piece of hardware you have SSH access to. (The benefit of digital ocean or any other cloud provider is you can scale up resources quickly)

I am happy to help guide you and other new would-be admins to help get your instance started. The actual administration piece once the software running is pretty straightforward.

knova,

If you can get to a point where you can run Ubuntu Server, I can pick it up from there w/ guidance

knova,

PS: I think there is a community support for admins here: !lemmy_admin

knova,

I think it has more to do with the federated nature of the platform. If you are ingesting content from Mastodon for example, # is a hashtag in a post, and you can tag someone with their username with the @ symbol.

Edit: you can tag people here with @ too - such as @knova@dartboard.social

So that leaves a new symbol for community linking

knova,

You already said that

knova,

I explained that hashtags use the pound symbol already, and usernames use the @ symbol. Communities needed their own symbol.

knova,

don’t automatically work on Lemmy, but if I cross post this comment to another federated service (mastodon etc.) the hashtags should work there. @knova@dartboard.social

knova,

Not that I’m aware.

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    knova,

    So you are basically proposing weighting the larger communities so they appear a bit less in the feed?

    This doesn’t even have to be a modification or a checkbox IMO, just call it a new sort style (Hot/Active/New/Hybrid for example).

    knova,

    Pretty sure this exists already. I’m not in a place where I can search and pull it up but it’s linked in the Lemmy repo. Might just need some tweaking for easier deployment for non technical users.

    knova,

    Your messages are still visible.

    a megathread for developments on Reddit and with third-party Reddit apps

    just so this doesn't overwhelm our front page too much, i think now's a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let's try to keep what's happening in this thread instead of across 10....

    knova,

    I suspect a multi-reddit type functionality will be developed at some point which could partially mitigate the concern.

    But besides that, I think we’ll find sites develop around a common interest, and they will each be the “big player” for that topic. LemmyBooks.org for example (not a real instance AFAIK) could be the leading book themed instance; you could still grab their content even though your account is on LemmyMusic.com

    knova,

    Great point. There will be a big wave i'm sure (it happened w/ Mastodon/microblogging fediverse platforms) and after a few months, some of the people tried it and left. The people who remained are such an engaging and fun group to talk to.

    knova,

    Thanks! Re: the community link format, it works well for me: if you type an exclamation point and start typing the name of a community, a community selector actually appears in the text box. Ex: !social

    knova,

    That is interesting. Is that part of Guinea (and the border of Sierra Leone) mountainous?

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