mobiuscoffee

@mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works

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mobiuscoffee,

!wave

mobiuscoffee,

I rather like how total karma isn't tracked. I wonder how other people feel though?

mobiuscoffee,

Aaah! So more like twitter or masto. I guess that could be useful for something?

mobiuscoffee,

Thanks et merci! I'm happy to call sh.itjust.works my new home 🎉

mobiuscoffee,

If you're interested in reading more thoughts and comments, there was a massive thread on the same subject the other day:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/5137?scrollToComments=true

mobiuscoffee,

I think just that is the confusing bit! Instances translate into separate reddits - as in completely different websites. Instance admins have as much power as reddit admins within the instance.

Communities are like subreddits, the main subdivision of an instance.

Where it gets confusing is you can subscribe to "subreddits" (read: communities) on other "reddit websites" (read: instances). It's pretty cool but can take a second to wrap your head around!

The next layer of confusion comes from how everything also interacts with things like Mastodon, Kbin, Peertube, and any other ActivityPub project.

mobiuscoffee,

It felt a bit off at first to not have the top comments all be the ones with the most votes, but I like how it works on lemmy after spending time here.

You can join an old thread and not feel like it's pointless to add to the discussion!

mobiuscoffee,

Each instance is pretty customizable. Admins can disable things like image uploads and with so many people joining I could see why. Hosting all that could easily get expensive!

mobiuscoffee,

I wonder if pdub ever did his homework?

mobiuscoffee,

In the age of endless uploads everywhere, we all forgot that hosting large files for many people is not always easy!

I think of those early 00 stories in the time before we called content creators, content creators. Too many people visiting their self hosted videos was a bad thing that would end up costing more money than they made!

mobiuscoffee,

I believe it is!

There are a few places with more complete information of every instance. I have this one on hand:

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/

mobiuscoffee,

I remember in like... 2009? and maybe for a few years after. Someone started that christmas tradition where they would just open a shared drive and people dumped tons of stuff into it.

mobiuscoffee,

No worries! Finding information about communities and whatnot can be a process of just stumbling upon the right comment

Something I WONT miss from Reddit/other social medias

Like most other people here, I originally came here from reddit. Ive been having a blast so far, and I much prefer the forum-style of this. After about a week of using Lemmy I realized there was something intrinsic to reddit that Lemmy doesnt have. And I wont miss it. Too many people on reddit were way too horny. I was really...

mobiuscoffee,

I enjoy that both are welcome here honestly.

You can have the one liners and you can have the thought out paragraphs. What I would say differentiates it more is how honest it is. People aren't writing massive walls of texts as a forced rant nor is there that driving memes deep into their grave... yet still posting them again and again.

It's okay to be silly and it's okay to have discussions.

What I think we're feeling is how relaxed lemmy is in comparison. You don't have to know the in-jokes and the coded vocabulary in order to participate. In order to be heard.

mobiuscoffee,

On the main page you can toggle the Subscribed | Local | All thing to get different feeds. You can set the default in your settings.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/7c12c57e-179b-4709-8857-5624100272a0.png

mobiuscoffee,

I missed it too at first! No worries 😊

mobiuscoffee,

You can! With a few caveats.

asklemmy becomes asklemmy

However it won't work if your instance doesn't know the community exists. In those cases it needs to be searched for in the usual cumbersome way, but after that the relative links should work.

mobiuscoffee,

I think creating too many accounts as you try to find a home and figure out what instances are is a normal thing. I certainly did it as well 😂

You can think of each instance as a separate reddit website. The magic of the fediverse is all these separate full on websites are still the same thing and can interact with each other!

mobiuscoffee,

There are a ton of twitter bots that do exactly this already. I've seen a few mastodon bots do the same so I imagine it's possible with lemmy as well.

At worst, you could just set it up on mastodon and then have them automatically post to lemmy.

mobiuscoffee,

Link it here!

mobiuscoffee,

That works! You can also do relative links like this: text

/c/megaten@lemmy.ml

I like this significantly better than Mastodon

My experience with the Fediverse has only been through Mastodon, through which I struggled to find a community I really gelled with. Either it was supper overwhelming with meme posts or NSFW, or it was too chill to the point of nothing. Or, it was hyperfocused like FOSS/Linux and became uninteresting after awhile. May try again,...

mobiuscoffee,

You should take a look at this instance: https://fedibb.ml/

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....

mobiuscoffee,

If Yishan is on twitter I hope he responds too

How has ur lemmy experience been so far?

Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it...

mobiuscoffee, (edited )

I think it's a little confusing for everyone right now. I'll try to explain the easy bits at least.

You can do relative links for communities like this: text

But these will only work if your instance has already discovered the communities. I think that's where a lot of the confusion behind all of this first becomes an issue. Some links only work if your instance already "knows" it exists.

To get your or any instance to learn about a specific community, you first have to search for it. The most reliable way to do it is to just put the full url of the community into the search box.

And then wait. It sometimes takes a moment to actually find the community. Once it's found the rest should work.

For comments, posts, and threads it's different. Since those will have different unique identifiers on a per instance basis, my understanding is that it's much more complicated for relative links to work. I haven't seen a simple solution yet, unfortunately.

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