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Join the Matrix (matrix.to)
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Everyone is welcome!

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So you want to join the fediverse? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I have a draft designed for all types of fediverse software, but i narrowed it down to just threadiverse stuff

This is a guide meant to be linked for beginners, to explain the fediverse in as short time as possible.

Concepts

What's "federation"?

In easy terms; it's a concept where instances seamlessly integrate with each other. Users can talk to each other and participate in their communities. For example, my account is on lemm.ee and the community i am posting to is on slrpnk.net, yet i feel no friction.

What's an instance?

An instance is a server running software, with users, and communities, etc. (Each of these is like a mini-reddit/twitter/etc!) The software part is important, since instances can either be forums, microblogs, video-sharing sites, etc etc. And they can all interact with each other!

What's the "fediverse"?

The fediverse (federation + universe) is a coalition of federated instances running all types of different software, so a user from a forum instance (lemmy) can interact with a user from a microblog instance (mastodon)

Another example is bluesky, but that uses a different protocol, and is much less effective than ActivityPub.

Why should i use the fediverse over normal social media?

Many reasons. A few:

  • it can never truly die - People can always create software and run instances, and if one goes down, the others will still be up.

  • No one person controls the fediverse. We are all on equal grounds.

  • Unlike corporations who back social media platforms, fedi is 100% ran by normal people. You can talk to developers, instance hosters, the mods, all as normal people, and they (unless you use their server) have no control over you.

  • There is no need to appeal to advertisers

  • Freedom of choice. Disagree with an instance's values, or a developer's? Easy, defederate or just don't use their software. You will still have the fediverse as a whole accessible to you, without the parts you do not like.

I'm convinced! How do i begin?

Excellent!

First you must choose what software you want your instance of choosing to run:

  • Lemmy if you care about apps
  • Piefed if you care about features/fast development, or a lightweight instance
  • Mbin if you want both your blog and forum account in the same place

Instances

Lemmy

Piefed

Mbin

Apps/clients [everything after this point is optional]

some people may not like the default frontends or want to access their instance through mobile, here is a curated list:

Lemmy

Mbin

Communities

Here are some good community recommendations, based on topics:

Memes

Software

Politics

Casual

Knowledge

History

Animals

Art

Postface

That's about all there's left for you; have fun!

Finally... im done writing this...

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Quick comment to copy-paste to promote Lemmy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Here is a 5-lines comment I usually use on Reddit when people ask about Lemmy or a Reddit alternative

"
Lemmy has 47k monthly active users

Feel free if you have any questions
"

A few questions that get asked quite often about this comment.

Why no explain what federation is?

Most of the users don't care about federation. They want a jump-in Reddit replacement, and it's usually better to keep the message short and simple.

There are users on Sync or Voyager who only use their app, and don't even know what instance they are on. And they are doing okay, they can still use the platform, see content, vote, comment, post.

People who want to understand more will figure it out later. No need to overwhelm them.

Why those two instances?

Long story short, there is no ideal generalist instance. If you open the top 20 instances (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/)

  • Lemmy.world is too big
  • Lemm.ee is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad, something that is not very welcoming to new users (see this thread: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28798607/15305964 )
  • sh.itjust.works names contains "shit", which can deter users
  • lemmy.ca is Canadian-centric
  • feddit.org, is German-centric, but technically English speaking too
  • dbzer0 federates hexbear
  • programming.dev is topic-centric
  • blahaj is queer-focused
  • discuss.tchncs.de has a difficult name
  • lemmy.sdf.org does not defederate anyone
  • lemmy.zip is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad
  • beehaw is way outdated
  • infosec.pub is topic-centric
  • aussie.zone is country-centric
  • midwest.social is region-centric and admin can power trip at times (https://sopuli.xyz/post/20038037)

That's how I came up with sopuli.xyz (neutral name, stable, defederated grad and hexbear) and discuss.online (same).

Mentioning one per continent allows users to make one choice, so that we avoid the Lemmy.world situation where users realize that the server follows European laws (remember the announcement following Luigi: https://lemmy.world/post/22920690 )

I also have no way to know what the person I'm replying to is interested in. Of course if you are commenting on a specific subreddit, feel free to adapt the message for a fitting instance.

Why Voyager?

Same logic, people want one app. Voyager is feature rich and is available on both Android and iOS, and follow the Apollo design that a lot of people might be familiar with.

If people want to change, they will later https://www.lemmyapps.com/

That's it for now, see you in the comments for any feedback!

Why not use join-lemmy.org?

This website can be hit or miss, with some very negative experience recently: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536

I prefer to just point out to two instances that I know are stable and reliable.

Why not Discord?

Discord is a poor replacement for Reddit. Here are 4 reasons why:

  • Format: Discord’s main strength is chat-style messages, not forum-style discussion threads, like Reddit and Lemmy. Discord groups with more than a few dozen active users can quickly become disorganized.
  • Barrier to entry: Content on Discord is inaccessible unless you have a Discord account, while almost all content on Reddit and Lemmy is available without registration.
  • Discoverability: Google (and other search engines) index Reddit and Lemmy, and relevant threads show up in searches. Discord content cannot be indexed, and won’t show up in searches.
  • Censorship: A Discord community is ultimately still controlled by a single Big Tech company, which can delete your community on a whim if they so choose. Lemmy, being a distributed social network, is inherently resistant to censorship.
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/r/CreatorsAdvice post warning about lemmit.online stealing posts, calls for the shutdown of the instance (old.reddit.com)
submitted 4 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Programming.dev will hide political NSFW/pornographic and bot communities. Hidden communities can still be accessed, but don't show up on All unless you subscribe to them. (legal.programming.dev)
submitted 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Kind of answers the suggestion I had a while ago ( https://lemmyverse.link/lemm.ee/post/52588852 ) to have instances that would hide political communities from the All feed to be more welcoming to new joiners.

If a generalist instance implemented a similar hide list, it could become the one recommendation for new joiners, at it would avoid overwhelming them with politics.

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Upvote RSS - Generate RSS feeds from social aggregation websites like Reddit, Lemmy, and Hacker News (old.reddit.com)
submitted 8 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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From the OOP:

Upvote RSS is a self-hosted project I've been working on that generates RSS feeds from social aggregation websites like Reddit, Lemmy, and Hacker News. You can subscribe to subreddits, Lemmy communities, and Hacker News while filtering to only the top posts. It will embed Reddit post media (videos, images, galleries), and you can optionally include parsed article content, AI-generated summaries, top comments, and more. Here are some of the features:

  • Supports subreddits, Hacker News, Lemmy communities, and more to come
  • Configurable filtering to dial in the right number of posts per day in your feed reader
  • Embedded post media: videos, galleries, images
  • Parsers to extract clean content and add featured images
  • AI article summaries
  • Estimated reading time, score, and permalinks to the original post
  • Top comments
  • NSFW filtering/blurring (Reddit only)
  • Custom Reddit domain
  • Light/dark mode for feed previews

Here's the GitHub link if you'd like to give it a spin:

https://github.com/johnwarne/upvote-rss

And the preview website (not all options are available here):

https://www.upvote-rss.com/

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Post with a Political Compass of 4 Lemmy instances (.ml, LW, SJW and DBzer0) on /r/PoliticalCompassMemes, feel free to chime in (old.reddit.com)
submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The meme can also be found on [email protected]

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My new strategy: X-posting Lemmy links to Reddit (lemmy.ml)
submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have a small blog on Lemmy (shoutout lemmy.ml/c/dginovker) - And I've decided to crosspost relevant submissions onto Reddit.

Exhibit A for people who want to (not) brigade https://old.reddit.com/r/leetcode/comments/1impdhc/why_im_quitting_leetcode_1234_day_streak/?

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Mod of r/Transgender_Surgeries has posted an edit to their post addressing Lemmy with questions and things to consider (www.reddit.com)
submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Cross posting this here for visibility as it's easy to not see the edit. They are adding thoughts and resources to the post as they evolve so maybe keep an eye out for future edits.

I think the questions they have are very reasonable & they have welcomed cis people to discuss on the post (but not elsewhere on the subreddit)

I'm new to Lemmy and doing what I can. Long time member of the subreddit. Maybe some of you all are better than me at discussing these topics with them?

Thank you all for your help so far 🫶

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/r/esist considers Reddit as compromised, lists Lemmy as potential alternative, only comment suggests Bluesky (old.reddit.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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If you still have a Reddit account, feel free to jump in

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User on /r/privacy wanting to leave Reddit, looking for alternatives. Most of the comments suggest patching a Reddit client, or Mastodon. A few comments mention Lemmy, but don't link to instances (old.reddit.com)
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Another piece of advertisement. No, it is NOT supposed to be serious. (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Based on

SVG source for anyone willing to give it a try. Made with Inkscape. The emojis were added as images because Inkscape.

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/r/Transgender_surgeries mod still not convinced: "(Lemmy) is only valuable if people use it, and that's not up to me". If you still have a Reddit account, feel free to chime in (old.reddit.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Challenge: What is the most succinct way to explain why Discord is not a Reddit alternative? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Best explanation wins no prize, but could be used as a template when Discord is suggested as an alternative on Reddit.

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Post suggesting /r/OnceUponATime to migrate to Lemmy (old.reddit.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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/r/Gaymers thread about a backup community only mentions Discord "Most everything seems to be going there. Corrections? Are there others?" (old.reddit.com)
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Pinned post on r/Firefox leads to m/firefox (old.reddit.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It has been there for 3 months, but still it seems like a fitting place to share, also a rare example of an official subreddit having a mbin magazine as a back up. It leads to !firefox if you want to follow it.

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There are quite a few posts on Reddit about Lemmy, but what about Discord? Have people here tried to talk about Lemmy there? What was your experience? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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/r/Tribes just opened a Lemmy community! (www.reddit.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[email protected]

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/r/Nonbinarytalk discuss backup plans, names Lemmy the best alternative, only comment is about Bluesky (old.reddit.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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/r/transguns goes to Discord for their backup community (old.reddit.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Picture to promote Lemmy in a meme format (i.postimg.cc)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Repo with the pictures: https://codeberg.org/LibbIsHere/Tired-of-Reddit

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backup of r/drugs and r/mdma is ready - zip files (old.reddit.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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What are some communities you miss on reddit? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Just curious. I miss mainly language stuff, some video game communities (like RoN, KCD) and some local communities like for Arabs or Saudis (tbf those were always cesspits but I miss talking to other Arabs on Lemmy)

I'll try to be the change I want to see. How about you?

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Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace (codeberg.org)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As this project appears to be fairly unknown in the fediverse still, I’d like to use this opportunity to advertise Flohmarkt. This Fediverse equivalent of Facebook Marketplace already has some instances up and running - see here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances

The developers are always open for discussion on their IRC channel: https://web.libera.chat/?nick=GithubGuest%3F#flohmarkt

Please feel free to host a local instance for your city/town and invite friends and family to post. Flohmarkt relies on local relationships and pick-up items only rather than shipping stuff worldwide.

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