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Yeah I moderate /r/Lemmy. If you need anything, let me know. I'm more likely to read your message quickly if you sent me a message through Reddit (a PM, not chat, as I still use RiF).
That's great to hear!
The pinned threads on the subreddit are both over a year old, and could use some updating. Would you consider swapping them out for new ones?
Folks on here could probably help you out with updating the info, if you need assistance.
Suggested the same to @[email protected] via a PM on Reddit yesterday (there my account is u/Zadsten, a secondary account I had forgotten about when deleting my u/Zedstrian account after the Reddit blackout, and thought it'd be better to make use of an existing account than make a new one).
As I had discussed ways the pinned megathread could be improved and updated, he offered to let me write a new one that he'd then pin. As it's among the best ways to teach Redditors about Lemmy, I'm going to spend time today and tomorrow writing a version of my own that communicates the core details in a clear manner, with secondary sections to answer anticipated questions.
As it's important for the post to be clear, straightforward, and informative enough to encourage Redditors to try out Lemmy (but not so much information as to make Lemmy appear overly complex to newcomers), I'm more than glad to take feedback before I post the new megathread. I'll post the initial paragraph here for review tonight, and the remaining sections tomorrow, perfecting it as much as possible to maximize the odds of Redditors switching over. 👍
Awesome, looking forward to reading it!
Apologies for the delay; got caught up working on a paper for university, but finally got around to writing my version of a megathread post. I understand if @[email protected] decides to keep the new one that was just posted instead, given my tardiness, but here's what I came up with:
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a network of news aggregation and discussion forums, similar to Reddit. The platform has thousands of communities—Lemmy's name for subreddits—covering a vast range of interests, ranging from common ones such as [email protected] to niche ones such as [email protected]. Lemmy's federated structure means that users on one instance—the name for a server hosting Lemmy—can message users and subscribe to communities on hundreds of other instances as if all were on a centralized platform like Reddit.
Centralization incentivizes a platform's owner to progressively increase monetization practices over time, as has occurred with Reddit, due to the inability of users to leave without losing access to valued content. Lemmy's federated structure affords its users the flexibility of joining one instance and moving to another without losing access to their communities, discouraging the administrator of any instance from prioritizing profits over the best interest of users.
How do I join Lemmy?
Joining Lemmy is like making an email account: after making an account on one instance, you can message users and subscribe to communities across different instances. Although you can navigate the full instance list and choose one yourself, I suggest joining lemmy.ca (hosted in US), discuss.online (hosted in US), or sopuli.xyz (hosted in Germany), as they have high uptime rates and use Fediseer to defederate from spam instances. To maximize your Lemmy connection speed, choosing an instance hosted near to you is recommended.
As an alternative to the default user interface, third-party developers have created several Lemmy web apps for use in desktop and mobile browsers, as well as standalone apps for iOS and Android. Voyager is often recommended for mobile, having distinct web app, iOS, and Android versions available. Alternative web apps include Alexandrite and Photon, while alternative mobile apps include Arctic for iOS, Connect for Android, and Thunder for both iOS and Android.
(I started to write a paragraph about how a user from one's home instance needs to subscribe to a community for it to become searchable, and was going to mention Lemmy Federate and Lemmyverse as solutions to that problem, but it might be too in-depth for an introductory post.)
Great work! I think this is worthy of its own post. Even if it isn't posted to r/Lemmy immediately, we can always use it in the future, and it would be great if more pairs of eyeballs looked it over.
RiF works still?
You can patch the old apps to use your own API key iirc. The API pricing only kicks in when there's too many requests using the same key in a timeframe. Which is easily reached when you've got thousands of devices using the same key, but nearly impossible when people use their own key.