Lemmy

I'm very impressed with Lemmy and the fediverse in general. What a promising future for social media, especially after a decade of capitalism and centralisation slowly eroding the integrity of every commercial equivalent.

Will there be flairs for sub Lemmings?

Thank you for the welcome! I have heard a bit about Lemmy in the past and am exited to give it a try.

Dumb question i can't find an answer to: You see a post in a different Lemmy server than your own, and if you try to answer it says you're not logged in, because you're not in that server. How do i see posts/communities through your server so that i can vote or comment? Don't see a clear answer to this in the docs, or have missed it completely.

@[email protected] would you be able to provide any general guidance for potential community/sub-reddit/sub-lemmy creators or admins on the trade-offs involved in starting a new community (on an existing instance) vs starting a new instance?

I figure for those new to free and federated social, the case for starting an instance might not be clear, and could, provided technical abilities are available, be an attractive and useful option for some.

I still think the fediverse is using language that most people don't understand. My cousins, let alone my parents, won't understand half of what's written there. Federation? ActivityPub? Instance?

The best comparison I've heard that everyone I've explained it to seems to comprehend is that the fediverse is basically email 2.0. You can send emails with only pictures, text, video, or all the aforementioned together. In order to do so, you need to pick a server, just like you do with email, but in the fediverse they aren't "google", "aol", "yahoomail", but "lemmy.ml", "feddit.it", "mastodon.social", "chaos.social", "kbin.social", "kbin.pub", and others.

You will notice that "lemmy.ml" and "feddit.it" look very similar, but have different names - that's because they run the same software called lemmy. "mastodon.social" and "lemmy.ml" look very different and have different features, and that's because (you guessed it!) they run different software (mastodon vs lemmy). It's just like GoogleMail runs different software than YahooMail, has very different features, but can communicate with each other.
The fediverse is the same, just with 2 major differences: it uses email 2.0 (aka activitypub) and the software is opensource. That means developers (or anybody who wants to for that matter) can see the source code of the software. This is unlike Google, Yahoo, Yandex, AOL, who keep their source closed.

In the fediverse, the different software focuses on different things. Lemmy presents the fediverse to you like reddit, mastodon like twitter, peertube like youtube, diaspora like facebook, and so on and so forth. The great thing is, they can all talk to each other using email 2.0 (aka activitypub)! Therefore somebody on a server using mastodon can view post made on a server running lemmy with a video hosted on a server running peertube and comment on that video, right from their server that runs mastodon!

So please, pick a server with the software and conditions you like and have fun on the fediverse!

How do communities work across instances? Among other things, can a community have a moderator on another server? Would the top mod need to be on the same server?

I have a question about communities. Are communities server-specific, i.e, if is the "Gaming" community on lemmy.ml different from the one on, say, beehaw.org?

EDIT: Yes, this was answered here - https://midwest.social/comment/159796

Is this the first post to hit over 200 upvotes?

I just joined Lemmy because I was suspended from Reddit. Reddit Admin team is overtly corrupt.

Well, might as well register. Hopefully this works out for everyone involved. Sad that reddit is pushing people out, but a federated model is better in the end.

Thanks for the welcome! I was a little standoffish about signing up but then found an app for it and it honestly feels like reddit should at this point. (For those curious, it's Jerboa for Lemmy on the play store)

Thanks for having me. Even before this API bullshit I was thinking about getting off reddit for something else. Looking forward to spending some time here!

Happy to give Lemmy a try!

@nutomic Welcome Reddit Leavers

*fixed it

Hello and thanks!

Would be nice to have all 3rd party apps adhering to lemmy that would be a bg fuck you to reddit and would bring so many people here.

I love the whole idea of Lemmy. Great software, and looks good!

Really excited to be here! Especially after reddit's new API rules.

Cancelled my Reddit premium renewal (it's 10 months away but still...) and donated with the link above.

Just joined because of all the reddit shenanigans. Quick question: I'm posting from the beehaw instance and am wondering what happens to my account if the instance goes down? Does it just disappear?

Twitter makes a series of bad and user-unfriendly decisions, causing many of it's users to flee to Mastodon. Now Reddit makes a series of bad and user-unfriendly decisions, causing many of it's users to flee to Lemmy. When will the big suits learn?