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This question is especially for people who have joined in the last week. Have you used other fediverse platforms or is this your first time really using one? What do you think of it so far? Are you aware that you can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is my first

I love the idea, I hope it grows in popularity

I wasn't aware of that when I first signed up, but a few days in I learned that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

been lurkin around the fediverse for years, but only recently found lemmy. nice change of pace, never liked the microblogging format so masto never kept me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Been on Mastodon for a while since the Twitter crap. Signed up to a Lemmy instance just now and so far so good!

One question for the more seasoned folk: from my Mastodon client, I can see some Lemmy communities if I search @<community>@<server>, but I can't see any posts. It just shows empty, but the count of posts says there are posts. Is this some sort of lag, or a setting of the Mastodon server I'm on?

Also are these communities associated with an instance, or do they exist across all instances? I'm assuming the former? And what does that mean if there are multiple communities with the same name on different servers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No, but I only start using #fediverse at the end of last year and not until late february I actively posting there. This is my first time using lemmy though, I end up making new account because from my experience, it is better using different account for different segment of fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

So far so good. It feels very new and exciting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I’ve been using Matrix for some time now (have a dedicated synapse server set up so I can mess around with the bridges and stuff β€” still haven’t quite gotten the iMessage bridge working, but also haven’t put in a lot of time to it). As soon as I saw the whole thing with Reddit going down, I pretty much immediately stood up a Lemmy instance.

Safe to say, I’m pretty much sold on fediverse platforms.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is my first toe-in-the-water experience of the Fediverse. To be honest, I'm still trying to understand exactly how it all works, but I'm enjoying myself so far.

What would really make my day would be a RIF -type app, as someone on the road a lot, and only able to view on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There is an android and iOS app available for Lemmy. Please see here: https://join-lemmy.org/apps/

Furthermore the mobile web app is quite nice too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, it is. And I literally have no idea what I’m doing or what the fediverse is or how to best utilize it and I have a mastodon account but don’t use it because all of this fediverse/instance stuff stresses me out and I just want a cool community to feel like I’m a part of, not a bunch of stuff I don’t understand and I hope I can feel comfortable here with Lemmy. Oof.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there an app for lemmy? It seems to work well in mobile browsing but dont like leaving tabs like this just open..im lazy..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm trying out an app called Jerboa for Lemmy on Android, it's okay so far. Better than using a browser most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

+1 for Jerboa. Seems to be working well for me so far. A few odd bugs here and there, but I'm sure they'll be squashed soon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jerboa is still in alpha, but being actively worked on, so I have high hopes!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First time for me. I had heard about Mastodon when Elon first bought Twitter, but I never liked Twitter so I didn't look into it. I think it's okay so far. Kind of reminds me of old internet, which I miss.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It reminds me of the early internet, too. What a wild time

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is my first venture into the fediverse. Confusing at first, but all the guides are helpful. I'm still unsure how to subscribe to communities I'm interested in

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I think you just search the community name, if it is on your instance it will show up as community name otherwise it will show up as <community name>@<instance name> like [email protected].

But in your instance or not, it will not make a difference for your experience, all you need to do is click subscribe, and it will show up in your feed.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My first experience with the Fediverse was Mastodon, and my second was PeerTube. Having interconnectedness between the different platforms, like Mastodon and Lemmy, is interesting, but also a little confusing with how it all works, so I just use the individual platforms directly instead.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been on Matrix and Mastodon for a number of years, but I'm new to Lemmy. Matrix is already better than competitors like Discord, in my opinion. It has a healthy pool of users including several major tech organizations.

I've never been too active on Mastodon for the same reason I never got into Twitter. I just don't enjoy "microblogging," and prefer mediums that are more oriented towards actual conversation. Lemmy does an excellent job in that respect.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a protocol for decentralised instant messaging. All info you need is here: https://matrix.org

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That looks pretty cool. So it's basically a decentralised discord?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's just a protocol for sending data, depending on a client it could be a decentralised Discord (Cinny looks and feels very similar to Discord), WhatsApp, Google Hangouts, Guilded, Skype etc. Whilst most people use Matrix as alternative to Discord, you should know that it might be hard to get used to its flagship client, Element, because it doesn't resemble Discord much

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol I don't use discord much but I'd love to ditch WhatsApp. I just know people won't use anything else

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, convincing people to install a single app that would help you both stay in touch and preserve privacy is unbelievably hard

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