• @[email protected]
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    75 hours ago

    That’s actually me. I simply didn’t want to carry over that username but I guess I should claim it too. Lol

    Yeah, I originally joined Lemmy during the first Reddit exodus. Then, I squirreled and did not spend the necessary time to learn much about it. However, this go around I’m here and I’m serious about learning it and using Reddit much much less (in hopes to abandoning it eventually).

    Some folks helped me to find apps. I’m using Avelon and I really like it. It makes figuring Lemmy out MUCH EASIER than simply bookmarking.

    • @Serinus
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      55 hours ago

      Glad to see you here!

      The reason I push people to Lemmy.World is that you mostly don’t need to learn anything about federation. It’s obvious enough over time what the @ symbols are, and you basically pick it up through osmosis.

      If you start on a really small instance, your people might not subscribe to many foreign communities. If nobody subscribes to a foreign community, it doesn’t get pulled over and doesn’t show up in ALL. That can make Lemmy look pretty barren, and you have to go out and find communities (somehow) on your own.

      If you start at Lemmy.World, the all tab just works. The local tab is even a fine experience, though I wouldn’t use it here. Similar arguments with lemmy.ca and sopuli.xyz for Canada and Europe. Their all tabs might be slightly worse, but for those people the local tab should be better (actually more local), balancing it out.