I have learned more in the few weeks about self hosting, rust, flutter and other things in lemmy, mastodon and fediverse than in the last few years in Reddit and other social media. Maybe learned more in hacker news. It’s awesome here and love the people here who are wonderful and knowledgeable and teach me patiently without any prejudice. Thanks everyone who make this awesome place.

  • @amanaftermidnight
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    341 year ago

    You have broken out of the algorithmic chains that has tied up your attention and time to literal prolefeed. And it starts when you chose to abandon Reddit and go out of your way to join a Lemmy instance (often cited as the biggest barrier of entry: to choose an instance) so congrats! 😀

    • 001100 010010
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      91 year ago

      Biggest barrier to entry? Lmao that’s a very low barrier, even my dumbass understood it.

      • @NoRodent
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        141 year ago

        Hey, I didn’t even know there were more instances when I joined. I just went where RIF sent me, lol.

        • Amanduh
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          61 year ago

          Yep, it was easy to signup but I’m on kbin.social. might have to donate some money to that guy for the free content

      • @kimchi_boy
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        131 year ago

        Thanks for being here dumbass. But seriously, don’t call yourself that. 😃

      • @amanaftermidnight
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        1 year ago

        It’s very low but a lot of people trip over the lowest of thresholds 😅

      • @gxgx55
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        41 year ago

        It’s easy to register on an instance, the hard part is choosing one. “Which one is the right one to choose and commit to?” is a newbie question that honestly is often overthought. Choice paralysis is real for some people…

        • 001100 010010
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          1 year ago

          For me, there’s only one good choice, sail free in the High Seas!

          a pirate chest full of doubloons pirate captain giving the thumbs up

        • @mango_masterOP
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          11 year ago

          I joined lemmy.world, because that’s the first one I came across. But now I can see the posts from many instances using voyager and Memmy. Now you can go and join any instance with interest you. That’s the beauty of it.

      • @Dark_Blade
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        31 year ago

        That should tell you something about how little effort people have put into understanding the Fediverse.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    Same here! I’m posting this from my own instance which is not something I would have been remotely comfortable setting up before lemmy :)

  • @OutrageousUmpire
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    31 year ago

    Yeah it’s been fun! I’ve set up self-hosting of several fediverse projects and have learned a lot.