• @Little8LostEnglish
    30•1 year ago

    my copyPasta:

    wanna join the fediverse?

    if not you can still look for other alternatives on r/redditalternatives

    Quick Quick start: open https://sh.itjust.works/ and consume the content. (could press on the all button next to the local button for more variety)

    For a quicker start i suggest https://sub.rehab or https://browse.feddit.de/ to look out for communities that have your content.

    Want an APP?
    on Android most use Jerboa for Lemmy https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jerboa&hl=de&gl=US
    Apple has Mlem https://testflight.apple.com/join/MelFP11Y

    If you wanna join lemmy please use a smaller instance like the recommondeed here: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances (simply take on of the recommondeed, makes less of a difference than you think)

    When you click on one you go directly to the content without the need for a log in.

    Here you can roughly see how lemmy, Kbin, Beehaw and Mastodon are working: https://i.imgur.io/Hoc5dXU_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=high

      • @[email protected]English
        23•1 year ago

        BeeHaw defederated all the major lemmy instances, pointing someone towards a website where they can’t interact with 80% of other users for reasons they likely don’t care about seems silly. If people want to make BeeHaw accounts once they learn about it, more power to them. But the average user is going to want as seamless of a transition as possible, and getting a crash course on defederation is the exact opposite of that.

        • ShittyKopper [they/them]English
          5•1 year ago

          all the major lemmy instances

          Read: just two instances who got really big, alongside literal tankies (but not dot-ml) and some fash

          Just in case you’re confused, most of their blocked instances are not even Lemmy instances but the general ActivityPub background radiation nobody really wants to see.

          Also, if just two instances get big enough to be “all the major lemmy instances” than isn’t that a problem of federation to begin with? Some admins need to learn to just shut registrations down jfc.

          • @[email protected]English
            10•1 year ago

            Whatever the ideal decentralized setup may be, the truth of the matter is that the current setup makes it significantly harder to surface content from instances outside of one’s own. I’d prefer to point people towards lemmy.world than to send them to a smaller server and have to field questions about why the servers they’re trying to join are out of date or possibly not available at all. As people get more comfortable with the setup, they can branch further out into the federation as they please.

      • @Casey_MasterpieceEnglish
        9•1 year ago

        Isn’t it the other way around? Beehaw users won’t see their content. They won’t be able to comment on beehaw content but they can still see it.

        • Lev_AstovEnglish
          10•1 year ago

          Yeah, it’s the instances who go around defederating others that I’d want to avoid.

        • @[email protected]English
          5•1 year ago

          Technically they are also be able to comment on beehaw content, but then only their members can actually see that comment because their instance will have a copy of that content but beehaw won’t publish it to the other instances, so it doen’t make much sense to do so

      • @Little8LostEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        i choose it out of 3 reasons:

        • does not defederate much as i recall
        • is i think a smaller of the bigger ones so it has content and the “user weight” gets distributed, so this is only a half reason
        • funne name

        But feel free te edit it, a mayor problem my text has it that it does not suggest apps and how to use them

  • SorenchuEnglish
    20•1 year ago

    I want to just write lol, but that doesn’t capture my actual laughter. I am glad to be here and hope these communities continue to grow and become a stable place that is unimpeded by corporate interests, data harvesting, and invasive monetization. But seriously, here’s a rat.

  • @[email protected]English
    18•1 year ago

    I actually wonder if Reddit will do the Twitter thing and start blocking references to the fediverse.

    I mean, we all know the answer, but

  • @MiddleWeighEnglish
    14•1 year ago

    “i really like it a lot, maybe give it a try.” Is about all I can muster, then I leave to come back home.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•1 year ago

    I gave awards to anyone who commented they were switching with all the coins accumulated for 13 years. :(