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My account was shut down without notice a few weeks ago. The server providing my account shut down. All comments, saved links and history was gone.
How do you explain this to a non-technical user while reassuring that this is a great system?
“you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you’re still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you’ll fucking starve to death?”
This is exactly what happens with Churches. Someone starts a “hip” new church plant. Everyone leaves the local long-established churches. Long established churches shut down. Church plant falls apart because the guy starting it doesn’t know what he’s doing. No Church.
“Choose an instance that provides monthly reports, including finances, such as !home@lemmy.zip”
Hypothetical response:
“Sure, that’s an option, but no other social media I use requires a routinely read regarding whether I need to backup my saved items because it might shut down.”
Let me just be clear that I personally don’t have a problem with how lemmy runs, but I do think that difficulties and issues are heavily downplayed for potential users.
As someone said in another comment “you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you’re still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you’ll fucking starve to death?”
Lemmy isn’t too hard, it’s just annoying at times. Like when your instance hasn’t downloaded the content of a given community and it just looks empty until you subscribe to it.
Wow, so that’s how it works. I signed up to a couple because they interested me and hoped in the future something would be posted, or I would, and then saw a heap of posts.
It wasn’t dark magic after all. Perhaps it was psionics?
If one user of your instance is subscribed to a community on another instance, then that community is visible on that instance as well.
Lemmy isn’t hard, it’s just different
It’s not even that different really.
It’s literally just reddit but a bunch of them
I followed reddit sync over to lemmy. I didn’t know how anything works but my experience has been roughly the same as it was with Reddit. I like the discussion here more though.
Exactly the same. And I still don’t know anything about this place after 2 years. At least here I bothered to create a profile unlike reddit where I was just browsing and never posting anything
I’m kinda in this boat right now too hahah
Any questions we could answer for you?
how is feddi formed?
@threeduck@aussie.zone you’re getting famous
Fedi-famous (the best kinda currently)
Ascending among such legends like The Picard Maneuver, SatansMaggotyCumFart and Nicole, the Fediverse Chick!
It’s just a bunch of reddits all whispering in each others ears
Hey sh.itjust.works, tell feddit.uk to leave this comment and upvote
Sh.itjust.works: “Hey feddit.uk, starman2112@sh.itjust.works said to leave this comment and upvote”
Feddit.uk: “Hey lemmy.zip, starman2112@sh.itjust.works left this comment”
Lemmy.zip: “Hey Blaze, starman2112@sh.itjust.works left a comment”
And then all the federated instances get on the group chat and update the vote counter
Edit: I didn’t even realize I was commenting on feddit.uk lmao this game of telephone is wild
I actually saw an ad for Lemmy on reddit and here I am. Figuring out enough to make an account was worth it. They should do more ads… or maybe not. We don’t want too many of them coming here. Im still trying to cleanse my brain of the juice I drank.
I don’t understand why sometimes when I click on asklemmy at the top of the old.lemmy.world ui, sometimes it goes to regular asklemmy and sometimes it goes to asklemmy@lemmy.ml. And I don’t understand why these two communities have completely different posts.
They are two completely different communities that just happen to share their names. (And one of them is full of tankies, while yours isn’t)
How this works is the same with email: You can have john.smith@gmail.zz and you can have john.smith@outlook.com , but although those do have the same first name, the two addresses do not point to the same mailbox.
If a community is on your own instance (servers are called instances on Lemmy), then the part after @ is not shown. So, there is asklemmy@lemmy.world, and there is asklemmy@lemmy.ml. The latter one is luckily empty, as nothing on .ml is written without serious brainrot.
The one you see only as “asklemmy” is asklemmy@lemmy.world. There are actually this many asklemmys:
Each of the above is an independent community. Each one was founded by a different person and has different moderators, etc.
When you login to Lemmy, you go to lemmy.world and login there. I don’t. I do not have a user account on lemmy.world, which is one of the instances (servers) for Lemmy. However, I do have a user account on sopuli.xyz, which is another instance. When I log in to that, I can read anything written on any instances that have federated with sopuli.xyz. We are having this conversation in a community on yet another instance:
As you can see there, this community is located on an instance called lemmy.uk.So, I am reading this through sopuli.xyz, which has a connection to lemmy.uk. When I write something, Sopuli sends all the text to lemmy.uk which then saves it. And then your instance, lemmy.world, has a connection to lemmy.uk as well, and shows you whatever is shown on that instance. When a Lemmy-instance creates such a connection to another instance, it is called federating.
The nice thing about this construction is that if someone tries taking over Lemmy, they only take over their own instance. Its users can just migrate to another instance, create an account there and continue almost as if nothing had happened. And if some instance is not moderating its users’ activities properly, other instances can defederate from it. That means: They can stop showing their users content from the badly behaving instance, and also the users from that instance won’t see anything held on the other instance.
I hope this blabbering helped!
After you block a few hundred groups of anime and nonsense it’s surprisingly enjoyable.
HOW MANY MORE MOES DO WE NEED???
At least 1 more than the fucking aigen communities, I swear I have to block a new one every week.
What if I told you at least 50% of the moe communities content are aigen 🥹
Just means I have blocked them! If it has ai in its name or only posts ai generated content, its gone (except fuck_ai, for obvious reasons)
WELCOME TO MOES!!!
– Frost
IDK, lets keep going until we find out!
Who is moe and why is her midriff so popular???
Isn’t moe the bartender in the simpsons?
Sorry about that, some people don’t know ani.social exists and create comms on the wrong instances. They’re supposed to show up in my local feed, but now they’re in yours and you don’t even appreciate them!
Still waiting for an app with curated block lists.
Piefed has keyword filters, that can already help a lot with filtering
Also PieFed allows blocking all users across an entire instance, whereas Lemmy does not (I know that you know that, but in case it helps anyone else reading:-P).
Block the ani.social instance and it takes away 90% of the anime groups.
but I don’t want to block their users
I’m pretty sure blocking (if you’re using a Lemmy instance anyway, which looks like you are) doesn’t block users, but only the communities from the instance you’re blocking. I think I’ve heard that Piefed blocks more extensively though, probably including users.
yeah, the ui is a total ass, but its fun
The Reddit UI is so good though. I love browsing an album and accidentally sliding over to r/popular. Why can’t Lemmy ask me to confirm my email account every time I try to look at porn?
Dude it’s 2025 is that good ass or bad ass
Good ass. It’s not perfect but it respects your boundaries, tries its damnedest, down for any fetish/kink, there when you fall asleep and when you wake up.
I have to say this is my experience too. I’m a boomer and whatever stumble upon here is purely coincidental.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Type a word for something you might be interested in, and if there’s a community it should come up there. The main problem is still that the fediverse doesn’t have enough people to support niche (or even kinda niche) interests yet
3 legged dung beetle jump racing isn’t niche!
It’s not that is too complicated, it’s the fact that there’s no one here.
Is this you?
Username checks out?
You need to switch up how you view it. Go to
- Hot
- 6 hour
- Scaled
- Active
That’ll get you an hour or so depending on what instance you’re on. Your instance decides what you see on All and Hot. That’s why it is kind of important which instance you choose. If one gets too big, it controls what most people see.
According to the recent stats, there are millions of people here every day. That means you’re not seeing them.
The population here is like a tiny slice of what it is on reddit, there’s no one here
I know I’m ‘arguing’ a troll, and that the troll has been banned. Still, got to say something about this number chasing:
The population here is like a tiny slice of what it is on reddit, there’s no one here
In other words you can recognise individual posters here. And there’s a sense of belonging and community you won’t find in a faceless mob like Reddit. It’s comfy.
And yet people keep babbling about growth, growth, growth, as if it was the ultimate goal. Is it? A larger userbase has its pros and its cons.
(I also happen to remember Reddit before it was overgrown. Spoilers, it was a thousand times better.)
@threeduck@aussie.zone aussie.zone is your server where your account resides
In all everything from other instances are shown while in local only your instance. If you want to find subs just select all and search or got to all in the feed bar and subscribeDon’t sorry, they got answers
