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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

...Unless they do a massive defederation like Beehaw.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's instances that are federated with both though. I'm on one of them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You've just got to keep in mind that it's not completely clean. Beehaw defederated from 2 of the largest instances making it useless for most users on the site.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Oh for sure. I started at beehaw and ended up on tf because I wanted access to everything.

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

it's not hard to make an account on other instances

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Fine by me, what they did is actually a feature of the Fediverse. People fear what they don't understand and based on comments at the time, there was a lot of misunderstanding.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It is what it is The fedi drama makes it kinda interesting lmao

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

My instance lemm.ee is sooo bad, totally don't join our awesome club so I get longer load times. 🀫 How can we bare having not banning the evil porn and federating with all the other instances!

Also a cute lil instance at https://literature.cafe/ opened up too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello fellow lemm.ee user πŸ‘‹

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This interaction makes me happy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

After what happened with lemmy.fmhy.ml I am a bit scared of joining "less popular" domains to be fair.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I recall the lemm.ee instance owner saying somewhere that .ee is the country code for Estonia and he is a citizen of said country himself.

Although IMO that whole freenom-Mali government contract expiration thing has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way regarding uncommonly encountered domains

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Valid. I really like how the AT protocol does it. Their account portability is really something ActivityPub desperately needs. Even account transfers on Mastodon isn't a proper solution.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

too late, going to register on lemm.ee now!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can also pick instances that are more lax and federate with everyone, then filter instances you don't want to see, on sync. Huge feature

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there some kind of tutorial or explanation for beginners who only came here because of sync and don't understand anything that's going on.

On one side this experience is really simple and easy, sync makes it very much like Reddit. But I see some people have @signs in their names showing their on different instances... Does that mean my comments aren't seen by all people and what the heck is an instance and what an I doing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've seem this metaphor around and will try to replicate here. Lemmy (and kbin) instances are like email providers, you can have an email from Google, outlook, Proton, etc. and they all can send emails to each other. Lemmy instances are like this, if you have an account in an instance, you can see content and interact with all the other instances.

Some instances don't talk to each other (defederate) for a myriad of reasons, but mostly because of political opinions and trolls. Here's a link with a more in depth explanation of how defederation works, from when it happened with one of the big instances on lemmy: https://lemmy.world/post/149743

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

FYI lemmynsfw.com is down right now. That's why you couldn't log in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Looks like it's back. You can log in for science 🀣

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not our lifeblood!

Back up now though

[–] Landmammals 2 points 2 years ago

good to know

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Come to sh.itjust.works, we have the best name.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmy.WTF Which of course means β€œWhat The Fediverse?!”.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Switched to lemm.ee because lemmy.world is down like every other day, for multiple hours at a time. Been better so far.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That's the beauty of lemmy, there's always options

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

For all new users: I'd recommend picking an instance that:

  • Is geographically close to you first
  • Has the same "moral compass" as you (ie if they allow NSFW content or are defederated from instances that has sensitive content)
  • That isn't hammered by too many new users

It's not that hard to check out this info, usually after a day or two on Lemmy you'll figure these things out.

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

Is there a good resource/wiki on what instances are out there?

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

https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

ljdawson should add this instead of lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

A good list of communities to subscribe to are here: https://lemmy.world/post/2216085

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used to see reports that you could "carry over" your account from one instance to another. Do you have any details on this, or whether this also works between different services (e.g. KBin and Lemmy)?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This works on Mastodon, but not on Lemmy/Kbin (yet). Migration between Lemmy and Kbin in general could be tough since they're completely different softwares and Lemmy lacks support for several Kbin functions (such as Boosts and Microblogging).

Account migration between Lemmy instances has been requested on GitHub but I don't know much beyond that. If you just want a profile redirect it might not be too complicated, but migrating full post and comment history is a different story.

Scripts have been created to transfer settings and subscriptions from one Lemmy account to another, however:

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

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

Being able to link/synchronize accounts a cross instances would be huge for continuing to use lemmy when your main instance is having trouble or goes down.

And I think if accounts were globally federated so that you could just log into any instance, it would take away the main complaint many people have when they claim lemmy is confusing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

My first account. RIP

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yep! Currently communicating with you from my own instance!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I'm on a few instances for this reason. Too many people on lemmy.world making it unusable most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Account migration isn't possible yet. But you can sign up to as many instances as you like with the same username and email. Also you can post to any KBin or Lemmy instance as long as it's federated with your home instance.

However sometimes there's issues, like right now with me not being able to reply to you directly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

But you can sign up to as many instances as you like with the same username and email.

But, like anywhere else, I would strongly suggest to use different passwords.

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

Absolutely!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How to join any other insurance which is not there in the pre-existing list?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks , got it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Some posts and comments don't show up on some instances. I prefer to stay with the bigger ones for that matter

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

lemdro.id is taking new users as well!

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