I just spent a little time today creating my Lemmy.world account and trying to find equivalents of my favorite subs from Reddit. I really question whether Reddit will survive the uprising that has spawned. I think the IPO is going to go very poorly, then Reddit will turn into some commercial mess. This is my first Lemmy post, BTW!

Loving it - federation is great, hardly ever even know which instance I'm interacting with from kbin, which is a good thing as it means the federation is working and mostly seamless. Can't wait for some apps to come out and streamline the experience, hopefully some more people will start coming here to populate a lot of the communities that I'd like to participate or lurk in. Right now there's a lot of... uh... shouting into the void trying to fill the space. I'm posting way more than I ever did on reddit just because like... somebody has to do it, right?

Thanks, where's the coffee machine, please?

so. um. my question is, in mastadon even though you have an account with one instance you can still see/follow/whatever people from different ones (unless the admins made it private) is this the case with lemmy or am i stuck here and would need to go make some other places? thanks
edit: NOW i see the tab switching from 'local' to 'all'. Derp

For being my first 24 hours on Lemmy, I’m having a really good time! Has the same “new” feel that the initial couple years of the greats did.

Only question is what happens to my account if the instance I joined under shuts down? I get that content may still exist on linked instances, but what about the account itself? Can it be salvaged? Or is there benefit to have accounts on a few of the big dogs?

digg déjà vu

so this is where we flee pala, hi!

Once the server caught up and let me create my account it's been good. Still learning the details.

Hello! Looks nice, I realize it will probably take some time to get used to, but I hope the community will grow. I mod a sub on Reddit and we are thinking about a blackout in protest, in any case it would be cool to set up shop here in the fediverse :)

The Jerboa app though could use with some improvements to navigate the different communities.

So far it’s been good. There is a bit of a learning curve, setting up on mobile devices was a little challenging. Seems to be working well now. This thread has been really helpful for me.

I like the website. I like the idea. I like lack of advertising and hyper-paranoia and consumer algorithms.

What I don't like is some of the devs describing themselves as 'communists' and 'anarchists.'

Extremism is never a good look, and the fact that Lemmys founders are... Definitely tickling that dragons tail is concerning to me

So far the mobile site is way better than Reddit. I feel like Reddit was always humping my leg trying to get me to install their shitty app.

I also really like the federated aspect, but I do agree with others in that I fear this may be too confusing for the average user and it won't catch on.

I'm a big fan of it. The website is great and I'm thankful that I can interact with posts and comments on other servers. I think for most people's adoption the picking of a server to join is intimidating because there are so many options.

To draw more users it needs to be made abundantly clear that you can interact across servers.

Website seems pretty neat. Glad to have a proper alternative to Reddit as it continues to burn to the ground lol.

As the saying goes, fuck /u/spez!

I'm scared and confused and don't know where all the cat pictures are.

I just got here, figuring things out slowly

I haven't used Lemmy much yet, but I'm honestly impressed by how well it seems to work so far.

Hey thanks, glad to be here. Lemmy seems very promising!

I'm having trouble navigating through lemmy. The Frontpage was different before I created an account. Could someone explain the instances? I logged in to lemmy.world does that mean the content on the rest of lemmy is off limits? I have to create an account for each instance?

I see there is lemmy.ml and others

Edit: I get it now. Thanks for the explanation

I'm finding it hard to get rid of the "Open Reddit"'s muscle memory

Feels like being back on old forums again :) I think I'll like it here

Quite like it... haven found a good mobile client yet though. But I've only tried Jerboa, and that just kept loading forever