For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?
I'm a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It's definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it's great to see something that isn't Reddit growing in popularity!
Pick your own admin. I'm sure the kbin admin is awesome (can't be worse than spez, lol) but it's nice to have the option
Have more control over what your server federates with. Hate interacting with people from a specific server? Move to one that blocks it. Want to interact with people from a blocked instance? Move to one that doesn't block them. Basically more options.
Don't like the rules on your server? Go to one where you like the rules better.
Your server is down? That's fine, go to a different one temporarily. You're gonna feel this hard on Monday. Kbin's gonna get crushed by the Reddit hug of death. You might wanna join up to a small Lemmy instance that the horde won't notice if that happens and you still wanna be on.
If you like kbin's admin, federation settings and rules? Then cool! You're missing absolutely nothing from being there (except when it's down). It's nice to have options though.
Secret number 5:
If you know how to host a server, you can host your own Lemmy instance and have all the powa!
@Barbarian So I have a few questions, being new to all this:
Seemingly I am responding to you when you're on a different instance. I'm on kbin and you're on... sh.itjust.works? Am I understanding this right?
My kbin account is restricted to just kbin, correct? I cannot use my kbin credentials to log on to another instance like sh.itjust.works.
How do I make an original comment (this is a bit dumb lol). I see the option to reply to others but no "comment" button for me to comment on my own.
On kbin specifically... what is a microblog?
(Last one promise), what is up with the @stuff. I see this post link is kbin.social/m/[email protected]... I figured the /m is like reddit's /r, but what is the [email protected] meaning that this is the magazine/community from lemmy.mt when shown on the kbin /m/ instance version? Not sure if this question makes any sense lol I'm just trying to understand how this all works
Your username in the fediverse is not honorfaz, but @[email protected], just as an email. It's the same for communities (or sublemmy, or whatever we decide to call it). It's not c/something, but c/[email protected]. This is why everyone still has a unique handle, but no unique admin.
I'm on my own instance for example, running in my living room, and yet here we are, talking. Internet as it was intented.
@primalmotion so... the lemmy.antisocial.ly part of your username is your own instance that you made. And I can ping you or reply to you by writing it as @primalmotion. Interesting. My log in credentials for kbin.social will not transfer to another instance like lemmy.world, though, will it?
I don't think that's possible since each instance is kind of a silo from each other with regard to your activity on that specific instance, even if you post on other instances.. Like since you made a comment/post on one instance that activity stays on that instance.
That depends. I think the migration process is part of ActivityPub and would need to be implemented in lemmy. With mastodon, you can move from instance to instance almost transparently.
I just realized I also pinged a bunch of other people in this reply chain, didn't notice it had automatically put all the usernames in at the bottom. Wonder if there's a way to disable that, seems unnecessary.
Yes! Kbin... Magazines, I think they're called? And Lemmy communities send out all new posts to every subscriber across all the servers where people are subscribed to it via the magic of the ActivityPub protocol. Any comments and upvoted get saved in the local copy, and then synced over later too to everyone else.
Yes, kbin is a site, sh.itjust.works is a site. We can talk because of point 1.
Dunno man, haven't tried Kbin
See point 3
That's the community@server. Community = Magazine = Subreddit, all terms for the same thing. The server is where your server (Kbin) looks to grab the latest stuff for that community for you to use (see point 1).
I am also new here but I think I can help. If I am wrong hopefully someone will correct me.
yes
you can only login to the instance with which you created your credentials. BUT you can interact with posts made elsewhere by finding their representation (not sure the correct jargon) on your instance. For example this post where are on here,
Wow I didn't realize that each instance has different owners and rules and such I'll definitely have to do some poking. Kbin was just what I happened to come across first
if you don't like a certain instance, like if you don't agree with the rules or how the admins handle things, you can go to another. people can create instances for like minded individuals, so instead of being pushed away from the platform entirely they can just find another instance.