Seems to me the fear of overloading one instance over another will not happen after all.
But I do hope the Threadiverse can hit 500,000 consistent active users by the end of summer.
Give me that hopium guys! 💉
well some of us moved on purpose
I’m not using lemmy as much because theres no RES
That’s a big thing for me. I’m using it almost exclusively mobile because of a lack of RES clone.
What features from RES do you miss? Maybe we can get them incorporated into lemmy
This, I don’t get why stuff in RES was never implemented into Reddit proper
Because Reddit implemented “New Reddit” instead…
Full keyboard navigation (j and k to focus up and down posts, u to go to user profile, c to enter comments…) including toggling expandos, and regex keyword filtering for me.
I created a userscript here https://github.com/vmavromatis/Lemmy-keyboard-navigation maybe it suits your needs for now…
Thanks will take a look!
RES style keyboard navigation is in progress, see https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1892
I miss the tagging of users, the way to turn off css from sites, endless scrolling and that each comment and children would be marked with a color between them. Liftoff has shadowed cards, which helps. The browser experience isn’t great that way.
so lemmy web does have colored children, are you not seeing them?
Infinite scroll is in progress https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/878, though the devs are against it and I agree with them, however they tend to be pretty chill about other users adding things if they are off by default.
I love that theyre thinking about calling out research pointing to it being potentially harmful to mental health rather then refusing to implement it or implementing it without thought
so lemmy web does have colored children, are you not seeing them?
I do, but it’s more prominent in the mobile apps. When I’m on a browser, they’re super light. Edit: I asked why you were against infinite scroll and now I get it. The reason I want is when you go back it goes back to the first page and then I have to find where I am again, it’s sort of annoying. Love Lemmy over all though, not trying to be a downer.
Have you checked out kbin? It has some of those features, and you can sub to lemmy communities with it. It also allows you to follow users, which lemmy doesn’t seem to do. But you can’t save posts at kbin, which is something I use a lot.
Edit: literally just discovered you can save comments and posts, at least here. I don’t know if that’s new or if I missed it somehow.
I haven’t tried kbin, I’m just getting used to Lemmy but I might give it a try next week.
Yeah, I switched over to another server simply because lemmy.world was slow and then got compromised with the whole injection thing. No other reason.
Can someone explain this like I’m an idiot (because I am)? This sounds like at some point I’m going to need to create a new account because shit will get too….popular? Dafuq? I downloaded Voyager, spent a bajillion hours looking for communities to add to my feed because fuck Reddit, and this conversation is scaring/confusing the shit out of me.
Thanks
Deep breath, it’s all good!
.world was having trouble because it grew really really fast (like it’s only existed for about six weeks at this point), and the Lemmy software had never been tested with the sorts of numbers we very suddenly saw during the Reddit migration. So naturally there were performance problems, as nobody had ever run a Lemmy instance that large.
A few instance admins put their heads together and figured out various fixes and optimisations, and now it’s running fine. Maybe we’ll get into more issues down the road, that’s just the nature of being the first to try something new. But it’s nothing to panic about, think of it more like you’re a brave pioneer into an exciting new world :D
I moved over to lemm.ee when .world was loading really slow. Still here, no reason to go back really.
Yeah lemm.ee runs really good, great admin there, also a contributor, but shhh, don’t tell anyone, don’t want it to get overcrowded.
That’s a good thing. Keep the fediverae alive without overemcumbering servers. That’s what’s so strong about it, we can keep growing without too much costs.
Lemmy.world had problems since day 1 for me. When you get to a smaller fully updated sever like lemm.ee the service is excellent and you see how good Lemmy is.
Shh!!! lemm.ee is slow and overloaded, no need to register here. 👀
I created an account on lemmy.world before I’d understood how the Fediverse works. Later on I went and searched for a smaller instance that’s better aligned with my interests and whose moderation I was happy with, and I
abandoned lemmy.world(Edit: Bad choice of words here. I still subscribe to communities on lemmy.world; I just stopped using the account I had created there). It had served its purpose well as a landing zone for a Fledditor like me.Can you share what your search entailed and how you undertook it? I’m on lemmy.world and not really dissatisfied, but I am curious for potential future use. Thanks!
Sure thing.
I just went through the instances listed on https://join-lemmy.org/instances and visited each one that caught my eye and I’d just glance over the welcome message, rules, and check to see if they have a website or a Matrix Space where you can talk with the admins, get support or just chat. Eventually I found one that’s hosted in my country, is better aligned with my interests (browse the list of local communities!), has no moderation rules that I disagree with, and is being maintained by folks who are passionate about FOSS and whom I wouldn’t mind supporting in maintaining the instance (financially or otherwise). Most instances will have one community where people can ask for help or discuss anything related to the instance itself, like the state of the server and updates, whether or not the instance should defederate from some other instance, etc… For example, ours is https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/tchncs and lemmy.world’s is https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/[email protected]. Be sure to take a look at those “home” communities as well.
If it’s a smaller instance, it would also be a good idea to check the state of funding. Are they getting enough donations to maintain the server already? If not, would you be willing to help them out? Then just create an account and test the stability of the server for a week or so. This may sound like quite a bit of effort, and it is, but it’s worth it in my opinion. I love that I’ve stumbled upon this community https://tchncs.de/ and I’ve already switched to using their servers for a bunch of other stuff I’m using (Matrix, for example).
Saved, thanks internet person/strong A.I.!
That is really awesome. Well done!!!
Just wanna say, great work on looking around and finding an instance that fits you. That’s exactly how Lemmy is supposed to work. It’s a great sign of network health that people are shuffling around to places they like better.
username does not check out 💀
Well this is good. It makes much more sense to spread out. I’m glad to see people stick with it and move to another instance instead of just quit altogether.
lemmy.world seems pretty saturated.
I’m having massive problems with Connect on mobile. I can see my feed but can’t vote or post. Every time I try it says, “user not logged in”. Hopefully whenever that’s smoothed over I can contribute more.
There was a server reset a few days ago when the Lemmy hack happened, mods logged everyone out. I had the same issue on Connect and logging out and back in fixed it.
Come to shitjustworks, they have defederated just with the most extreme instances and they are very nice m8s.
Probably shouldn’t have such a stupid name.
I wonder how many people created an alt and just wound up using it more than their original.
I ended up deleting my main on .world to make my alt on a smaller instance. I hope we can all learn and spread out or at least join instances relevant to our hobbies or geographic position more than defaulting to the general instances.
I have alts on several instances but lemmy.world is still my preferred instance even with all the hiccups.
I also appreciate that m.lemmy.world uses the Voyager PWA by default.
.world has been my main account, but now that I figured out how to transfer my subscription list to another instance, I’m starting to use a small instance to reduce .world loading.
I’m one of them. Not using my lemmy.world account as much the past couple of days
My main has the same name as my ancient Reddit account that is fairly well known in certain circles. This alt feels like a totally new, fediverse only experience and I kind of like it.
Yeah I created accounts with the same name as my Reddit username, but then thought, why would I want to create a trail from Reddit to Lemmy? The point is to be able to be anonymous. Just started fresh with a new name
I’ve had to make so many different reddit accounts over the years just cause I would change a device and I can’t be bothered to remember the passwords. It’s just whatever at this point.
I did. Was having issues with lemmy.world. so signed up for another one and was using that. Today that instance is down, so I just jumped onto lemmy.world. I guess we will see what happens long term.
I like alts so I can watch the new feeds
Hi! :) new user here after 10 years on r*ddit
What does being a new user have to do with seeing new feeds? Also is there a new user guide anywhere?
Edit: Also lol can you view my saved posts or is that only something I can view?
I have the option on the app to view other people’s saved stuff but it’s blank
Only you should be able to view your saved posts. I’m not sure what app you’re using.
Thanks! It says “view saved posts” on each user but it’s always blank, so I was just making sure.
App is memmy on iOS. Do you recommend anything?
Sorry, I have an Android, so I don’t have any recommendations for iOS apps.
What about Android apps? I finally joined today after boost totally stopped working this mo
https://vger.app/settings/install
Works on both platforms I believe, and is based off of the Apollo UI.
I’m liking connect personally
I’m using jerboa. I heard boost is making a lemmy app, so that will prob have a similar ui and ux to what you’re used to.
I created my Lemmy.world account when Beehaw defederated, and it’s now my main.
What did beehaw defederate from? That site seems pretentious.
They defederated (at least at some point) from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Probably more, but I’m too lazy this morning to go digging through their instances list or posts. Also ironically their ‘safe space’ doesn’t give me a very welcoming or safe feeling, so I prefer to steer clear of it.
They claimed it would be temporary and was to ensure “safety” of their community as other instances have open signups, and apparently the beehaw admin thought there’d be an influx of bots, or excessive posts requiring moderation. It doesn’t seem like that has happened though, and it also doesn’t seem like they’ve re-federated.
That’s me. Jumped a couple of instances as I started to understand federation and defederation.
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Hope they get hacked just like lemmy world
Why are you even here?
To dunk on libs like you
Btw, I’m not using a lemmy instance to make this comment lmao 😜
Seems like it wouldn’t be a huge loss to defederate from
seal.cafehttps://joinfediverse.wiki/FediBlock#Main_Blocklist:~:text=2022-11-26-,seal.cafe,-2022-08-24
@[email protected] @[email protected] might not be a bad idea. Clearly just trolling the platform.
All your little friends in 6th grade must be so impressed by you. That’s cute.
threadiverse? is Fediverse…
I’m not 100% sure but I think threadiverse means the part of the fediverse that has Reddit-like threads, e.g. Kbin, Lemmy, etc.
In the interests of making you feel awesome about your level of knowledge, you should know this is in fact correct!
The theis here does not really appear to be correct. Comparing MAU here, lemmy.world’s MAU is flatter than the entire Lemmy platform’s, implying that other platforms are seeing users drop off at a faster rate.
So I have a vague understanding of this.
I tried going to another server when I read something about a lemmy instance turning down FB. I go there and I’m prompted to make yet another account to use that instance.
Does this mean, that I need to make a new log-in per instance, per server just to use it? If so, that’s entirely exhausting for me to keep track and I already have an abundance of accounts as is, to where I had to make a document that records every account with every password. We need an internet where it’s less of that.
You need a password manager like Bitwarden
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So… You’re saying there’s a chance?
Is this from a copypasta?
… if it isn’t already, it really should be.
here for the first native Lemmy copypasta
Whoa, you repeated the same phrase multiple times but didn’t really say anything of substance. Can you help us understand what it is about pw mangers that you are worried about?
This entire rant reads completely out of touch. You lose nothing by trying one. Run a test. You may be surprised.
You misunderstand why password managers are a necessity. If a website you are signe sup on get a security breach, your password may be exposed. If you use same password across multiple websites that’s a huge problem. And without a password manager you undoubtedly will be using the same password multiple places.
What a bizarre and misguided over-reaction to a simple suggestion.
Also apps like liftoff store your login to different instanxes and it’s quite smooth to switch feeds.
I reckon it can be possible to compartmentalize by topic with several accounts (for example a .world account only for news and politics, a lemmy.ml one for tech and laughing at reddit, a third one elsewhere for memes, each of them subscribing to different communities on all the instances)
This is how mastodon works, you need account on each instance to follow it all and post there.
On lemmy you can have account on one instance and follow and post in all federated communities. Still doesn’t solve following “local” from several instances but is already much easier.
Hey, you’re getting some well-meaning but quite confusing answers on this so I’ll try and sum up:
- Each instance / server is its own self-contained thing, so yes if you want to change which instance you use as your home you’d need to set up a new account on it. But…
- You DO NOT need to do this just to join and interact with communities from other instances, you can do that from your lemmy.world account
- Some people are uncomfortable with the idea of .world potentially federating with Threads down the line, so are pre-emptively making the jump to another instance
There are other reasons to have multiple accounts, for example I have one account that is mostly subbed to gaming stuff and then I have this account that is mostly subbed to crafting stuff, because I like to have the two separate subscription feeds. I did the same thing over on Reddit, on Mastodon, etc etc. Some people have a dedicated NSFW account. Whether you personally have a use case for multiple accounts, or whether you personally want to steer clear of any potential future federation with Threads, is up to you.
Maybe it would be confusing to add this but your second point could clarify that you can interact with any other instance so long as:
- lemmy.world hasn’t defederated from them
- That instance hasn’t defederated from lemmy.world
For instance (accidental pun), I believe behaw.org is/was defederated from lemmy.world. Additionally, I believe I heard that lemmy.world defederated from lemmy.online (the reddit spam instance).
I know my instance is also currently discussing defederating lemmy.online among other choices
Lemmy.online was taken down, from what I can tell. Pretty much everyone told that admin what he was doing was a bad idea and something that no-one wanted. Most instances defederated the site and I think he gave up.
I think a key point that a lot of people don’t understand is that data from communities on different instances doesn’t replicate to your instance unless a user cross-subscribes to that specific community. If you build an instance and want [email protected] to show up on your instances ALL feed, you have to subscribe to it with at least one account by browsing to [email protected]/c/[email protected] and hitting the sub button. Only then will the content replicate.
Server federation between two instances doesn’t magically connect all the communities, but once the users have subbed, they’ll be able to see the content they want to see on these smaller instances. The process to get all the data replicated over is just a little more convoluted than it should be.
Yeah I generally leave the whole defederation nonsense for a followup when it seems like someone needs the bigger picture explanation, otherwise things get lengthy. But you are technically correct, which we all know is the best kind of correct.
That’s fair, I tend to get too technical in my explanations anyways. Completely fair if you left that piece out for simplicity
No. You ‘can’ log in to each individual server if you want, but, because Lemmy is Federated you don’t need to. Pick a home-base and you can interact with all the others (that aren’t defederated). (Edit: tip - choose an instance that shares your interests for your home-base. It may make things more comfortable for you in the future.)
In practice, this means instead of clicking another instance you just Search:All and subscribe to what ever Lemmy communities you’re interested in. Annoyingly this can mean duplicate communities (think r/cute, r/aww, r/pics, r/pictures, r/awwnopitbulls, r/awwcute…) but this downside is easily tolerated. Post and comment on other federated communities as you wish.
