In the meantime we can try to be helpful when possible!

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And if your instance needs to search for the full url still: https://lemmy.ml/c/iphone

Yeah, but we can help out in the meantime!

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And if you need the full url for your instance’s search: https://lemmy.ml/c/iphone

I think most people would agree with the sentiment, but it’s probably a side effect of people being a bit lost.

If you can’t find the community or discussion where you could contribute more niche information, having the general reddit exodus topic at least lets you participate.

And I think that is the common thread of optimism. Even with the confusion and the jank, it still feels good to be somewhere welcoming and new.

I rather like how total karma isn’t tracked. I wonder how other people feel though?

AI Lurker Defense.scm

Yeah I’m right there with you. I probably made about 5 accounts not understanding why I couldn’t interact whenever I clicked certain links.

So now I’m trying to help others figure it out when I see a fellow lost redditor!

How federalization works can be a bit confusing. For me the biggest hurdle to get over was how the different instances - lemmy.ml and lemmy.world - are separate websites. They can connect and interact with each other because they’re federalized, but your account is only on lemmy.world.

Now for some magic!

Relative links for communities (subreddits) can work across instances:

• eg: [/c/[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
• becomes: /c/[email protected]

As long as your instance knows the community exists the links should work.

It’s a little jank. There is https://browse.feddit.de/ to help you find communities though!

Welcome!

I think just that is the confusing bit! Instances translate into separate reddits - as in completely different websites. Instance admins have as much power as reddit admins within the instance.

Communities are like subreddits, the main subdivision of an instance.

Where it gets confusing is you can subscribe to “subreddits” (read: communities) on other “reddit websites” (read: instances). It’s pretty cool but can take a second to wrap your head around!

The next layer of confusion comes from how everything also interacts with things like Mastodon, Kbin, Peertube, and any other ActivityPub project.

People know what they’re doing?

I’ve seen and played with lemmy posts in mastodon, but I honestly haven’t heard or seen much about the reverse. I’ll play around with it and see if I can make sense of anything.

I would give them a little benefit of the doubt. There were probably less than 50 Jerboa users last week and it was a slow hobby project.

With all this renewed interest there has already been a lot of fast progress and a massive update is coming out soon (I think). There’s a community for the app though if you want to see how development is going!

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Sometimes understanding how to cross instances can still be a bit cumbersome though.

There is pretty cool support for relative links though! As long as your instance knows of a community, they’ll work.

• [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
• [email protected]

And if your instance doesn’t know a certain instance exists, you just have to paste the url into your search bar to get it working: https://beehaw.org/c/gaming

I know that feeling! Like there’s not enough space to properly contextualize what you’re doing!

I think that instance is more a proof of concept, but you might be able to sign up still. The person behind it has made it available for anyone to use and I’m pretty sure if you’re on an instance that uses it then all of lemmy will be in the same style!

edit: If you’re interested in more info https://c.im/@youronlyone/110519684986917117

You should start by joining in too 😅

@[email protected] I started a Mastodon because of lemmy! I thought it’d be a good idea to post about this thread over there and get a hashtag going so we could properly find each other.

#fedinection and here’s a link https://famichiki.jp/@mobiuscoffee/110523430874364824

I enjoy that both are welcome here honestly.

You can have the one liners and you can have the thought out paragraphs. What I would say differentiates it more is how honest it is. People aren’t writing massive walls of texts as a forced rant nor is there that driving memes deep into their grave… yet still posting them again and again.

It’s okay to be silly and it’s okay to have discussions.

What I think we’re commiserating is how relaxed it feels. You don’t have to know the in-jokes and the coded vocabulary in order to participate. In order to be heard.

No worries! Finding information about communities and whatnot can be a process of just stumbling upon the right comment

I believe it is!

There are a few places with more complete information of every instance. I have this one on hand:

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/