Just joined, and well, I’m thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you’ve done quite some good work here.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    Welcome! The biggest hurdle is right at the beginning. Choosing which server to register with.

    After that it’s got enough similar to Reddit, that it should be easy to post to your registered server and other federated servers as well.

    • lavenderdreamsEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Am I going to regret signing up to lemmy.ml rather than a more specific instance? Still wrapping my head around all this. Could I sign up on another instance w/ the same username if that instance wasn’t federated?

      • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        I don’t think so, but if you notice a server that has significantly more of what you want and less of what you don’t want you can go and join them later!

        So long as the user isn’t already taken on the other server!

      • exterstellarEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        You can sign up on any and as many instances as you want, and still be able to view any content and community from any other instance. This is the point of federation.

    • Xer0English
      2·
      2 years ago

      The only thing I don’t get, is I’ve seen posts on a different site (beehaw) showing up here. I kind of know how the fediverse works sort of, but is beehaw basically the same as Lemmy running the same software? I managed to sub to a couple of beehaw things from here which is cool, but it looks like a separate site. Do you need to sign up on both?

      • DuBois41st@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I’m also new to this, but I think I understand the basics;

        • I think beehaw does indeed run the same/custom software as Lemmy, and they are associated through the Fediverse.
        • I signed up on beehaw, so assuming you can see this comment, you do not need to sign up on both
        • beehaw is slightly different from other lemmy servers in that downvoting is disabled: I literally don’t have the option to downvote you!
        • servers can associate with any other servers they want, or block servers they don’t like. For example, beehaw blocks lemmygrad (I think this one is quite commonly blocked, since its very large and visible, but also politically disagreeable to many users. I’m not sure if there’s a way for users to filter out servers manually.)
        • I think if a server is blocked by your server, you can still specifically choose to subscribe to it. I’m not entirely sure on this, however.

        If any of what I’ve written is wrong, hopefully someone will correct me à la XKCD