Just joined Lemmy after observing how much of a mess Reddit is now. Not really sure how all the parts of this service work together, but am looking forward to trying it out.
Thought I’d share my on-boarding process here in the vaguelly general spot. Perhaps others showing up will want to share their impressions of joining up as well.
I’m a long-time user of Mastodon, so already have a good sense of the Fediverse, its philosophy and workings - so I get how this is set up.
Selecting a server/instance on a Fedi service is always a bit of a decision. I tried to avoid the picking the biggest one here (which I did on Masto and still mean to shift away from it). First small server I tried seemed to die during the signup. Was happy to see Lemmy.one was pretty smooth. Some of the profile settings are a bit cryptic - so I’ll have to figure out what they mean.
Next I shall survey the communities available and hang out a bit. Do people do hashtags here?
Anyway - Hello World.
Hi there - I’ve just joined today too, hoping enough of the reddit userbase migrates to make this a viable alternative. I will say as someone who hasn’t really messed with the fediverse before, an eli5 summary of what lemmy is and how it works / how best to use it would’ve been welcome, but I’ll figure it out as I go.
Welcome - from someone who is still wandering about aimlessly.
Yes, hope this service gets a bunch of redditors and can grow into something like the early days of that platform. Yeah, it’s a bit confusing, but I think having a bit of experience with the Fediverse through mastodon already, it mostly makes sense.
I see there is interconnectedness with masto - and I can see myself here from there, and vice versa. But it appears to be mostly a separate animal.
Lots to learn - will be interesting to see how it evolves with more joining in.