Reddit sucks, but back in the long long ago started by being a link repost website.

      • BrooklynMan
        4·
        1 year ago

        you can find that bot and follow it. or just create an account on lemmy.online and you’ll see tons of it by default.

        • Kettlepants@lemm.ee
          5·
          1 year ago

          I feel a bit thick but I can’t seem to find @bot@lemmy.online, !@bot@lemmy.online, or lemmy.online for that matter. Basically I’ve no idea how to follow a user. I can find communities fine, but yep, struggling here.

          • BrooklynMan
            2·
            1 year ago

            finding users and communities across instances can be tricky, as those lists (users, communities) have to sync between instances, and that can take time. i can’t find it, either.

            lemmy is still a bit wonky, and not everything works like it should right now. an APi update is coming an about a week

          • em2
            1·
            1 year ago

            Find the specific community you want in browser, copy url, paste in your lemme.ee search a few times and it should take a little to start recognizing it. Subscribe.

  • BrooklynMan
    17·
    1 year ago

    long long ago started by being a link repost website.

    it didn’t actually. i was there in the beginning. sure, lots of stuff was reposted from digg during the exodus, but it was always just a link aggregator. and, like lemmy today during the flood of new Reddit users, lots of reddit stuff is getting reposted here, but lemmy is still just a link aggregator.