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This question is especially for people who have joined in the last week. Have you used other fediverse platforms or is this your first time really using one? What do you think of it so far? Are you aware that you can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account?

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[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, and I just learnt about Lemmy an hour ago because of r/linuxmemes

[–] jerd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I’ve been on Mastadon for a while, and have liked it for content that was less mainstream on Twitter. Gave a better way to get more frequent content from folks I wanted to follow over Reddit. Glad to see Lemmy finally gain momentum due to the Reddit drama.

[–] Niksko@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Been on Mastodon for a while since the Twitter crap. Signed up to a Lemmy instance just now and so far so good!

One question for the more seasoned folk: from my Mastodon client, I can see some Lemmy communities if I search @<community>@<server>, but I can't see any posts. It just shows empty, but the count of posts says there are posts. Is this some sort of lag, or a setting of the Mastodon server I'm on?

Also are these communities associated with an instance, or do they exist across all instances? I'm assuming the former? And what does that mean if there are multiple communities with the same name on different servers?

[–] ahamrick@lemmy.hamrick.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

I’ve been using Matrix for some time now (have a dedicated synapse server set up so I can mess around with the bridges and stuff β€” still haven’t quite gotten the iMessage bridge working, but also haven’t put in a lot of time to it). As soon as I saw the whole thing with Reddit going down, I pretty much immediately stood up a Lemmy instance.

Safe to say, I’m pretty much sold on fediverse platforms.

[–] Boot@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I’ve dabbled on Mastodon but it’s not my style. Never was one for twitter. Still getting familiar with the whole Fediverse concept though so if there are any resources or communities anyone would like to recommend I’d be grateful

[–] GoldenDoge@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago
[–] starrox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Yes it is! Exciting to discover it.

I was never really interested in twitter or similar services, so I pass on Mastodon.

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have used Fediverse for around 2 years previously, but I have never got used to twitter style posting on Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey and when the actual twitter users started joining it only got worse. Lemmy, on the other hand, seems to be able to have me engaged for a really long time. Mobile web experience has a few problems but I might take the time to actually try fixing them, since I am studying in the field of web dev, and there also are apps for Lemmy

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[–] ryomensukuna@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

My first fediverse app is mastodon

[–] kudzu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I've used Mastodon, Calckey, Pixelfed and Bookwyrm and found all of them to be pretty cool. So far I've liked Lemmy and ever since I found out about the frdiverse I've found it's interconnection of so many platforms to be helpful

[–] hi_im_catherine@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

this is my first!

[–] Banjo@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, first time stepping into the fediverse, enjoying it so far but still trying to get my head around it. Also hoping that decent apps start to appear, which I would be willing to subscribe to if they had active development.

[–] zerkrazus@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I made a Mastodon account a while back after the Twitter nonsense and have used it somewhat, but not as much as say Twitter itself because most of the people I follow haven't joined. And therein lies one of the key problems with this or any Reddit alternative, if people don't join, it won't work. You need users and content both, you can't do it with just one or the other.

I also made a separate Lemmy account as I didn't realize I could use the same for all 3, but oh well. I kind of like having separate accounts for them as that makes more sense to me in my head.

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[–] KvltKat@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Yep. No idea what I’m doing but I’m happy be involved and it’s fun to learn new things :)

[–] skillful_garbage@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Mastodon was my first, although this feels way more polished for sure. What I liked about Reddit is that you go there for the topics you care about, posted by people you don't care about. Mastodon and most other social media is people you care about, posting things you don't care about. I think I'll stick around here...

[–] Vrazel106@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Is there an app for lemmy? It seems to work well in mobile browsing but dont like leaving tabs like this just open..im lazy..

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[–] CrayonMaster@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried mastodon, but I hated it. So far I'm liking this more.

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

i feel like mastodon needs immediate mass adoption far more than lemmy or kbin. here, even with a smaller community you get interesting links and some decent memes. but the whole point of twitter/mastodon is to follow specific people, and if those people aren't there...

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, I signed up for Mastodon long ago. Didn't get a ton of use out of it, but I posted there occasionally. I've had too many platforms bought out from under me and turned to crap, so the idea of the fetaverse appeals to me. Okay, the fetaverse was invented by Android voice dictation. I invite everyone to come up with their own ideas of what that Greek cheese-based universe might be like. πŸ˜†

But I've gotten far more into the Fediverse In the last two or three days then in the previous 59 years. I've set up Lemmy, kbin, and BookWyrm accounts. I know they can all theoretically connect, but I don't know how to do it yet.

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

I need to remember to look into BookWyrm and pixelfed again someday, but I'm pretty busy with lemmy already. I think Mastodon might be good for sharing pics, not sure - right now I'm sending box links to family who don't have Signal. Then again, I don't usually want to share most pics with the world so...

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I also signed up to Mastodon, mostly to support the digitalcourage.social server, but probably won't be using it a lot. I didn't use Twitter, either, but Reddit. I will probably continue to use /r/flying and /r/synthesizer, as they are so niche that I cannot expect anything comparable here.

I'll have to figure out how to post with Mastodon account on Lemmy.

[–] hoodlem@hoodlem.me 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes it is the first time. I’m liking it. I’ve never tried Mastodon as I was never into Twitter and the two seemed similar.

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[–] OldIndianMonk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yes. I did try Mastodon during the Twitter fiasco. But the whole fediverse concept seems a little more suited for specific forums like Reddit

[–] aamikam@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

using both Lemmy and mastodon for the first time today. interesting stuff, I'm liking it so far.

[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yea first time. Never heard of it. I like it so far. There little stuff that needs to be ironed out, but it's better than serviceable so far and I'm quite enjoying it. Figuring it out.

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I have been on mastodon for a bit, but not really that active in contributing because I don't love the microblogging format. I do consume some pictures and news via it.

Lemmy is definitely more my speed. I've heard you can cross access lemmy from mastodon, but my understanding is the UI is not ideal, so I just also have a separate lemmy account and jerboa to go along with my Mastodon account and fedilab.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Yes it's my first time. I'm a little worried about long term stability of communities and accounts if individuals get tired of hosting servers, but seems like everyone is really nice and invested so far.

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