Doesn’t Slashdot kind of work like that?

Something poetic about Facebook dropping xmpp and now coming back to mastodon

I can totally see the big 5 trying to the same things with activitypub

I forgot it even existed. Is it a game yet or still just a series of presentations and announcements?

Lemmings

Yeah, but we can help out in the meantime!

[email protected]

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.

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 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!

[email protected]

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 think creating too many accounts as you try to find a home and figure out what instances are is a normal thing. I certainly did it as well 😂

You can think of each instance as a separate reddit website. The magic of the fediverse is all these separate full on websites are still the same thing and can interact with each other!

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

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

You can! With a few caveats.

[asklemmy](/c/[email protected]) becomes asklemmy

However it won’t work if your instance doesn’t know the community exists. In those cases it needs to be searched for in the usual cumbersome way, but after that the relative links should work.

I remember in like… 2009? and maybe for a few years after. Someone started that christmas tradition where they would just open a shared drive and people dumped tons of stuff into it.