So this Lemmy place is pretty awesome, and I see it growing by the hour! Just like others link external sites for content here, we should really also share Lemmy content to external (e.g. Reddit, Twitter, etc.) to show others where the users are going now.
Redditors will talk about Lemmy and moving communities here, but it is really best shown that the communities are rebuilding here. Thoughts? I’ve started with a few memes and am starting a new community here as well!
Oh my god, lmao. Yes. How is there even a video so perfect for this situation. I joined kbin instead because having a website demand I pick an instance in order to even sign up when I barely understood what that meant or how they worked was quite genuinely making me panic, and taking my time with it was not helping like it was supposed to.
It’s so normal to me now that I almost forget until I have to explain any part of it to someone. “Oh, don’t worry about joining this one over that one, you’re technically joining every site and also twitter and instagram. That button? It’s the reblog button. It functions as an upvote but some people don’t have it. Other people don’t have a downvote, but it might still be visible on your screen anyway. If there’s a site you hate, you can mute the whole thing, or maybe you can’t. If there’s a site you love, your admin might disappear them and you’ll need a second account to see it again. Have fun!”
Horrible. Why do I love it.
There’s even a scene talking about decentralized internet which is so perfect for this attempted push to the fediverse too.
It’s never a good idea explaining the whole idea to someone right at the start unless they ask.
I’ve always just directed people straight to a big instance with lots of home communities, like lemmy.world or kbin.social. After they jump in and have questions, that’s the right time to talk about instances, not before.
The video is from a TV series which is a bit cringe but quite close to reality of IT startups called Silicon Valley https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/ it’s a comedy.