This is a special time. I think we can build something great! Lemmy feels like the good ole times in Reddit with fun trends.

  • Gomiboy@lemm.ee
    7·
    1 year ago

    It remindeds me of the time my family signed up to AOL after using one of their free trial discs from a magazine. It has the same feel as those days, discovering forums and messages boards dedicated to all kinds of esoteric interests you could think of.

    It’s like the days before the dark times, before the empire.

  • ante_up@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    I like lemmy, it’s cool. I use it now rather than reddit but I just don’t understand much about it. What’s a Fediverse? How many “subs” are there? Am I missing some? Can someone explain how all this works? I’m sorry for the stupid questions, maybe some of you can help me understand all this.

    • KuchiKopi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Ok, I’m not an expert but I’ve been hanging around here for a few weeks and this is how I understand it. I’m sure I’ve gotten some of it wrong, but hopefully more knowledgeable people can (gently) correct me.

      The fediverse is a collection of protocols that effectively “replace” legacy internet sites that have become enshittified: Mastodon is the fediverse version of Twitter; Lemmy and Kbin are Reddit replacements, etc.

      To avoid future shittification, the fediverse is built around the idea of decentralization. There is not one Lemmy. There are infinite possible Lemmys because Lemmy is just the “language” that allows the Lemmys to Lemmy with each other. Each of these Lemmys is an instance of Lemmy.

      An instance is where you create your user; it’s your hometown. You are registered in the lemmy.ml instance. I’m in the lemmy.world instance.

      An instance is also where each community lives. Community is pretty much the replacement for subreddit. This community that we’re talking in is the Memes community. It’s in the lemmy.ml instance.

      This is where it starts feeling more complicated. Other Memes communities might exist in other instances. They’re separate from this community, even though they might overlap in name, purpose, etc. If you think of your instance as a town, you might think of a community as a location within the town. Your town has a skate park. So does mine. They’re different skate parks because they’re in different towns, but they both attract skaters.

      So, you have users and communities that exists within instances. But these instances are in the fediverse of all other Lemmy (and Kbin) instances. That means you can “travel” freely between instances. You can view and post in communities from other instances because the instances are federated with each other.

      But… If instance owners don’t want to maintain the connection to another instance, they can choose to defederate from that instance. For example, if one instance is full of asshole racists, your instance owner might cut them off. Then you no longer have access to communities from that instance, and users from that instance no longer have access to communities from your instance.

      With all that said, it’s not super important to understand it all. Just hang out and have fun. Use the search function to look for communities that you’re interested in. If they don’t exist, maybe create one. Do what you can to contribute and create content and comment in the communities that you want to see grow.

      • ante_up@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thank you, you really cleared things up for me. I really appreciate it.

  • henfredemars@lemdro.id
    4·
    1 year ago

    There are moments where it’s like playing a really good game from growing up but for the first time all over again.

  • erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml
    161·
    1 year ago

    You said it brother - it’s a beautiful feeling being here. The last few years of reddit have been absolute shit. And everybody keeps saying how all the memes are reposts, but I’ve never seen most of them, and the ones I have seen take me back and bring me joy. Thanks for the reminder that the internet can still be not entirely terrible.