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It was confusing for me.
Day 1 ‐ "What's an instance? Which one is the main one?"
"There is no main one."
"Which one is the biggest?"
"Well, Lemmy.World is the biggest, but you're not supposed to pick..."
"I picked Lemmy.World."
Hello I'm very new. Why not Lemmy.World?
The idea being that reddit is one centralized service, with one "instance" and therefore if Spez says fuck you, you don't have much recoarse.
Whereas on Lemmy, there's many instances. So if the crowd spreads out evenly, no single instance gets too big, and therefore too powerful.
If the instance owner of Lemmy.world tells me to go fuck myself, I can tell him to go fuck themself. I can just go to lemm.ee or sht.jstworks (or however they spell it), or I could even interact with Lemmy from another service entirely. I could go to mbin, or piefed. Actually I have accounts on both that I don't use.
After picking Lemmy.World innitially I tried a few others, but didn't see the need to switch. Mostly I'm looking for a good stable instance that isn't going anywhere. Which Lemmy.World fills those boxes.
But that doesn't mean other people are wrong with what I've said. I appriciate all the people on other instances because choice makes monopolies disappear.
I'm sorry, I misinterpreted you saying "I chose world" as a negative thing.
I'm also on World and I like it a lot!
It was important to me to find a place that was similar enough to reddit to let my transition be easier. I've been on reddit for like 14 years and I just wanted an alternative that is close to what I knew.
I like world a lot, but in general I like the whole idea of the Fediverse.
Well, it's not the instance itself that I'm playing up as a negative. It's my reasoning without hearing any other arguement on the subject before making my decision. Which is pretty much how I made that choice. I wanted the default Lemmy. Well, there is no default. So I picked the biggest because it was the biggest, and therefore the closest thing to a default.
And a lot of people here don't like the fact that was how my decision making process went due to not knowing what a fediverse was. I STILL wouldn't say I'm proficient at using peertube. I "get" it, but I'd still say I'm right back to not knowing which instance to sign up for. Especially since on peertube it matters a lot more.
I'm also still trying to learn all this stuff. I've never even heard of Peertube.
Imagine youtube.....except it's a broken disfunctional mess with no content.
Incredible
For sure, I've always said that for the most part it doesn't really matter. Make an account on anyone of them and if you don't align with that instance in the long run you can just hop to a different one.
People like having long account ages.
Sure, and nothing prevents you from signing up to multiple of them.
But you must understand that there are a potentially infinite number of instances and people have limited time to sign up for them.
So they pick one, or two, or three, that seem okay.
Then one turns out to be ran by a pedophile, so they stop using that one.
Then one turns out to be a front for tankies, so they stop using that one.
Then one turns out to [insert valid criticism of a popular instance], so they are back to account age 0 and searching for a new instance.
In the old Reddit days you'd never lose your account (or have reason to abandon it) unless you were a nazi or pedophile. I had a twelve year old account banned because someone mass reported all of my (porn) posts, many were auto-actioned, and my appeals were all auto-denied.
Replace the word porn with "for literally no reason that a human would see" and your story is my story.
I guess they had to make more room on their servers for bots and morons.
Well, their loss. I was in the top 1% of reddit karma for 2022. Think of how much engagement is being lost by me simply not being there. And engagement is what drives their platforms metrics.
It always seemed fishy that they offered to let me buy the innitial stock options pre-launch, at $30 per share. But at the time I was dealing with cancer, and had $0 income. So I had to decline. A few after the IPO launches I'm suddenly banned by an automod, with all repeals also being done by an auto mod that claims it was a human the reviewed the appeal. It clearly wasn't.
Weird; very similar story to mine.
The auto ban? The stocks? Or the cancer?
.......or all of it?
Ah jeeze I was walking my dog and missed the cancer part. Sorry to hear you had to go through that and I hope it's gone for good.
Everything else though, spot on.
Yeah I get it, my age old account is now abandoned because Reddit decided to fuck up. Guess what instance I hopped to to view Reddit? None, because Reddit is not decentralized.
I guess the equivalent would be creating a new account on reddit.com, as opposed to lemmy.world vs lemmy.ml etc.
Anyway, I obviously agree with your decision or I wouldn't be here. I'm just telling you most people do not feel that way.
I think that's called stockholm syndrome
I'm kidding, because I felt the same when I was new here. Account age and karma are treated like valuable currency over there, glad that's not a thing on lemmy, and for good reason.
Yet.
I did the hop for mastodon but that was mostly because I learned an instance can set a higher character limit and I absolutely hate fucking threads of tweets.
confusion comes from not knowing if youll get all content, most give you all content
Yeah but it will also influence your all feed, which is the main way of finding content when there's no specific community for your interests.
Or sometimes you run into the propaganda instances/users if you pick wrong.
It becomes a hassle and we know normal people don't want to even try.
For me, it was kbin.social - but kbin and lemmy didn't play well together when I joined (and now it's in its current state). Then I picked lemmy.world - and they went down one day due to the influx of users. Then I picked sh.itjust.works and I've been happy ever since. I'll be staying here until the day I spin up my own instance.
However, if they become regulars, I think they eventually find communities they’d rather identify with.
One of us...