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Welcome, new users! (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [M] to c/main@lemmy.ca
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There has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.

Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!

Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!

edit: Here's a nice getting started guide for lemmy: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

i should have added it here a while ago!

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[–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Okay this federated stuff is really growing on me.

The idea that you can sign up on any server, and still have a feed from many different servers is pretty cool.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It’s like email but Reddit style

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    That makes way more sense!

    The only roadblock I see is how difficult it is to follow communities outside your main instance. It would be nice if there was a log-in-as option so you can easily subscribe if you come across a page that isn't a part of your instance. Right now you have to either search it on your main, or copy the url over (which I've seen doesn't work all the time, but could be because of server load.)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Mastodon makes it easy to follow someone on a different instance, so I expect it's only a matter of time that Lemmy adds that functionality (especially now with the influx of new users)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I read that before, but I didn't really understand what that meant.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Email is federated as well. You sign up to a server (ex. Gmail.com), then you use and interact only with gmail.com, but you can then tell gmail to send an email to another server such as outlook, and it’s the same for their users.

    Difference being the content is public here, whereas email isn’t, and Lemmy also uses ActivityPub which is a standard to forward messages between servers.

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