@threeduck@aussie.zone you're getting famous

After you block a few hundred groups of anime and nonsense it’s surprisingly enjoyable.

I kinda love that people are willing to deal with these various technicalities and unknowns as a worthwhile compromise as long as it's not [input any walled-garden here]

@threeduck@aussie.zone aussie.zone is your server where your account resides
In all everything from other instances are shown while in local only your instance. If you want to find subs just select all and search or got to all in the feed bar and subscribe

Lemmy isn't too hard, it's just annoying at times. Like when your instance hasn't downloaded the content of a given community and it just looks empty until you subscribe to it.

My account was shut down without notice a few weeks ago. The server providing my account shut down. All comments, saved links and history was gone.

How do you explain this to a non-technical user while reassuring that this is a great system?

how do i find the users in my instance? I own the instance lol and I have no idea how to query for active users

It is complicated, and I like a little barrier to entry.

I followed reddit sync over to lemmy. I didn't know how anything works but my experience has been roughly the same as it was with Reddit. I like the discussion here more though.

I have to say this is my experience too. I'm a boomer and whatever stumble upon here is purely coincidental.

I actually saw an ad for Lemmy on reddit and here I am. Figuring out enough to make an account was worth it. They should do more ads.. or maybe not. We don't want too many of them coming here. Im still trying to cleanse my brain of the juice I drank.

Tbf you are dependent on all because most channels are dead/very slow.

I’m kinda in this boat right now too hahah

It's just a bunch of reddits all whispering in each others ears

Hey sh.itjust.works, tell feddit.uk to leave this comment and upvote

Sh.itjust.works: "Hey feddit.uk, starman2112@sh.itjust.works said to leave this comment and upvote"

Feddit.uk: "Hey lemmy.zip, starman2112@sh.itjust.works left this comment"

Lemmy.zip: "Hey Blaze, starman2112@sh.itjust.works left a comment"

And then all the federated instances get on the group chat and update the vote counter

Edit: I didn't even realize I was commenting on feddit.uk lmao this game of telephone is wild

Good.

The barrier to entry is a feature! All those fools on FB and Reddit are there because they're told there's no friction. It's the internet version of Wal-Mart. Anyone can find their way in.

I want to hang with people who are at least smart enough to tie their shoes sign up for a Costco membership. It's a LOW barrier to entry, and that's more than enough.

Lemmy isn't hard, it's just different

I still don't fully understand what Fediverse and instance means.

Yet they have an email provider.

That's just laziness/willful ignorance. The fediverse is just spicy emails

yeah, the ui is a total ass, but its fun