Lemmy is confusing and poorly limited. How does Lemmy work? Why are there so many Lemmy clones? Do I have to sign up for each of them? Does my post show on each of them?
Lemmy is confusing and poorly limited. How does Lemmy work? Why are there so many Lemmy clones? Do I have to sign up for each of them? Does my post show on each of them?
First please don't ban me I'm new.
lemmy.world, lemmy.ml , lemmy.xxx, lemmy.whatever, etct... + hundreds of clones. Is each of these a Reddit by itself containing many subreddits inside it?
Does that mean if someone in lemmy.xxx/c/jokes posted something interesting that I wont even see it because I'm signed up in lemmy.yyy/c/jokes ?
That is quite a weakness of lemmy compared to reddit. Can I post on lemmy.yyy if I signed up for lemmy.xxx or do I have to sign up for each of them?
Which one should I sign up for?
How can I see all lemmy posts in one place? I can't believe no one has found a solution to this yet and just let hundreds of clones post repeated things. Also how is each moderated? Is lemmy.yyy moderated by sensitive snowflakes who ban anyone who cusses or offends anyone, while lemmy.xxx is ran by racist nazis? How does this work?
Edit: Thank you I read all comments and thank you some where very helpful. and I hope things get improved and added with time. here for the long ride
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You didn't have to say you're new - the fact that you thought you could get banned for that post screams it! That's the good ole Reddit PTSD. Folks are more chill and friendly here. Also, maybe 5 people fully understand the system, so we're all learning.
One little bug that I think makes this whole situation more confusing is that not interacting with a thread for long enough (opening several tabs, walking away while ready comments, etc.), your browser could stop updating the state of the page. When you go to subscribe or comment or vote, you get hit with one of two errors. I had assumed that was part of this whole who-can-talk-to-who fediverse confusion. It's not. It's just a bug you can get around by refreshing the page.
As for combining posts, that's something in the works, but there's no karma and most people I've come across don't give two shits about the various bugged equivalents. If you're going to submit a post, check to see if it's already already being talked about on another instance. There's no etiquette for how to handle that yet, so I think it might make sense to just post a link to the federated post that that people in that subscribed magazine/community get directed to the larger discussion. Or maybe do this and say you want to talk about some specific aspect more.
And yes, there's lots under construction here, but nobody was prepared for this deluge. Seriously, from ~3,500 users between kbin and lemmy to ~2 million now. We know that the devs are hard at work, so it isn't like it's an abandoned project. But, I'll take this community over Reddit's any day.
Probably 2 million accounts, not 2 million users
Account numbers are a bad metric due to bot account creation spam on bot instances. 116,000 active users, 2 million bots. Thankfully the bots have been mostly reduced to their own little defederated corner of lemmy at this point it seems.
Thank you. Yes it's the future trust me. I'm loving every aspect of lemmy the more I'm learning about it. I already cannot go back to reddit power tripping mods and censorship. Now I understand how the fedverses are and 100% agree that's how things should be. I think it's the future of the internet. The internet has been infected with something called centlization and silicon vally greed. I watch more ads than videos when I use Twitch and Youtube. Twitter and Reddit coming up with more dictatorship laws and their only goals are IPO value and pleasing advertisers. People need to move away from these centrilized giants that stand for nothing but montization of user's data and greed.