Can someone explain to me how to use the Feidverse?
Can someone explain to me how to use the Feidverse?
I just made a Piefed.social account today. I'm very familiar with reddit, but after the API changes and all the bullshit that's been happening with the site lately I want something different. How do I see which communities I'm a part of, the equivalent of subreddits I guess? Where do I go to find new ones? Do I need to be in a singe instance to participate? I'd really like to find the Lemmy equivalent of my favorite subreddits from reddit, but I simply don't know how to do that.
You're viewing a single thread.
Each Instance / Server is able to use the data of the Activity Pub Protocol. If you see comments on Lemmy where people use hashtags or mention Users with an "@", they are probably answering through Mastodon.
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It's pretty old. Feddit.de was replaced with feddit.org a while ago.
Yeah, this was a graphic I saw early on when I joined, and while useful at the time, it's very outdated now and a bit too information dense to be effective for onboarding
For those not aware, Beehaw already had a community going before the API disaster brought a large amount of users to Lemmy. Once new instances popped up, and the overall userbase increased by something like 700%, they decided to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Citing issues with scaling moderation efforts.
With just a single account on
anymost Lemmy server(s) you can read and writeeverythingmost things everywhere else.Click on the "all" button and you'll see content from
allsome subreddits onallsome servers.I know I am nit-picking, but this over-selling of federation as if it "just works" and takes no manual effort almost drove me away when I first joined. It did and still does drive me away from Mastodon, but Lemmy is not as problematic.
At any rate, I know we don't want to overload new users with talks of defederation and unfederated content, but pretending it doesn't exist makes for a very frustrating time the first time someone realises they can't see 50% of the posts or thinks Lemmy as a whole is really quiet when it's because their server isn't federated 100% with every other server.
I'm also pretty new around here and I understand the connection between the lemmy instances but how does mastodon fit into this? Can I comment here with my mastodon account and vice versa?
Thanks dude.