current lemmy status

tbf people just wanna sign up and click on funny links, not browse through 100 rando instances to find the one that lines up with their exact interests and wait for approval and worry about uptime and whether their instance will still exist in a year

I feel that, while lemmy is still a work in progress, it is already pretty adequate for solving this need. If you want to subscribe to other instances you can do it from within your insance by going up to communities and searching. You can also click the all tab and see a bunch of instances from around lemmy that your instance is federated with.
I think mastadon struggled with this because the twitter model is to follow people and depending how far removed the servers are this can be trickier. Compared to lemmy where people interested in a single subject will likely target and find the subject theyre interested in and bring themselves together naturally.
Furthermore I think some people are splitting up and dividing into sub instances and tiny subjects a little prematurely. Reddit didnt get super esoteric with it's subs until it got big and the larger subs either declined or got too noisy to talk about certain things. Like for example how beehaw has an operatingsystems instance instead of a linux, ubuntu, macos, windows, fedora, archinux, opensuse, openbsd, etc. Right now there arent enough of us that we dont need to subdivide.
- I've seen people literally signing up here just to make like 50 empty communities and not post or comment on anything at all. Definitely a lot of folks just trying to stake some territory that they think will be valuable in the future.
- I like how Beehaw is doing it. Slowly introducing new servers as there is demand for it.
Very true. It would be sad to build up a persona on a smaller instance to then have it go dark and take your user with it. Other than losing your collection of "upvotes," you can just recreate a new user with the same display name on another instance and keep going. 👍
Holy crap, you can do Slack style emoticons? Huzzah! 🎉
Let me see if I underatand this correctly:
If I create an account on a random, small instance. And then go to the "all communities" feed. I can automatically see all communities that are in my instance. In addition to that, I can see all communities of other Lemmy instances, that are "federated". But I cannot see other communities from other nstances, unless I go on there, find the communitis and manually subscribe to them (I believe there are other ways to get them to show up, like using the search etc.?)
So, as a normal user. Who's just looking for a replacement for /r/all, wouldn't joining the largest lemmy instance that is fedarated to many others (Just by how many users it has, because it's the users who link instances by their actions?) make perfect sense?
Idk I kind of think it having a bit more complexity might help ward off enshitification
worry about uptime and whether their instance will still exist in a year
that's the biggest thing for me, it's hard to sign up on smaller ones without worrying about its long-term viability

I created my own server...

Me too. Gonna close registrations at about 100 users. I don't want this to get expensive but I'll contribute what I can
- Based on my previous experience running a Mastodon server, 90%+ of people are going to concentrate on already popular servers, especially the "official" one. I suppose I will also close (or be strict about) registration at some point myself, but I have a feeling I am not going to have to worry about it for a long time. My goal now is just to get some friends and acquaintances to join any lemmy instance, bonus points if it is mine.
- Same here. I only have a couple of users though so I don't show up on join-lemmy.org anymore. Not sure how to gather more users now. I figure if I do actually get up to a hundred or so users I'll set up a LibrePay account and expand based on available funds.
- How do you create your own server?
This is the way. If you don't like the moderators, don't play on their servers. It's that simple.

First I created account there and then landed on my current instance, because lemmy.ml's admin views looks sketchy for me. Been living in ex-ussr for all my life I just cant accept all that communists and marxists and the fact that lemmy.ml has /c/Communism on it.

I know that's silly but that's why I'm not there anymore.

It's not silly at all. I also made an account there before realizing the admins are tankies. It honestly sketches me out about Lemmy in general considering they're the two lead (and currently only?) devs. Casts a big shadow over all of Lemmy when the devs are posting Xinjiang genocide denialism and their instance is at the top of the recommendations on join-lemmy.org. With lemmy.grad pretty high up there too.
- Yeah that’s what Lemmy started out as. The thing is with all the Reddit refugees flooding in it is diluting out the tankies. Besides, lemmygrad.ml is blocked by many instances. As for the values of the devs the great thing is that Lemmy is FOSS so if they go rouge someone will just make a fork of Lemmy.
- At least with the way Lemmy is designed it doesn't seem like even the main devs can have much of an impact.
  They even write themselves that if they made changes to the Lemmy codebase that some instance admins didn't like, then those admins can decide not to upgrade their instance. The code is also open sourced so anyone with some tech know-how can fork the codebase and remove whatever they don't like.
- Are you familiar with the Nayirah Testimony?
Profit motive ruined Reddit so you’ve come to a place created by communist then get upset that the people who made and operate it are communists. Yeah that’s more than a little silly.
- There's a difference between being a communist and blindly supporting authoritarian dictatorships wearing communist masks.
- I'm not upset about their political views. For me its just too painful to read something like "Russia didn't start that war, its NATO" while I'm currently fleeing from conscription to Russian army to fight against Ukrainian people I respect more than citizens of my motherland.
  So, I make only choice I find suitable in that situation: avoid places where this behaviour is fine for mods and gains upvotes.
No that is not silly you got a fair point
This is why I didn't choose lemmy.ml as my local instance.
Is it possible to move instances once I'm registered or do I have to create totally new account on other instance?
- You'd need to sign up for a totally new account. There is talk of adding a migration feature but obviously that'll require a bit of patience, they've got a long list of feature requests!
Oh no ;_;
Any recommended communities? (or ones to avoid)
- All I know is that you should avoid lemmy.ml. In their /c/WorldNews community, an admin gave a four day ban to a user for posting an Axios article about the Chinese succession plan for the reason of "Orientalism". Those guys are tankie shills. In my experience, lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, and lemmy.one seem solid. Obviously I personally went with lemmy.ca. But you should check out the admin profiles before you join any instance. That will tell you most of what you need to know. That and the modlogs (found at the bottom of the page) that will tell you what posts have been taken down and what people have been banned by mods on various communities.
- Everything from beehaw.org is nice. Even stuff on lemmy.ml is okay as long you don't bring up politics. Stay away from news or politics subs on this instance. And I hope we will get bigger communities on other servers than lemmy.ml or beehaw.org.
- I'm currently on lemmy.world. You can create communities and people are chill over here.
- Avoid any instance that bans/blocks other instances. As for communities, just find whatever you like.
I had the same exact thoughts. Liked the concept but was kinda sketched out by lemmy.ml. Hope kbin forms a nice little community
Same, I found a place that I know I'l prioritize a lot so I joinded that instance instead of the official one because ran into a post pointing out just what you said.
Also I've seen admins and users in the most popular/main instances acting like if not allowing adult content will keep their instances safe from NSFL or troll content or as if that will save them from the problems to moderate that kind of content, which honestly is disingenuous and/or naive (at least until the instances actually have to deal with big constant activity).

Problem is that a) new users don’t know that they can join communities across servers, and b) it is intuitive use start with the servers that a lot of people like.

Instance browsing and onboarding is probably the biggest challenge to Lemmy’s growth. The current experience either scares new people away, or encourages them to congregate on a limited set of instances.

If the registration process just picked a random instance for you, maybe something nearby, and assured new users that they can visit communities and interact with users across instances, very few would pick the biggest instance.
- That isn't guaranteed, though. The other day I wanted to create a new community and was browsing instances on join-lemmy.org/instances for an instance that was compatible rulewise. The one I picked evidently wasn't a good pick (burggit.moe). Trying to advertise my new community, I found out it was defederated from beehaw (and likely others) and got insulted as a pedophilia sympathizer ...
  Randomly assigning new users to instances would make a substantial fraction of people very unhappy.
- I would be very sad if I was randomly assigned an instance in French (for example) because I don’t speak French.
How's it work if I get banned from one instance? Yet I can still comment in that instance I got banned from? No clue how that works
- Just joining in, and what will happen if the instance you created your account on decides to stop running. Does your account just dissapear?
- If you get banned from your home instance, you're banned everywhere.
  If you get banned on a different instance, you can no longer post/comment/vote in communities there but otherwise you're fine.
It's also that lemmy.ml is the instance I've seen posted everywhere when it's brought up, so naturally people would just sign up there instead of finding somewhere else.
I applied to 3 instances when I decided to join and lemmy.ml was the only one that responded so there's that.

I'm very tempted to switch to another instance, but from what I understand, you can't migrate your account like you can with Mastodon? That seems like something that should be expected with fediverse apps...

I think clarity on this or maybe a "roulette" of which instance on new user accounts would help. Most new users are Reddit refugees and just sign up to the mothership.
- A roulette would be nice, the system balances the load of each instance. The downside of this is that it will negate the theme or purpose of the instance since the assigning of the members would likely be randomized instead of joining by choice of instance values and purpose.
- I don't think a roulette would work, because not all instances are created equal. Like, just look at Lemmygrad for the proof of that. There are other differences too, like some instances turn off downvoting.

Don't look at me I'm on feddit.de

feddit.nl here. Hi, neighbor.
- G E K O L O N I S E E R D
waves over from 1-user instance heyo
- 2-user
But that's a German speaking instance, so it's not suitable for everyone
- Lern Deutsch du Lemmysohn :-*
- There are sooo many options tho Lemmy.one Sh.itjust.works Lemmy.world Beehaw.org Etc

Nah just register at whichever instance that sounds the coolest to append to your name. Just FYI I'm from programming.dev.

This is the way
- This is the way
I just went with our local instance. :)
First was on programming.dev, but it's a quite new instance and it's search cache doesn't show a lot of community's, so I switched and made an account on my local one.

I tried to make an account on lemmy.ml and it looks like their servers are (understandably) overloaded

I ended up choosing lemmy.world instead

My understanding is I'm not missing out on anything by chosing a less-popular instance. Did I get that right?

The documentation explaining how fediverse works is so bad. It's so long and convoluted anyone new just can't be bothered reading it.

This is something that lemmy devs need to better address. This is an "Eternal September" kind of situation. People (me included) are not used to the fediverse. They think you can participate only if you're in that instance. And people want content, so they think "why's the instance with most people? Ahh lemmy.ml? Cool, let's join.

Proud to be a sh.itjust.works user

I'm reppin' Lemmy.World

As someone who intentionally joined a different instance, the biggest issue is the “federation” doesn’t allow cross-authentication. Clicking a link to another instance moves me to that instance where I’m not logged in. Authentication should really be cross-instance.

I think this occurs because people haven't gotten used to linking to communities on other instances properly.
They usually post the direct link like beehaw.org/c/technology . Instead they should start using the federated link which is more instance agnostic like this: /c/technology@beehaw.org . This link will load the community from your instance.
- FWIW, on a browser the /c/technology link you posted isn’t a hyperlink, so I can’t actually interact with it. It doesn’t work in mlem either.
- It also doesn't work in the mobile app, I'd love to see it work there soon too
This is something I also find strange. If I click a link to an instance, I want to view their content and not visit their homepage, where I am not logged in and cannot do anything.
I agree with you
assuming the servers are properly federated you should be getting a link that is still on your server. i mean, you got to this lemmy.ml link alright at least
wait, i think i get what you mean, like if you get an external link while not browsing on your instance? you should just be able to paste that link into the search function to find your instance's version of the post
- From my instance, I've been crossing to other instances fine to post, upvote, etc.
- If I click the link you provided, my browser takes me to Lenny.ml. There I am not logged in and my credentials from feddit.de are not working. So I cannot post there.
  I think it only works if the link points to a community on another instance. Like !memes@lemmy.ml . Maybe this is the intended behavior.
  The downside is, you can not visit an instance and view the local communities and their post and interact with them. This makes it a lot more attractive to join the instance where the communities are you want to frequent.
- Yeah, I can manually search and find communities, but hyperlinks move you to the other instance (on a webpage; browsing within an app like mlem seems to work)
Can you elaborate on your experience a bit more? I can't say I have had any issues as you've described. If something doesn't look right, or isn't working the way you expect, it might actually be a bug.
The devs of kbin and Lemmy have that on their list of things to do, make cross-instance links work nicer. But they have a lot on their plate at a moment, so it could be some time before that comes about.
How would that work?

I chose lemmy.ml based on two things:

I wanted a server that wasn't likely to close I don't really know for sure, but I imagine it's easy to underestimate how much money or time is required to run a server. And I'd really prefer not having to worry about migrating. The 'run by Lemmy's developers' part makes me think that either the risk will be lower or the people running the server will know how to prevent reaching a point like that.
I didn't want to join a very specific instance As I see it, there are two possible scenarios:
- The instance I join will affect the content I'm exposed (and not exposed) to, in which case I want to experience 'the whole internet' rather than a section of it.
- The instance I choose is irrelevant to the content I get, in which case, (apart from community rules) it shouldn't really matter which one I choose, so I would just join the biggest instance.

Still something that could help with the choosing-an-instance process is to display in the list of servers the community rules and if they are blocking certain communities.

Sopuli.xyz has been a reliable instance :)

It really has!
Thank the gods for the finnish!
Joined today and it seems great so far 😃
I tried to join but I seem to be hitting the bug where registration hangs forever. The eternal spinning button bug.

I'm on .world because I had no idea which to join. Seems to be working just fine for me; I can see tons of posts from other places!

When I first looked into Lemmy I thought picking an instance confined you to that instance. I think a lot of new people don't realize that isn't the case.

It's definitely a new concept for people. I've been on Mastodon for a while so I'm already used to the idea of multiple instances
I think over time more people will figure it out and it won't be so confusing. Like how people intuitively understand that if you have a Gmail account you can still send emails to people on Outlook
Having to register on new ones is annoying though.
- what do you mean? you only need to sign up on one, then you can follow and post in communities on any instance
- But you don’t need to right? You just access other instances through your own? (I actually don’t understand at all but I think this is correct)

Idk why anyone would use the main instance and choose to be admined by genocide denying tankies

They need to do away with the ridiculous manual approval process on most servers and recommend servers that forego it on the main site.

Lemmy.world gang

99.99% don’t really want or understand a federated system. How do you know it’s not hosted on someone’s desktop over DSL? How do you know it will be there tomorrow? How do you know they aren’t modifying the code to do something nefarious?

As long as there’s a “main” instance people will prioritize that.

This is exactly why federation is better than centralization - no single point of failure. If Reddit decides to do something nefarious like cutting off your 3pa access or Facebook sells all your personal data, you have no recourse. But if you disagree with some admin actions on lemmy, you can go to another instance. Yeah you lose your karma, but there is no shortage of usernames. I guess the only single point of failure is the developer of the lemmy software itself. From that perspective, also joining the one lemmy instance run by the lemmy developer doesn't help things xD
True, i would like to federate the account too, so we could semlessly switch instance if there is a problem.

I do really hope people are going to come to lemmy because this isn't half bad

I think if the subs people like move over and and enough user base follows, this will be a more than adequate replacement for deaddit
Half bad!? Lemmy is the bee’s knees!

IDK, beehaw.org and lemmy.world aren't doing too bad

I use lemmy.world. they have an associated mastodon as well.

Lemmy.world checking in

I find it is nice to just join a server you enjoy at its core and then simply use the "all" sort of thing. I can see from other servers what is popular and can comment and upvote and downvote. It's all very seamless even if I am not in that home server

I don't think I spent more than 10 minutes total in /r/all in my 12 years of Reddit, so it's quite nice to browse all here and not be bombarded with rubbish.

Ope! Us midwesterners are doing great.

And I'm enjoying lemmy.world
- Just signed up and kinda liking Jerboa on Android!

"I just want to be where the people are" 🧜‍♀️

lemmy.world unite!

Hello from lemmy.ca

Another Lemmy.ca user here. 😊

It's at the top of the list on join-lemmy.org's popular server list, next to lemmy.world and beehaw.org, of course new users will sign up on the more popular ones. Plus, a few posts on reddit called out these three which set everything in motion.

Once folks start to understand how it works, they might start to sign up on other ones, for a "cooler handle @ address" for their user, or register a domain and start their own instance like I did.

Anyway, welcome aboard, right?

Yes
- 👍 my instance is open as well if that one doesn’t work out for you.
I joined one that won't curate what I can and can't see. Or ban me because they wanted to.

New feddit.de user reporting in

Ze Germans seem to have their own monopolistic instance

feddit.it 🙋‍♂️

That looks like a missed opportunity to me not using fedd.it :-)
~~I'm signing up xD~~
damn, I don't speak italian
Anch'io! 😊
Feddit gang!

Well, hello from feddit.de! Since I'm a german user I thought it'd be only logical to register on a german instance. While new registrations are semi-locked, the criteria for being let in are quite easy to pass and they are mostly in place to filter out spam. Got my account approved right on the next day

Hello fellow feddit.de user! For me the approval went really quick too. Also, schließt euch an!

I definitely didnt pick sh.itjust.works for the funny name, naaaaaaaaah

Hello from beehaw.org!

Join us over in beehaw, it's super chill and welcoming

Proudly burdening sh.itjust.works instead of lemmy.ml!

lemm.ee gang

proudly hailing from NOT lemmy.ml 🤗

sh.itjust.works Gang represent ✊

If it helps, I joined kbin cause I like the UI more :P

Doesn't help that much, since we've apparently lit kbin.social's server on fire.
I'm hoping the maintainer gets the installation instructions polished up tomorrow and we can set up a bunch of other kbin instances.
Same, though I also like that I can interact with Mastodon/Calckey posts from here as well.

I created my account at sh.itjust.works but I don't fully understand Lemmy yet. Finding communities seems confusing.

Yeah I have been finding it hard to wrap my head around this federation part.

I just hope it lasts, worst thing would be if people just went back to reddit

I think people naturally tend toward the servers of the people that started the project and also the servers that have the most people on them. As the federated technology continues to smooth out I think more people might be more comfortable spreading out to other servers.

Personally I started out on the Beehaw server but they had some rules I didn't like so then I found another server.

I'm so sorry, I haven't seen the pinned post before registering. Maybe add notice to registration page?

First one I heard about was Lemmy.world, and for a short time I thought others were just "imitation offshoots", taking time to learn the system. There's still not a simple summary to send people, at the very least it can open simply as "Here's some non-Reddit Reddit sites"

Beehaw.org says

I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT IT. I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT ANY OF IT. THERE'S WORSE SHIT ON THE LOCAL NEWS.

Oh how I love ITYSL.

I tried to start a kbin instance today and I literally ended up corrupting or deleting debian off the VPS.

So look I'm tryin' but uh...give me a little time.

I'm having a similar experience right now. I wonder if there is a more complete setup walkthrough out there than what's in the codeberg wiki? I had the same problem standing up an instance of Mastodon, in that available walkthrough seemed to assume knowledge I didn't have, and additionally just didn't work right if you were, say, setting it up in an LXC instance instead of using Docker. I got it sorted eventually, but the process was pretty annoying
- Yeah the codeberg iirc just lists a set of commands with no idea what you're doing, so it's very hard to know if you've done something wrong. Usually I would do that, and then edit and look up things as I go, but that was the biggest deadend I've ever had. Though, the recommended server provider's interface, slowness, and bugs wasn't impressing me, I'd really love if they could make a droplet. (and selfishly a droplet with something that has more options for US servers)
I hope someone wraps his head around to get kbin running in a container, so noobs like me can just pull the image and host their own instances. I do like kbin, having most of what I am interested in the fediverse in one place is great!
- I usually persevere through difficult setups if it's denying me access or a setting didn't get flipped, but the whole thing just crashing and debian no longer booting is uhhhhhh. Welp.

I just don't get why every other reasonably big alternative bans lemmygrad.

Personally, I'd rather this not turn into another voat debacle. No offense. I'm on an instance that doesn't block it by default, but I have blocked most of the major lemmygrad communities so they don't pollute my all page.
- I'm not aware of the voat debacle, I just arrived in the fediverse. If you have any links for me I'll be grateful.
  I think it's fair to block stuff you don't want to see. But to have every major player in Lemmy block it creates a divide based on... Nothing much?
  I am interested both in lemmygrad stuff, and mostly every other instance. This divide will only cause me to have to create at least 2 accounts, and artificially deflates lemmygrad just... Because people are red scared?
  That might me a fraction of the reason why lemmy.ml has the popularity it does.
I wish at least latestagecapitalism could be allowed on lemmy.world or something
Redditors and their eternal addiction to echo chambers.
Also Hexbear >
- Thank you, friend.
You forgot the /s ?
Users from lemmygrad can't see this comment (if you can, your instance hasn't banned it).
Lemmygrad has the most blocked instances out of any other. Just look at big long list.

I've had a lemmy.ml account for a little bit but I'm trying out a lemmy.world account as I was put off by some of the things I heard about the original server.

I did the same. Started on .ml and read some things about the mods on lemmy.ml censoring things critical of CCP and the like.
Such as... ?
- Something about lemmy.ml admin having odd views posted on their reddit account. Something I read but didn't really look into so take what I said with a grain of salt.
- https://partizle.com/post/282

Tell those instances to stop censoring other instances and it'll be ok.

burggit has none banned.
It's mainly only beehaw that censors other instances. I dunno why you'd even want to be there anyway, you can't make any communities.
- Lemmy has a even bigger block list https://lemmy.ml/instances .
  To be fair bunch of the blocked instances seem fishy but there are a few that I can only assume are blocked due to they allow nsfw contents.
So much this. If you want to bring up federated community as a selling point you should also tell the user if your instance block any other instance.

I'm here from lemmy.one c: DECENTRALIZE.

Nuhuh, beehaws active user count and seemingly inclusive nature drew me in

Heck yeah! It's a great place to have a thoughtful discussion.
- It really isn't. Just look at their "rules"
  If you’re worried about how our rules are explicitly open to interpretation, that’s on purpose and I hope the text above helps to clarify the vision that I have (and others of the community share) around how I’d like to see this community evolve and what we’d like to think we’re doing differently on this website. I’m not banning people for no reason or simply because they don’t agree with me. I want people to disagree with me. I want diverse opinions in here. But I also need this place to be nice and members of the community need to be willing to hold each other accountable in creating that kind of space. Of note, I’ve never banned a single person without openly discussing what happened with other individuals who participate in this community and asking for their input. I can’t promise this will always be the case, but I can promise that I’ll be open to having a discussion with any community member who feels that something unjust happened with another user or to themselves.
  Beehaw is the only instance that has the most other instances blocked. Users from beehaw can't even see this comment, nor yours if you reply to this one.
  The rules being "We reserve the right to ban you whenever we want.” are not rules.
I didn’t even mind writing an application and waiting a bit to be accepted. Of all the instances I looked at, Beehaw was the one that appealed to me the most.
- Yeah I think kindness and positivity are a bit too rare online, seems to be prioritised here!

lemmy.one gang

Represent!

Other servers are snappier than lemmy.ml

Lemmy world was the only one that let me sign up lol

How easy is it to migrate yourself from one to another?

You can’t
Pretty sure you just have to create a new account. There's no 'migration'.
- Right, so why would a new user NOT choose what is perceived as the core instance?
- Hm, I think you can on Mastodon which uses same similar architecture. Unlikely to come up but I guess I have a weekend rabbit hole to dig into.

When looking through the list of other servers, one thing I noticed is that a lot where in languages I don't know.

Can you clarify? Other people from other countries are allowed and encouraged to be here.
- Sorry for any confusion. I meant I didn't feel like I was a good fit for those other instances, given I didn't know the language they are targeting.

My work blocks lemmy.ml but not many other instances. Unfortunately all the heaviest memes are on lemmy.ml ! I just want to look at fun memes instead of my lame ass patients what’s wrong with that

does it work if you click on this link? it should open !memes@lemmy.ml within your own instance
- The second one opens email from jerboa lol. It ignores the markdown for some reason
  Works fine via browser though
- It seems to be hit and miss at the moment. It's something I've asked on beehaw support in this comment. Also, as the other user mentioned, those links (both yours and the ones I've used as examples in my comment) are broken in Jerboa, although they work on the web app.

Whaaat there are alternatives?

You can join any Lemmy instance! They all talk with each other.
- They all talk with each other.
  Except the ones that don't.
- Or kbin. Or if you're really ambitious, one of the non-link aggregation products.
- Not if your instance has others blocked. Check at the bottom of the page and click "instances" to see who you can't see.
https://lemmy.ml/post/1160417

I setup Anarch.is today. Feel free to create an account. Still need to write-up guidelines, enable community creation, etc. but it’s ready if you want to post/comment on other instances.

If we run into server load problems i’ll upgrade it. 😎

New user, signed up on an alternative. It isn't intuitive to add a community from another server. Got there eventually though!

listen, I'm willing to go to smaller instances if necessary, but for the same reason I signed up for mastodon.social - I want my local community to not be a desert, if at all possible.

If you don't feel confident in what you have to do, it's ok to let others do it, you're already helping by using it.

Well I tried beehaw but I after creating an account I had to wait to be accepted.. 1 hour later couldn't login so I went to lemmy.ml and it was instantaneous so..here I am

Honestly, I was just trying to look for the most general instance possible.

I use Feddit.it because it's an Italian instance so it's much easier for me to find content of my native language

I'm in lemmy.world. they have an associated mastodon as well.

UwU from the blahaj.zone

Beehaw.org unite!

feddit.de but we’ve had some heavy load an hour ago.

I just joined my own countries server. Works fine.

Lemmy.fmhy.ml was the easiest one to join I found and suites my interests nicely

Yes and no, i signed up to different instances and even if i subscribed to the same federated communities, i see wildly different content, and the home on lemmy.ml is more engaging

aussie.zone alive and kicking.

latte.isnot.coffee is mine, I think it's the best end for your name you can hope for ;)

Blahaj Lemmy checking in. :)

Just started a small server, have a fair amount of extra compute.

https://lemmy.intai.tech/

We could use alternatives, but Lemmy is the best!

lemmy.ca - Hailing from beautiful Nova Scotia! 🇨🇦

I was advised by a redditor to join '.word' because ml was overwhelmed

Not really sure what the difference is tbh. I'm here interacting with an ml community so why not?

I'd like to know if I can make my own subreddit equivalent though?

Functionally it's not very different. Everyone on a different federated server can access all the other "subreddits." However, your account is hosted by the server you joined. If it were to go down, I suppose your account would disappear.
Good question, it varies by server. Beehaw.org for example limits sub creation to admins.

New lemmy.ca member checking in! This is pretty cool.

Well when other instances outright ghost your application people.will either discard the fediverse or join the ones with auto accept be it LM or mimmthe one I joined.

Ha! I'm on another server, because federation…

Ich war dabei.

As a sopuli.xyz user I approve of this post

@SeaStar Lemmy.world is a new instance.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com for generative ai, neurodivergence, and anarchism and copylefts

vlemmy.net is pretty chill atm

I joined mander.xyz because it has a lot of science oriented communities and that's why I'm here. Super happy to have found it.

I signed up for another one, but they haven't approved me yet!

Lemmy.sdf.org checking in!

If I want to comment on another insurance such as beehaw.org, do I need to create a different account or can I log in with one that I created on lemmy.ml?

I don't really get the difference. And can I visit different servers from the one I'm on? I don't see a way to on Jerboa

Jerboa now doesn't have community search, but you can visit your instance website and subscribe. If it hasn't needed community, go to community search and put full community name prepended with !, like ! Lemmy@lemmy.ml. then wait for like 10s and do the search again, your instance will fetch it and add to its community list.
- I seem to be able to search for communities, because I found gaming lol. I'm wondering about instances, though
I don't know much about the Android mobile app, but now I'm curious to dig up one of my old phones and try it just to see. I've been mostly in a browser either oh my iPhone of MacBook, which is very odd for me as I primarily reddit via the native mobile app.
On jebora on the bottom next to the home button is the community list view and you can search it to find instances. In addition to that from the home page if you click the little filter icon(that one with the three lines creating a triangle shape down) you can select all and it will show you links federated with your instance as well.
- I don't seem to be able to find instances on the community search, nor do communities show up when I type "!community@instance" could this be a bug?

I am using a different instance, but I am unable, so far, to post images or change my profile avatar. Otherwise it's been great!

me, on lemmy.world: what?

I think we will see other bigger stable servers in the future when more eyes are on it. And I seriously hope that the Lemmy devs will try hard to push their instance as the all dominating one.

hi from other fediverse server

I started off on lemmy.ml before the deluge and then today it’s basically inaccessible so I started up a new account over at lemmy.world. I browse by All anyway so I haven’t really noticed a difference.

I joined an instance based on my region but otherwise I can’t say this is surprising. Everyone wants to be at the most popular spot, very few people actively seek out quieter places.

You can sub to whatever communities you want though, regardless of instance. So it doesn’t actually matter which one you join.

And I thought I had choose the wrong one....

The dude on the left is too happy about it to be a lemmy.ml admin.

Commenting from tchncs.de

haha not true, some people are aware of high charge of servers :3

Beehaw seems pretty dope

They actually defederated with lemmy.world due to spam, kindof sucks, as users will miss out on communities on lemmy.world, lots of which were not spam.

I wish I could comment here from my own instance, but I can't. !memes@lemmy.ml returns only 3 posts for me.

Everything is so weird, I guess I'll be spending some next few days and nights in the support community. thread 'main' panicked everywhere in logs. The communication between nodes is really inconsistent.

I like beehaw a lot. I think it’s natural for people to still be in the mindset of going to the “source”. And I admit I felt that way at the start of mastodon, but I found my home on fosstadon and understand.

I think it is OK. People need time to transition to this new way of doing things.

I first signed up on a UK specific Lemmy that lasted all of 4 days before it went away with no notice.

So I came to lemmy.ml which is still here, and long may it be so.

Haha I'm special

Hello from tchncs.de!!

I wanted to register there, but the loading animation is too infinite (there was a bug). So here I am on lemm.ee

I like lemmy.world, because anyone can create their own community.

Mander.xyz for the science 🔬

Aussie.zone accounts rise up!

True, Federation is a key part in decentralization

Hello world!

Yup, lurkers can see a list with an actual table of features here.

so true for our server

Solution: change servers

After reading the "we are full" notices and doing some research I was able to easily create an account on lemmy.ca increasing the represention for BC.

I joined sopuli.xyz because they have a cute fuzzy animal in a hat as their logo.

I guess many newcomers just go the easy way

Not true! -> discuss.tchncs.de

from FMHY that is the only community I can actually created an account without stuck on loading

Hello from lemmy.world! Don't come here, I think it's starting to get overloaded too. Lemmy.one looks like it may be in a good "growing but not snowballing yet" position, go over there and get that ball rolling.

Hey, why you think it gets overloaded? Is something slower / lagging in synchronization?
- Admin ended up having to make multiple posts in relatively close succession about upgrades and the raw user count was/is very similar to ML.