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A picture of the Ben Affleck Smoking meme, with the caption "Me seeing people on reddit telling other people to go to lemmy.world"
"Lemmy is great, you can choose whatever instance you want! But fuck you if you choose that one."
No, don't recommend that one. I don't care if you're on LW, its just not a great idea to recommend it to newcomers.
Can't I change instances if I want? Seems like having a landing zone would be a good thing. Picking a server to join for your initial setup is really confusing for the less tech inclined. That on-boarding process bounces tons of users and making it simpler up front would be best for growth.
This is all moot if you can't change the server your account is on and my b if I'm wrong on that one.
You can sign up for a new account, but you'll lose your preferences and such, there's no migration feature I don't think yet.
I was forced to go to Lemmy after the post-inauguration bloodbath, but Ive liked it a lot, more than Reddit in many ways. I was getting really tired of the bots, puns, Russian Propganda, novelty accounts, TROLLS, etc.
OTOH, I feel like I can speak much more freely on Lemmy. Even before I got permabanned, Reddits Free Speech mission had become non-existent.
The downside of Lemmy is that some of my favorite subs don't have an equivalent on Lemmy. For instance, the Reddit guitar subs are very active, but the few Lemmy guitar forums are nearly empty, with posts that are days, weeks, months, and even years, apart. I tried Googling "Lemmy Guitar" for ideas, and literally every link was about Motorhead.
So I welcome more quality Reddit immigrants, as long as all the Trolls stay over there.
some comms you're gonna need to build
Help build the guitar community, tell the people on reddit to come here instead. I will do the same.
I can't, I'm permabanned. I tried getting around it several times, with new account names, but each one lasted a shorter and shorter time, as the algorithm honed in on me. My first alt lasted a few weeks, my last one was caught within an hour.
I do like the idea of building the Guitar community here at Lemmy, I'm just not familiar enough with the system to know how to do that. Do we start a new forum, or take over an existing one? Do we have just one and put EVERYTHING in there, or do we split it up between various subjects - general, lessons, performances, gear, amps, etc.?
.world as far as I can tell, is a fairly good starting point for reddit refugees (like myself). I'm still annoyed by the lack of multis, so in order to keep my interests organized I have to have multiple accounts, but I'm otherwise fairly happy with it. Might migrate to another instance purely to get away from the .world vs .ml drama, and I'd encourage other reddit refugees to also migrate instances after becoming familiar with how lemmy works.
First post on Lemmy! and oh my word… never seen such an eclectic mix of flavours of people, positions and politics in a long time.
This decentralised thing could actually be a good thing: pulls people away from bubbles and echo chambers!
Just remember to play nice :)
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lemmy.world does not allow the use of vpn to post. vpn is basic internet hygiene. do not go to lemmy.world if you care about that, our you will not be able to post.
you can join any federated instance instead.
one day later edit: i took my information from this post of a lemmy.world admin: https://lemmy.world/comment/12079632
I was made aware that users are able to post on lemmy.world while using a vpn. maybe their stance has changed?
aside from that, try to avoid joining the biggest instance and join smaller, federated instances instead. this reduces load and avoids centralization.
vpn is basic internet hygiene
according to vpn companies
9 out 10 VPN companies recommend hiding your IP address.
lemmy.world does not allow the use of vpn to post.
That is definitely not true. I'm using one right now, and there is a VPN community at !vpn@lemmy.world.
https://lemmy.world/comment/12079632
is this resolved then? i will update my comment to correctly reflect the current situation then :)
What do you want them to do? Select an instance at random, to spread them out?
Yeah, this is just stupid. I wish a significant amount of redditors would go to lemmy.world
I mean, what do you want to tell them to join? Something called "mander.xyz"? "sopuli.xyz"? Maybe something like sh.itjust.works, jlai.lu or yall.theatl.social? I'd feel awkward enough telling them to join "Lemmy" then linking to lemm.ee. Sending them to lemmy.ml would just be cruel.
I picked lemmy.world because it sounded the least sus
As many others did, and many others will in the future.
Referring new users to a poorly named instance is a generally bad idea. Many of our instances do look very similar to the nonsense links you're taught you're not supposed to not click on if you get them in an email or see them on the internet in the wild.
It is the most popular and easy to understand, I've never been harassed by the instance admins or mods like in other communities. (.ml .blahaj .ee)
.world is the defalt instance and I can't find a better one to take its place
Yeah. Looking at the 'verse The other ones are for developers, Canadians, Pro-AI, Canadians again, NSFW, programming, gender diversity, techy people, Finland!, PCs/Gaming, Climate criss, Leftist (but not Liberal).
Like there's not instances for the rest of us, so you just end up going to the General ones.
i said it before but lemmy hates new users
I don't hate new users. Just, please recommend another instance to newcomers.
The cold truth is that to onboard people in greater numbers you need a default instance recommendation. You just do. You absolutely cannot ask potential new users (many of which will - hopefully - be casual and not so tech savvy) to sit down and undertake a multi hour research project into finding an appropriate small instance for them. You cannot reasonably expect people to look into uptime, funding and defederation lists to make an informed decision about where to register. You just need them through the door and posting and commenting and voting.
Making a new account somewhere else is super easy and painless once they're already here. We just need to get them here.
I agree as I am one such case. I created an account like a year and a half ago and got so overwhelmed with it I just ignored it. Even the explainer I found was just too much. Finally a couple weeks ago I remembered it given all the Reddit is compromised stuff. I found my login info. I also happened to have had a gummy so I was in the right high mindset to just go down a rabbithole and finally figured it out. I still don't really understand how Lemmy interacts with like Mastodon or Pixelfed etc.
a generic instance is what most users need to actually make the move, if they like it or understand it better later they might choose a different insurance later, if not who cares they can still interact with others.
