Memes about the Fediverse.
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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.
I’m kinda in this boat right now too hahah
Any questions we could answer for you?
Bro is right
how is feddi formed?
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.
why am i being called out here
we need more of these people more or less, even though yes, they're dumb, that's like.. most of the population when it comes to the internet (like, only the young people even know of reddit here, much less use it..) and then there's the specific niches that are barely living in lemmy.. ah, end users..
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.
Would love a "subbed" category too, nether all nor local nor front-page does that ??!
I do have a subscribed category both in Sync for Lemmy, and the website. 
Nice! It's just missing in Connect then I guess!
I use connect and for me "frontpage" is "subbed"
I didn't experience that but I haven't tried it out for quite a long time, will do! & Thanks!
On Voyager there is Home which is subscribed communities. All / Home / Local.
Tbf you are dependent on all because most channels are dead/very slow.
I don't understand why sometimes when I click on asklemmy at the top of the old.lemmy.world ui, sometimes it goes to regular asklemmy and sometimes it goes to asklemmy@lemmy.ml. And I don't understand why these two communities have completely different posts.
They are two completely different communities that just happen to share their names. (And one of them is full of tankies, while yours isn't)
How this works is the same with email: You can have john.smith@gmail.zz and you can have john.smith@outlook.com , but although those do have the same first name, the two addresses do not point to the same mailbox.
If a community is on your own instance (servers are called instances on Lemmy), then the part after @ is not shown. So, there is asklemmy@lemmy.world, and there is asklemmy@lemmy.ml. The latter one is luckily empty, as nothing on .ml is written without serious brainrot.
The one you see only as "asklemmy" is asklemmy@lemmy.world.
There are actually this many asklemmys:
Each of the above is an independent community. Each one was founded by a different person and has different moderators, etc.
When you login to Lemmy, you go to lemmy.world and login there.
I don't. I do not have a user account on lemmy.world, which is one of the instances (servers) for Lemmy.
However, I do have a user account on sopuli.xyz, which is another instance. When I log in to that, I can read anything written on any instances that have federated with sopuli.xyz. We are having this conversation in a community on yet another instance:
As you can see there, this community is located on an instance called lemmy.uk.
So, I am reading this through sopuli.xyz, which has a connection to lemmy.uk. When I write something, Sopuli sends all the text to lemmy.uk which then saves it. And then your instance, lemmy.world, has a connection to lemmy.uk as well, and shows you whatever is shown on that instance. When a Lemmy-instance creates such a connection to another instance, it is called federating.
The nice thing about this construction is that if someone tries taking over Lemmy, they only take over their own instance. Its users can just migrate to another instance, create an account there and continue almost as if nothing had happened. And if some instance is not moderating its users' activities properly, other instances can defederate from it. That means: They can stop showing their users content from the badly behaving instance, and also the users from that instance won't see anything held on the other instance.
I hope this blabbering helped!
Wonder how people manage grocery shopping in more than one shop.
yeah, the ui is a total ass, but its fun
The Reddit UI is so good though. I love browsing an album and accidentally sliding over to r/popular. Why can't Lemmy ask me to confirm my email account every time I try to look at porn?
Dude it's 2025 is that good ass or bad ass
Good ass. It's not perfect but it respects your boundaries, tries its damnedest, down for any fetish/kink, there when you fall asleep and when you wake up.
I still don't fully understand what Fediverse and instance means.
The Fediverse is like a country, and an instance is like a town connected to the other towns in that country. You're free to travel, visit, and interact with people in all the other towns that have their roads connected.
Each town has its own rules and culture, but they generally get along with all the other towns in the country. You can even choose to build your own town with your own rules and have a road connected to the rest.
On the other hand places like Facebook or Twitter are like huge, walled cities where you can only interact with people inside that city. They also claim the rights to all of your data to sell off.
Fediverse is like a country
I might even go one level up. The Fedeverse is like a network of connected of countries like the EU.
Platforms like Reddit or Twitter are isolated countries like North Korea.
I'm glad I found my way out.
I love great analogies.
Fediverse = universe of federated instances.
Federation = many entities connected together and interoperating, etc
Instance: every individual Lemmy site with its own domain name runs an instance (a running copy of the software) on its server.
Those servers are talking to each other so users on one can talk to users on another server. That's federation.
Cool, kinda makes sense. Still don't understand what the federated / defederated stuff that was all the talk yesterday. But I got a slightly more nuanced understanding. Thanks homie
An instance is literally just someone's computer with the software running. All your stuff lives on someone's computer. Different computers can talk to one another to allow people who put their stuff on those computers to see each other's stuff (federate) or they decide not to, like cutting off a computer with a lot of batshit insane people (defederate). They're running the same software so the language is the same. Like your stuff lives on lemmy.today, I don't know where and who owns that computer, while my stuff lives on sopuli.xyz, which is a computer that is owned by some random Finn, but those computers talk to one another, so we get to talk to one another.
You mean like a server? I hope it's not just Joe blows laptop with a cracked screen and bulging battery.
So federated is basically "you're allowed to post shit" within this list of other server?
If that's it then thank you, it makes a lot more sense now.
Yes, "instance" is the word used on Lemmy for what is usually called "server" elsewhere.
A server isn't necessarily all that meaningfully different from Joe's laptop, it's just that Joe's laptop isn't exactly practical for running big things. My website runs on a real server, but it doesn't really act much different from a computer I have in my living room when I remotely log into it, I can access all the same files, run all the same software if I wanted to.
Federated is just jargon for "the posts and comments from here will display over there too because my computer knows yours exists and runs the same software and the software does the legwork of meshing all of that shit together with mine"
Oh no I don't know how to choose a server and sign up, in fact I appear to not know anything at all.
- some end user
I swear to fucking god, when I become an end user, please shoot me in the head alright? I don't want to look like the biggest fucking moron on earth to anybody that is able to Google and read something for like 30 seconds.
Lemmy isn't hard, it's just different
It's not even that different really.
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.
Wow, so that's how it works. I signed up to a couple because they interested me and hoped in the future something would be posted, or I would, and then saw a heap of posts.
It wasn't dark magic after all. Perhaps it was psionics?
If one user of your instance is subscribed to a community on another instance, then that community is visible on that instance as well.
