My account was shut down without notice a few weeks ago. The server providing my account shut down. All comments, saved links and history was gone.
How do you explain this to a non-technical user while reassuring that this is a great system?
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
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"you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you're still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you'll fucking starve to death?"
This is exactly what happens with Churches. Someone starts a "hip" new church plant. Everyone leaves the local long-established churches. Long established churches shut down. Church plant falls apart because the guy starting it doesn't know what he's doing. No Church.
what a weird take. if anything, the church is the safeway and this happened hundreds of years ago. churches are basically macdonaldses already; all franchisees of the same central entity.
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I could've sworn it was because young folk were disenamored with preachers and churches who are nothing more than whited sepulchres but what could I know
A little pain in exchange for longtime gain?
Oh no, TIL that the Fediverse is "exercise" - no wonder most Westerners avoid us! 🤪
"Choose an instance that provides monthly reports, including finances, such as !home@lemmy.zip"
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It's crazy to me that whatever program you used to make that account on that server didn't automatically force a backup location on the same device where the account is used. On Android, some folder. On desktop, some folder. And it's crazy to me that we can't just import all of our votes, comments, and posts in that backup to another account on the same device or another.
That is a terrible system. No answers from me. Just questions
Doing that requires content addressing. It's what atproto is built around (bluesky's protocol) but nobody's made a proper forum variant of it yet
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After you block a few hundred groups of anime and nonsense it’s surprisingly enjoyable.
HOW MANY MORE MOES DO WE NEED???
Who is moe and why is her midriff so popular???
Isn’t moe the bartender in the simpsons?
At least 1 more than the fucking aigen communities, I swear I have to block a new one every week.
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Block the ani.social instance and it takes away 90% of the anime groups.
Sorry about that, some people don't know ani.social exists and create comms on the wrong instances. They're supposed to show up in my local feed, but now they're in yours and you don't even appreciate them!
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I have to say this is my experience too. I'm a boomer and whatever stumble upon here is purely coincidental.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Type a word for something you might be interested in, and if there's a community it should come up there. The main problem is still that the fediverse doesn't have enough people to support niche (or even kinda niche) interests yet
3 legged dung beetle jump racing isn't niche!
But you are here all the same. We appreciate you!
@threeduck@aussie.zone you're getting famous
Fedi-famous (the best kinda currently)
Ascending among such legends like The Picard Maneuver, SatansMaggotyCumFart and Nicole, the Fediverse Chick!
Leaving out our boy Stamets and Flying Squid (on hiatus IIRC) smh
Staments is on a Wierd cringe streak as of recently.
I settled on three names because I would get a "you forgot about X" response no matter what =P
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I was struggling so hard to find the original post, finally found it over on aussie.zone and then I saw that it was a lemmy.world post, an instance I've blocked on my local instance, feddit.dk. Stuff like that is what makes lemmy a bit confusing haha
I kinda love that people are willing to deal with these various technicalities and unknowns as a worthwhile compromise as long as it's not [input any walled-garden here]
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It is complicated, and I like a little barrier to entry.
It's like needing to know the password before being let into the treehouse.
"Fuck spez!"
"Yes, yes, come in, come in!!"
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Yet they have an email provider.
That's just laziness/willful ignorance. The fediverse is just spicy emails
But, after all that it's still better than Reddit.
Typical Fediverse take.
@threeduck@aussie.zone aussie.zone is your server where your account resides
In all everything from other instances are shown while in local only your instance. If you want to find subs just select all and search or got to all in the feed bar and subscribe
how do i find the users in my instance? I own the instance lol and I have no idea how to query for active users
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I find it is a lot easier to search through communities and instances on a desktop. Mobile is clunky even through some of the apps that have been developed are pretty good.
Tbf, PieFed's categories of communities and user-customizeable and shareable Feeds greatly simplify the UX in working with communities (ironically more so on a mobile than desktop, surely an oversight that will be fixed soon).