Yes it is the first time. I’m liking it. I’ve never tried Mastodon as I was never into Twitter and the two seemed similar.
I think that Reddit style forums are better suited for the fediverse anyway. Reminds me of the old internet of IRC/Usenet and eventually vBulletin/Xenforo days when I was growing up.
Twitter and by extension Mastadon I think suffers from smaller communities since the point of those apps is to blast your thoughts and opinions to as many people as possible while Reddit/Lemmy is more for conversation.
Lemmy is my first
I love the idea, I hope it grows in popularity
I wasn't aware of that when I first signed up, but a few days in I learned that
This is my first venture into the fediverse. Confusing at first, but all the guides are helpful. I'm still unsure how to subscribe to communities I'm interested in
I think you just search the community name, if it is on your instance it will show up as community name otherwise it will show up as <community name>@<instance name> like gaming@lemmy.ml.
But in your instance or not, it will not make a difference for your experience, all you need to do is click subscribe, and it will show up in your feed.
I only see a subscribe button when I am browsing the list of communities, but if I search for a specific community I do not see any way to subscribe
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