I’m one of the people who has very recently tried Lemmy and decided to drop Reddit. Initially because I will no longer be able to use SyncForReddit, but now also because I just like the vibe a lot more here than Reddit.

I’m not a massively technical person, but I understood the broad concept of federation - different instances/servers that sync to form a big conversation/forum of sorts.

I heard a lot of people joining and saying positive things about lemmy.world, so I signed up there…and that’s it.

But, am I using it right? Is the idea to sign up in one place and use it to participate across the LemmyVerse/FediVerse? Or should I be seeking out lots of niche instances of interest?

I hear lemmy.world is the biggest instance. What if most people end up here, does that defeat the purpose? Is this inevitable?

You need a critical mass of users, so a quiet instance with few posts is not attractive. If I search for Xbox, there are lots of empty places or places with 3 posts. If there’s one big one (often ends up being in lemmy.world) that’s where I’m subscribing.

How are you using Lemmy, are you participating in a bunch of instances or just one?

  • phosphorik@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Alright so I have a question and can’t figure out a better place to post it than this comment thread.

    Kbin is neat and I’ve enjoyed it a reasonable amount for the past week or so. But 80% of my feed is either news and discussion about how bad Reddit is (I know, guys!), memes about about Reddit, and depressing climate change articles that make me panic about things I can’t change. How do I filter stuff like this out of my feed on Fediverse communities?

    Thanks.

    • Overzeetop@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      In a way, it’s just like reddit. Subscribe to magazines and then switch your feed to Subscribed. It takes a bit to get a full, diverse feed, but then you’ll be filtering by the things you like. Alternately, you can go to the magazines page and block the ones you don’t want to see.

    • DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Reddit is a hot topic of discussion right now for completely obvious reasons. That will probably die down in the next couple weeks but I think there’s going to be another influx of refugees on the 1st when the 3rd party apps go dark.