Hello World!
First off, better late than never: Happy Halloween!
Sorry we’ve been a bit quiet lately. But we love you, promises given! We’re just working on a lot of things, and most of us are very busy with their daily lives lately. We’ll be back with you to announce some of our projects tomorrow. <3
Lately, and gladly, here’s a grand thanks to @canthidium@lemmy.world for giving us an amazing Halloween icon!
Things have been working fine for me, so well done and take whatever time things take.
I rarely contribute and the few interactions Ive had on Lemmy have been leagues better than anything on Reddit (or most other social media).
I find most people are here because they want the connection, not to earn internet clout. That seems to push people towards discussion, instead of the white noise I see elsewhere.
Same here. I rarely contribute but have felt more inclined to do so here because when I do I usually get a response from someone that’s actually wanting to contribute to the conversation. Everyone has been super respectful even with controversial topics. On most other platforms I would be lucky for anyone to even read my comment let alone take the time to reply or engage by voting. For us old ass millennials it feels like the old days of the internet back when everyone had a blog or a Tumblr for people to follow, ya know back before Tumblr became whatever the hell it is now lol.
Man it feels good to have no ads. Thanks Fediverse. Happy Halloween.
Seriously reddit can be the worst in that regard especially since you can’t even block sponsored content in favor for different sponsored content
That intensely annoys me. My brain tries to understand the content for a good 3 seconds until I realise “oh wait this isn’t a meme, it’s an ad”
Aww, thanks so much for the shout out! And thank you for the love in the comments. I hope to make many more themed icons in the future. Keep a lookout!
I still have no idea how this works
is there a picture on what Federation does?
like how does my post on lemmy.world go to lemmy.ml
There is no magic, the servers just send it to each other.
So you send your post to LW, they store it and show it on their website. But they also send it to all the other Fediverse servers they are connected to (aka “federated with”), so those can also show it to their users. The same thing happens when a post is updated or deleted, or when new votes come in. The servers just send each other messages about what changed, so they can all act accordingly.
You could read a long explanation, if you’d like, but the email analogy also somewhat works.
In the same way you can email someone with another email address, you can write messages on a community on another instance. They “federate” posts together.
IMO, unless you care about federation, which the average person doesn’t, that’s all you really need to know.
Okay let me try to explain my confusion:
I understand subreddits, and I understand servers. I know lemmy is like multiple different servers with multiple different subreddits in each server.
What I don’t understand.
What server am I in? And how does that impact my ability to interact with other servers? Should I even care about what server I’m in? Are there things currently hidden from me on Lemmy depending on which server I originally selected?
I’ll just leave this here. Explanation of Lemmy and Fediverse principles in lay-person’s language.
