You donโt need to join lemmy.world. Just a heads up.
Unless you identify as a communist then your instance is preemptively banned from lemmy.world
My instance lemm.ee is sooo bad, totally donโt join our awesome club so I get longer load times. ๐คซ How can we bare having not banning the evil porn and federating with all the other instances!
Also a cute lil instance at https://literature.cafe/ opened up too.
After what happened with lemmy.fmhy.ml I am a bit scared of joining โless popularโ domains to be fair.
Valid. I really like how the AT protocol does it. Their account portability is really something ActivityPub desperately needs. Even account transfers on Mastodon isnโt a proper solution.
Has this actually been tried though? As far as I know, while the AT Protocol has a form of federation built into it, the last time I checked BlueSky was the only actual implementation of it and its not possible to run your instance without building it up from scratch and designing your own implementation of the protocol(?).
I recall the lemm.ee instance owner saying somewhere that .ee is the country code for Estonia and he is a citizen of said country himself.
Although IMO that whole freenom-Mali government contract expiration thing has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way regarding uncommonly encountered domains
Lemmy being so confusing is partly why I was upset about Reddit taking a dump. I donโt understand the difference in all the Lemmy things or what to sign up for. I was excited about Sync because it seems to make it easier to understand and see everything. I just want something that will replicate a frontpage which is what Sync is trying to do. I donโt have the desire or time to learn the ins and outs of it all.
Whatโs funny is that this is the same sentiment people had when email became popular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJku_CSyNg
Lemmy works the same way as email.
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It bothers me that people find it out so supremely confusing and itโs definitely an issue that needs to be addressed because itโs definitely keeping people away. The fact of the matter is, you can go to any Lemmy instance and get that front page experience because the r/all equivalent of each instance shows threads from every other instance (minus defederated, etc but thatโs beside the point).
Sync helps in that it is a familiar and polished look and feel for those who used third party Reddit apps, but outside of that itโs just another Lemmy app.
Probably the biggest factor in the confusion is fediverse terms being used to describe the fediverse, which is basically speaking nonsense if you donโt already understand it.
Thereโs this: Lemmy is a federated link aggregator where anyone can start an instance and communities within that instance and all the instances can communicate and share information. Doesnโt it sound amazing?
Then thereโs this: Lemmy is like a version of Reddit where thereโs a whole bunch of separate reddit dot coms. You can sign up for whichever one you like to be your home โredditโ. The reddits are all connected, so you can subscribe to subreddits on the other reddits while just logged into your home. You can also post to them, comment, and see the posts and comments from your home.
Iโm sure thereโs some analogy out there that really boils it down well much better than mine, so please share if you think of one.
So there will be duplicate of the same subs? For instance, I found two personalfinance in two different instances. I found it counter effective having multiple subs of the same name.
Yes. This was an issue for Reddit too, especially when it was young. Over time a lot of the subs consolidated or one became clearly more popular and the smaller withered. But off hand I can still think of r/doctorwho and r/gallifray which were serving the same community in the same way.
Itโs actually not that complicated. Lemmy just works like email. You can use different email providers (lemmy calls them instances) like gmail.com or yahoo.com and they work together. What you call subreddits is called communities and they are managed by a instance. If one instance does something that you donโt like, you can use another. They all work independently but exchange data. If you have any questions see this. Hope this helps
How does sync work on pc?
You can try this guide from Microsoft https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-apps-from-your-android-device-on-your-pc-07d3d029-236e-e71f-3561-d40d7491d435
because itโs a web app
Sync is a mobile app, but you can sign in to lemmy by going to your instanceโs website (for you it would be lemmy.world). Remember, sync is only a way to view lemmy, it doesnโt power lemmy
