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I'm not here because Lemmy is a better alternative (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago by zephyr to c/lemmyworld

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I'm here because it's eventually going to be the better alternative.

FOSS by its nature, will keep on improving. And proprietary bloatware, by its nature, will only gonna get worse.

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[–] croobat 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are in your house, I am in mine. But we can still watch movies together through your window.

[–] ultimate_question 6 points 1 year ago

This is how I watch all my movies now, I had to find a way that Netflix can't crack down on

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

What I am not understanding is the concept of logging in another server. I created an account on feddit.it, can I use this account to login in a mastodon website? Or does it work the other way around, with me just using the feddit.it website (like I'm doing right now) to consume content from other instances? With the second option, if feddit.it goes down, my account is done, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's what I think happens but I'd like to know too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You do everything from your home server.

So you're at feddit.it, instead of going to https:/lemmy.world/c/lemmy.world you go to https://feddit.it/c/[email protected]

I don't know how posting between mastodon and lemmy works.

And yes, if your instance dies, your account is gone. Mastodon has a "transfer account to another instance" feature, but Lemmy does not yet, but I'm pretty sure redundancy in some form is planned.

[–] croobat 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your account credentials are the keys to your house, you can only enter to your own house (server/instance) with your keys, but can watch through everyone's window (the owner of your house can block some specific windows tho).

So your second assessment is correct, and yeah I think if the server goes down your data in that instance may be lost. It shouldn't pass long time before some migration account feature (mastodon already has one).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Great ELI5, thanks.

[–] ndr 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think Lemmy has good support for viewing Mastodon content (unlike kbin), but you can view/follow users, threads and comments from Lemmy on Mastodon by searching @whateveryouwant@instance