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Kick your feet up and drop a shitpost off at [email protected], meme in [email protected] or chill with the cats of [email protected]

If you saw my comment about the pitch fork, here you go: ------E (deluxe upgrades are extra)

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ETA Context: https://lemmy.world/post/24558150

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 22 hours ago (25 children)

To Newbies, I just want to say:

If you aren't a Marxist-Leninist, you might wanna stay away from the big 3 Marxist-Leninist (aka: Tankie) instances [lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, lemmy.ml]

[–] Serinus 3 points 13 hours ago (17 children)

Just recommend the biggest instance that isn't federated with them. Anyone got a list?

I do think it's valuable to recommend the bigger instances. If they're on a big instance, they don't have to worry about federation at all at first. It takes no effort to slowly learn about federation, and later they have the option to move to a smaller instance.

This lemmy.zip person didn't have a good onboarding experience. @[email protected] maybe?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (10 children)

That’s actually me. I simply didn’t want to carry over that username but I guess I should claim it too. Lol

Yeah, I originally joined Lemmy during the first Reddit exodus. Then, I squirreled and did not spend the necessary time to learn much about it. However, this go around I’m here and I’m serious about learning it and using Reddit much much less (in hopes to abandoning it eventually).

Some folks helped me to find apps. I’m using Avelon and I really like it. It makes figuring Lemmy out MUCH EASIER than simply bookmarking.

[–] Serinus 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Glad to see you here!

The reason I push people to Lemmy.World is that you mostly don't need to learn anything about federation. It's obvious enough over time what the @ symbols are, and you basically pick it up through osmosis.

If you start on a really small instance, your people might not subscribe to many foreign communities. If nobody subscribes to a foreign community, it doesn't get pulled over and doesn't show up in ALL. That can make Lemmy look pretty barren, and you have to go out and find communities (somehow) on your own.

If you start at Lemmy.World, the all tab just works. The local tab is even a fine experience, though I wouldn't use it here. Similar arguments with lemmy.ca and sopuli.xyz for Canada and Europe. Their all tabs might be slightly worse, but for those people the local tab should be better (actually more local), balancing it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Their all tabs might be slightly worse

You are aware that with 1140 and 496 monthly active users, and the use of https://lemmy-federate.com/, the All tab on those instances, as well as any other instance with more than 100 monthly active is going to be the same than on LW, right?

This used to be true a while ago, but any instance in the top 20 (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/ ) is going to give the same All feed.

[–] Serinus 2 points 11 hours ago

Well that one user sure seemed to have issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago
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