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Serious question, as Iβ€˜ve barely seen any mention of Lemmy on Reddit. None of the Mod posts regarding the Blackout mentioned Lemmy as far as Iβ€˜m aware. Would it be against the TOS to start a coordinated promotion?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kbin seemed to be pushed more on Mastodon than Lemmy was, during and in the run up to the blackout. Lots of people giving new things a go this week, even from places other than Reddit!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, that makes sense then! mastodon, much like twitter is still a big mystery to me.

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

It's a whole new frontier! :D

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is! And I do want to figure out mastodon, if anything, for their Crafting/art community, but I'm having a bit of a hard time figuring ou if/how can I go around visiting other instances I know its possible somehow because users from different ones show up for me, but mastodon is the one in struggling with. It's not like lemmy or kbin where I can see stuff, they prompt meto make ne an account before I can see anything and I just don't know how to find the people in the other instances from mine yet. :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The easiest way is to search for hashtags and click through to profiles that look like they post interesting stuff. You can also check out https://fedi.directory/ where there are suggested accounts to follow for all kinds of different topics. If you've not made an intro post there yet, do that too with the tag #introduction and any other tags you're interested in, that way people will come to you!

Also what kind of crafts and do I already follow you there? πŸ‘€ lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, you definetly don't, I haven't found the courage to post anything yet lol, but you'll find me eventually, cause I really loved your profile so I'll be following you once I have some time to sit down and focus a bit on mastodon again. Thanks for the tips I won't give up on mastodon and try them out

I think we'll get along fine, I do embroidery in general, and I'm trying to drag myself back into sewing and crochet, it's been a few years with those

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do it do it do it, Mastodon is just as friendly a place as Lemmy in my experience.

I've had to migrate my account off Beehaw today sadly but on the bright side it's given me an excuse to explore more instances. Still haven't come across a sewing or embroidery / cross-stitch community anywhere. I'll have to look harder tonight. Have you seen any yet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not yet. That's one thing I'll miss from reddit until they pick up here, that's for sure. Let me know if you find anything!

Yeah, the defedeation thing, I really like Beehaw, and I ended up making a lemmy.world account too, so I'll just end up using both of them at the same time :V

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's fair. My gamedev account is on .world and honestly it's been fine, we're not savages over there or anything :D

I've found a new crochet community that only has a couple people but they're at least trying to post things [email protected] (direct link)

[email protected] (direct link)with one solitary post, dunno if they'll accept my cross stitch but it is technically embroidery so....

And a couple of sewing ones but neither have much going on.

Still, all it takes is for us to get stuck in making content, right? :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For sure, I had, great experiences on world so far, I think they're just worried about the possible future, perhaps.

Thanks! I'll join those as well with an alt account and hopefully we'll be able to grow them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just checking back in with an update, I found a brand new cross stitch (and embroidery) community too. It's on one of the defederated servers but since you have an alt accout already...

[email protected]

:)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Omg, thank you, you're my favourite user here <3

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

Oh bless you! Just doing my bit to try and help people find their way around :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That makes sense, from what I’ve seen kbin integrates with mastodon as well (I think you can even set it up so some mastodon hashtags get included in their versions of communities)

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

Yeah I think you're right. And they'll hopefully fix their tech issues soon so we can all be one big happy family again haha