Asklemmy

44151 readers

2200 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

523

How has ur lemmy experience been so far? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

797 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm starting to understand how all of the individual Lemmy servers are connected and it's awesome. Understanding how Lemmy is fundamentally different than something like Reddit makes me very appreciative. I think something like Lemmy is the natural future as corporations continue to try to milk the wallets of the average person.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Its social media on our own terms!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The coolest part is, Lemmy is bigger than just Lemmy. Kbin & Mastodon users can also see and respond to posts here!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How exactly does someone on mastodon respond to posts I can't find any info anywhere on how it's done

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They have to subscribe to the community (it looks like a user to them, so it looks like @[email protected]). Then they can see the posts from that "user". From there, you see the posts and can reply to them just like they were any other user.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Great thanks so much

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

Just as i thought i understand it, you confused me again. How can Mastodon users participate here?

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

I don't know in a "what to click sense", but lemmy and mastodon differ from reddit and Twitter in that they're open source running on open standards. There's no proprietary walled garden to protect.

The underlying protocol is called activitypub. Think of lemmy and mastodon as different interfaces for viewing the same data.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would like to understand how all of the individual Lemmy servers are connected... do you have any good resources for learning about lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you just want the bare minimum, the ActivityPub article on wikipedia isn't bad. For a deeper dive if you want to get technical, w3.org has a much more detailed explanation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

the w3 article is certainly worth the read. thanks.