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I'm one of the people who has very recently tried Lemmy and decided to drop Reddit. Initially because I will no longer be able to use SyncForReddit, but now also because I just like the vibe a lot more here than Reddit.

I'm not a massively technical person, but I understood the broad concept of federation - different instances/servers that sync to form a big conversation/forum of sorts.

I heard a lot of people joining and saying positive things about lemmy.world, so I signed up there.....and that's it.

But, am I using it right? Is the idea to sign up in one place and use it to participate across the LemmyVerse/FediVerse? Or should I be seeking out lots of niche instances of interest?

I hear lemmy.world is the biggest instance. What if most people end up here, does that defeat the purpose? Is this inevitable?

You need a critical mass of users, so a quiet instance with few posts is not attractive. If I search for Xbox, there are lots of empty places or places with 3 posts. If there's one big one (often ends up being in lemmy.world) that's where I'm subscribing.

How are you using Lemmy, are you participating in a bunch of instances or just one?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm just figuring out how to use this platform.

[–] BornVolcano 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think I may have figured out how to comment. That's um. About it lol.

[–] RedSquadCampFollower 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] BornVolcano 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] RedSquadCampFollower 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Greyson 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] BornVolcano 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lmao I'm gullible okay shut up

[–] BornVolcano 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lmfao you suck haha. I'm actually so confused by this site rn

[–] RedSquadCampFollower 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] BornVolcano 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't understand the fediverse at all but I'm starting to slowly get the hang of some of this I think. Maybe. Idk.

And thanks!!! :]

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

Think of it like email. You only need a gmail account to send and receive emails from outlook, hotmail, any other email account. What email you have doesn't matter, you can communicate with all other email accounts.

[–] BornVolcano 5 points 2 years ago

See the problem is I have no idea how email works either. I just accept it as black magic and hope I can send the email

[–] MidgarZolom 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can see your comment. I think they are fucking with you. :)

[–] BornVolcano 1 points 2 years ago

I figured that out eventually haha. Thank you though.