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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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[–] BornVolcano 4 points 1 year ago

I did have to alter the signature a little to fit the site haha. For the moment, only a few of us are here, as the process of moving all of the technology and organization behind ToR to a completely different platform (think seven or eight different bots, all needing to work in synchrony) is a massive undertaking for the mods, and one they aren't sure they're entirely able to do. But for the time being, I'm here transcribing freelance (I like to consider it "going rogue", though in reality the mods are very much in support of what I'm choosing to do haha), and it remains to be seen if we can form an organized group to continue these efforts.