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From the outside looking in, the whole model seemed needlessly complicated. So it’s like there’s a LOT of reddit.coms over here? But they’re all the same? But also different? What’s the difference? Which one do I sign up on?
But then I get here and realized it doesn’t really matter that much, since you can more or less use all of them regardless of which one you sign up for.
Something about the way users try to communicate what Lemmy/Fediverse IS, is the complicated part. It’s like everyone wants to jump straight to the more technical details behind how the model works; which probably scares off a lot of the people who just want a place to pop in and talk about their hobbies.
I just told my fairly tech-unsavvy partner the email analogy:
You sign up on Google, I sign up on yahoo, my bro-in-law runs his own from a server in his house. We can all email each other and the email looks mostly the same no matter who reads it, but yahoo isn't Google isn't my bro-in-law. Lemmy = email in general, yahoo = lemmy.ml, Google = lemmy.world, etc.
She immediately got it and has an account on some instance and has subscribed to a bunch of places.
Yep, it's email but with a nice interface and open 'threads' which we can post on.
When can we get an emacs client for lemmy?
I think there is a CLI client that supports Lemmy
I thought the world just agreed to let Emacs die in peace...
This is probably my favorite analogy for it so far, at least as a high level overview. I kind of made the same connection myself and that’s when it clicked for me.
This is a great way to think about it! Thank you. I'll be using this to help explain it to my friends
This is a great way to think about it! Thank you. I'll be using this to help explain it to my friends
The email analogy has got to be the best way to describe the fediverse that I've seen so far.
This is a great way to think about it! Thank you. I'll be using this to help explain it to my friends
This is a great way to think about it! Thank you. I'll be using this to help explain it to my friends
This is a great way to think about it! Thank you. I'll be using this to help explain it to my friends
Yeah, this scared me off for weeks because I didn't want the hassle. Turns out it's way easier than those dorks were making it seem!
Exactly. People last week were adamant about needing to spread out new users across different instances. I understand the rationale, but let's be honest, casual newcomers don't really pay much attention to that. They just want to see a website a lot of content before signing up.
Did we not learn from mastodon? The federation concept should be introduced a bit later after they're comfortable.
yeah the people running this show need to understand that normies dont care about server hosting. they just want a feed with cat pics
Everyone wants a feed with cat pics.
Yeah, there should be simple "how and where do I sign up and find my favourite communities". I feel like there is lots of tech talk here because lots of tech stuff needs to happen before these sites are ready for the full moderation suit and for supporting the most basic aspects of Reddit communities (like flairs)...
There are a few ways. The easiest, albeit least efficient, is to just set your feed to show “all” and join any communities that seem interesting as you’re scrolling.
The second is to hit the “communities” tab at the top of the page, and choose “all”. This will show you a list of every community in lemmy and from there you can join whatever you want to.
Thirdly, you can use this website which is a bit more comprehensive than just using the communities tab. Some people may prefer it, others may not, it’s totally up to you.
Yeah I think it might be better to explain it like if anyone could boot up their own reddit and link to other people’s reddits. Some are popular, some aren’t, some don’t want to be huge because they want to be niche like some subreddits did. We may have subreddits with the same name but it’s ok because people can tell based on which Reddit it’s on. Also they’re called instances not reddits and communities not subreddits.
The thing that’s weird to me is that say I like football (soccer). I’m sure there are dozens of “instances” have a soccer community, but which one should I follow? It seems like this architecture fragments the user base too much.