Hello, I'm here, as I'm sure, are you because of recent actions and plans created by Reddit's admin team to kill 3rd party apps in an effort to bring everything under the official app.
I'm not much of a mod, but I do want Eugene to have a viable alternative for those who are not happy with the direction that Reddit is headed.
A primer for how to think about Lemmy and the "federverse":
- Lemmy is like the world. (e.g. "Lemmy")
- Lemmy instances are like countries (e.g. lemmy.world, lemmy.ml)
- Lemmy communities are like cities (e.g. /c/[email protected], /c/[email protected])
- Users are like citizens
In this world, citizens have a home country, but can visit, live, and interact using a visa without needing to be a citizen of the country that the city is in. Some countries have different rules for their users. Some countries don't recognize other countries, so their users can't see the other's content, but mostly they play along nicely.
The KEY TAKEAWAY is that users can be on the "lemmy.world" instance and be a part of communities on any instance without creating a user there.
The way to refer to communities on other instances in a way that you can interact is to use the URL format of https://{YOUR instance}/c/{communityname}@{COMMUNITY's instance} (e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]).
The federation model works well because communities will be spread out across different instances and so there's no ONE service/server that is responsible for ALL of the traffic going on in Lemmy.
I'm requesting that you spread the word about this place, if you feel like it's the right way to go and if anyone would like to help mod or take over entirely, please let me know.
Cheers @ewe
All right! I finally made it! For the record, it's taken me consistent attempts and two computers since Friday to create a lemmy account and then log in here. I trust other people are also trying, but it's a heck of a exercise in patience. (I've been on Mastodon since 2017, so not new to the vagaries of the fediverse, but this was seriously testing me.)
Anyway - thank you! Glad to have Eug (and those folks across the river) in the house!
I think I lucked out, joining just before the flood of new users got really bad.
Did you consider just posting here with your existing mastodon account?
I don't think we federate with lemmy.world, so I couldn't even see it!
What's weird is that I still can't log in here unless I'm on my ancient laptop. Tablet won't open (I get the login page but it won't take) I've tried clearing the caches. Hopefully the bugs get worked out soon!
They're certainly working hard on it. I'm picturing someone standing near the server rack with a fire extinguisher, positioned there since word of Reddit's extreme unforced error came out, while the developers spend sleepless night after sleepless night trying to get it ready to handle the load.
Completely accurate depiction. Following the updates from Ruud, he’s been negotiating several cat 5 storms at once (upgrading lemmy.world to 18.x, managing bots, and dealing with the API shutdown). It’s a real shame that reddit’s API shit was on such short notice…almost like it was on purpose. Lemmy wasn’t really ready for the prime time and they’re dealing with extreme growing pains that will take weeks/months to sort out.
Lots of energy and new apps and enthusiasm though! :D
I downloaded Contact as an app and it's helping with the log in issues. Navigation is still a little clunky and I keeping hitting bad gateway errors but it's improving!
Trying out Jerboa. Taking some getting used to, but it seems good enough for now.
That's the one I'm using right now. They're putting out new builds regularly, so I expect it to improve pretty quickly.
I admit I don't know enough about this platform to have an informed opinion of this app. It seems to work/I can fet to content.
I'm a simple man.