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So who got here today (self.belgium)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by antik to c/belgium

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Now that a lot of 3rd party apps for reddit have shut down there have been loads of new users joining the various Lemmy instances. So who got here today and what has been your experience so far?

I'm here to help should you have any questions about Lemmy, lemmy.world or life in general (I can not really recommend that last one).

Anyway, welcome! Hope you enjoy your stay 😁

EDIT: I created seperated threads for this not too long ago but I think it's useful to post them again.

Some things might still be confusing to people, I read a comment below about someone not knowing how to browse content from different instances for example. I really suggest you read this post by lemmy.world admin @ruud which does a wonderful job to explain a lot of it.
If you're wondering what 3rd party apps there are available, this thread seems to list them all!

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[–] StijnVVL 3 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I just joined today on Lemmy after the reddit fallout and Baconreader not being an option anymore.

I was already on Mastodon after the Twitter fallout. I made a new account on Lemmy but there seems to be some sort of link? Can anyone explain what the difference is exactly please?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (11 children)

A link between Lemmy & Mastodon you mean? They share the same protocol: ActivityPub. There are many other types of software that do, and they can all communicate with each other. So you could check, follow or comment on Lemmy through your Mastodon (someone did today in the slowchat!), although it's not the optimal experience. For some types of content it doesn't really matter that much (I'm thinking of the photo-sharing Pixelfed and Mastodon for instance), for others it changes the user experience quite a bit.

[–] StijnVVL 2 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Thanks for your explanation! It does make more sense now. I'm more in favor of the Lemmy interface and way of working so I suppose it's better to have 2 separate accounts (one on each platform)? Or can I use my Mastodon credentials to logon to Lemmy?

I might be completely mistaken and don't understand it at all.

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

@StijnVVL @Mysteriarch I searched for @belgium on my fostodon.org and clicked on followed. Now I can see all the posts and reply to them.

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

@StijnVVL @Mysteriarch @belgium To add to the confusion, I actually use emacs as my mastodon client :D

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