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Glad to be here! Hoping more communities are made and that our participation doesn’t have to come with commodification.

I'm still massively confused on the setup. Just like Mastodon, this Lemmy thing pushes fragmentation and technology and I just cannot wrap my head around it.

I would love to have a site ala reddit. There, that is it. I am not super interested in the techniques behind Lemmy but I must because there are 'servers', 'communities', etc. You can join one server but you might not see (or be able to search) other servers or whatever. The fragmentation is related to this point, I am going to have to hunt for specific 'groups' or 'subreddits' if you will, and hope it is complete because maybe another group, on another server, will have other content related to your interrest. I cannot even begin about posting items myself because I am already lost on that one, no idea what server to post or how it will be able to be seen by users.

So I can describe what I would like, so that other can gauge if Lemmy can meet that need, but the fragmentation and technique tells me I am in the wrong place to have this experience.

What I would like: Frontpage with generic 'groups' or 'communities' and my subscribed 'groups' or 'communities', all on the front page/one page, that scrolls continuously without bothering me with 'techniques' (choosing servers for example). I can certainly appreciate the techniques behind Lemmy (or Mastodon) but in the end I want to create 1 account, pull in some 'subreddits' in my account and when I go to the front page, I get to see all the articles related to the 'groups' or 'subreddits'

In short: can I arrange Lemmy/Vlemmy in such a way that I get the same experience as I had on/with reddit?

I am looking for a replacement, not a challenge tbh. Again, fair play on the efforts of the devs but I want to keep my effort at a minimum on this one, I just consume and read news.

I have always been a lurker but trying to be more active. Even posted in a few communities too!

I'm gonna shamelessly plug a community I moderate (brandnewsentence):

[email protected]

For lemmy.world users: https://lemmy.world/c/brandnewsentence

instance admins, mods and the devs are the true heroes of this place. build it and they ll come. hope quality users join in the long run.

I'm a new recruit as of today. I like it here more already.

Just ran PowerDeleteSuite on my account RIGHT now. I initially hated lemmy, but got used to the PC ui, and now the apps are really good. Tired of the bootlickers left at the other place, like....how do you defend a shitty 'company' who doesn't give a shit about you? Crazy.

It's like all the awful people are left there stewing in their own juices, good riddance. I literally can not view that place anymore without Apollo so it's as good as gone. Will still browse the odd time on RES via the PC, or a search engine -reddit for something but casual browsing?............he gone!

Gotta be part of the change right?

One simple thing people could do is posting links, to videos they find interesting, on one of the video communities, like "videos" on lemmy.world for example.

Thank you for your help! I feel so stupid, but I can't figure out how to go to an address that isn't just a normal link in this app (Connect). But I will keep trying and I'll figure it out! It's actually kind of fun and they say it's good for your brain.

wow wefwef.app is nice. been using PC for a few weeks and this looks and feels great on phone.

Flailing new user trying to figure things out. Is there an AITA around here?