Just needs a bit more content every day and we're good tbh. Also I miss my video game subs like MonsterHunterMeta...
CoolBeance
joined 2 years ago
What a lap. A gap of more than a second in the pouring rain
BaconReader here
"Dearth" sounds like the perfect way of explaining a death happening on Earth
What a scumbag. He's playing the "democracy" tune like "redit is for everyone guise" but before he started losing users/moderators he didn't give a shit how the subreddits were run.
Been there for almost 12 years. I'm not going back unless something drastic changes, and even then I might drift between Lemmy and Reddit considering there's no guarantee Reddit will "be good" in the future.
You just described my entire journey for my first two days on Lemmy
Next month, I would have been on Reddit for 12 years. I'm with you here man, hope to see your community thrive smoothly
This is the only one I know of at the moment, though I'm still relatively new as well so there might be a better link for a list of instances and their sizes. Based on some posts I've read here, lemmy.ml has the most users, with lemmy.world at about half of lemmy.ml's and beehaw.org at about a third.
Also, yeah, I think we're on the same boat when it comes to why different communities are spread out. From what I've observed, "duplicate" communities in separate instances seem to all have their own "flavor" of that particular community. Taking the meme communities as an example, sh.itjust.works' memes have a bit of a French-Canadian flare to them, lemmygrad.ml's memes are made with a hammer and sickle, lemmy.world has more of that "general everyday memes" feel, etc.
On Reddit, it used to be r/memes -> r/memes, but here it seems like it's the opposite, like c/ -> c/memes. It's like having pizza in New York vs Italy -- they're both pizza but each country has its own twist to it.
I subbed to your community btw as I love me some Paramore myself. Hope to see everything work out easily for your community!
Here's my attempt at making it as simple as possible. (Sorry to anyone who has seen me repost this in several different communities, just trying to make it easier for people to engage and this seems to have good feedback)
The Fediverse
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The Fediverse -- Federation + Universe -- is a space on the internet that hosts several social media-like platforms. Lemmy is like Reddit, Mastodon is like Twitter, PeerTube is like YouTube, etc.
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The main difference -- in terms of ownership and influence -- is that these platforms aren't owned by a single entity in the same way Google owns YouTube, Elon Musk with Twitter, Meta with Facebook, etc. In contrast, the Fediverse and its platforms are decentralized meaning no one wholly owns it and a person can't just make a decision for the entire Fediverse/platform.
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As a relevant example, no one can just arbitrarily decide to make you pay $20 million per year for accessing a platform's backend stuff. The Fediverse avoids the advertising, algorithms, and other unpleasantries that plague many social networks.
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As well, different platforms within the Fediverse can communicate with each other, like how a Gmail user can email a Yahoo Mail user. Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube can't do that.
Lemmy
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Going back to trying to ELI5 Lemmy... Lemmy the platform, within the Fediverse, is one planet. Like planet Earth in the universe
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“Instances” like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc. are like the different countries on Earth
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When someone signs up, the user picks one instance to be a part of, like how an Earthling becomes a citizen of a country
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If you register at lemmy.world, that means your home instance / “home country” is lemmy.world, but you can “travel” to lemmy.ml, another instance / “country”, to check out and subscribe to their community
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When you subscribe to a different instance that’s not your home instance, you can still participate in their content, and other people will be able to see which instance / “country” you’re from
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Each instance can have its own version of the same community / “subreddit”, so you can have a c/Memes in your home instance that is different from a c/Memes in another instance. But you can subscribe to both separately
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c/[community name] is the naming convention used here I think like r/[subreddit name] on Reddit. If talking about a community in a different instance, it's c/[community name]@[instance name] so like c/[email protected]
Someone please correct any of this if any of it is wrong, I’ll happily edit
WHAT! Noooo man I was really rooting for them