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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by hllywluis@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I'm a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It's definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it's great to see something that isn't Reddit growing in popularity!

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[–] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So I am just jumping into it myself (and straight into the deep end with running my own server, lol), so this may not be 100% accurate...

My current understanding is that an instance is where you make your account and log in to. The instance keeps track of all the stuff to show you, including things it gets from other instances.

A "sub" (I think called a "community" in Lemmy parlance) is basically a subreddit, but with the added benefit of being able to subscribe to it from any instance due to the whole "federation" thing. For example, this overall post is on lemmy.ml (in their "asklemmy" community), the comment you replied to is from a user on on the lemmy.world instance, you are a user on the latte.isnot.coffee instance, and I am on the lemmy.nrd.li instance. These instances are all sending messages to each other to keep all of our comments/votes/posts/etc in sync so this can all work (mostly) seamlessly.

[–] WhiteBreadBuddha@latte.isnot.coffee 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can I visit other instances and view/interact with their local posts from this instance? I'm getting the hang of communities but the instances are throwing me for a loop lol

[–] Siphalor@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, it's actually a bit simpler than that.

You can directly browse a community that technically lives on another instance without ever leaving your instance.

If you're on the start page of your instance you can e.g. change between seeing Local, Subscribed or posts from all communities (across instances).
You can click around and browse from there without having to leave your instance :)

[–] WhiteBreadBuddha@latte.isnot.coffee 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

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