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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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[–] roseh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The interface is nice and friendly, but the way the fediverse and the different instances works is kind of confusing. Still not sure what that's all about

[–] TheGreatSpoon@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~Doctor Strange~~ Nutomic broke the barriers of the ~~multiverse~~ fediverse and now everyone from each ~~universe~~ instance can visit the other. A lot of stuff is the same like they all have ~~spooderman~~ c/memes but all of them are also kinda different in their own way.

And ~~DC~~ other instances are in the ~~multiverse~~ fediverse too but aren't allowed in the ~~Marvel universe~~ particular instances for ~~legal reasons~~ personal reasons so you might sometimes have to go to a ~~DC movie~~ different instance in disguise with a ~~fake mustache~~ alt account.

This is my understanding of it

[–] roseh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you it all makes sense now

[–] d4r1us_drk@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

If you think about it like Email, it's exactly the same. Why we have multiple instances? Well why does the United States has multiple states with different laws and governments? That's what federation is about.