...Unless they do a massive defederation like Beehaw.
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There's instances that are federated with both though. I'm on one of them.
You've just got to keep in mind that it's not completely clean. Beehaw defederated from 2 of the largest instances making it useless for most users on the site.
Oh for sure. I started at beehaw and ended up on tf because I wanted access to everything.
it's not hard to make an account on other instances
Fine by me, what they did is actually a feature of the Fediverse. People fear what they don't understand and based on comments at the time, there was a lot of misunderstanding.
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It is what it is The fedi drama makes it kinda interesting lmao
For all new users: I'd recommend picking an instance that:
- Is geographically close to you first
- Has the same "moral compass" as you (ie if they allow NSFW content or are defederated from instances that has sensitive content)
- That isn't hammered by too many new users
It's not that hard to check out this info, usually after a day or two on Lemmy you'll figure these things out.
This is why I have an account on Beehaw, and one on Lemmy.world
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My instance lemm.ee is sooo bad, totally don't join our awesome club so I get longer load times. π€« How can we bare having not banning the evil porn and federating with all the other instances!
Also a cute lil instance at https://literature.cafe/ opened up too.
After what happened with lemmy.fmhy.ml I am a bit scared of joining "less popular" domains to be fair.
I recall the lemm.ee instance owner saying somewhere that .ee is the country code for Estonia and he is a citizen of said country himself.
Although IMO that whole freenom-Mali government contract expiration thing has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way regarding uncommonly encountered domains
Valid. I really like how the AT protocol does it. Their account portability is really something ActivityPub desperately needs. Even account transfers on Mastodon isn't a proper solution.
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too late, going to register on lemm.ee now!
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You can also pick instances that are more lax and federate with everyone, then filter instances you don't want to see, on sync. Huge feature
Is there some kind of tutorial or explanation for beginners who only came here because of sync and don't understand anything that's going on.
On one side this experience is really simple and easy, sync makes it very much like Reddit. But I see some people have @signs in their names showing their on different instances... Does that mean my comments aren't seen by all people and what the heck is an instance and what an I doing?
I've seem this metaphor around and will try to replicate here. Lemmy (and kbin) instances are like email providers, you can have an email from Google, outlook, Proton, etc. and they all can send emails to each other. Lemmy instances are like this, if you have an account in an instance, you can see content and interact with all the other instances.
Some instances don't talk to each other (defederate) for a myriad of reasons, but mostly because of political opinions and trolls. Here's a link with a more in depth explanation of how defederation works, from when it happened with one of the big instances on lemmy: https://lemmy.world/post/149743
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Preach!
Switched to lemm.ee because lemmy.world is down like every other day, for multiple hours at a time. Been better so far.
That's the beauty of lemmy, there's always options
Come to sh.itjust.works, we have the best name.
FYI lemmynsfw.com is down right now. That's why you couldn't log in.
Not our lifeblood!
Back up now though
Looks like it's back. You can log in for science π€£
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Yep! Currently communicating with you from my own instance!
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I used to see reports that you could "carry over" your account from one instance to another. Do you have any details on this, or whether this also works between different services (e.g. KBin and Lemmy)?
This works on Mastodon, but not on Lemmy/Kbin (yet). Migration between Lemmy and Kbin in general could be tough since they're completely different softwares and Lemmy lacks support for several Kbin functions (such as Boosts and Microblogging).
Account migration between Lemmy instances has been requested on GitHub but I don't know much beyond that. If you just want a profile redirect it might not be too complicated, but migrating full post and comment history is a different story.
Scripts have been created to transfer settings and subscriptions from one Lemmy account to another, however:
Being able to link/synchronize accounts a cross instances would be huge for continuing to use lemmy when your main instance is having trouble or goes down.
And I think if accounts were globally federated so that you could just log into any instance, it would take away the main complaint many people have when they claim lemmy is confusing.
A good list of communities to subscribe to are here: https://lemmy.world/post/2216085
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I'm on a few instances for this reason. Too many people on lemmy.world making it unusable most of the time.
Can someone explain what instance mean? Why are there different instances?
Just think of it like different email providers. Ex. Gmail, Hotmail, Protonmail etc, they can still talk to each other just fine but are run by different groups with their own rules.
The reason why is to make sure a single entity doesn't hold all the power.
Reddit is only failing because the corporation holds all the power. If we replaced Reddit with another single site, the same thing would happen again. The site would sell out and it would be whored out to advertisers.
On Lemmy, if one site tries to go corporate, people will just move to another instance. The power is in our hands and no corporations can take it away.
Lemmy is a bunch of servers that talk to each other instead of just one server that holds everything. A Lemmy "instance" is one of those communicating servers. You can join any of the ones that talk to each other and see the same content. You can sign up at any of the websites you see in people's usernames here (e.g. mine is lemmy.sdf.org), it's good to sign up for the slightly smaller ones to better balance the server load.
As to why, basically anyone is allowed to run their own copy of lemmy and some people actually enjoy doing it. There is more nuance of course. For instance, the owner can block other people's instances for whatever reason so no one on their instance sees content from the other instance and people from the other instance can't comment or vote in their communities.
There are definitely pros and cons to this approach, but the cool thing about it is the whole thing is back in the hands of real people and not owned by a bunch of investors.
You can think of instances like communities, You can join different communities with different rules and all these communities are connected to each other. So no matter which instance you choose, you'll still be able to interact with people from the others.
Now the reason for the existence of different instances is the same reason why there are different communities in the world. Some people feel more comfortable in groups of people with similar tastes.And having multiple instances ensures that no instance "owns" the social network.
@metaright@kbin.social Account migration isn't possible yet. But you can sign up to as many instances as you like with the same username and email. Also you can post to any KBin or Lemmy instance as long as it's federated with your home instance.
However sometimes there's issues, like right now with me not being able to reply to you directly.
But you can sign up to as many instances as you like with the same username and email.
But, like anywhere else, I would strongly suggest to use different passwords.
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Shouldn't I be able to reply on lemmy using my mastodon account?
You can. Just search for any community from mastodon and then follow it and you can reply to anything that comes through your timeline. You can also follow users.
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Unless you identify as a communist then your instance is preemptively banned from lemmy.world
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How to join any other insurance which is not there in the pre-existing list?
Some posts and comments don't show up on some instances. I prefer to stay with the bigger ones for that matter
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