• OddMinus1@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    My account was shut down without notice a few weeks ago. The server providing my account shut down. All comments, saved links and history was gone.

    How do you explain this to a non-technical user while reassuring that this is a great system?

    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      “you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you’re still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you’ll fucking starve to death?”

      • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This is exactly what happens with Churches. Someone starts a “hip” new church plant. Everyone leaves the local long-established churches. Long established churches shut down. Church plant falls apart because the guy starting it doesn’t know what he’s doing. No Church.

      • OddMinus1@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Hypothetical response:

        “Sure, that’s an option, but no other social media I use requires a routinely read regarding whether I need to backup my saved items because it might shut down.”

        Let me just be clear that I personally don’t have a problem with how lemmy runs, but I do think that difficulties and issues are heavily downplayed for potential users.

        • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          As someone said in another comment “you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you’re still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you’ll fucking starve to death?”

  • rauls5@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    After you block a few hundred groups of anime and nonsense it’s surprisingly enjoyable.

    • Tom Arrr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Wow, so that’s how it works. I signed up to a couple because they interested me and hoped in the future something would be posted, or I would, and then saw a heap of posts.

      It wasn’t dark magic after all. Perhaps it was psionics?

      • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        If one user of your instance is subscribed to a community on another instance, then that community is visible on that instance as well.

  • GoddessGundy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I actually saw an ad for Lemmy on reddit and here I am. Figuring out enough to make an account was worth it. They should do more ads… or maybe not. We don’t want too many of them coming here. Im still trying to cleanse my brain of the juice I drank.

    • RedSnt ♾️🦋♂️👓🖥️@feddit.dkEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I was struggling so hard to find the original post, finally found it over on aussie.zone and then I saw that it was a lemmy.world post, an instance I’ve blocked on my local instance, feddit.dk. Stuff like that is what makes lemmy a bit confusing haha

      • Klear@quokk.auEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ascending among such legends like The Picard Maneuver, SatansMaggotyCumFart and Nicole, the Fediverse Chick!

  • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t understand why sometimes when I click on asklemmy at the top of the old.lemmy.world ui, sometimes it goes to regular asklemmy and sometimes it goes to asklemmy@lemmy.ml. And I don’t understand why these two communities have completely different posts.

    • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They are two completely different communities that just happen to share their names. (And one of them is full of tankies, while yours isn’t)

      How this works is the same with email: You can have john.smith@gmail.zz and you can have john.smith@outlook.com , but although those do have the same first name, the two addresses do not point to the same mailbox.

      If a community is on your own instance (servers are called instances on Lemmy), then the part after @ is not shown. So, there is asklemmy@lemmy.world, and there is asklemmy@lemmy.ml. The latter one is luckily empty, as nothing on .ml is written without serious brainrot.

      The one you see only as “asklemmy” is asklemmy@lemmy.world. There are actually this many asklemmys:

      Each of the above is an independent community. Each one was founded by a different person and has different moderators, etc.

      When you login to Lemmy, you go to lemmy.world and login there. I don’t. I do not have a user account on lemmy.world, which is one of the instances (servers) for Lemmy. However, I do have a user account on sopuli.xyz, which is another instance. When I log in to that, I can read anything written on any instances that have federated with sopuli.xyz. We are having this conversation in a community on yet another instance:
      As you can see there, this community is located on an instance called lemmy.uk.

      So, I am reading this through sopuli.xyz, which has a connection to lemmy.uk. When I write something, Sopuli sends all the text to lemmy.uk which then saves it. And then your instance, lemmy.world, has a connection to lemmy.uk as well, and shows you whatever is shown on that instance. When a Lemmy-instance creates such a connection to another instance, it is called federating.

      The nice thing about this construction is that if someone tries taking over Lemmy, they only take over their own instance. Its users can just migrate to another instance, create an account there and continue almost as if nothing had happened. And if some instance is not moderating its users’ activities properly, other instances can defederate from it. That means: They can stop showing their users content from the badly behaving instance, and also the users from that instance won’t see anything held on the other instance.

      I hope this blabbering helped!

  • Bamboodpanda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I followed reddit sync over to lemmy. I didn’t know how anything works but my experience has been roughly the same as it was with Reddit. I like the discussion here more though.

    • Ougie@lemmy.world
      English
      1·
      1 year ago

      Exactly the same. And I still don’t know anything about this place after 2 years. At least here I bothered to create a profile unlike reddit where I was just browsing and never posting anything

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s just a bunch of reddits all whispering in each others ears

    Hey sh.itjust.works, tell feddit.uk to leave this comment and upvote

    Sh.itjust.works: “Hey feddit.uk, starman2112@sh.itjust.works said to leave this comment and upvote”

    Feddit.uk: “Hey lemmy.zip, starman2112@sh.itjust.works left this comment”

    Lemmy.zip: “Hey Blaze, starman2112@sh.itjust.works left a comment”

    And then all the federated instances get on the group chat and update the vote counter

    Edit: I didn’t even realize I was commenting on feddit.uk lmao this game of telephone is wild

    • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The Reddit UI is so good though. I love browsing an album and accidentally sliding over to r/popular. Why can’t Lemmy ask me to confirm my email account every time I try to look at porn?

      • untorquer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Good ass. It’s not perfect but it respects your boundaries, tries its damnedest, down for any fetish/kink, there when you fall asleep and when you wake up.

  • slickgoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I have to say this is my experience too. I’m a boomer and whatever stumble upon here is purely coincidental.

  • Omni rizzler@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    @threeduck@aussie.zone aussie.zone is your server where your account resides
    In all everything from other instances are shown while in local only your instance. If you want to find subs just select all and search or got to all in the feed bar and subscribe

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      You need to switch up how you view it. Go to

      • Hot
      • 6 hour
      • Scaled
      • Active

      That’ll get you an hour or so depending on what instance you’re on. Your instance decides what you see on All and Hot. That’s why it is kind of important which instance you choose. If one gets too big, it controls what most people see.

      According to the recent stats, there are millions of people here every day. That means you’re not seeing them.

          • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Treating it seriously, I think that people are interested in growth because:

            1. if we aren’t growing, then due to attrition we are slowly dying
            2. people seem to want a little bit more content, especially about niche topics that currently we have to keep going back to Reddit for bc that’s where it is at
            3. solving the problems inhibiting growth may make us better overall and our experiences here more enjoyable not only for new people but the existing userbase as well - so here growth is the diagnostic indicator of deeper phenomena

            So it is not to feed the advertising machine and stockholder valuation, but even with the profit factor removed there are others that remain.