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Long time Reddit user, tired of centralised bs, trying to find a home in the Fediverse.

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“Trusting you is my decision, proving me wrong is your choice.” - Unknown.

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • It’s definitely scratching that itch. I agree with you, but it doesn’t diminish their awesomeness. I made a post earlier about the markup being slightly off, and about 20 minutes later, they fixed it. I know it wasn’t because of my post (I sadly don’t have the main character gene), but it demonstrates how on the ball they are with development. Plus, we’re getting another big update tomorrow. I’ve never been this excited about an app since the first time I used Apollo.







  • I literally just thought about this in the shower earlier: What if Muskman is doing all this in revolt against the upcoming | waitlisted | still-in-beta social media platform Bluesky? Someone on Mastodon pointed out that Bluesky can somehow retrieve data from Twitter. So, similar to what Reddit is doing with its API, supposedly to ‘combat’ AI (though their real motivation was to kill third-party apps), maybe Muskman is imposing all these restrictions to cripple the launch of Bluesky. According to what I’ve heard on Mastodon, Bluesky is the next big thing for ‘Twitter influencers,’ and Twitter wouldn’t be Twitter without them.

    Disclaimer: This is a shower thought that I have not fact-checked, and I don’t plan to either. Twitter and Reddit can all go down the drain as far as I’m concerned. I’m fully federated."


  • My mind boggles as to why someone would downvote this question. Why not just help, ffs?

    I run a self-hosted instance, so I have some experience with what you’re asking. You do not need to sign into every instance to post or comment. Basically, you need to first find the desired community using the search function in your own instance. Once you’ve found it, you can view, post, or comment through your own instance. This is what Federation enables.

    For example, let’s say I want to view posts or comment in a community over at lemmy.ml using my own instance. Let’s say the community is called c/asklemmy. As long as federation is enabled on both instances (which is the responsibility of the instance administrators), you can use the search function, within your own instance, to find the community and interact with it at your leisure.

    When searching for a community on another instance, remember to specify that the community is on another instance. So, for asklemmy over at lemmy.ml, you would search for !asklemmy@lemmy.ml. The format is !(community name)@(instance domain). You can even copy and paste the URL of the community’s page into the search bar, and it will work just fine.

    There’s documentation available at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html that explains all of this in more detail. Anyway, I hope this has been helpful, and welcome to Lemmy! (It’s so much better than Reddit).

    P.S. If you’re looking for an iOS client for Lemmy, Memmy is really good.


  • My mind boggles as to why someone would downvote this question. Why not just help, ffs?

    I run a self-hosted instance, so I have some experience with what you’re asking. You do not need to sign into every instance to post or comment. Basically, you need to first find the desired community using the search bar in your own instance. Once you’ve found it, you can view, post, or comment through your own instance. This is what Federation enables.

    For example, let’s say I want to view posts or comment in a community over at lemmy.ml using my own instance. Let’s say the community is called c/asklemmy. As long as federation is enabled on both instances (which is the responsibility of the instance administrators), you can use the search function, within your own instance, to find the community and interact with it at your leisure.

    When searching for a community on another instance, remember to specify that the community is on another instance. So, for asklemmy over at lemmy.ml, you would search for !asklemmy@lemmy.ml. The format is !(community name)@(instance domain). You can even copy and paste the URL of the community’s page into the search bar, and it will work just fine.

    There’s documentation available at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html that explains all of this in more detail. Anyway, I hope this has been helpful, and welcome to Lemmy! (It’s so much better than Reddit).

    P.S. If you’re looking for an iOS client for Lemmy, Memmy is really good.