Im going around all the subs i use and a few big ones like askreddit asking for people to try lemmy and for subs to migrate, just to make lemmy get a bit of a boost so hopefully lemmy can get moat people over and lemmy can be a full replacement for reddit
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Reddit admins have been editing and removing comments that mention Lemmy and other competitor platforms.
Which, by the way, if you (the person reading this comment right now, not just OP) live in Europe and this happens to you or you see it, please report this to the proper authorities. It is illegal anti-competitive action to censor discussion about competitor services in EU and Reddit can get in big legal trouble for doing this.
you’ll probably get banned from reddit before long lol, best of luck!
I appreciate folks like you. This is how I found out about alternatives was from redditors commenting about Lemmy, the fediverse, and others.
I have created an account and am now looking for an instance that feels right.
Thanks, a few people seem to be getting mad though, but wait, how are the instances different, im still pretty new to lemmy, and lemmy is still “new”, so there ain’t all that much to read up on
Well I’m new to this so I’d appreciate someone else chiming in because I’m probably wrong but here I go!
An instance is a server in the fediverse. Mastodon, Beehaw, Lemmy World. I’ve created my username (or my identity) on Lemmy World allowing me to access any community hosted on Lemmy World. In turn Lemmy World has not only created and curated its own communities but because it shares the same open source communication protocols as other instances my identity can post to any other connected instance in a different community as long as the two instances agree to talk to each other.
The risk here is that Lemmy World can at any time defederate (stop communicating) with another instance. A good example of this is Beehaw. As the influx of users came in Beehaw defederated from the two major instances. Inside of Beehaw was a fairly large Technology community so because my identity was created on Lemmy World I have no way of seeing that community.
On the app I’m using I can tell if a community is outside of my instance when it says “community@instance” which helps me decide which instance I ultimately I’d like to create my identity in.
Hope that helps and if not let me know what questions you have!
