I’m one of the people who has very recently tried Lemmy and decided to drop Reddit. Initially because I will no longer be able to use SyncForReddit, but now also because I just like the vibe a lot more here than Reddit.

I’m not a massively technical person, but I understood the broad concept of federation - different instances/servers that sync to form a big conversation/forum of sorts.

I heard a lot of people joining and saying positive things about lemmy.world, so I signed up there…and that’s it.

But, am I using it right? Is the idea to sign up in one place and use it to participate across the LemmyVerse/FediVerse? Or should I be seeking out lots of niche instances of interest?

I hear lemmy.world is the biggest instance. What if most people end up here, does that defeat the purpose? Is this inevitable?

You need a critical mass of users, so a quiet instance with few posts is not attractive. If I search for Xbox, there are lots of empty places or places with 3 posts. If there’s one big one (often ends up being in lemmy.world) that’s where I’m subscribing.

How are you using Lemmy, are you participating in a bunch of instances or just one?

  • LeZero@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As what’s posted on Beehaw is still public for everyone you can see it, but you shouldn’t be able to post or comment on post from the Beehaw instance

    • Leclipse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I can’t see all the posts only some of them. If I directly go to beehaw.org I can see much more number of posts that don’t show up from lemmy.world. Also I see much lower number of comments than actual on beehaw communities when viewed from lemmy.world.