Aww man, no auto-play of gifs? OK...
slashzero
joined 1 year ago
Will do!
I’m in the process of setting up my own instance for fun, as today was a slow work day.
Time will tell. Given Reddit’s behavior recently, alternatives like lemmy are bound to see a spike in users. Just keep in mind that more users doesn’t necessarily mean good content.
Well, my understanding is your user exists on whatever instance you signed up on. You could technically create users on every single instance, but that is not necessary. You only need one user to exist somewhere, and then you can subscribe to, and post to communities on other instances.
For example: from lemmy.ml, if you search for [!gaming@beehaw.org](/c/gaming@beehaw.org) you can then open the sidebar and subscribe to, and post to, the gaming community on beehaw.org with your lemmy.ml user.
!gaming@beehaw.org is not the same community as !gaming@lemmy.ml
Yup. That played a big role for me, too. The other factor was lemmy.ml was the first to approve my signup, finally giving me the ability to post. I’m still looking around to get a feel for other instances, and might even set up my own.
I’d wager a large percentage are bots, too!
I’m not ditching Reddit, just here trying out alternatives.
How has your lemmy experience been so far?
Well… I’m scrolling and F5’ing as if I was on Reddit, so honestly doesn’t feel that different, yet.
First post for me!
Sorry, I applied and got approved here. Still waiting to hear back from beehaw…
I’m really digging this UI compared to Reddit, but I am 99.9% a mobile user via the native Reddit app (don’t @ me!)
I am very tempted to setup my own instance. Wondering what resource usage looks like for an instance.
Welcome aboard! Folks over on the /r/startrek subreddit were talking about finding a community on lemmy.