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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I'm a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It's definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it's great to see something that isn't Reddit growing in popularity!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your username in the fediverse is not honorfaz, but @[email protected], just as an email. It's the same for communities (or sublemmy, or whatever we decide to call it). It's not c/something, but c/[email protected]. This is why everyone still has a unique handle, but no unique admin.

I'm on my own instance for example, running in my living room, and yet here we are, talking. Internet as it was intented.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@primalmotion so... the lemmy.antisocial.ly part of your username is your own instance that you made. And I can ping you or reply to you by writing it as @primalmotion. Interesting. My log in credentials for kbin.social will not transfer to another instance like lemmy.world, though, will it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just realized I also pinged a bunch of other people in this reply chain, didn't notice it had automatically put all the usernames in at the bottom. Wonder if there's a way to disable that, seems unnecessary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's right, your credentials are unique to your instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so how do you move to another instance and keep all your comments?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think that's possible since each instance is kind of a silo from each other with regard to your activity on that specific instance, even if you post on other instances.. Like since you made a comment/post on one instance that activity stays on that instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems reasonable I probably should have expected that to be fair

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That depends. I think the migration process is part of ActivityPub and would need to be implemented in lemmy. With mastodon, you can move from instance to instance almost transparently.