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How has ur lemmy experience been so far? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

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

So if I create the community "beerpong" on my instance feddit.de you can subscribe to it, it will go in to your feed like it was on yours. You can interact with it just as if it was on yours.

But you or someone else could also create the community "beerpong" on your instance lemmy.one. If you view communities on other instances than your own there name will show up differently. Since I'm on feddit.de the community shows up as "[email protected]" on my screen to indicate which community exactly it is.

So if you will there could be "duplicate" communities. But imo that's not really an issue. On Reddit you essentially also have duplicate communities. They have slightly different names. There is r/publicfreakout and then there is r/actualpublicfreakout. You might think that two communities could have the same name on lemmy but they actually can't if you understand that the full name of a community is the combination of the community name and the instance it's running on.

So this is NOT asklemmy. It's [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

do I have to make a new account on each instance to interact? can someone have my username on another instance?

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

No, for instance I am interacting with you from a different instance
Yes, but it will show what instance they are from. So the identical appearance is only superficial.