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I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.

The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.

Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?

Thanks for hearing me out.

TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, it is a bit frustrating... I also don't really understand how it all works. I know that for some reason I need to make the same account over and over.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You definitely shouldn't need to do that, one account is enough.

Maybe you're confused because communities can be on different instances (servers). But you don't need to make an account on those instances, because all the instances are federated together. That means you can just have your account on one instance and follow and participate in all your communities from there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless they arbitrarily defederate. Which you wouldn't be aware of unless you're following specific communities, which you may or may not be able to follow without making separate accounts.

And like, I understand the intention. The fediverse is a good idea. But let's not pretend it's "easy". Average users are subject to the whims of admins as much or more than on Reddit, because here, admins can effectively hide /r/piracy, and you'll never have known it even existed. Understanding the mechanics that allow that process is more complicated than learning reddit. I'm not prepared to say it's worse, but it's different.

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

I'd say that's part of the reason I still go back to reddit. It's so easy to pull up any community and be signed in. With lemmy it's a hassle.

The instance I'm on (eg smaller ones) doesn't defederate. I see everything. lemmy.ml, beehaw, lemmynsfw. .world isn't a great instance to home account on. They've already blocked like 30 instances https://lemmy.world/instances

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Eh? You shouldn't need more than one account.