Keep trying on other instances unless your views align with .ml. Otherwise you'll be automatically deemed a tankie by a lot of people and that might alter your experience on the fediverse.
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Thanks for the advice, mate. But, can I simply move to the other instances or I need to make a new account in that particular instance that I want to move?
youd have to make a new account. also there are other platforms that fully integrate with lemmy like mbin example: https://moist.catsweat.com that dont look like someone forgot half the css.
You can also use alternate UIs, or apps.
I run my own photon instance for use on desktop, but you can use the official one to use any lemmy account with the photon UI.
I discovered Alexandrite on desktop and it looks pretty damn good too. And it's pretty fast.
Thanks for the response and assist, mate.
You will have to make a new account on the new instance.
Oh no! π
It will be just another addition to your collection of lemmy accounts.
Iβm still a little bit confused about your explanation. The instances are different account from one and another, right? Not like Reddit that we can follow the subreddit in a single account.
You can follow communities located on other instances, but cannot login using your account on another instance
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Welcome, friend!
I'd advice you to be cautious with lemmy.world, it's turning into a new Reddit
(and it's bad for the network/federation to have such large centralised instances anyway. So you'd help keep the network healthy by choosing an instance besides .ml and .world)
Thank you, mate! Luckily I canβt sign up through the .world instance.
You probably already know the join-lemmy.org instance picker, but in case you don't, here it is:
Not yet, mate. Thanks for the link.
Oh that is the instance finder, right? Yes, I already know about that. My bad. Thank you anyway.
Hey there π
Hey mate!
Btw, I just aware this morning that youβre the founder of Lemmy. π Itβs my pleasure, Mr. Founder.
One of them, @nutomic is the other, but we have a ton of contributors now. Glad to have you.
Hi there! I would reccomend continuing to poke around at any instances that seem cool to you.
But Iβm too lazy to make an another account. π Anyway, thanks for the advice, mate.
First of all, welcome to lemmy.
Second of all, make a second/ backup account on a smaller instance based on what youre gonna use Lemmy for.
Thanks for the advice, mate. I really appreciate it. π
Ya I use different accounts on Lemmy to customize my home feed right now since Lemmy doesn't have a multi reddit-like feature yet. Also, every now and then an instance goes down, had technical problems, or people randomly decide to defederate with it. That person's advice is pretty good. I mostly stick with this account now, but I feel better knowing I have a backup lol.
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Welcome to Lemmy
Thank you, mate.
Hello and welcome! I didn't see a couple things mentioned that I thought were very helpful to me with the instance choosing, so I just wanted to pass it along...
If you look at your account kinda like an email, all the emails can communicate with each other, just like the instances can communicate. Though, an instance can also block another so thay it can not be seen/interacted with. Like, gmail deciding they will no longer accept yahoomail, for example.
.ml has been blocked by a variety of others, so you may be missing out on some interests elsewhere, that you would enjoy.
I use an app and have a few different accounts, the app lets me just swap my sign in profiles back and forth as I like. Sometimes a server goes down or an update goes bad. Having another account let's you check in on the action, on those who are still up and running while the other gets worked on. You can even use the same name, your @ will just change.
Initial sign up is roughest step really... but not much harder than grabbing a new email!
OK, that was more than a couple, hopefully something was helpful though and helps your experience here!
Thatβs exactly what I thought. Instances is like email providers. I just hope that we can use just a single handle that can choose different kind of instance just like Reddit. Itβll a lot more easier I guess.
I never knew .ml was banned by other instances. This explains a lot actually
Welcome to Lemmy! I hope you have a great time here! π
Sometimes instances can have technical problems, but they are usually short-lived. It's fun to explore other Lemmy instances though!
Thanks for the wish, mate.
Welcome, new lemming!
Thank you, mate!
Welcome! Have you found the Lemmyverse Explorer? It's a great way to find communities to join, and other instances in case you want to make a backup account.
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Hey, welcome! Glad youβre here
Thank you, mate.
Msg the .world mods to see why it failed. I had to make one on .world as .ca was having email issues, once I msgd the .ca admins they said "Damn it!" and added me manually, good luck
Yeah, I think I got a same issue. In my three times sign up application, I successfully link my email all the time but it end up I canβt sign in my account. But donβt worry Iβm fine with my .ml instance so far. ππΌ
Glad you're liking it so far, welcome!
Just a word of warning, however. The instance you're on is rabidly authoritarian communist and they have to proselytize, if you say anything bad about China or Russia (and to a lesser extent, Iran, North Korea, really anyone who doesn't like "The Westβ’ Π±Π»ΡΡΡ") you'll likely be banned. If that happens, try any other instance other than lemmygrad or hexbear which are more of the same but worse, all the rest (like db0, .ca, .ee, .world, etc) are cool.
I warn you, because sometimes it ends up taking people by surprise who thought they were joining a general instance not a "marxist-leninist" instance (especially now that they pretend that isn't why they chose .ml, 3 years ago they admitted it but now they downplay it to fool the newcomers.) Sometimes it turns people off the fediverse entirely (because y'know, murderous idiots aren't great company) but I just wanted to say that while you'd still have to deal with those people due to federation the mods on other instances don't have their back and you won't be banned from say .world for saying the Chinese government is a problem. Finally I'd like to add that there are instances which don't federate with the worst two, hexbear and lemmygrad, but not many that don't federate with .ml.
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