I'll wait and see how things go.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Hi all, another Reddit refugee here. Glad to see communities forming!!
I think part of that is the confusion around communities, how does a community on each instance mesh together? As people are being pushed away from the primary Lemmy instance due to overloading, the smaller ones look far less populated and lead people to feel that it’s a ghost town.
So when I follow /c/memes, am I following the one on my instance, the one on the first instance that created it or a hybrid of both?
Each instance has its own communities and they're separate from each other. If someone created a /memes/ community on another instance it would be its own thing, but people from other instances would still be able to view it.
To view a community on another instance you'd have to put the instance name in the URL. For example, if there was an instance called "coolinstance.com" with a community called "stuff", then for users on the coolinstance.com instance the URL for that community would be coolinstance.com/c/stuff. If there was another instance called reallycoolinstance.com, they'd still be able to see the "stuff" community, but to them the URL would be reallycoolinstance.com/c/[email protected]. They'd also be able to create their own "stuff" community, and people on coolinstance.com could access it by going to coolinstance.com/c/[email protected].
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We are having a hard time now. Lots of issues due to the volume. We need to ramp up the server hardware.
Trying my best! I have an account on lemmy.ml but with the increase in traffic I’m barely able to use it! Moving to this one which has already helped. Anyone reading this feel free to send a message and say hi!
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It's hard being a lurker for so long, I only started interacting with a few smaller subreddits around sporting events and then within a year, all this crap started happening. Feel sorry for all the 3rd party developers, I used Boost and I'm glad I supported the developer over the years but can't believe how they ended up being treated. Death to Reddit
Share stories, comment. Lurking doesn't generate content.
i just feel so foreign still, then again, everyone does, but it's hard to find the will to interact when you feel foreign, ykwim? like being a stranger at a party, it's all fun and all but it feels pretty hard to just approach a random group of ppl and be like "henlo guys my name is johnathan and i'm here to show u my cat", lmao, but yeah you're right we gotta push it a little bit. no other way to start than by starting.
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This is my first comment. I just made an account on Lemmy.world. If I’m correct, users from other instances have a second @ in their name while native users do not.
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Question: If the equivalent Reddit subreddit doesn't exist that we use, should we create it? Or wait for the moderators from Reddit to create it?
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Being new here I think I'll mostly lurk at first. But here goes my first comment anyways. Looking forward to a growing community.
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Finally I can speak instead of fearing bots and lurkers.
Super excited to be here, honestly. Really hope this place grows significantly
Just downloaded and installed Jerboa on my phone. This is me trying to do my part to help out a user-friendly Reddit replacement.
I am doing my part
I would also suggest starting communities! The bystander effect is strong, dont worry about things too much right now as everything is still relatively small.
I'm doing my part! - shamelessly copied from somebody else