For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?

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!

Ultivek ,
@Ultivek@kbin.social avatar

I don't really know whats going on the whole instance thing confuses me. Whats it's pros? Why use it

Barbarian ,
@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works avatar

Basically 4 things:

  • Pick your own admin. I'm sure the kbin admin is awesome (can't be worse than spez, lol) but it's nice to have the option

  • Have more control over what your server federates with. Hate interacting with people from a specific server? Move to one that blocks it. Want to interact with people from a blocked instance? Move to one that doesn't block them. Basically more options.

  • Don't like the rules on your server? Go to one where you like the rules better.

  • Your server is down? That's fine, go to a different one temporarily. You're gonna feel this hard on Monday. Kbin's gonna get crushed by the Reddit hug of death. You might wanna join up to a small Lemmy instance that the horde won't notice if that happens and you still wanna be on.

If you like kbin's admin, federation settings and rules? Then cool! You're missing absolutely nothing from being there (except when it's down). It's nice to have options though.

Secret number 5:

If you know how to host a server, you can host your own Lemmy instance and have all the powa!

honorfaz ,
@honorfaz@kbin.social avatar

@Barbarian So I have a few questions, being new to all this:

  1. Seemingly I am responding to you when you're on a different instance. I'm on kbin and you're on... sh.itjust.works? Am I understanding this right?
  2. My kbin account is restricted to just kbin, correct? I cannot use my kbin credentials to log on to another instance like sh.itjust.works.
  3. How do I make an original comment (this is a bit dumb lol). I see the option to reply to others but no "comment" button for me to comment on my own.
  4. On kbin specifically... what is a microblog?
  5. (Last one promise), what is up with the @stuff. I see this post link is kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.mt... I figured the /m is like reddit's /r, but what is the asklemmy@lemmy.mt meaning that this is the magazine/community from lemmy.mt when shown on the kbin /m/ instance version? Not sure if this question makes any sense lol I'm just trying to understand how this all works
primalmotion ,
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Your username in the fediverse is not honorfaz, but @honorfaz, 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/something@instance.com. 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.

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