We’re about to enter another Reddit mass migration phase starting tonight. We’ve already attracted the users most actively engaged with the protests and Reddit’s changes—users who are driven enough to put in the effort to grow the Fediverse.

Now we need to make it feel like home to casual users and lurkers. Not just attract them for a few visits, but keep it interesting enough that they stay here in the coming weeks/months.

Major kudos to all the developers working day and night to bring us familiar-feeling apps and interfaces on insanely short timelines. But what can the rest of us do to make Kbin and Lemmy feel like home to all the new Reddit refugees? Populate Lemmy and Kbin with as much quality content as you can find!

Over the next few weeks, fill your magazines/communities with as much good the content as you can. Post comments and subscribe to things. Click that upvote button on content or comments you like.

Not sure where to find good content? Ironically, check out your favorite subreddits for ideas. Make sure we have the best of the content you can find on Reddit. See a good article or link? Post it here! Don’t be shy about posting to interactive communities like Ask Lemmy- we’re after volume.

For OC Reddit posts, see if there’s a non-Reddit page to post here. I don’t know whether it’s acceptable to copy text posts, but if you do, make sure you at least give credit/copy a link to the original post.

Basically, do everything you can to engage over the next few weeks and avoid lurking. Show off the Fediverse and welcome the next group of Reddit refugees to their new home.

Edit: I completely forgot to call out all the people hosting and upgrading instances to help with the massive influx of users and keep the sites stable. Thank you, hosts!

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    Quality content is one thing. Engagement is another. I see lots of new posts that are good, but little to no comments. What we need is a few good communities with lots of engagement. On reddit I was more of a lurker, here I will start to do my best to comment more in the hopes it helps. (Still, my comments will probably be stupid and uninteresting, so it might do more harm than good, lol)

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      Yup. Engagement draws people.

      I basically never upvoted on reddit, but I need to change that here.

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      I agree. Without engagement, it will lack that sense of community that reddit had.

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        We’ll get there - it’s just about chatting when you have something to offer; we get to be the stimuli, the response or both

        Like, for me, I don’t start conversations particularly often - but I can certainty riff on topics fed add things along the way once the ball is rolling. That’s why I’ve always been more of a comments section person. Guess I’ll have to step out and try posting more!

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      Yeah same here, I hardly ever commented on Reddit posts but I feel like for this to work we all need to actively try to engage with the platform

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    I think a big part of this is making less of the content on Lemmy, be about Lemmy (and reddit).

    How many casual users are going to join, see literally half of their front page being about either Lemmy or reddit, and then just leave?

    Edit: Building on this - I just joined, and my homepage currently has 3 posts that aren’t directly about either Lemmy or reddit.

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      Yeah. Sometimes it feels like it’s just people patting themselves on the back for not using Reddit, which is completely ok, but I’d also like to see other stuff. Like from subreddit I used to subscribe to.

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        I get it. It’s cathartic, and it’s nice to vent about it. It was similar during the digg > Reddit migration and it will naturally end on it’s own, but I do hope it doesn’t last too long.

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          Yeah, I think it’s partly a coping mechanism and partly just the current drama that everyone’s aware of, which makes it safe common ground to make jokes about, as well as pretty much the only thing most people can be fairly sure they have in common with others on a platform that is pretty new to them. A week or so ago Mastodon was pretty full of Titan stuff. Things will move on again.

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      Same problem with Mastodon.

      So many of the most popular posts are self referential - about Mastodon, Twitter or Elon Musk.

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      I’m using wefwef.app on lemmy world and it works great. It might be a problem with individual clients or instances

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        First comment after migrating from Apollo. Tried Kbin for a bit and had trouble navigating and finding content. Switched to Lemmy.world and wefwef and it’s real good so far!!

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        I had issues with lemmy.world with comments not posting while using wefwef, I’m on lemm.me now and I feel it’s a lot smoother!

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      I tried creating an account on lemmy.world at first and could never get it to load correctly. Try joining another instance - lemmy.world is probably overloaded.

      Edit: use lemmyverse.net to look through the available instances, their rules, and their uptime stats.

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        Oooooooooh! Lemmy-NitroSuperFastWow! That is a special one! It’s nice to hear they’ve got the special sauce over there.

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    I think it’s good to encourage those who still have reddit accounts to migrate their content over here in anyway they can before deleting their account entirely. They may have content that they can post that would be beneficial to keep but starve that content from reddit.

    It’s the strongest weapon you can unleash against that cesspit of a platform. New content is being made here daily and it’s amazing, but we have a way to go to compete with such a goliath content farm.

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      Damn good idea. I’m a gamedev and posted a hell of a lot of my work on reddit, so I’ve been hesitant to delete it entirely, because i have an audience, however minor, over there, and a record of progress and contributions to the community. But, as you say, i could just repost it all over here.

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      Honestly, I was hoping smarter folks would’ve figured an easy way to port subs, content etc or make it easier for user to bring their selected content to Lemmy.

      I’m all for rebuilding, but feels like a missed opportunity.

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        I’m thinking about doing that. There’s no reason one couldn’t make a web scraper and just scrape some list of subs and run it through a particular mirror instance of lemmy which other instances would be able to federate with. It just seemed like there wouldn’t be interest in such an idea

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          I think it’s a huge opportunity. The three most valuable aspects of Reddit are: The framework - which Lemmy (and others) are hard at work at building out The community - people are fired up and heading over in droves The content - this will take years to rebuild.

          If someone can tackle #3- I think it would be super valuable to helping people find one home after Reddit.

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            Let me send some messages to lemmy instance owners and see what they think. I know there’s a bit of strain in the federation, but if they like the idea, I don’t mind pulling one of my machines into the mix.

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    I don’t think I’m understanding. This Lemmy business has been a mess to navigate, I am up to six accounts on Lemmy for different versions. What I am trying to figure out, is why can I sort by ‘Top’, select ‘All’ which says it included other communities, but the selection of posts shown with those settings has been different for Kbin, VLemmy, LemmyNSFW, and lemmy.world? If I do this on kbin for example, almost every top post in all is from kbin, same goes for VLemmy, etc etc. Where the heck can I go, and sort by all, to see the top posts of ALL of these Lemmy instances?

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      I think it’s supposed to be like that. The Fediverse is a decentralized platform.

      Each instance you login to is considered Local but you can subscribe to communities hosted on other instances too. When you sort by All it shows the local instance posts + your subscribed communities’ posts.

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        Oh ok? I feel like that makes this not a Reddit competitor then, there are far too many instances with the same community names run by different people posting different or the same exact content. I kind of get the federated bit but now if I want to find what equates to a gaming subreddit I have to search on an external website to find probably 10+ communities by the same name that I now need to monitor for a few days to see which has the content I’m looking for… that’s a LOT of work to do to find a single community as opposed to using reddit where I look up gaming and then join r/gaming.

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          That’ll die down. It’s a new community so it’s a bit like the wild west while everyone finds their place.

          This sort of thing happens on Reddit too, with several subreddits for the same topic. Most of them find their own thing and they become different. The same will probably happen here.

          Yeah, there’s r/Gaming on Reddit, but there’s also r/Games, r/VideoGaming and so on. It’s really not that different here.

          Being able to find communities on other instances does seem to be getting better, and it seems to work better on 3rd party apps like Liftoff, rather than the website or Jerboa.

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            I agree completely with what you say. But I also recognise that a lot of people get confused by all this “techno-babble”. To be honest, I am (admittedly an old) programmer, and I was hesitant and confused at first. I think the average user shouldn’t be concerned with instances. Why do I need to see <user>@<instance> and <community>@<instance>. Just drop the “@instance” (put it in a tooltip at least) and just make community-names unique across all instances (you could still have the same communityname in different instances, but give them a fediverse-alias which is unique)

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              I mean, it’s really not much different from email with different instances. My email address is myname@protonmail.com, and yours is yourname@gmail.com. We’re on different email providers (instances) but we can still talk to each other. That’s not really “technobabble”, I mean, people understand email, right?

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                The problem with analogies is that they will break down at some point. Not to be pedantic or semantic, but social media is not the same thing as an email. It’s not about understanding email but about signing up to a website and finding things of interest without having to think about how it works. Sadly, most people just want things “to work” without having to go through a learning curve, no matter how small. But I could be wrong.

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              I’m kinda opposite of that opinion; at the moment it has the tendency to drop the @instance part when local; if I see anything on sh.itjust.works it’s just !main or something. I guess I’m a Python programmer, explicit is better than implicit.

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                As a programmer myself I get what you’re saying. But for the average user -I suspect- it is just extra, unimportant, information which could be confusing. (It adds no value nor importance)

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                  I would say keeping consistent behavior so as not to confuse users is of value. Also stuff like “Am I on my local instance? It doesn’t actually say anywhere.” This is important information because different instances have different codes of conduct, which users should keep in mind.

                  Which does give me an opportunity to whinge about something: Instances usually post their rules in the sidebar of their homepage, which as far as I can tell cannot be viewed from within an account on another instance. I’m on sh.itjust.works; if I want to look at lemmy.world’s home page to read their code of conduct I have to awkwardly go to lemmy.world, it tells me I’m not signed in up in the corner, then I have to go back over to sh.itjust.works to participate in discussions.

                  Perhaps the instances’ home sidebar should be mirrored beneath the community sidebar for easy reference?

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              If you did that it would get quite dicey quite quickly. How would two instances decide to federate together if they already had a whole ton of common communities (ie “programming” or “memes”), and part of the idea is that you can run an instance without needing to be beholden to the activities of other instances, while still being able to federate with them. Having that strong of a dependency on the other instances would likely make things quite unmanageable.

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                You are not wrong. But that is not user-centric. I think this fediverse has potential, but it needs to find a way to make it more human-centric rather than technical-centric. If it fails, it will probably be because it fails to be intuitive. (just my gut feeling)

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                  That’s a good point. I do have hope that people will come to understand the distributed nature of it not long from now. Mastodon (while confusing at first) seems to have stabilized and most people seem happy with it. That said, if the education isn’t there, then it’ll never be user-centric, and if that doesn’t happen, you’re right that’ll be a big problem.

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          I don’t know, lots of subreddits served similar content with slightly different names. Askreddit/ask, bicycling/cycling and countless others. I guess different cultures/values would exist in each much like on reddit, but one would emerge as the “big” one.

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          Can confirm this. I’ve signed in to dbzer0 instance since the start, and subscribed to communities on other instances.

          I got confused by “ALL”, because there are nsfe and political communities that I know I didnt subscribed to.

          I was able to figure it out, I’m using the connect for lemmy app now, so I just need to select the “frontpage” tab, to show content from subbed communities.

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      You really don’t need 6 accounts, it’s probably easier to use 1 for all of Lemmy.

      Anyways, I think there’s nothing that can really be done about “All” being different for all instances, at least not right now. On a smaller instance, you’ll see a lot more stuff from other instances, and on a bigger instance you’ll see a bunch of stuff from that instance, they seem to prefer posts from themselves.

      I don’t really know how it works, but that’s what I’ve seen. Honestly, it’s not a deal breaker.

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        i know you can just have one account but what people keep ignoring is that when a post links to another instance, you need to log into it. cross posts work well but if you interact with it, you need to log into their instance.

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          Nah, you still don’t need to open their own link. That’s something that’s I think is in the works to be streamlined but is doable with browser extensions, when you click on one link you should get to open the post’s “local” copy on your instance, which would allow you to post your comment there, and that local copy would sync with the original in a bit so that your comment displays there as well. You should still be able to see the post’s local copy if you preface it with your instance’s url, but for doing it automatically yeah, third party clients are doing it already I believe and you can do it on your browser via userscripts. Editing to add that if you’ve subscribed to a particular community and are seeing it’s posts there on your feed, you are basically doing just that, seeing it’s local copy on your own instance. Which is why you can comment on them without needing to login on to the original community instance.

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              It’s in a similar vein to having RES for reddit. I never used it without it, so I don’t mind it. But yeah, it’s something that is being planned to be inbuilt by default so I still don’t think you need to make an account elsewhere by any means. It’s just appending the post link to your own instance’s link. And again, all third party clients already do that by default. I’m on wefwef and it’s been a breeze. Till then, if you’re browsing on a desktop browser, this userscript does the job - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher The biggest benefit to having it would be that it rewrites the links not just on lemmy, but on other websites that have hyperlinks to it too. So even if you’re browsing a website that shares a lem.mee link, it will open up on your own instance instead. Super useful to have not just for using inside of Lemmy, but outside of it too, for a seamless experience.

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      Due to the nature of how Lemmy works, it would be rather difficult to make a tool that federates every instance. Also, some instances block others for various reasons. Lemmy works by federating an instance if any interaction with the other instance is made, so if a user on x.com were to read the comments of a post made by y.com (which is already federated with x.com) and upvoted a comment by z.com (which is not federated yet), it will start federating posts from z.com

      Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong

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    I think I’ve made more posts/comments in the last fortnight, than the last year on Reddit.

    I’ve been posting interesting articles to nearly half a dozen communities each per day, even if nobody is responding.

    I believe it’s worth it to have this activity for those who pass by and see how many people showed up to the party before them.

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      Thank you. As a recent refugee I like that lemmy can fill a void but it’s going to take community effort to have the engagement and diversity that Reddit did. As a decade long Reddit lurker I’ve decided that my lemmy experience will be better if I upvote the things that contribute, comment instead of just lurking, and rather than expecting to jump into this expecting the traffic and variety of the old place, I and the other refugees have an opportunity to make our little spaces in the fediverse a little brighter and grow with the community. It’s an exciting time after the dread of the deadline began to grow. I’m happy I’m here, and I’m happy you (and everyone) are here! Let’s grow together!

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        Absolutely, I’m way more actively engaged on Lemmy than I was in the recent past on Reddit. I feel like the community isn’t too flooded yet, and conversation can be more easily seen. I’m very excited for the future here.

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    I’ll try my best to participate. I’ve always been more of a lurker on Reddit ( due to some social anxieties ) but I’ll try my best to participate. I would love for Lemmy/Kbin to keep the momentum going.

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    Just signed up yesterday. I had my carefully curated feed from almost ten years and now just trying to find my feet. I’ve subscribed to 1 community (memes) but do feel kinda lost. I keep hearing about instances and what’s allowed and what isn’t in each. I’m not sure where to find the stuff I like.

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      I know how you feel. Been trying to find communities that kinda mirror my subreddit selection. I’m pretty sure more are going to come. As far as instances go, don’t think too much about for now. Find communities via the search function and subscribe.

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      Are you using any lemmy app right now? I’d recommend trying jerboa, atleast till the sync/boost apps are here in a few weeks. You can try to use the search function to find communities/subreddit.

      You can think of an instance as a new reddit. So for eg, you can host a reddit called caboose and I can host one with my name. You can have your rules on what’s allowed on your instance. In addition, we can create a “subreddit” called memes on both our instances. You probably want to join the one with the most users. Assuming the meme community on the caboose instance has more users, I’d just join that. Once it reaches critical mass, that’ll become the default memes community on the fediverse! The people on my instance of reddit would just use the memes community on your instance since it’s all interlinked.

      To start, I would suggest browsing via all. Joining communities with high user engagement for now. The niche communities will take time to migrate. In addition, when you search for a community, join the one which has the most users.

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      Go to the Communities tab, set it to All and then search for topics. You’ll likely get a list of relevant communities across the Fediverse. Yes this will likely include several identically named ones like linux@lemmy.world and linux@sh.itjust.works. You might find that there are ten of them, and two with more than a single digit number of subscribers. Probably go with the most popular unless it’s somewhere you really don’t want to interact with. Occasionally check out your Local (communities only on your instance) and All (communities everywhere on the Fediverse) feeds, and you might find some traffic you’re interested in. I don’t think we have one of those insidious engagement-powered algorithms yet.

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    Lemmy needs to come up with some kind of system to keep people from spamming posts. There’s no reason scrolling by new should be half filled with 4 accounts spamming posts in the same community or even across multiple communities. Something like a set amount of time between posts or something idfk.

    Edit: It also needs to let me view my profile without having to go back to the top of the feed

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      That’s a fair point, sorting by new is a great way to hunt for good content and help it get traction, but maybe right now it’s more effort than it should be.

      Having said this, adding a waiting time before posting again might just as easily prove more inconvenient to legit users than those who spam posts, but I’d support it at least for the time being, as discussion right now is spread over several communities so sorting by new on a single community wouldn’t help much most of the times.

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        The algorithm just needs to be tweaked in a way it’s not just true new and instead shuffles between users a bit so it’s not just a stream from one person posting a bunch in one go

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    Can confirm, migrated because they took away my Apollo! Now I’m using wefwef as my new Apollo

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      Wefwef is great, very pretty :)

      I come from Android land so I can’t compare it to Apollo but it certainly looks very good

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          It’s a web app instead of native app. I’m using https://wefwef.app/

          They said they are adding an android skin as well on the road map. I’m assuming you can simply use it on an android phone now, although I haven’t tested so could be wrong.

          https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef

          I’m not sure how you do it on android but in iOS you can add it to your Home Screen and it opens up similar to how a native app would.

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              Jerboa strikes me as RiF without the features and usability I liked about that app, at least for now, hopefully it gets better

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                It’s definitely got a lot of growing and improvement to do, but I think it has a lot of potential once it works out its kinks and can get through the backlog of enhancement recommendations.

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          It’s a mobile web app, so iOS users can visit https://wefwef.app using Safari, then click the Share icon, the click ‘Add to Home Screen’.

          I don’t use Android so I don’t know if there’s a similar process to turn a link to a website into an icon on the Home Screen. I just did a web search and found this website, which I hope is useful for you https://beebom.com/ways-turn-any-website-android-app/

          (Also I’m new to wefwef and this is my first comment using it)

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            Yeah it’s pretty much the same. PWAs are great when developed well and cross platform. Unfortunately they usually are not developed well and push you to go to their mobile apps.

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              Seems like a good way to not have to mess around with App Store approval and stuff though

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                Sure is. Things like payment systems don’t require giving the stores 40% of their cut too and notifications / background / permission limits on apps. Unfortunately PWAs got the issue of harder for average user to install and thus native apps win.

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                  Is it that hard for people? I just opened in a browser and hit the button to add it to the home page. Easy.

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      Wow thank you for this, this really is the best app I’ve tried so far. Love a good webapp.

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    Thank you for everyone’s efforts to make the shift from Reddit as smooth as possible. I am normally a lurker/casual Redditor and will likely continue to be so in the Fediverse, but I want to say how much I greatly appreciate how welcoming people have been. I really hope the transition goes as smoothly for original users, and I will do my best to be as minimally invasive as possible.

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    I’m still massively confused on the setup. Just like Mastodon, this Lemmy thing pushes fragmentation and technology and I just cannot wrap my head around it.

    I would love to have a site ala reddit. There, that is it. I am not super interested in the techniques behind Lemmy but I must because there are ‘servers’, ‘communities’, etc. You can join one server but you might not see (or be able to search) other servers or whatever. The fragmentation is related to this point, I am going to have to hunt for specific ‘groups’ or ‘subreddits’ if you will, and hope it is complete because maybe another group, on another server, will have other content related to your interrest. I cannot even begin about posting items myself because I am already lost on that one, no idea what server to post or how it will be able to be seen by users.

    So I can describe what I would like, so that other can gauge if Lemmy can meet that need, but the fragmentation and technique tells me I am in the wrong place to have this experience.

    What I would like: Frontpage with generic ‘groups’ or ‘communities’ and my subscribed ‘groups’ or ‘communities’, all on the front page/one page, that scrolls continuously without bothering me with ‘techniques’ (choosing servers for example). I can certainly appreciate the techniques behind Lemmy (or Mastodon) but in the end I want to create 1 account, pull in some ‘subreddits’ in my account and when I go to the front page, I get to see all the articles related to the ‘groups’ or ‘subreddits’

    In short: can I arrange Lemmy/Vlemmy in such a way that I get the same experience as I had on/with reddit?

    I am looking for a replacement, not a challenge tbh. Again, fair play on the efforts of the devs but I want to keep my effort at a minimum on this one, I just consume and read news.

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      Soery if I got confused by your question, but isn’t it exactly as it already works??? For transparemcy I use the app connect for lemmy in case it has any unique features.

      First of all, resdit had the same problem to a degree, there were similarly named communities + hundreds of communities for the same topi (think about pc gaming or something like that, there wasn’t only one subreddit, but one got massively bigger than the others and acted as a default)

      Lemmy is sort of the same, when looking for communities search for volume, the ones with the most active users are probably going to be the “official” ones in a sense. I recommend using https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active&nsfw=null

      And also https://browse.feddit.de/

      To search for communities by members, of course you can sinply type the name on a search bar and the communities/magazines will pop up.

      On regards to the front page, there already is an equivalent to all in reddit where some communities from different instances pop up. Aside from that you have local, where it is a frontpage but only for those communities hosted in your instance. Finally you have subscribed, that is the equivalent of “hot” ok reddit where it shows you ONLY the communities you are subscribed to. All this frontline options are available on the browser as well as the apps, that is why I am confused by your question, is this not what you are looking for? Or am I misunderstanding something.

      Don’t doubt to keep asking in case I wasn’t clear :)

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        Forgot to mention, but you aren’t supposed to choose a server/instance and stick with it, just use the search function and it will lead you to communities from different servers and sometimes different sites (for example, a beehive community or a kbin magazine instead of something on lemmy) don’t worry too much about in which instance something is, just subscribe to the community and it will appear on your frontpage.

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      You’re over thinking it, all you need is one account, then browse, the other comment before me had some good advice as well, but I just wanted to add for others reading this that while I understand it seems so at first, once you’re in and subscribed to a few things you do get your infinite scrolling experience, very easy.

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    New to Lemmy (I’ve deleted my reddit account today). Some questions for the experienced users (I’m still a little overwhelmed with how Lemmy works): Is enough to join one server? there are benefits/cons joining more than one? For each server I join I’ll have a different user?

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      There’s usually no need to join multiple servers. The only really reason would be if the communities you want to interact with are in instances that aren’t very well federated (ie connected to lots of other instances). Then you may want accounts on the more isolated instances to access that content and an account on a more mainstream instance to give you access to the rest of Lemmy’s content.

      Managing multiple accounts can be tricky, but I’ve heard some of the apps are good at aggregating the content across multiple accounts. I only have one Lemmy account though so I don’t have firsthand experience.

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      Thanks for the clarifications, people! Another note, i was looking for an android app to use access Lemmy on the mobile. The app Litoff was recommended. I agree. It’s really nice…

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        I’ve started using the app Jerboa on Android, and I’m quite happy with it so far. It is from the same github user Dessalines who created Lemmy. I had to wait until the instance I use updated to version 0.18, though.

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      I think you would have to have multiple accounts if you wanted to start/moderate communities on multiple instances. I…think?..you’re only allowed to start/mod communities on your home instance.