current lemmy status

tbf people just wanna sign up and click on funny links, not browse through 100 rando instances to find the one that lines up with their exact interests and wait for approval and worry about uptime and whether their instance will still exist in a year

As someone who intentionally joined a different instance, the biggest issue is the “federation” doesn’t allow cross-authentication. Clicking a link to another instance moves me to that instance where I’m not logged in. Authentication should really be cross-instance.

New feddit.de user reporting in

Ze Germans seem to have their own monopolistic instance

hi from other fediverse server

Lemmy.world checking in

First I created account there and then landed on my current instance, because lemmy.ml's admin views looks sketchy for me. Been living in ex-ussr for all my life I just cant accept all that communists and marxists and the fact that lemmy.ml has /c/Communism on it.

I know that's silly but that's why I'm not there anymore.

I joined mander.xyz because it has a lot of science oriented communities and that's why I'm here. Super happy to have found it.

It's at the top of the list on join-lemmy.org's popular server list, next to lemmy.world and beehaw.org, of course new users will sign up on the more popular ones. Plus, a few posts on reddit called out these three which set everything in motion.

Once folks start to understand how it works, they might start to sign up on other ones, for a "cooler handle @ address" for their user, or register a domain and start their own instance like I did.

Anyway, welcome aboard, right?

proudly hailing from NOT lemmy.ml 🤗

I signed up for another one, but they haven't approved me yet!

Lemmy.world gang

I tried to make an account on lemmy.ml and it looks like their servers are (understandably) overloaded

I ended up choosing lemmy.world instead

My understanding is I'm not missing out on anything by chosing a less-popular instance. Did I get that right?

I created my own server...

lemmy.ca - Hailing from beautiful Nova Scotia! 🇨🇦

The dude on the left is too happy about it to be a lemmy.ml admin.

I'm in lemmy.world. they have an associated mastodon as well.

And I thought I had choose the wrong one....

Lemmy world was the only one that let me sign up lol

I definitely didnt pick sh.itjust.works for the funny name, naaaaaaaaah

I'm using Lemmy.world, but I still need to get away from the traditional mental model of usernames. It bothers me a bit knowing someone could use my username on another server and interact with the servers I do... But then again, nothing prevents someone from creating my Gmail on Yahoo. So it's just a matter of getting used to things.

Problem is that a) new users don’t know that they can join communities across servers, and b) it is intuitive use start with the servers that a lot of people like.

Instance browsing and onboarding is probably the biggest challenge to Lemmy’s growth. The current experience either scares new people away, or encourages them to congregate on a limited set of instances.

I guess many newcomers just go the easy way

I was advised by a redditor to join '.word' because ml was overwhelmed

Not really sure what the difference is tbh. I'm here interacting with an ml community so why not?

I'd like to know if I can make my own subreddit equivalent though?

Hello from beehaw.org!

New lemmy.ca member checking in! This is pretty cool.

Solution: change servers

After reading the "we are full" notices and doing some research I was able to easily create an account on lemmy.ca increasing the represention for BC.

They need to do away with the ridiculous manual approval process on most servers and recommend servers that forego it on the main site.

I use lemmy.world. they have an associated mastodon as well.

lemmy.world unite!

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Other servers are snappier than lemmy.ml

The documentation explaining how fediverse works is so bad. It's so long and convoluted anyone new just can't be bothered reading it.

Hello from lemmy.ca

Hello from lemmy.world! Don't come here, I think it's starting to get overloaded too. Lemmy.one looks like it may be in a good "growing but not snowballing yet" position, go over there and get that ball rolling.

Well, hello from feddit.de! Since I'm a german user I thought it'd be only logical to register on a german instance. While new registrations are semi-locked, the criteria for being let in are quite easy to pass and they are mostly in place to filter out spam. Got my account approved right on the next day

Proud to be a sh.itjust.works user

My work blocks lemmy.ml but not many other instances. Unfortunately all the heaviest memes are on lemmy.ml ! I just want to look at fun memes instead of my lame ass patients what’s wrong with that

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com for generative ai, neurodivergence, and anarchism and copylefts

I like lemmy.world, because anyone can create their own community.

I joined sopuli.xyz because they have a cute fuzzy animal in a hat as their logo.

Beehaw seems pretty dope

We could use alternatives, but Lemmy is the best!

Yeah I have been finding it hard to wrap my head around this federation part.

I created my account at sh.itjust.works but I don't fully understand Lemmy yet. Finding communities seems confusing.

How easy is it to migrate yourself from one to another?

This is something that lemmy devs need to better address. This is an "Eternal September" kind of situation. People (me included) are not used to the fediverse. They think you can participate only if you're in that instance. And people want content, so they think "why's the instance with most people? Ahh lemmy.ml? Cool, let's join.

Hello from tchncs.de!!

I just don't get why every other reasonably big alternative bans lemmygrad.

Whaaat there are alternatives?

If I want to comment on another insurance such as beehaw.org, do I need to create a different account or can I log in with one that I created on lemmy.ml?

lemm.ee gang

Sopuli.xyz has been a reliable instance :)