I know this is the hot topic right now but let’s not let Lemmy’s default feed JUST be about the Reddit changes. Seek out your hobbies and comment/vote/post <3
In my opinion that will do more for refugees.
I know this is the hot topic right now but let’s not let Lemmy’s default feed JUST be about the Reddit changes. Seek out your hobbies and comment/vote/post <3
In my opinion that will do more for refugees.
And other instances
Lemmy.world is getting hugged to death
I’m still getting used this fedi system of things. I couldn’t make an account on Lemmy, but I can on Kbin. I wasn’t expecting to see Lemmy posts here so it was a nice surprise
Wait until you notice the Mastodon users in the comments.
So im on mobile and I still haven’t figured out instances. How do I change instances? Is changing instances even a thing or is it too late because I already signed up on lemmy world?
You don’t need to change anything, you can subscribe to communities in other instances and they’ll all be in your subscribed feed.
Ed: with exceptions
The exceptions might be enough to make someone want to at least have an alt account, IMO. (For anyone new, currently, one of the big exceptions is that Beehaw is currently not connected with Lemmy.world, though the leaders of the instances have been talking about it, and they plan to reconnect when some technical wrinkles have been ironed out. So that is definitely temporary. You can participate with both if you are on most other instances, it’s just direct connection that currently isn’t happening).
Other reasons include being able to quickly switch if your instance has technical difficulties, and being part of the instance that has your favorite communities. But yeah, +1 on not having to be part of every instance that hosts a community you like. That’s the beauty of federation!
You can still follow Beehaw comms, just not interact with them. It would be good is users were warned about this somehow.
A furry instance I found is linked to Lemmy.World, but it also requires manual account activation and I saw no way of getting my Lemmy.World account in the system.
Right now, if you want to have an account in another instance, you need to go make a new account in that instance, which is totally fine, so go ahead. Mastodon allows direct account migration, but as far as I know, Lemmy doesn’t have that function yet. (And welcome to the Fediverse! :3 )
Not too late at all. To change instances however, ypu need to register on that instance and do a new account. There isn’t a way to switch instances on one account. Many are hoping there will be at one point a functionality to export stuff from one account to another but I have no idea how realistic that is.
Ah ok cool, i have another question, how many instances are there, too many to count or just a handful? Which instance is best to use ATM to save lemmy.world from being overloaded?