Hello new people joining the #Mastodon and #Lemmy sides of the #Fediverse! How did you find yourself here? What was the specific point that lead you to make the jump?
[posting to the @technology community on https://beehaw.org]
Hello to you, too.
I’ve been thinking about joining the Fediverse for a long time now but was always too lazy to take the first step. Now with the troubles over at YOU-KNOW-WHICH-PLATFORM, I finally did it.
Tried a few different instances over the couple two weeks until I finally settled with my current one. Communities seem to be generally much nicer and less toxic. Glad to be part if this - should have done it much sooner!
@obiwantan welcome here, and thanks for the reply. Its awesome to see so many new faces!
Welcome to Fedi, be sure to add a few #hashtags with your interests as that way people can follow / interact based on interest.
If you need help, just ask, the community is here to help
Thanks, will do.
Question, what client are you using to post? Your post title on lemmy reads like this.
"< p >Hello new people joining the <a href=“https://social.wake.st/tags/Mastodon” class=“mention hashta”
I have seen this before but have no idea why its formatted that way
They’re using mastodon it looks like, idk why posts from there show up like this though, this isn’t the first one I’ve seen.
Probably bc Mastodon toots don’t have a post title, so it looks like Lemmy just uses the first x-many characters from the toot body, which includes some markdown links.
So I guess either mastodon would need to add some custom code that detects a Lemmy federated post and prompts its user for a title, Or Lemmy would need to detect that it’s a mastodon toot and add some sort of generic title like “Cross toot from Mastodon”
Does this response also do that? I don’t generally see markup on my comments when I click through to beehaw but maybe it shows up for some users and not others?
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@eric5949 So for now it probably seems safe to reply as normal, and simply ensure that there aren’t tags in the post title when posting to a community, is what I’m thinking then.
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I actually found Lemmy trough comments on Tweakers.net (A Dutch website about tech news). I was reading about the Reddit API changes and how Reddit was dealing with App developers, and felt like it was worth trying an alternative.
I tried Mastodon half a year ago, but it always felt like I was on the wrong server and I did not want to deal with using multiple accounts. The whole Federation setup feels a lot smoother here on Lemmy.
Had been eyeballing it for a awhile already. Just needed a little bit of a push to make the jump and start actually taking the time to grok the concept.
I’ve done social community migrations probably 2 or 3 times though already (Usenet -> Forums -> Social Media), so this all feels pretty old hat to me. Unlike previous Reddit revolts, Lemmy strikes me as an actually useable alternative, especially since other Fediverse communities can help pad out content while the site still tries to build out its own legs and specializations.
@liaizon @technology I didn’t know it was possible to post to #Lemmy communities from the #Fediverse, that’s awesome!
@realcaseyrollins @technology yeah you just have to tag the communities in the post. and it grabs the first sentence as the title of the thread!
@liaizon @technology That’s pretty dope. I’ll have to test that on my end!
@liaizon @technology I wasn’t big on twitter, but when Mastodon got popular in the wake of the twitter migration I saw an opportunity to capture back some of the joy in connecting with others that I felt had been kind of robbed over the years. Have been quite enjoying running a mastodon instance and now that lemmy and kbin are getting popular I want to keep things going!
The specific point for me was the attacks on @christianselig@mastodon.social from that dumpster fire of a website.
I had been looking at Mastodon since @deviantollam@defcon.social spoke so highly of it and the platform it provides for marginalised groups but personally dislike the microblogging format, and when looking for Reddit alternatives it seemed like Lemmy would be a catch all for me. Looking forward to the integration getting tighter to expand discussions across the fediverse.
@Compgeek thank you for the reply! This is really interesting to hear what specific moments in time cause such drastic change in our ability to reach different communities.
I think federation is the future of user-created content sharing, it just was always a bit ‘early’ for me when replacing existing social media and not having my existing networks there. I think the Reddit/Lemmy mindset being around connection over interests instead of with specific people reduces that friction and the technology is mature enough for prime time (scaling issues aside).
It’s an exciting time for the internet!
I heard of lemmy when the whole reddit thing happened. I had heard of the fediverse a while back with mastodon but twitter-like platforms don’t interest me so I didn’t check it out. I can’t say I’ve made any jump/migration. I’m not one for internet drama so I haven’t taken my reddit account behind the barn in a fit of rage or anything. Currently using both with the goal to phase out reddit as content improves on the communities accessible via lemmy.
Hello! I’m a very ordinary person, found That Other Site from Digg and now am bumbling around here. I had a look at Mastodon a while back but didn’t make the leap until this week. I was just going to do the two days, but what happened with Apollo specifically was so shitty I’m making a permanent move away. Initially I was on Mastodon but I kept seeing Lemmy recommended and here I am. I don’t fully understand the Fediverse or how I’ve ended up with three instances, but I’m enjoying learning. Such a friendly place! Thanks!
