Hello, I’m here, as I’m sure, are you because of recent actions and plans created by Reddit’s admin team to kill 3rd party apps in an effort to bring everything under the official app.

I’m not much of a mod, but I do want Eugene to have a viable alternative for those who are not happy with the direction that Reddit is headed.

A primer for how to think about Lemmy and the “federverse”:

In this world, citizens have a home country, but can visit, live, and interact using a visa without needing to be a citizen of the country that the city is in. Some countries have different rules for their users. Some countries don’t recognize other countries, so their users can’t see the other’s content, but mostly they play along nicely.

The KEY TAKEAWAY is that users can be on the “lemmy.world” instance and be a part of communities on any instance without creating a user there.

The way to refer to communities on other instances in a way that you can interact is to use the URL format of https://{YOUR instance}/c/{communityname}@{COMMUNITY’s instance} (e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml).

The federation model works well because communities will be spread out across different instances and so there’s no ONE service/server that is responsible for ALL of the traffic going on in Lemmy.

I’m requesting that you spread the word about this place, if you feel like it’s the right way to go and if anyone would like to help mod or take over entirely, please let me know.

Cheers @ewe

  • ewe@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Appreciate it. Hope Reddit backs down, but it’s not looking like it and the writing is on the wall that they’re going to IPO and so the great ‘enshitification’ has begun as they try to make it to profitability. Hopefully this site becomes, at the very least, some form of competition. Right now, they’re the big dog. Luckily I think by the time reddit gets really shitty, Lemmy will have a fairly robust set of communities to fall back on since it seems to be happening piece by piece.