Lemmy

I checked the documentation, but I have no idea how to move from one instance to another. Is it because beehaw.org is also struggling or am I just too dumb for this?

I have been wondering how cumbersome the Lemmy design will become for some. I love the idea that it is federated and decentralized however these are also major drawbacks for most average users (i.e not multi account users.

Multiple accounts needed for maximum uptime on different instances. What if I really like my username and its taken on another instance? If one instance is down and i comment with my other account will i then need to manage replies etc through different profiles? What happens if something spins up another instance of a similar domain so that they can get a username of someone to imitate them? I am sure these can be blocked after the fact or will other federated instances be automatically blocked.

What happens when someone gets bored of their instance and stops it, or it gets blocked, or they start getting unwanted attention. Does this mean all that content then goes into the ether?

Will this go down the route of whomever provides the instance with the most resources, best load balancing becoming the one, blocking other instances and controlling it as if it were private and independent?

There are a lot wait and see things, but I am excited to help and see what this great project becomes.

Did my part and created an instance in the hopes of offloading some of the bigger instances: https://rammy.site

No clue if and how I should promote it, though. Looks like it's just me for now.

https://lemmy.ml/c/piracy

I'm a noob. I created an account on beehaw and on lemmy.ml. That's because I see communities on one instance that I'm interested in and a different community on another instance. So if there's a technology community on both, how do I get to see all the technology posts without having to have two accounts?

This is really confusing for noobs like me. I'd just like to see one community to technology, one for Science, one for nintendo etc. I don't care it it's spread out amongst different servers to divvy up the load, but from the user side, it needs to be seamlessly integrated.

I'm still learning how all this works though. But I don't know how many folks that are more casual than me will be willing to figure it out. I hope they do though! It'll be worth it to leave reddit in the rearview mirror!

Edit: lawdy, I just figured it out. Local vs all on the communities list. It was right in front of my face. good grief!

this site is currently 😗 struggling to handle 🧱 the amount 🈷️🈷️🈷️ of new 💎👑 users. 🏻 I 😱 have 🈶 already 😞 upgraded the server, 🦋😘 but ✋🏽 it will 👀 go 😩 down 👤 regardless 😜😘 if half 🎵 of Reddit 💰 tries to join. 👌 However 🤔 Lemmy is federated software, 👨‍💻 meaning 😏 you 👉 can 🎥 interact seamlessly with communities on 👄 other 💰 instances like 👍👌 beehaw.org or lemmy.one. The documentation explains 📢 in 🏡👸 more ✋🍗 detail 🇩🇪🐊🐉 how 🤐 this works. ♿ Use 😏 the instance 👉🙄 list 🥵 to find 🔍 one 1️⃣ where ⬇️ you 👈 can 💦 register. Then 🥵 use 😐🤔😴 the Community 👩👩 Browser to find 🔎 interesting 🤔 communities. Paste 🍒🥖💦💦🥛 the community 👩 url into 😫😩🍑 the search 🔍 field 🏑 to follow 👣 it. You 🙇 can 🥫 help ⬛💠🔷◾🔴🚩🇦🇿🇦🇬 other 👪 Reddit 👽 refugees by 😈 inviting 😎 them 😘 to the same 🏆🤷 Lemmy instance 🤔 where 🤷 you 👈🏼 joined. 🈴 This way 👟 we 🔪 can 👺 spread 👐 the load 😼 across ➡️ many 👬 different 🚿🛀🧖🏼‍♀️🙆🏼‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️💅 servers. And users 😏😼 with similar 💯 interests will 💍⚽ end 🔚🔵👯‍♂️ up ⬆️ together 👫👬 on 🎂 the same 🙂👍👍👍👍 instances. Others 🏼 on 👥⬅️💡 the same 😯 instance 👉 can 🔫 also 👨 automatically 🤖 see 👀 posts 📱💻 from 💋 all 🧏‍♂️🧏‍♂️🧏‍♂️🧏‍♂️ the communities that 👏 you 👆 follow. 👣 Edit: 📑 If you 👉 moderate a large ⬛ subreddit, 💻 do 🍆👺 not 🚫 link 🌐🔗 your 👉 users 📤🏻 directly to lemmy.ml in 🥕 your 👉 announcements. That 😟🔇 way ❌ the server 🧁🌟 will 🌽🌽 only ☝️ go 😓 down 👎🍺🍺🤮 sooner. 🕛 (joke)