Comment by steakfries@lemmy.one on Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News

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dude same. 13 years. Reddit has been a huge part of my life for a long time. I even lurked for a year or so before making an account. It feels like a break up in a weird way, but lets remember we’re breaking up because they’ve become a controlling abusive spouse and we deserve better :)

I’ve had the best day. Most I’ve accomplished in a while IRL. And of corse exploring around this place.

Now we’ve entered a polyamorous relationship (multiple Lemmy instances)

Honestly it’s all pretty confusing to me I’m getting better and better but I think its gonna take a couple weeks.

I keep having to force myself to use Lemmy instead. I literally just caught myself on Reddit. Ugh

I made my reddit app not have access to data over wifi or the cell network, so when I open it, it opens and forever is “loading” until I realize my mistake.

I solved that problem by deleting the app I used for Reddit. I mean, it’s going to stop working in about two weeks anyway, so might as well delete it now.

yeah i deleted Sync :( and just replaced the app with the Jerboa app for Lemmy. Now i open my phone and automatically click Lemmy and its working pretty well for me.

Honestly? I fucking love it.

Its SO fast (I have my own instance), and instead of subscribing to subreddits and one server, now I subscribe to communities and multiple instances.

The people are responsive.

Only problem is missing niche communities, and discoverability, but that will improve with time hopefully with something like multi-reddits.

I also have my own instance. But it feels so lonely being the only one on a sever haha. That being said, do you know if upvotes and downvotes are also federated? In fact, I’m using jerboa on beehaw and I don’t think I see any upvote / downvote metrics

Fairly sure upvotes/downvotes on comments have been federated into my instance. I can’t see it on Lemmy’s webUI but it appears via the mlem app.

beehaw disabled downvotes, but other instances haven’t. the sidebar said disabled downvotes encourages more active discussion, and prevents unpopular opinions from being silenced by a flood of downvotes. they want people to engage by saying “i disagree with you, here’s why” instead of passively downvoting and moving on.

you should be able to see you the upvotes on your comments though.

and like why is your name so long. it says @nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev that just seems ridiculous. why not just nii236

Says you:

I’m chatting to you from https://lemmy.jtmn.dev, and you’re chatting to me from https://lemmy.one, on a community on https://beehaw.org.

okay I’ve learned a bit because I’m pretty sure I understand that now. Like I said it’s gonna take a few weeks but I’ll get there. I’m pretty determined to leave reddit and have been for a long time just needed a push. I’m already making my way around my new “frontpage” alright. I do like how fast everything is and how comments and upvotes seem to be live.

See like I dont even know what you just said lol. I don’t know what an instance is or what a server means in this context, and i know what a community is kinda but no idea why they are called something.something//Lemmy.something.biz.kbin haha. and I dont know what multiple instances is.

I’ve got a lot to learn. But hey I managed to reply to this so im getting somewhere.

Think of lemmy as like an email (except everyone can see it). You have an email address “steakfries” and the domain you registered your email on “@lemmy.one” so if I want to email you I have to enter in @steakfries@lemmy.one

I can “email” you from any domain, be it Gmail, yahoo, my own server, etc and you can likewise respond.

Okay, here’s how I explained it to my kid.

You’ve got the united states, that’s lemmy.

You’ve got states, which are instances. Servers are the roads inthem ,and the things that keep the roads working.

Communities are cities.

Kbin is Canada. Mastadon is France, where they do things weird, but they’re working on the same basic principles.

The fediverse is the UN.

It ain’t exactly right, but it ain’t exactly wrong :)

This has helped me more than anything else I think lol love it.

haha that gave me a good laugh :)

Yeah that’s the problem I think, is that the majority of people aren’t familiar with how web technologies work and how all the communication happens.

Basic users can just signup on lemmy.ml, or beehaw.org forever and just treat it like their new Reddit home.

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