how do we federate (connect) to peertube instances from lemmy? does it show up on our lemmy feeds?

Thanks for sharing! If you’re going to take the plunge (I plan to in the future) feel free to start a post and update it with your adventures.

I’m sure someone will post the specifics of how to initiate a search and “link” your instances, I use a browser (mobile and PC) on the Lemmy site and click communities to see what’s “connected/federated”. In the interim as someone else also adjusting to the change, remember to give it time. Its a newer medium and most of us are just coming here flooding it. It will grow and improve and “connect”.

I think we all have to get used to the withdrawal from being force fed SO much information and garbage that the fear of missing out and small quantities of content are creating cyclical anxiety. Am I doing this right? What am I missing? where is my content? Why is there not more content? Am I doing this right?..etc.

Good Luck, Welcome! and I’ll save this message as well to come back and see if there has been a clear way described.

Thanks for joining and posting! Yes this shake up with Reddit has led me to rekindle the old love for the rough edge of free networks. I’m excited to try all the “new” options and explore some of the older options modernized. Possibly start a new bbs as well but with modern options to old systems. I also ran a bbs back in the day with other locals and even a school sanctioned one, right around the time “freenets” we’re becoming a thing and e-mail/Usenet we’re just taking off. Not sure, for now I’m enjoying the exploration!

Adding another link if there is any interest https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/faqs

Welcome. I think the resurgence is some of us are bored with having a few major platforms regurgitate the same content and ads while gobbling up our lives as content. I personally miss the exploration of finding a new, open, and public service. Lemmy seems interesting, newish, and cumbersome enough that I’m excited to see how it evolves. It’s also rekindled my curiosity from the BBS days, the beginning of email and web browsers, when Usenet was full of FAQs and everyone wanted to share things they knew and were good at. They weren’t “better days”, things were hard to figure out, there are always bad actors, but it felt like a more tiered sharing to me. So like they always like to yell on large platforms, if you don’t like how the platform works/behaves create your own. So this is as good a time as any for us to create a new community the way we like it.