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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by hllywluis to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I'm a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It's definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it's great to see something that isn't Reddit growing in popularity!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I don't really know whats going on the whole instance thing confuses me. Whats it's pros? Why use it

[–] Barbarian 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

Basically 4 things:

Pick your own admin. I'm sure the kbin admin is awesome (can't be worse than spez, lol) but it's nice to have the option
Have more control over what your server federates with. Hate interacting with people from a specific server? Move to one that blocks it. Want to interact with people from a blocked instance? Move to one that doesn't block them. Basically more options.
Don't like the rules on your server? Go to one where you like the rules better.
Your server is down? That's fine, go to a different one temporarily. You're gonna feel this hard on Monday. Kbin's gonna get crushed by the Reddit hug of death. You might wanna join up to a small Lemmy instance that the horde won't notice if that happens and you still wanna be on.

If you like kbin's admin, federation settings and rules? Then cool! You're missing absolutely nothing from being there (except when it's down). It's nice to have options though.

Secret number 5:

If you know how to host a server, you can host your own Lemmy instance and have all the powa!

[–] hllywluis 2 points 1 year ago

This. Being able to move to a different instance if your main one is down and being able to host your own are very much pros to this.

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