With spez ascending the last few remaining levels of becoming an absolute wanker, it’s about time I got more active and I have been wondering how should I be using Lemmy efficiently? Like many I migrated from Reddit and I was primarly using Apollo to browse through my subscribed subreddits.

Over here on Lemmy.one, I have subscribed to communities and I scroll through my feed by sorting “All > Top Day” because sorting “All > Hot” means I end up seeing the same threads.

Then earlier today I discovered https://beehaw.org/communities where I found many communities I would love to subscribe to but then I got confused because I am also subscribed to more or less similar communities on lemmy.one.

I think I am sort of struggling to wrap my head around how lemmy really works and where I should be hanging out. It was easier on reddit in the sense that if I wanted to go LOTRmemes, there was only subreddit but here on Lemmy, there seem to be multiple instances of the same community :D

To top it off, it is proving hard to login to beehaw [probably the server is under stress] with the same details I use to login into Lemmy.one.

Not to forget there’s also Kbin which I haven’t even begun exploring. Phew.

ps - my apologies if I am sounding slightly incoherent as this is all new to me. If there is anyone out there who has this all figured out, I’d appreciate any help here.

  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    02·
    1 year ago

    Now what might really cook your noodle is the info that the developers of the Lemmy software are pro-Russian genocide deniers, and there’s a growing sentiment to not support that by dropping Lemmy in favor of kbin or something else.

    Just as I was starting to get the hang of this, it feels like I stepped into another wasp nest.

    Ookay, then let’s look at kbin, right? Well, there’s literally only ONE developer and the current version still very much a (good) beta version. So, not kbin either, then?

    What’s left? Beehaw, who act like snowflakes and have disconnected from where growth and interesting stuff is happening?

    I feel pretty lost in the sea of the fediverse right now. Go back to Reddit? Naw, not right either.

    • kerplunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Let’s say they are - who cares? They write the software, they don’t run the server you are on unless you are on their server, so don’t be on their server then. That’s the whole point of federation. If one developer at some company you like is a tankie, you wouldn’t use that software?

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Except this is open source developed software. Using it doesn’t actually funnel money to those people is any way similar to using something that is commercial does.

      Unless you’re also a direct supporter of that individual dev via buymeacoffee.com or something.

      And again, it’s open source. We can literally just take the code from them and start making it our own.

      The devs have literally no power over instance admins. And anyone can start up a node, and be one.

      That’s one of the perks of open software. Unlike with corporations, where you have to take or leave the whole thing, you can actually change things in the direction you want without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

      Maybe that’s Kbin, maybe its a future fork of lemmy that is able to convert existing nodes.

      Regardless, the boycotting for change that we are forced to resort to under capitalism, isn’t relevant here.

    • Willie@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Well, you can always put one foot on each side. Make an account on both, use both a bit.

      kbin has a better interface, in my opinion though, I’m cheering for them!

    • slybird@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Mostly just wanted to make my first comment

      I haven’t signed up for Lemmy. Between the Lemmy and Kbin I like this Kbin a heck of lot more and decided to sign up here.

      I haven’t abandoned Reddit and I have no plans on doing so. I’ll probably be on both platforms if this one takes off or until Reddit becomes something like a Myspace. For now I’m just exploring here.

    • Golfindriel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      This is the first time I hear about the Lenny developers being pro-Russian. Do you have any source where we can look into it?