Asklemmy

1454 readers

69 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

409

For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by hllywluis@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

665 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Brad_Brace@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It's turning out confusing. Like I created an account on lemmy.world. Then I saw kbin existed and came over here... or went over there? And created a new account, with the same name. But now I'm seeing that the stuff I comment here... there... on kbin anyway, show up also on lemmy, so now apparently I have two accounts for the same stuff? Except I didn't saw a way from lemmy to log in on kbin with the account from over there. If that's even something that can be done. Kbin looks friendlier. Actually... am I writing this on kbin or on lemmy... what the fuck is going on? Where the hell am I?

[–] aqua_synonym@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Okay, so you only need one account to access the entire fediverse network, may it be Kbin or Lemmy (even Mastodon can actually access the fediverse). So you don't need a separate account for Lemmy when you already have a Kbin account because you can access the same content as any other Lemming (that's what the folks down below said users of Lemmy are) there is.

[–] Brad_Brace@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay. But if I follow that "The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance" link, on a... magazine(?) I'm subscribed to on kbin, and end up on lemmy, it still says there that I am not subscribed nor loged in. And to comment from there I still need to log in from my lemmy.world account. So at least subscriptions are their own separate thing on lemmy and on kbin, right? Earlier for instance, I was trying to subscribe to The Scary Door magazine, but from lemmy, and I couldn't find how to do it. From the kbin account I could follow it easier.

I guess I'll just stick with the kbin one since things look simpler.

[–] possum@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Links kind of break things because they take you to a different website, even though it's content you can access from the one you're on. I think there are people working on fixing that.

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (5 replies)