Asklemmy

1454 readers

60 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

[–] coldredlight 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My understanding is that Lemmy accounts are currently locked to the Lemmy instance you created it on, if the instance goes away you lose your account too.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, that'll be interesting as a ton of people are migrating and spinning up new instances. I'm sure not everyone will want to keep hosting long term

[–] coldredlight 1 points 1 year ago

That's a good point. I think we are going to see some growing pains as we all figure out Lemmy, and as it develops and evolves. Which server to create an account on, and how accounts work, both seem like big points of confusion right now.

[–] Skooshjones@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would suck :/ Would your posts still last on other instances, or would those be gone too?

[–] coldredlight 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good question. I think they do continue to exist on other instances, but I'm not completely sure. My understanding is that you could delete your comments and posts from other instances before you delete your account from your own instance. But I'm not sure if they get deleted automatically anywhere outside your instance when you delete your account.

Edit: I found a discussion with a Lemmy dev and it looks like "deletions are federated" - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2977