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Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.


Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

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(Reminder: if you have shared the original version in a public post with an old version up, replacing it with this one might be more helpful.)

I want to preface, if you see a mistake in the image or have something helpful to add, go right ahead! I still have the layered files for this, so edits can be made very quickly. I chose to handwrite the text to avoid font copyright infringement.

Feel free to share this poster as you wish, especially on Reddit. All I ask is that you respect the license and don’t remove my socials at the bottom. If anyone’s addition is included, I’ll credit them, and if this gets added onto (or translated) by someone else later, they can add their info as well.

I hope someone can find it useful with the subreddit blackouts right around the corner.

I want to thank the Beehaw admins so much for their amazing work!

(Poster edited; I spotted a duplicated word, mrmanager@lemmy.today noted the lack of whitespace; current version is slightly larger and has been spaced out. You can still request the 800x2000 size, but know it is a little squished.)

(Edit 2: Removed defederation part as it’s not really required. The email analogy blackcoffee@beehaw.org suggested has been added, thanks!)

(Edit 3: Here’s another version making the interconnectivity a bit clearer and mentioning some cool-looking reader apps that have been suggested! Also made the image slightly longer for ease of viewing. I might do some small cosmetic changes tomorrow)

(Edit 4 is here with the date updated towards the bottom. This version contains a reminder to verify your email, lets people know why mlem isn’t showing up on App Store searches, and added fedia.io to Kbin instances. Some colors have been changed slightly to be more mobile friendly, as this is written and edited from a phone tablet. If you have a hard time reading this because of the changes, please let me know. Thank you all for the help and tips!)

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[–] ghostalmedia 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great post. Mind if I repost on subreddits that are open during the blackout?

[–] unsunny 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely, that’s what it’s there for!

[–] ghostalmedia 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fantastic job. I wanted to do something similar this weekend, but life kind of got in the way and I was pretty bummed that I couldn’t get it out the door. It makes me really happy to see that someone had the same thought! There was a big need for something like this.

You’re a bad ass!

[–] r3nder 5 points 1 year ago

This is awesome, thank you for making this. Trying to get friends and family to move platform seems like such a daunting task and I wasn't sure how to put forward the information - feeling much better about it now.

[–] WindInTrees 5 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Related question for all you experts: if I have an account on both (for example) lemmy.ml and lemmy.world, what is effectively the difference between them if I can view content from any federated instance?

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[–] that_one_guy 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is great. Does a good job of outlining the important information and making sure that things are approachable for new users. There really should be content like this on all the entry-point sites.

[–] cielnova@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I'm still not entirely sure of how it works, but I still think this was really useful. Thanks for the info

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

I love the style, nice work.

[–] rickcooker 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

join the same communities together

Let me make sure I have this right:

  • there are separate Lemmy instances
  • I can chat with other people from other instances (like email)

If I wanted to join the same communities as a friend, do I need to sign up for another instance or do communities 'live' on multiple instances? For instance, a community on 'cats.' If there is one on {instance1} and {instance2}. They aren't the same, right?

[–] yukijoou@fedi.kemonomimi.gay 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@rickcooker@beehaw.org @unsunny@beehaw.org to add onto what was said, the cool thing about the fediverse is that it's all interoperable:
i am currently replying from my own self-hosted akkoma instance. this is more of a twitter-like microblogging software, that i'm running on a server i rent with a few friends. with it, i can't really browse lemmy/kbin communities yet, because akkoma doesn't yet have support for those, but i can reply and read content from users, and i believe even follow communities! and i can also follow video creators on peertube, or on the instagram-like pixelfed, whichever instance they use, because it's all the same protocol, so i don't have to sign up there :)

[–] Splodge5@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are some duplicate communities (e.g. cats@instance1 and cats@instance2 to use your example) but you can subscribe to and interact with either/both communities without leaving your chosen instance - you don't need to make multiple accounts.

[–] Galapagon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can I "combine" those communities? What about duplicate posts across communities? For example, there's likely to be multiple gaming communities, i don't mind subscribing to multiple, but I don't want to see the same posts from both. Alternatively, if one gaming community "wins" - basically becomes default: then what? Sounds like we'd be reliant on whoever owns that community again.

[–] Splodge5@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pretty sure combining communities isn't possible, from what I've read the idea is that after a bit the most popular incarnations of any particular community will win out and the problem should somewhat solve itself. Don't think that solves the problem of being overly reliant on a single instance to host that community tho.

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[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

you cant combine them as such, you would have them both in your main feed though.

aggregated subscriptions are a feature being looked at for the future apparently though. which would be cool. you could have 5 different versions of one community, if one is outside of what you want to see you could block just one of them.

[–] Dandylion 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you! Super helpful

[–] UnsupervisedScum 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I cant add my account on mlem. I wonder if I am putting in the correct information for homepage.

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[–] billbennett@mastodon.nz 4 points 1 year ago

@unsunny that link doesn’t appear to work

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Is the target group people who know what servers and/or instances are or not?

Otherwise I would go up one layer and put in the comparison more users have made about having an mailadres user1@gmail.com and being able to communicate with accounts who also have user1@yahoo.com etc.

It gives users who are not familiar an idea of the concept.

[–] z3k3lon@lemmy.pt 3 points 1 year ago

Great post, looks awesome.

[–] dirtmayor 3 points 1 year ago

I really like this, nice work 🙂

[–] aussie@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

first comment. it took me waaaaaay too long to realize I had to go all the way to the bottom to reply.

[–] PCChipsM922U@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want to preface, if you see a mistake in the image or have something helpful to add, go right ahead! I still have the layered files for this, so edits can be made very quickly.

Why didn't you mention Jebora or the iOS app? People are into apps, makes things easier and quicker. For example, I never would have transfered to Lemmy if it wasn't for Jebora.

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[–] B4tid0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Extremely useful & consice! Thanks for the work ~

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