my copyPasta:
wanna join the fediverse?
if not you can still look for other alternatives on r/redditalternatives
Quick Quick start: open https://sh.itjust.works/ and consume the content. (could press on the all button next to the local button for more variety)
For a quicker start i suggest https://sub.rehab or https://browse.feddit.de/ to look out for communities that have your content.
Want an APP?
on Android most use Jerboa for Lemmy https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jerboa&hl=de&gl=US
Apple has Mlem https://testflight.apple.com/join/MelFP11YIf you wanna join lemmy please use a smaller instance like the recommondeed here: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances (simply take on of the recommondeed, makes less of a difference than you think)
When you click on one you go directly to the content without the need for a log in.
Here you can roughly see how lemmy, Kbin, Beehaw and Mastodon are working: https://i.imgur.io/Hoc5dXU_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=high
I appreciate the implication that the three reddit alternatives are Lemmy, Kbin, and Beehaw
https://sh.itjust.works/ seems like a suboptimal recommendation since BeeHaw defederated it, meaning you won’t see BeeHaw content on there.
BeeHaw defederated all the major lemmy instances, pointing someone towards a website where they can’t interact with 80% of other users for reasons they likely don’t care about seems silly. If people want to make BeeHaw accounts once they learn about it, more power to them. But the average user is going to want as seamless of a transition as possible, and getting a crash course on defederation is the exact opposite of that.
all the major lemmy instances
Read: just two instances who got really big, alongside literal tankies (but not dot-ml) and some fash
Just in case you’re confused, most of their blocked instances are not even Lemmy instances but the general ActivityPub background radiation nobody really wants to see.
Also, if just two instances get big enough to be “all the major lemmy instances” than isn’t that a problem of federation to begin with? Some admins need to learn to just shut registrations down jfc.
Whatever the ideal decentralized setup may be, the truth of the matter is that the current setup makes it significantly harder to surface content from instances outside of one’s own. I’d prefer to point people towards lemmy.world than to send them to a smaller server and have to field questions about why the servers they’re trying to join are out of date or possibly not available at all. As people get more comfortable with the setup, they can branch further out into the federation as they please.
Isn’t it the other way around? Beehaw users won’t see their content. They won’t be able to comment on beehaw content but they can still see it.
Yeah, it’s the instances who go around defederating others that I’d want to avoid.
Technically they are also be able to comment on beehaw content, but then only their members can actually see that comment because their instance will have a copy of that content but beehaw won’t publish it to the other instances, so it doen’t make much sense to do so
Sh.it’s much better. You can make your own communities and have more access to the rest of the instances.
i choose it out of 3 reasons:
- does not defederate much as i recall
- is i think a smaller of the bigger ones so it has content and the “user weight” gets distributed, so this is only a half reason
- funne name
But feel free te edit it, a mayor problem my text has it that it does not suggest apps and how to use them
I actually wonder if Reddit will do the Twitter thing and start blocking references to the fediverse.
I mean, we all know the answer, but
I want to just write lol, but that doesn’t capture my actual laughter. I am glad to be here and hope these communities continue to grow and become a stable place that is unimpeded by corporate interests, data harvesting, and invasive monetization. But seriously, here’s a rat.
No, it is a jerboa.
I gave awards to anyone who commented they were switching with all the coins accumulated for 13 years. :(
they should hand them a bunch of rats and a mastodon
“i really like it a lot, maybe give it a try.” Is about all I can muster, then I leave to come back home.
1 ratty boi
Who would win?
Alien overlords?
Or one rodent boi?
One rodent backed by pink trail
Blessed rat
Removed by mod
