Hello, I’m sorry in advance if this is a noob question. I am new to Lemmy and the Fediverse.
As far as I understand, Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, but if I search for “Lemmy” here it will not find it. It seems to be full of instances from Mastodon.
Can someone help me understand why Lemmy isn’t there? Thank you!
Do you mean other Lemmy instances, or other projects like Lemmy, Mastodon, etc?
This site lists a lot of the different projects, and you can click on them to see the different nodes available for that project: https://the-federation.info/
Thank you for the link! I meant projects like Lemmy and Mastodon
i think you’ll find this page informative: The many branches of the Fediverse
I think it’s just frigging amazing to see this.
I just created an account on a new Lemmy instance to try out the experience, and I’m actually excited, watching all these people communicate across all the Lemmy instances. It’s just like email, if email servers were self hosted by individuals.
not only that, you might see some people around who aren’t even on Lemmy! Lemmy is on the same network as Mastodon, Calckey, Pixelfed, Peertube, and several other social media platforms, so people can post and reply to Lemmy discussions no matter what they’re using
Yeah this is incredible actually. This technology could become very popular with just a few simple changes to signup flows and user interfaces, and I see what’s needed, but on the other hand, I actually don’t want too many people to join us.
It’s good with a bit of a barrier right now so we don’t have to deal with moderation issues caused by people who just want to cause conflicts.
@smartwater0897 @salarua I host a server running pleroma, which is a microblogging fediverse server similar to mastodon, and this thread got boosted by someone I follow and showed up on my instance just now. Posts in the fediverse spread out far from your home server across all kinds of different platforms, and it’s really cool to see in practice. Welcome!
There are heaps! Personally I feel Mastodon is the only one that could be considered in any way mature, but it’s just not something I can get into.
Lemmy has been great with all these new users (not so great prior), but it’s still pretty janky if we’re being honest.
I quite like Bookwyrm as well (a sort of fediverse Goodreads), and use it for tracking what I’m reading. But the federation of reviews doesn’t work quite how I (or they) would prefer. Plenty of content on the flagship instance bookwyrm.social, though I’m not sure how well it works trying to connect from other services. I just have a bookwyrm-specific account for that, though in theory you could use your lemmy account to connect I guess.
There’s also a facebook-like one called Friendica, but honesty until you can upload videos seamlessly I just can’t see it being used by the general public. You basically have to upload videos to youtube (or peertube) and link them. Because of a lack of users, most fediverse sites seem to assume posts will be public. I just can’t see friendica being adopted mainstream until I can upload videos of my kids for family to see without having to put them another site for the world to see.