Now that a lot of 3rd party apps for reddit have shut down there have been loads of new users joining the various Lemmy instances. So who got here today and what has been your experience so far?
I’m here to help should you have any questions about Lemmy, lemmy.world or life in general (I can not really recommend that last one).
Anyway, welcome! Hope you enjoy your stay 😁
EDIT: I created seperated threads for this not too long ago but I think it’s useful to post them again.
- Some things might still be confusing to people, I read a comment below about someone not knowing how to browse content from different instances for example. I really suggest you read this post by lemmy.world admin @ruud which does a wonderful job to explain a lot of it.
- If you’re wondering what 3rd party apps there are available, this thread seems to list them all!
I am a Belgian living in Taiwan and I was keeping an eye on r/belgium because “roots”. Will keep looking here from now on! Good morning Belgium! Just finished lunch here…
May I ask how it does look like to live in Taiwan ? Are you afraid for your future there because of geopolitics ?
My experience is of course anecdotal and completely subjective. I have spent the major part of my Belgian life in Brussels and the main differences I am noticing are, in no particular order:
- I feel a lot more secure regarding public safety.
- Traffic and road infrastructure is a mess (and therefore traffic safety is a mess also). Pedestrians are still at the bottom of the hierarchy in the collective mind, nothing yields when you need to cross a road), although the law states the contrary. This is like Belgium in the 70s. This makes driving problematic because If I drive like I would in Belgium I become unpredictable to the other drivers here.
- For every car on the road, there are at least 10 scooters buzzing around. And they overtake on the right side.
- In Belgium we close the doors to keep the cold outside, here we close the doors to keep the heat and humidity out.
- I cannot imagine summer without Air Conditioning: moving around without a car is a problem if I need to keep a decent look at my destination: I have an approximate range of 1 km walking outside before I start liquefying from sweat (800m if it is sunny).
- Cold can hurt physically when under-equipped but you can keep adding layers. Against heat and humidity there is a point when you cannot remove layers anymore.
- There are convenience stores everywhere. They are open 24h/7d and you can almost buy anything there (they have AC also :) )
- Dealing with the banking system here is hell. Especially as a non-citizen.
- Service is way faster here, as an example (but I think this is exceptional) my modem was down yesterday and the telecom company dispatched an engineer to my apartment 2 hours later (after asking if it was ok for me).
Regarding the geopolitical situation, I personally do not feel scared because I am convinced that China does not have the military means to take over Taiwan without having to pay a (too) heavy toll. I am angry at their contant disinformation though. Taiwan has never been a full part of China, yet they try to gaslight the world in thinking so. There is no reunification. It would actually be an annexation.
Well, as usual the situation is way more complex and subtle than what people are usually led to believe.
Anyway, I love it here.
I just joined today on Lemmy after the reddit fallout and Baconreader not being an option anymore.
I was already on Mastodon after the Twitter fallout. I made a new account on Lemmy but there seems to be some sort of link? Can anyone explain what the difference is exactly please?
A link between Lemmy & Mastodon you mean? They share the same protocol: ActivityPub. There are many other types of software that do, and they can all communicate with each other. So you could check, follow or comment on Lemmy through your Mastodon (someone did today in the slowchat!), although it’s not the optimal experience. For some types of content it doesn’t really matter that much (I’m thinking of the photo-sharing Pixelfed and Mastodon for instance), for others it changes the user experience quite a bit.
Thanks for your explanation! It does make more sense now. I’m more in favor of the Lemmy interface and way of working so I suppose it’s better to have 2 separate accounts (one on each platform)? Or can I use my Mastodon credentials to logon to Lemmy?
I might be completely mistaken and don’t understand it at all.
I’d say have a separate account for both if you’re actively going to use them, since they’re quite different.
You can’t log in with the credentials for one instance into another, no. But you can access it through the instance you’re logged in to.
Edit: you don’t need a separate Lemmy account for different Lemmy instances of course. They share the software and user experience. I myself have a Mastodon (general posting), Lemmy (communities and discussion), Pixelfed (photo sharing) and Bookwyrm (book updates) account. Those all do differenthings.
This is most informative, thanks a lot for your explanation!
It takes a little bit getting used to the idea of federation, but it’s only one extra layer actually. If you can make the mental click, it’s actually pretty easy!
I’m willing and happy to try! It certainly looks like a more friendly and respectful concept of web than what we’ve seen so far with centralized corporations.
While I agree as an IT person myself, I find that the more comments I see it seems many people feel that it’s best that non-technical people who don’t understand both the philosophical and technical aspect of federations.
I don’t like that kind of exclusionary thinking.
I got here two weeks ago and am already building an app woohoo, take that reddit.
Are you Belgian @mykl@lemmy.world? I tried liftoff! but didn’t know the devs were Belgian. I doubt it tbh looks more like spam
Haha, I was just browsing local and thought this was a !lemmy@lemmy.world post, sorry for intruding!
Feel free to change nationality and become part of our glorious beer/fries/chocolate culture!
