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My advice to newbies is to just sign up for whatever, then change later if ya need to. I think I tried 2 other instances before i found the one that fit best for me
Lemmy is very much lacking an account migration feature.
not a big deal if you're a week or even a month in
But not .world or .ml? I got an account in both and I didn't know those places were disliked until I started getting automatic bans only for being in those instances.
Anyway, that's why Lemmy is so good, just figure out later where you wanna go. The first thing to really understand is that one Lemmy instance is similar to Reddit while another instance is also similar to reddit but all instances are independent of each other and Lemmy is not reddit at all.
You can have a Lemmy purely focused on sex stuff while another might be about painting or maybe another is owned by a church or a bakery. The Bakery might like the church and the sex stuff. The church one might only be federated to the bakery and painting one. Its not just that an instances can have many different channels, but each instance can have channels with specific focus. Or even an instances for your local diy business or a 18 year old who rally wants us to see what's in between his legs. Lemmy is definitely far from what reddit is.
Having to read through the entire lore of lemmy and get informed on all the instances and relationships between them seems like a nightmare. You make an account on one instances then after few days you get told that your instance is literally satan and you should switch to a different one. It's like with Linux distros. No mater which one you pick, you chose wrong.
I am on .world and honestly I don't care that much.
It's defederated from the places I don't wanna see, and I mostly look through the All feed, not the local one.
The high drama is as hilarious as it is pathetic.
And like switching Linux distros, switching Lemmy instances means losing everything unless you have an external backup.
you should always have external backups for your important data anyway
you can just export/import your user settings. You only lose comment history but you can just check that from a different instance if you want to.
Yep! Took two tries as well. I got banned from one because literally my second comment pissed off the mod! Im already loving Lemmy.
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Drag has a friend who got instance banned on first comment lmao
Lol!
Yeah it's a bit the wild west here, you can say fuck and post about whatever you want, but there are also some intricate rules on some servers/communities but peopke are mostly very helpful. This place IMO is absolutely fantastic.
Gooble gobble one of us! One of us!
I make like 10 accounts before i found one that worked for me. Luckily i can log them all into sync for lemmy and switch between them when im doom scrolling so i can doom scroll the same content 10 times before bed!
Truly the real reddit experience ): lol
Same. I was on Kbin, was denied at .world (not safe enough), then landed on lemm.ee.