People need to realize you can use alternatives
tbf people just wanna sign up and click on funny links, not browse through 100 rando instances to find the one that lines up with their exact interests and wait for approval and worry about uptime and whether their instance will still exist in a year
I feel that, while lemmy is still a work in progress, it is already pretty adequate for solving this need. If you want to subscribe to other instances you can do it from within your insance by going up to communities and searching. You can also click the all tab and see a bunch of instances from around lemmy that your instance is federated with.
I think mastadon struggled with this because the twitter model is to follow people and depending how far removed the servers are this can be trickier. Compared to lemmy where people interested in a single subject will likely target and find the subject theyre interested in and bring themselves together naturally.
Furthermore I think some people are splitting up and dividing into sub instances and tiny subjects a little prematurely. Reddit didnt get super esoteric with it's subs until it got big and the larger subs either declined or got too noisy to talk about certain things. Like for example how beehaw has an operatingsystems instance instead of a linux, ubuntu, macos, windows, fedora, archinux, opensuse, openbsd, etc. Right now there arent enough of us that we dont need to subdivide.
I've seen people literally signing up here just to make like 50 empty communities and not post or comment on anything at all. Definitely a lot of folks just trying to stake some territory that they think will be valuable in the future.
Let me see if I underatand this correctly:
If I create an account on a random, small instance. And then go to the "all communities" feed. I can automatically see all communities that are in my instance. In addition to that, I can see all communities of other Lemmy instances, that are "federated". But I cannot see other communities from other nstances, unless I go on there, find the communitis and manually subscribe to them (I believe there are other ways to get them to show up, like using the search etc.?)
So, as a normal user. Who's just looking for a replacement for /r/all, wouldn't joining the largest lemmy instance that is fedarated to many others (Just by how many users it has, because it's the users who link instances by their actions?) make perfect sense?
I definitely didnt pick sh.itjust.works for the funny name, naaaaaaaaah
I picked it because all the other instances asked a bunch of questions and then you had to wait for approval.
Lemmy world was the only one that let me sign up lol
Same
After reading the "we are full" notices and doing some research I was able to easily create an account on lemmy.ca increasing the represention for BC.
New lemmy.ca member checking in! This is pretty cool.
Screw your generic server URIs...
Iusearchlinux.fyi has a meme in its name!
The dude on the left is too happy about it to be a lemmy.ml admin.
We could use alternatives, but Lemmy is the best!
And I thought I had choose the wrong one....
Beehaw seems pretty dope
They actually defederated with lemmy.world due to spam, kindof sucks, as users will miss out on communities on lemmy.world, lots of which were not spam.
New feddit.de user reporting in
Ze Germans seem to have their own monopolistic instance
Created mine on feddit.de to get the german equivalent of Catastrophe as a username. And also because I live in Germany
To potential new users, also consider https://discuss.tchncs.de/ as Feddit gets hit really hard currently
I tried to make an account on lemmy.ml and it looks like their servers are (understandably) overloaded
I ended up choosing lemmy.world instead
My understanding is I'm not missing out on anything by chosing a less-popular instance. Did I get that right?
I use lemmy.world. they have an associated mastodon as well.
Same here, except I have no interest in Mastodon.
Lemmy.world checking in
I'm in lemmy.world. they have an associated mastodon as well.
I signed up for another one, but they haven't approved me yet!
Proud to be a sh.itjust.works user
I joined sopuli.xyz because they have a cute fuzzy animal in a hat as their logo.
Solution: change servers