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List of support/meta communities for each instance (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Most instances have a support community for discussing technical issues with that particular server.

As each instance names these slightly differently, I thought I'd create a thread to collect as many as possible.

Lemmy:

Mbin:

PieFed:

Please comment below with equivalent communities and I'll add them to the list.

I would also recommend that instance admins include a link to their meta/support community in the sidebar of their instance.

On a somewhat related note, do any instance admins still have Reddit accounts they would be willing to reveal here?

I've come across many Redditors who are interested in Lemmy but give up after experiencing issues on signup. I think the ability to have instance admins reach out to users on Reddit directly could be a useful tool in reducing the friction of the Lemmy onboarding process.

If you are an instance admin and are comfortable sharing your Reddit username, please do so below.

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Join the Matrix (matrix.to)
submitted 4 months ago by fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Everyone is welcome!

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Quick comment to copy-paste to promote Lemmy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Here is a 5-lines comment I usually use on Reddit when people ask about Lemmy or a Reddit alternative

"
Lemmy has 47k monthly active users

Feel free if you have any questions
"

A few questions that get asked quite often about this comment.

Why no explain what federation is?

Most of the users don't care about federation. They want a jump-in Reddit replacement, and it's usually better to keep the message short and simple.

There are users on Sync or Voyager who only use their app, and don't even know what instance they are on. And they are doing okay, they can still use the platform, see content, vote, comment, post.

People who want to understand more will figure it out later. No need to overwhelm them.

Why those two instances?

Long story short, there is no ideal generalist instance. If you open the top 20 instances (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/)

  • Lemmy.world is too big
  • Lemm.ee is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad, something that is not very welcoming to new users (see this thread: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28798607/15305964 )
  • sh.itjust.works names contains "shit", which can deter users
  • lemmy.ca is Canadian-centric
  • feddit.org, is German-centric, but technically English speaking too
  • dbzer0 federates hexbear
  • programming.dev is topic-centric
  • blahaj is queer-focused
  • discuss.tchncs.de has a difficult name
  • lemmy.sdf.org does not defederate anyone
  • lemmy.zip is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad
  • beehaw is way outdated
  • infosec.pub is topic-centric
  • aussie.zone is country-centric
  • midwest.social is region-centric and admin can power trip at times (https://sopuli.xyz/post/20038037)

That's how I came up with sopuli.xyz (neutral name, stable, defederated grad and hexbear) and discuss.online (same).

Mentioning one per continent allows users to make one choice, so that we avoid the Lemmy.world situation where users realize that the server follows European laws (remember the announcement following Luigi: https://lemmy.world/post/22920690 )

I also have no way to know what the person I'm replying to is interested in. Of course if you are commenting on a specific subreddit, feel free to adapt the message for a fitting instance.

Why Voyager?

Same logic, people want one app. Voyager is feature rich and is available on both Android and iOS, and follow the Apollo design that a lot of people might be familiar with.

If people want to change, they will later https://www.lemmyapps.com/

That's it for now, see you in the comments for any feedback!

Why not use join-lemmy.org?

This website can be hit or miss, with some very negative experience recently: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536

I prefer to just point out to two instances that I know are stable and reliable.

Why not Discord?

Discord is a poor replacement for Reddit. Here are 4 reasons why:

  • Format: Discord’s main strength is chat-style messages, not forum-style discussion threads, like Reddit and Lemmy. Discord groups with more than a few dozen active users can quickly become disorganized.
  • Barrier to entry: Content on Discord is inaccessible unless you have a Discord account, while almost all content on Reddit and Lemmy is available without registration.
  • Discoverability: Google (and other search engines) index Reddit and Lemmy, and relevant threads show up in searches. Discord content cannot be indexed, and won’t show up in searches.
  • Censorship: A Discord community is ultimately still controlled by a single Big Tech company, which can delete your community on a whim if they so choose. Lemmy, being a distributed social network, is inherently resistant to censorship.
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So you want to join the fediverse? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I have a draft designed for all types of fediverse software, but i narrowed it down to just threadiverse stuff

This is a guide meant to be linked for beginners, to explain the fediverse in as short time as possible.

Concepts

What's "federation"?

In easy terms; it's a concept where instances seamlessly integrate with each other. Users can talk to each other and participate in their communities. For example, my account is on lemm.ee and the community i am posting to is on slrpnk.net, yet i feel no friction.

What's an instance?

An instance is a server running software, with users, and communities, etc. (Each of these is like a mini-reddit/twitter/etc!) The software part is important, since instances can either be forums, microblogs, video-sharing sites, etc etc. And they can all interact with each other!

What's the "fediverse"?

The fediverse (federation + universe) is a coalition of federated instances running all types of different software, so a user from a forum instance (lemmy) can interact with a user from a microblog instance (mastodon)

Another example is bluesky, but that uses a different protocol, and is much less effective than ActivityPub.

A picture of bluesky, representing how users can interact from different instances.

Why should i use the fediverse over normal social media?

Many reasons. A few:

  • it can never truly die - People can always create software and run instances, and if one goes down, the others will still be up.

  • No one person controls the fediverse. We are all on equal grounds.

  • Unlike corporations who back social media platforms, fedi is 100% ran by normal people. You can talk to developers, instance hosters, the mods, all as normal people, and they (unless you use their server) have no control over you.

  • There is no need to appeal to advertisers

  • Freedom of choice. Disagree with an instance's values, or a developer's? Easy, defederate or just don't use their software. You will still have the fediverse as a whole accessible to you, without the parts you do not like.

I'm convinced! How do i begin?

Excellent!

First you must choose what software you want your instance of choosing to run:

  • Lemmy if you care about apps
  • Piefed if you care about features/fast development, or a lightweight instance
  • Mbin if you want both your blog and forum account in the same place

Instances

Lemmy

Piefed

Mbin

Apps/clients [everything after this point is optional]

some people may not like the default frontends or want to access their instance through mobile, here is a curated list:

Lemmy

Mbin

Communities

Here are some good community recommendations, based on topics:

Memes

Software

Politics

Casual

Knowledge

History

Animals

Art

Postface

That's about all there's left for you; have fun!

Finally... im done writing this...

Sisyphus carrying a boulder to the top of a mountain.

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/r/RedditAlternatives post complaining about enshittification, Piefed suggestion has 6 votes (old.reddit.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Help getting gaming subreddits to add links to Lemmy/Piefed communities (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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So far I've been able to ask the following subs to add links to various comparable Lemmy communities:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tycoon/ (I am a long-time contributor here)

https://www.reddit.com/r/adventuregames/

Don't know if it makes much of a difference, but it can't hurt SEO.

I've also reached out to the citybuilder subreddit, but they ignored my message.

Some other genre-specific Lemmy communities that are active (unfortunately, it's mostly me posting, but not always):

Help out if you feel like it or you are a regular on a relevant game genre subreddit.

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PieFed solves a lot of the issues new users have (piefed.social)
submitted 5 days ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Now that Voyager supports PieFed, when promoting the Fediverse on Reddit I will be using this going forward

Try out the decentralised Reddit alternative called PieFed, https://piefed.social/  
It also has a mobile app: https://vger.app/settings/install  

I use it alongside Reddit, and I'm enjoying it more and more, slowly switching over

Some of the biggest complaints people switching over have are

  • Not sure which server to choose
  • No onboarding
  • Too much politics
  • Trouble logging in
  • Bad UX/UI (for a lot of people)

PieFed solves all of this, it has good onboarding, login is real easy you can even login with google, during onboarding you can filter out trump/musk spam, UX/UI is lightyears better for your average user, it has de-duplication etc.

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Post on r/50501 about reddit silently censoring/shadowbanning people. (www.reddit.com)
submitted 6 days ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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r/linux is talking about piefed! (old.reddit.com)
submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Smol fedi - how I think fediverse should work (readme.makary.online)
submitted 2 weeks ago by thegreenman@slrpnk.net to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23704984

So I wrote a blog post on how I feel we can encourage more people to fedi, and it starts with DON'T TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THE FEDIVERSE, because I'm very clever, or something. Would be happy to get your thoughts on that!

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Thread on r/redditalternatives (ugh) about the orb thing. There is one person positivly mentioning lemmy that got downvoted. (www.reddit.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Thread on r/technology about reddit considering to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb (www.reddit.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I don't have a reddit account anymore but someone should definitely post this to /r/RedditAlternatives (or anywhere else) (videos.elenarossini.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Kirk@startrek.website to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Getting Started on Lemmy (fedihost.co)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Paige@piefed.ca to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I've been working on a guide to getting started on Lemmy. What do you think I should add?

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We should probably go through our post histories and edit any lemm.ee links (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 month ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Just for any people in the future who may be looking at it.

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PieFed has a mobile app (interstellar.jwr.one)
submitted 1 month ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Well, actually, PieFed.social has enabled it's API which means that the Android app Interstellar can be used with it. Find out more about the app at https://interstellar.jwr.one/.

Later today https://feddit.online/, another PF instance, will enable the API too and I expect others will follow in good time.

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Video on r/buyfromeu that recommends Lemmy gets 205 upvotes (old.reddit.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Too bad she says she wait until more controversies occur before she considers adding the platform to her social media list.

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Lemmy vs PieFed (piefed.social)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I've been on Lemmy for ~3 Months and it's nice but picking a instance, figuring out which web UI works for me, figuring out which Mobile App works for met etc. was a lot, and most people would have given up.

I've been using PieFed for the last few days, and wow I like it so much more, it solved so many of the UX issues that Lemmy has.

These features make a BIG impact, most of the common things people on Reddit complain about when you promote Lemmy isn't a issue on PieFed.

My favourite feature is de-duplication, on PieFed if I view eg. this post https://piefed.social/post/749818#comment_6102866

It combines/aggregates it with cross-posts/reposts de-duplication example image
So I can see it in one place, and see all the comments in one place.

Have you tried out PieFed? What are your thoughts?

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r/buyfromeu post mentions !buyeuropean@feddit.uk (old.reddit.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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GenP promotes lemmy as their official comm after their Reddit sub and discord server are shut down. (www.reddit.com)
submitted 2 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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"The problem I've found is that it's easy enough to create a Reddit clone using Lemmy, but getting people to actually use it is the issue." (www.reddit.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Kirk@startrek.website to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Someone should probably jump in and explain what federation means.

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What if this community organised a campaign to reach out to the top 500 or so youtube channels to join peertube? (vidiq.com)
submitted 2 months ago by atro_city@fedia.io to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Some of those channels have videos complaining quite loudly about youtube, some are tech channels that do talk about the fediverse sometimes, some aren't even aware of the fediverse but might be interested.

It might be worth drafting a message that explains that it won't cost them anything to just sign up to an instance mirror their videos to peertube as a first step. For more technical channels, they can setup their own peertube instance and mirror there - together or alone.

There might be more incentives, but that's for the community to discuss. What do you think?

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Post in r/RedditAlternatives inquiring about Reddit alternatives aimed towards women (old.reddit.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I came across a post in r/RedditAlternatives inquiring about Reddit alternatives aimed towards women: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1jycxqr/do_you_know_any_reddit_alternatives_aimed_towards/

Any fediverse spaces come to mind?

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Comprehensive nesting category system made on PieFeed (piefed.social)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Skavau@lemm.ee to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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https://piefed.social/f/forumverse

Here is the outcome from the brief chat I had here. (Reposted from Fedigrowth)

This is not finished - not in categories, not in organisation, not in community placement, but I'm getting exhausted currently. Many communities on here are old, dead, tired. Some are new. Many categories are barren, some are overfilled and need more segmentation. I'm just sharing what I've built as I think this could be very helpful to community advertisement and exploration.

I'd like anyone who runs or knows of communities to let me know here, so I can add them.

And if anyone is interested, should I make a matrix or even lemmy community in aid of this?

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Please consider writing a review for your favourite Lemmy app (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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If we want more people to migrate here from Reddit, we must make this platform feel sturdy enough to avoid the feelings of joining a fringe group. It also helps the apps avoid being buried under other ones with similar names in the results. Someone said they searched for the Thunder app only to find the vpn one, causing them to give up in joining in that session.

Also I saw someone criticize the Voyager app for only having 33 reviews on the appstore page saying they’re “unsure of using it” because of that relatively low number.

I have personally wrote reviews for 3 Lemmy apps detailing what I liked about them.

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