I decided to give this a try. I joined Mastodon a few months ago due to Twitter’s fiascos, and I’m having déjà vu. Let’s see if Lemmy can reach critical mass!

  • Naja Kaouthia@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    Ahoy, fellow Reddit refugee. I was super sad to see that Apollo is shutting down on 30 June. It’s the end of an internet era. Feels bad, man.

        • lynny@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          It seems you can use your mastodon account to interact with lemmy but you have to do it from a mastodon server.

          Lemmy communities are represented as users when interacting from a mastodon server. For example, to access the tchnology community on beehaw.orh you would:

          • Go to your mastodon instance of choice

          • Search for a user called @technology@beehaw.org

          • View their feed, subscribe, reply, like, whatever.

          Any replys you make to a post on mastodon will also show up as comments on Lemmy servers.

          I copied most of this post verbatium from /u/WonderfulEstimate176 on Reddit. I didn’t want to link back to Reddit as it’s better for others if you can see the post here instead.-----

          • samick1@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 year ago

            or example, to access the tchnology community on beehaw.orh you would

            FYI this didn’t work for me, but if I searched instead for !technology@beehaw.org, that worked. In fact typing it just now gave me an autocorrect dropdown so that must be the right syntax.

            I saw the post on reddit too… when I searched lemmy.ml for @technology@beehaw.org this post came up instead. 😂

    • Katana314@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      Seems good that, even if there’s a little bit of “competition” about “best” community, as long as they’re using the same software network, there’s plenty of opportunity for cross-posting. Could be that one will win out, but might not.

      • Garrathian@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah that’s what I really like about it. I also like that if a community on a particular instance becomes problematic somebody else can make the equivalent community on another instance no problem. Makes it easier I feel to not be held hostage by hostile, power trippy mods

  • Leer10@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    I hope that there will be less exclusive vibes here than mastodon. I want everyone to find their communities here as long as they’re nice

  • TwilightGirl1992@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Hey and welcome! Using Mlem for iOS cuz I detest browsers. Trying to convince my friends on Reddit to join. This place is much better!