Just joined Lemmy after observing how much of a mess Reddit is now. Not really sure how all the parts of this service work together, but am looking forward to trying it out.

Thought I’d share my on-boarding process here in the vaguelly general spot. Perhaps others showing up will want to share their impressions of joining up as well.

I’m a long-time user of Mastodon, so already have a good sense of the Fediverse, its philosophy and workings - so I get how this is set up.

Selecting a server/instance on a Fedi service is always a bit of a decision. I tried to avoid the picking the biggest one here (which I did on Masto and still mean to shift away from it). First small server I tried seemed to die during the signup. Was happy to see Lemmy.one was pretty smooth. Some of the profile settings are a bit cryptic - so I’ll have to figure out what they mean.

Next I shall survey the communities available and hang out a bit. Do people do hashtags here?

Anyway - Hello World.

  • @jonahMA
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    41 year ago

    Welcome! Feel free to ask if you have any questions about anything :)

    • Ross of OttawaOP
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      21 year ago

      Thank you. Can you explain to me the meaning of the “type” field in the Profile area? Is that some default for what posts are visible maybe? Seems a bit redundant with the similar interface in each community. :)

      • @jonahMA
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        1 year ago

        Good question, yes, it should be renamed to “default sort type” IMO, because it just sets the default for these sorting settings on the homepage:

        It doesn’t completely hide non-local posts if you have “local” selected, because as you noted each community has this interface available anyways :)

      • Voynich
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        11 year ago

        I think it sets which posts are visible to you, not entirely sure though.

        • Ross of OttawaOP
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          21 year ago

          Seems possible - I guess I’ll have to play with it a bit. :)