Mashle! Aka Harry Potter and the enchanted Peccs

It’s a the double @ seems to be a general fediverse thing.

Looks like it’s because you’re a @user (inspired by Twitter maybe), as opposed to a #topic or a !community

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it!

I dabbled a bit in Peertube but never made an account or anything, so Lemmy’s the first one I’ve engaged with.

I signed up for Mastodon too now to try it out, but I never had Twitter so never really had much interest in Mastodon either. Still this fediverse stuff is exciting, so trying it out now.

PSA: there is PixelFed which in an image publication platform. (“Instagram-like”)

There’s an open issue for migration (export/import) so it’s on the roadmap. But looks like it hasn’t been high priority yet

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/506

chuckle 🤭

What changed though? Anything you did or something that just happened?

While there is no central authority, there is the Lemmy Community Browser which lets you find Communities across servers, like some central directory

In general you don’t need to set up your own instance to create a Community /c/France, you can just create it on any existing instance that allows Community creation by users. I notice you’re on beehaw who have decided to limit Community creation to Admins for now.

That said, many regional non-english speaking communities have made their own instances (feddit.de, feddit.dk, feddit.ir), maybe it has something to do with limiting language used?