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Had to quadruple take this wasn’t a Battle Network community, what a crazy thing to see on Lemmy.

We should bring back r/OkBuddyNetwork on Lemmy.

I can’t believe OP is actually forklift certified

ChickenThoughts is one of the things I miss from Reddit :(

Reminds me of the trans affirming misogynist parrot

Find a jailbait community to make him the moderator of

Now that I completely agree with! People are begging for this kind of feature, and I see some talks to make PRs for it (I think one even has a bounty?)

Hopefully we’ll see more about this soon.

But another thing to note, lemmy.ml is where most of the established communities are, but it’s way overloaded with the exodus and is failing to federate right now. So it might look a bit thin for you on Beehaw, but there is actually plenty of content on lemmy.ml if you go there yourself. Sadly you can’t make an account, but you can go there to see what you’re missing. And once they sort out their server issues in the coming days, all that missing content will be available to you on Beehaw, and you’ll be able to post/comment/like/etc when they do.

By the way, until there is a better, more official way to find communities, I recommend looking in these places:

https://browse.feddit.de/ - pretty nice, has a search bar

https://lemmy.directory/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 - An instance that federates with “every” server and lists them here.

Until more clean ways of discovering communities makes their way into Lemmy, these should do a good job of getting you started!

To everyone that keeps perpetuating “there’s too many repeat communities on Lemmy” - please give examples.

The only example I’ve been able to find is c/Technology on Beehaw and c/Technology on lemmy.ml

The latter is failing to federate today (or has been down entirely), which is proving why this “problem” is actually a good thing. We can continue to talk on Beehaw’s c/Technology while lemmy.ml sorts itself out.

Do you have any other examples? I haven’t seen any. I’m starting to wonder if this concern is being repeated by people who don’t actually use Lemmy.

Someone in a comment shared this neat Lemmy server tracker that I bookmarked:

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/

“The server I registered with might go down” was the reason I made my own instance instead of joining a public one. It was easy, and now I only have to trust myself that the server will stay online, and that the server is up to date and built from the GitHub source without modifications.

Right now, if lemmy.ml goes down, anyone who used that as their “home server” won’t be able to log in or interact with Lemmy. So, one factor you might want to think about when joining an instance (or running your own) is, “What’s their uptime like?”

In a few days, and then on July 1st, we’ll also get to ask, “How well did ___ handle the Reddit exodus?”

I’ve had an issue where I was in a post and it “live refreshed,” changing the post entirely. Title, content, author, everything. Only thing that didn’t change was the comments on the post. It went back to normal after a refresh.

I think the main lemmy.ml instance is glitching out due to the insane new influx of users. I’m sure it will sort itself out as more people split off to other servers, and as Lemmy itself improves. Lots of attention is on their GitHub now which is fantastic.

Didn’t I hear somewhere that I can view Mastodon posts through Lemmy? I tried federating like you do with other Lemmy instances, but I guess it either can’t be done or has to be done another way

This is my first time on any kind of federated network. It’s pretty neat. I’ve known about federated projects for a while, but with Mastodon being the most popular one, and with me never having an interest in Twitter to begin with, I never bothered.

I’m the type to want to run it myself instead of joining a public instance, and I have to say, this isn’t half bad at all. Wasn’t hard to set up, and isn’t as resource intensive as I was expecting.

I see a lot of potential in Lemmy, but I don’t think it can really “go big” without some significant, but hopefully manageable, improvements to how it works. You can read me ramble about my thoughts here. I’m crossing my fingers that the exodus from Reddit brings some extra attention to Lemmy’s GitHub.

Considering I went through the trouble of setting up my own instance but kept my usual name, I’m feeling just a little called out here…

The font size in Jerboa is way too big right now, it’s not a good experience. There’s an issue on their GitHub and apparently this is a bug in their markdown parser. I’ll give it another shot once they fix that, but for now, I just use my instance from a mobile browser and it’s not half bad. “Reddit bad” memes aside, Lemmy’s mobile UI is actually pretty good… unlike Reddit’s.