Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.
  • Ilgaz@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Actually after noticing the general user profile here, I plan another exodus to some place else.

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    When I first tried to check out the exodus this idea totally confused me and nearly made me drop the whole fediverse idea.

    All this talk about using mastadon account on lemmy IS BULLSHIT. Sorry but - reading about mastadon account etc made it sound like lemmy is just another mastadon instance. Or another “perspective” on the same underlying data. It kind of works but it’s absolutely confusing and frustrating to try to do this. Just make a new lemmy account - which I was trying to avoid because I thought with federation I should be able to move freely between instances.

    It would be nice to merge these kinds of “social media modes”. I believe reddit tried to do something similar with following users etc. But it’s not there yet and only hampers adoption to advertise this.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    One thing I don’t understand is the tagging. Every micro-blog in existence sees fit to tag every one of the other 12 participants in the thread automatically, which seems to only make things cluttered and really fucking annoying.

    • hightrix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      It is even more annoying on Lemmy clients that show every link in a comment at the bottom of the comment in easy to tap boxes. This is great for 1 or 2, but every mastodon post has everyone @ing everyone else.

      I just downvote it all, block the users, and move on. That shit is annoying.

      • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Don’t downvote, it’s not on purpose, just the limitations of their platform