I’ve been on Lemm.ee since the start with no problems. Can you sandwich together those accounts across different instances somehow?

Why is this garbage comment at the top, can I change my default comment sorting?

Whenever I try to save this image Jerboa crashes. Specifically this image.

Fascinating stuff.

Same!

Skillfully combined with a number of other ingredients

The world would be a better place if everyone used Discord

Why would anyone send SMS?

That’s a persuasive perspective

When I first started using it I did not think so. In the week or so since I’ve sort of wrapped my head around some of it, and now I think it’s certainly possible.

The biggest hangup in my opinion is the very concept. As a normie I get to the login screen and I see that it’s asking for an instance along with a username and password. That’s scary and you’re curious what that even is, so you Google it. And that doesn’t help at all. You’re fed a very technical description that feels like a brick wall of information. It’s intimidating.

Once you are set up on a large instance and logged into a good app, subscribed to some of your niches… Well in my experience at all clicked together pretty quickly. The only thing that’s missing from the Lemmy experience is traffic. I know there are already some pretty big communities and people are starting to say it’s too big or something, but there’s many interests of mine that are booming on Reddit that have a handful or less posts here. Naturally things take time, and I am genuinely starting to believe we’re on the way there with this platform (network of platforms?)

I don’t think being mainstream can kill this in the same way due to the nature of how instances are hosted and their level of customizability. Even if it gets hyper popular and there are communities that rival the biggest subreddits, there will always be smaller niche communities that fit the bill you’re looking for. If they don’t exist you can simply host your own