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mcc Jun 23, 2023

I would like to tell you about LEMMY aka KBIN which is the new "the Mastodon version of Reddit" federated service. I think it's PRETTY NEAT.

First, let me tell you how to get Into Lemmy:

Just go to this website
https://beehaw.org/
and start reading.

That's it! A nice thing about Lemmy is you don't *really* need to be logged in to use it. Since the focus is communities rather than personal feeds you can just click around logged out until you want to comment.

What if you want to comment?

Beehaw - Aspiring to be(e) a safe, friendly and diverse place.

Lemmy

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mcc Jun 23, 2023

I think the best way to comment on Lemmy is to have an account on one of the Lemmy-frontend instances.

I don't know of a better way to do this right now than to look under "Popular" (not under "Recommended") on https://join-lemmy.org/ . lemmy.blahaj.zone seems like a good default instance for queer shitposters. Alternately, Beehaw itself might be okay to sign up on (tho there's a wait).

Alternately alternately, you CAN post to a Beehaw/Lemmy thread from Mastodon, but it's a little awkward:

Lemmy - A decentralised discussion platform for communities

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mcc Jun 23, 2023

Like Reddit, the Lemmyverse is based around communities, like https://beehaw.org/c/technology. (Kbin calls these "Magazines".) These are the equivalent of Reddit /r/s. People make OP posts to communities, everybody else posts replies, good stuff floats to the top of communities and threads based on upvotes. Accounts on different Lemmy instances can (of course) post to each other's communities, unless prevented by (of course) defederation. It's all pretty straightforward.

Technology - Beehaw

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here. Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated. Subcommunities on Beehaw: - Free and Open Source Software [https://beehaw.org/c/foss] - Programming [https://beehaw.org/c/programming] - Operating Systems [https://beehaw.org/c/operating_systems] — This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/].

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Terry Cavanagh 🎲Jun 23, 2023

@mcc so, is beehaw's technology community the same as e.g. blahaj.zone's technology community, or are they different?

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mcc

@terry There is no https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/technology . But if there were, it would be a different community from https://beehaw.org/c/technology . A "community" is a specific thing on a specific instance. Actually, they seem to be a variant of an ActivityPub account.

If you paste https://beehaw.org/c/technology in the Mastodon.social search box (or possibly if you click here: @technology ) Mastodon.social will display the community *as* an account, but with a little bitty "Group" tag.