I’m interested in your efforts to make onboarding new users as smooth as possible. I’m the only one in my discord group that is actively looking into the fediverse. As a non technical person, a lot on the backend side I can never understand fully. So any efforts by instances admins to make onboarding simple I appreciate it so much.

I’ve been looking to abandon my lemmyworld alt to move to a new instance on lemmy. lemm.ee was shortlisted, and also an instance that’s in my country (pardon if I don’t want to reveal it). both are considered because they don’t defederate a lot. So I found the way lemmy.zip (Zippy as you call it?) having default blocks a novel way.

Actually the lemmyworld account is my first threadiverse account back when reddit APPocalypse happened. never stuck because honestly speaking the onboarding is obtuse and opaque. So in February this year I’m giving this another go and it seems to stick a lot better. I understand a lot more, and now I’m trying to find ways to get my discord group over.

I think lemmy.zip might be it. Easier to explain with the default block on. And they won’t be siloed out of communities that happened to have turf wars. I think I’ll make an account here to see the onboarding.

And for another, at any time users can view Categories of Communities, such as all things Fediverse, News & Politics, or Gaming, and now users can even create our own customized Feeds

I like the sound of this. Pardon the comparison, but it’s like multisubreddit. That’s one of the big things from reddit I miss. Making my own categorised feed.

I use Private Internet Access (PIA) and that has port forwarding. I read something about it on reddit but forgot about it, so idk of there’s anything bad it controversial surrounding PIA.

I appreciate knowing both. I have a Lemmy instance account too.

@[email protected] thank you for your answer.

Thanks for shedding light on that feature on fedia. Yeah, I kind of did not find a need to do this. The question just crossed my mind yesterday and somehow I thought I need to know.

Cant read the article due to paywall

Woah, when did The Verge have a paywall?

someone in that department is getting a promotion, I bet

idk I prefer florisboard more in general

but currently they don’t have any autocorrect or swipe typing

Never heard of this one before. too bad it doesn’t have a mobile version as well.

i wish to someday attend something like this. the energy I’ve seen out of hololive events rivals real people concerts, IMO. meanwhile I’ll settle for attending local bands’ events for now.

using it now. but I have to say the Lemmy apps are just much note enticing, NGL.

I’ve seen the moist cat mbin instance being promoted a few times in RedditAlternative before I move here, actually. it’s one of my considerations jumping instances actually.

or links to anything in the threadiverse doesn’t open via your instance without an app, extension or proper linking unless it’s from the front page.

I’m kind of am using both on desktop and mobile equally. back when i was active on reddit, I use mobile apps to browse and save comments to later interact and respond more easily on desktop.

the third thing, is it possible it’s sublink or something like that?

piefed seems to be the third defacto for now, but you already said that’s not what you meant.

I’d love that. I still need to go looking for an instance that I can fit in and just block and curate myself.

How is the moist instance? is it stable and relatively quick? I’m partial to stay with mbin instances more than Lemmy but I’m still open to anything really.

It’s interesting though, and somewhat nostalgic. It feels like how I was pruning my reddit subscriptions and all. Or twitter. Or other social media. Idk how go through the noise by not pruning what they follow.

Noted. It does feel like I do have to go look for “the one” instance like that. Sucks as a lurker; that’s my default mode lol.

Thanks. That’s a slight shame. I’ve only been trying out lemmy / threadiverse for just a few days (second attempt. first attempt was back on reddit APIcalypse) and for now I’m liking mbin a bit more than lemmy. fedia.io being the biggest instance, so that’s why I registered there first. next biggest mbin instance is a bit less stable.

I suppose it’s still early days for me so I can afford to jump around for now to see what instance sticks, and I guess the software as well.

Hmm, I see. This is interesting. It gives me the feeling that I either would “have to” have a generalist account on the least defederated instance to have as wide a net (kind of my early times on reddit), or I would have specialized accounts to specific topics in multiple instances.

Sorry, I wouldn’t know. I’m new and slowly dipping into lemmy and eventually other parts of fediverse. I’m curious too, but idk if I should ask fedia.io’s admin about it.