• Metal Zealot@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Aaaaand it’s down again.

    I tried suggesting to someone to move to another instance. I got accused of pushing an “agenda”, lol. Is lemmy.world reaching Reddit fanboy-ism mentality?

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      1 year ago

      Meanwhile, me on kbin.social doing 90% of my reading and posting on lemmy.world.

      I love the interface here. But the content leaves much to be desired.

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        1 year ago

        Kbin’s odd, Is it a mix of Mastodon and Lemmy in one?

        From what I understand, “Magazines” are Communities/Subreddits, “Threads” are posts in those Magazines, and Microblogs are the comments in those Threads? But you can Boost posts?

        I’m curious how cross posting works between Mastodon/Kbin

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          As far as I can tell, “boosting” is like an upvote that carries across instances. The regular upvote/downvotes stay on Kbin. I haven’t even touched the “microblog” thing yet because I have no idea how to use it. But the rest is spot on.

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        1 year ago

        lemmy.world is great to start on but I want to switch to a smaller but more local instance really. I dont know how to search for an instance thats in my region

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          1 year ago

          What region?

          There are lots of tools that list instances but ultimately it might be better to ask for opinions.

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              Hopefully someone finds this and can suggest something.

              I had a look on https://lemmyverse.net but there don’t seem to be any location-based servers for the south east. Perhaps pick a general US-based server, or one themed around a hobby?

              Probably go to a few and check the local feed. The main difference between servers will be the local feed, so find a server where that’s somewhat active and has content you want to see. I think it’s a good idea to aim for a server with 500-5,000 users so the local feed is somewhat useful.