Hi 🙋,

you might be in search for an reddit alternative and don’t get the Lemmy thing, yet. Lemme help you out, shortly.

  1. Lemmy lets you build communities just like you are used to.
  2. You need an account to participate. I doesn’t matter on which server you register.
    1. https://feddit.org/ → German/English community
    2. https://feddit.uk/ → UK centric
    3. List of other servers
  3. Lemmy servers (instances) host communities and can be interconnected.
    1. @user@example.com can follow local or remote communities
      • !community1@example.com
      • !community2@niceplace.com
      • identified almost as easy as an e-Mail address.
  4. Following a community is called subscribing, you’ll find a subscribe button when browsing communities.
  5. Subscribing will keep you noted on new posts.
  6. Mobile clients can make the experience more fluffy
    1. Voyager
    2. Arctic (iOS)
    3. List of other clients

Our community is called !BuyFromEU@feddit.org but there are several likeminded communities out there. Make sure to watch out for them, e.g. by browsing an instance’s local communities. Also if you want to stick around we posted about What to expect (from this community) and Where to start (buying european).

Feel free to link this post, when onboarding people to this community.

  • Richie Rich@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I just wanted to mention that too small instances can also be a problem: They’re often not maintained very well. I experienced that the German community on “feddit dot de” was abandoned and I was annoyed about it, so that I was searching for a stable instance. Therefore, I switched to lemmy.world but now I think: meanwhile the German community is stable at feddit.org.

    But I don’t know why I now should move away from lemmy.world. I think the user base has to grow a little bit more. For me there is not really that much content in German, if so, then I would consider changing.

    • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      There is no need to change anything. You might consider making an account on another instance to be able to switch over if something bad happens with lemmy.world, you just start disliking it, or similar. But no need to change what works for you.

      That’s why I also only said that new users can simply be directed somewhere else.