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Re: Teddit Is Shutting Down

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Post by glenstein » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 12:31 PM UTC

nextaccountic wrote: post #117

glenstein wrote: post #17

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Huh? My experience consisted of visiting lemmy and signing up. Also, and separately, huh? You can share links on lemmy without logging in. Look, here's one: https://lemmy.ml/post/2069154 So, you can visit without being prompted to select a server. You can sign up without having to look through servers. And you can share links without logging in. So what am I missing?

> Huh? My experience consisted of visiting lemmy and signing up. You can't "visit lemmy". Which instance did you visit and signed up, lemmy.ml?

You can indeed visit "lemmy" in the sense of visit any instance of Lemmy, and also in the sense of visiting whichever one is tops on google, and also in the sense of visiting lemmy.ml, which is the oldest and perhaps most prominent one.

You an also exercise bad faith and construe those as overly literal references to a singular "lemmy," and position yourself as offering a correction wherein you explain what the fediverse is, a correction which depends on that bad faith interpretation, which appears to be your game here.

Re: Teddit Is Shutting Down

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Post by glenstein » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 1:04 PM UTC

dryanau wrote: post #51

glenstein wrote: post #17

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Huh? My experience consisted of visiting lemmy and signing up. Also, and separately, huh? You can share links on lemmy without logging in. Look, here's one: https://lemmy.ml/post/2069154 So, you can visit without being prompted to select a server. You can sign up without having to look through servers. And you can share links without logging in. So what am I missing?

So I clicked "sign up" and it suggested checking if there might be another instance best suited to my needs, so I followed the proposed link to https://join-lemmy.org/ and got the "join a server"/"run a server" option. After clicking "join a server" and scrolling the list of half added descriptions I just left because it felt like I was supposed to be making a choice about the community I want to join before even che…

Lemmy's sign up works just like reddit. It sounds like you were looking at the actual pop up box where the identical-to-reddit registration happens, but instead of completing it you clicked a link that brought you away.

So the thing you say you wanted, it was literally right there on your screen and you were looking at it.

Re: Teddit Is Shutting Down

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Post by sleight42 » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 6:18 PM UTC

rakoo wrote: post #176

sleight42 wrote: post #120

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Probably means [this]( https://tenforward.social/@elight/110708424512879073 ) and [this]( https://tenforward.social/@elight/110696839817687860 ).

There's a bit of conflating terms but the underlying point makes sense: topics shouldn't be linked with an instance, they should reach across different servers. This is what groups are for, and are being actively worked on.

"Groups... are being actively worked on."

Where? By who? For what platform? Show me?