Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think this one made it click for me! Thanks.

I might have been confused by the initial amount of duplicate posts across instances. I’m guessing that could be compared to cross posts across subreddits.

Now if I can engage with different instances from my own instance, why do I need a different user for each instance? Is that in case of instances blocking each other?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You don't need a different user for each instance unless the two instances you want to comment between are defederated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lets say you want to access [email protected] using your .world account. Do not go to lemmy.ml. Stay on lemmy.world, go to the search bar, filter by communities, and type: [email protected]

Why? You can’t log in to a lemmy.world account from lemmy.ml or any other instance besides .world. You can only access things from other instances using the method described above (although you can subscribe to [email protected] from a .world account and have its content appear on your home feed)

Do keep in mind that Lemmy is still in its early stages, and there will be many new features in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! The fact that I can only search for other instances somehow didn’t connect with me. It makes a bit more sense now.

I guess this also opens up the Top/Active filtering option to be more explorative than circle-jerky compared to that of Reddit. Maybe I’m wrong.