Weekly thread - New people, feel free to ask your questions here

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she/her

I’ve seen communities starting with c/ (such as c/newcommers) but also communities starting with r/ (like r/random), what is the difference?

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Warm typewriter edited
  • communities always start with /c
  • The r/random isn’t a community but a very fresh piefed feature that just come out today : it is an exploring button. You hammer it to find new communities :)
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she/her

ah, okay. thank you

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This seems like it is going to come up a lot, as people freshly migrate here from Reddit.

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Warm typewriter

Yes, i think /r/random coffuse new users, most of them are from reddit. We should wait a little and ask again for feedback.

I saw a nice idea : piefed.social/random :)

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Yes I thought about mentioning that one - I love it as well.

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New to the fediverse in general, but an exile from Reddit trying something new. I want to join a community, !comedybangbang@lemmy.world, but it doesn’t show up in searches, and pasting it into the URL just gives me a “not found“ page (whereas, another community that I tested, aww@lemmy.world worked). My meager understanding of lemmy/piefed/fediverse is that all lemmy.world content should also be available on piefed.social. Is that incorrect? Is there no way to join this community through piefed?

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Clicking the link that was generated in my post actually got me to the community and I was able to join it. I’m still not sure why it didn’t come up in searches. If somebody could shed some light on that, I would appreciate it

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Piefed.social Staff OP

Because it was not federated to piefed.social. Communities made externally need to be manually pulled in and grabbed by users like how you did it.

At this point, Piefed.social has most communities - but apparently not all.

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Is there any sort of ‘about’ page that I can look at which might have more info about the site? So far (after 15 minutes) I’m loving this place. Reddit getting rid of /r/all was the last straw. I don’t mind there being less active users here, as long as there are users here.

Well done to the devs!

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Well, there is “about” at the very bottom of the page but I’m not sure that’s what you’re looking for

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Piefed.social Staff OP

Well this is specifically the flagship instance of Piefed. The “about” page is here at the bottom of the page. It doesn’t say a lot though. What did you want to know specifically?

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Apologies, I didn’t notice the about at the bottom. But for example, I keep seeing ‘instance’ mentioned, what does that mean? what is piefed? who made it, what is it for, and why should I use it? That’s the kind of thing I’m wondering about (and sorry if this info is easily available and I’ve just missed it.)

thanks.

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Piefed.social Staff OP edited

So you signed up to piefed.social. The software is called “Piefed”. “Piefed” is an open source reddit-styled software that anyone can spin up and host. You’re on piefed.social which is the flagship server hosted by the developer. You can see other servers here.

So basically you’re on a federated reddit alternative. It’s lots of different reddits hosted by different people that network together. So people on other servers (called “instances") can interact with you and you can interact on them. The idea is that there is no single owner so the entire system can’t be compromised - so if you don’t like the policies of a particular server you can go elsewhere within the network and not lose access.

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Brilliant, thanks for the info. My suggestion would be to have that type of explainer front and center for noobs like me who want an alternative to Reddit.

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Piefed.social Staff OP

I understand that. I should say there’s more to it than that lol - I tried to make it as brief as possible. Instances have different policies etc, but newbies don’t all enter into the Threadiverse the same way so it’s hard to have it visible at all points.

There’s also “Lemmy” which is the original software which is how most people join the Fediverse, which you didn’t - making you unusual.

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Yeah the more I explore the more confused I get tbh. I think I just found a link here on the redditalternatives subreddit and went from there.

Is there any guide for newbies with the type of information I’m after?

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Oh, and what’s this ‘lemmy’ that I keep coming across?

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