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  • Learn about the fediverse as much as possible! Learn about instances and check our their about bar/ page. Download a mobile application and explore the many options you have. Try to figure out why you want to be here. Check out the list of popular instances (a lot of the instances have esoteric names) and see if there's an instance that reflects your interests. Check what they're federated to, and decide if those are the kind of people you want to talk to/ share your interests. There are general instances like ".ml and .world. " These instances can become overburdened. The account you have on their instance is your access to the rest of the fediverse/ lemmy.

    Our active user base is somewhat small. The biggest thing is to explore, read side bar rules, and post!

    It's a lot of information, and when I first got into it, I felt over my head.

    ALSO YOU CAN'T DELETE YOUR COMMENTS OUTSIDE OF YOUR INSTANCE.

    Posting to 196 would be a good example.

    • ALSO YOU CAN’T DELETE YOUR COMMENTS OUTSIDE OF YOUR INSTANCE.

      Yes you can. But just as is true with posting and editing, sometimes a deletion will fail to federate to all instances. No federation action is guaranteed, but rather best effort.

      • Sorry, you can't delete your comment if they choose to disallow that. That's common on lemmy. That's why you'll get downvotes on poorly written comments you give up on and delete.

        • Sorry, you can’t delete your comment if they choose to disallow that. That’s common on lemmy.

          Please show me a single case where that actually happened.

          • Do you want to test it with me? I can make a few different accounts on a few different instances if you're willing. I'll make a few comments on a few posts and delete them.

            I had one specific time someone quoted me like you did in a comment, but it was something I had deleted a long time ago. The time stamp on their comment was too recent to have seen my comment. I tested it a few times after that. If I can find the comment chain(s), I'll link them. I comment a lot on lemmy, so I'd have to dig a bit.

    • Ok what even is “the fediverse” and why is it called that?

      I’m here to waste time, like I’d imagine most of us are

      • It's a series of self hosted, inter connected, social (mostly) media platforms sharing similar names/ templates. Lemmy is like reddit, but even more decentralized than something like mastadon, which is like twitter.Twitter. Most social media apps have/ used to have a specific purpose. Honestly, I should have this compiled in a clean and easy to share format.

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