awesome-fediverse VS awesome-lemmy-instances

It's always the same comment: X is different from A, therefore X is not a good replacement for A.

The whole point of federation is to avoid the problems we're seeing with Facebook, with Instagram, with Reddit, with Twitter: control over your internet content. Not having a mega-corp bent on maximizing profits and using you as a milking cow, but instead have a say and have actual power in how communities are built and managed. It is 100% expected that Lemmy or KBin is different from Reddit. You say that's not a good user experience, but I challenge that assertion: I say it's not a bad UX, but it's a different UX, and you don't want to change. Well, if you don't want to change, stay on Reddit, that's not a problem. But if you're going to investigate what the fediverse is, please learn what it's about, how it's built. Don't expect to find the same old world you know, that's on purpose !

> It makes no sense to me at all

You're on HN, a forum where members pride themselves in being intelligent enough to dig around, learn by themselves, be different, hack around. You haven't made efforts understanding how the fediverse works, or why it's different, and your conclusion is _not_ that you should investigate, but that you should complain that it's too different. I don't understand this reasoning.

I think an issue in the mentality in this forum is that people mostly expect products, ie a package that is made by an entity and that is served to users. The package is expected to be complete, shiny, wonderful, the entity is expected to do whatever it takes to convince users. It's an asymmetry that is completely opposite to the whole concept of being a hacker, which is supposed to be the H of HN.

Here's a good post explaining what the fediverse is about: https://medium.com/@VirtualAdept/a-friendly-introduction-to-...

And here are a few links and resources if you want to go deeper: https://github.com/emilebosch/awesome-fediverse

most main instances of the fediverse (I think): https://github.com/emilebosch/awesome-fediverse

> I applied for mastodon

which server?

there are multiple server-side platforms too, incl. some forks, so if mastodon.social is not for you – look around for better lighter alternatives (as well for self-hosting)

start around here: https://github.com/emilebosch/awesome-fediverse#applications

https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

I tried join-lemmy.org, but it's just an unordered list of random servers. This repo, linked there, hasn't had a commit in three weeks, which, given the recent attempt at an exodus, presumably dates it severely. This site, which the first site links, is just outright dead, and doesn't work. The last site they link is a D3 visualization that doesn't work too well - it's very cluttered, and instances constantly fall of the screen, with no scrolling capability - nearly unreadable.

推荐的公开服务器： https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

Here you'll get a quick explanation of some of the features different instances can enable and a list of which instances have what https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances among other places has some comparisons

Your best bet is to join a Lemmy instance with a name you like, really. Check this list of instances. If I were you I'd pick one with a good uptime, but not World or ShitJustWorks, nor Beehaw.

I don't understand the relevance of github here either. Pick an instance from https://join-lemmy.org/ or pick one from https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances like I did. Heads up that the latter hasn't been updated in a while. Go through the sign up process on that instance. Use a valid email address when signing up. Check your spam folder for a confirmation email. Good luck, let us know if you have any other questions.