• its4am@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I apologize in advance as I’m one of the many reddit refugees seeking alternatives. I can’t believe how fast reddit is unraveling and you’d think with u/spez’s recent AMA he would try to placate the community instead of inciting the situation even further. Anyway, Lemmy’s pretty cool so far.

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      Don’t apologize. All refugees are welcome here. Although… there is one small thing you could do to help. Maybe make an account on a less crowded instance? Too many people see “dev-run” and think “main instance”. We do need to spread out a bit to make this sustainable.

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        1 year ago

        I’m new here, too. How do I switch instances from the mobile app?

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          You just add another account under the arrow on the top left side. Then you can switch between the accounts on different instances if you like. But I prefer having one account only on a small instance.

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                  Yeah it’s a common problem and I had it too. There was many threads about it. It’s pretty much hidden.

                  Anyway, if you click on the top left hamburger menu in the app, there is a tiny arrow there at the top right. Click it. :)

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        I think they missed an opportunity not having a couple instances lined up named main 1-5 or something, maybe even have a message pop up when you try to access lemmy.ml routing you to another suitable instance

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          You’re thinking about this like a technical problem at a major corporation. The devs do not control other servers. No volunteer trying to make an instance and build a community on it is gonna want to name their instance “Main 5”.

          Better that users understand as early as possible that there is no main instance.

          This isn’t a technical problem: this is a cultural problem. Hopefully one that gets solved with time.

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      It’s open source I think its gonna get a lot more development just from Redditors

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      They have people astroturfing hard right now arguing that reddit is not wrong for anything they are doing