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/r/50501 is opening a Lemmy instance as a backup (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] Eyro_Elloyn@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Boost stopped working a couple days ago so I'm now fully on Lemmy. Can somebody help me understand how this works?

So the subreddit made a .chat instance (which my boost for Lemmy app does not open in app), and these are the two mirrors for that one instance? But I feel my assumption is off because they have different posts.

[–] socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what is it that you want explained?

Lemmy runs on a bunch of separate servers (instances) that share information with each other. 50501.chat is such an instance.
Any community - basically a subreddit - is hosted on one such instance
Your server, lemmy.zip, can pull information from that instance when you go to their community. On your end, unless their instance is banned by your instance, all this means is that their community has a longer name. Instead of /r/50501 or /c/50501 or whatever, it's !mirror@50501.chat so that your instance can tell where to take you when you want to go there.

[–] Eyro_Elloyn@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Excellent, thank you. The last time I used the Lemmy was when the Reddit API stuff was happening, so I didn't know the specifics. I appreciate your patience in explaining this.

I knew I could link to other instances and see their posts, but I didn't know that they needed a longer name.

As an aside, am I fine overall being part of a relatively small instance, or as an average user who wants a replacement for Reddit, am I better off having my account located on one of the larger instances?

Like if Lemmy.zip is too small and eventually shuts down, do I just lose my account?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemmy.zip is a great instance. I mean, look at this report: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677

And they do this every month!

[–] Eyro_Elloyn@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Awesome, thanks for the reassurance.

[–] socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

there's nothing at all wrong with a small instance, although afaik if your instance goes offline your account is lost. I haven't been active much between the api thing and recently, so it's possible they implemented the much asked-for account migration feature in the intervening years.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Can't you open this link in the app? !general@50501.chat

If not there is this one: https://lemmy.zip/c/general@50501.chat

So "general" is the general discussion space from the Lemmy server.

!Mirror@50501.chat mirrors chats from the subreddit

[–] Eyro_Elloyn@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, those links did work, and thank you for explaining what mirror did. I just haven't used lemmy in a while and didn't understand the specifics, another user went into detail to my benefit.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

No worries, feel free if you have any questions!

[–] JayGray91@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

your links and in @Irelephant@lemm.ee comment doesn't work on Interstellar app. guess I have to pass my finding to the dev.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

BTW there is a Boost for Lemmy. It's exactly the same as using the Boost for reddit

[–] Eyro_Elloyn@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah I should have clarified Boost for Reddit stopped working, I already had boost for Lemmy since the API stuff.