Nice to see another instance join Lemmy and the fediverse. Best of luck.
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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The communities are:
!mirror@50501.chat
!general@50501.chat
As well as many state specific ones.
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.
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.
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?
Lemmy.zip is a great instance. I mean, look at this report: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677
And they do this every month!
Awesome, thanks for the reassurance.
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.
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
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.
No worries, feel free if you have any questions!
your links and in @Irelephant@lemm.ee comment doesn't work on Interstellar app. guess I have to pass my finding to the dev.
BTW there is a Boost for Lemmy. It's exactly the same as using the Boost for reddit
Yeah I should have clarified Boost for Reddit stopped working, I already had boost for Lemmy since the API stuff.
Surprising. I didn't expect them to host a instance over just creating a community on some instance.
Tbf it has a lot of communities, mostly for each state
Oh? Didn't notice that. I guess they could've still gone with creating them on some instance, but of course this is better.
!general@50501.chat
A "backup"?
I think having the moderators of a popular subreddit officially endorse Lemmy will lead to more Lemmy growth than if they just closed the subreddit.
What is that subreddit?
It's about a protest, impeaching the US president i think? (50 states 50 protests 1 movement)