But there’s not many current users over there to answer them. If you still have a reddit account and are willing to help some folks out, please consider doing so!

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      A huge barrier for some is picking the instance and figuring which community they should follow.

      Figuring out which communities on which servers to subscribe to is way more important than figuring out which server to post from.

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        no, it does matter, because of the “local” feed.

        I am in favor of creating something intermediate between “local” and “global”. For example, it should also show you a few posts of “neighboring” servers, but not so much from servers who are further removed.

        But that effectively goes in the direction of creating a recommendation algorithm, which is a notoriously difficult topic, because everyone will complain about the results.

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        To get to that point you have to have selected an instance and then learned how it all works so IMO that’s less of a barrier for entry than it is a barrier for use

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        I slightly prefer mlem even tho its similar, arctic is the cleanest with the least issues displaying things imo, at least on iphone

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        I have a question.

        How, if possible, can I log in to say, discuss.online above, with this account.

        Or do I need to make a second account over there.

        I am using the jerboa app at the moment if that helps.

        Also, related, is there a way to just, use my Mastodon account, and drop this one completely?

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          You can’t log in from your lemmy.world account, but you can interact with it through lemmy.world as if you had an account there.

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          How, if possible, can I log in to say, discuss.online above, with this account. Or do I need to make a second account over there.

          You can view/comment/vote on all of the content there while logged into lemmy.world. As an example, you should be able to click this !flipperzero@programming.dev and participate there. or !AskUSA@discuss.online.

          Also, related, is there a way to just, use my Mastodon account, and drop this one completely?

          I am not a fan of “microblogging”, so I am not 100% certain. I have seen a lot of posts/comments from Mastodon on lemmy instances, they are the people using hashtags.

          Kbin and Mbin are Lemmy-like systems that also hooks into microblogging much easier, so you might be able to do a one account thing there much easier.

          Again, not certain because microblogging is not my jam.

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            It seems you can’t interact using Mastodon, but you can follow Lemmy with Mastodon. Mostly just wasn’t sure because in some ways the Fediverse seems more connected and more into the idea of “follow everywhere”, but also it seems like its not quite at “one account everywhere.”

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        Reddit has a recommendation algorithm to do most of that work for you.