This question is especially for people who have joined in the last week. Have you used other fediverse platforms or is this your first time really using one? What do you think of it so far? Are you aware that you can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account?

Lemmy is my first

I love the idea, I hope it grows in popularity

I wasn’t aware of that when I first signed up, but a few days in I learned that

Yes it is the first time. I’m liking it. I’ve never tried Mastodon as I was never into Twitter and the two seemed similar.

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I think that Reddit style forums are better suited for the fediverse anyway. Reminds me of the old internet of IRC/Usenet and eventually vBulletin/Xenforo days when I was growing up.

Twitter and by extension Mastadon I think suffers from smaller communities since the point of those apps is to blast your thoughts and opinions to as many people as possible while Reddit/Lemmy is more for conversation.

This is my first venture into the fediverse. Confusing at first, but all the guides are helpful. I’m still unsure how to subscribe to communities I’m interested in

I think you just search the community name, if it is on your instance it will show up as community name otherwise it will show up as <community name>@<instance name> like gaming@lemmy.ml.

But in your instance or not, it will not make a difference for your experience, all you need to do is click subscribe, and it will show up in your feed.

I only see a subscribe button when I am browsing the list of communities, but if I search for a specific community I do not see any way to subscribe

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