Hi lemmy.world! New to the fediverse, trying to create lemmy account but I just keep getting a spinning arrow and no sign up confirmation. Any thoughts?
Edit: I’m posting from kbin, I was able to create an account here. I’ve tried lemmy on two different browsers on mobile iOS, wondering if it’s just a glitch due to an influx of users
Edit 2: I tried creating a login on desktop and that worked! Leaving this post up so others can see in case they have the same issue :). Happy Reddit migration!
Well, you posted and have a username so you must have done something right. Welcome!
Looks like they’re posting from kbin.
Hey can you tell me how to reply to comments aswell?
Think that’s coming in an update
Be sure you validate your email address!
@Reddit_was_fun
Thanks! Just did, desktop gave me that option, mobile wasn’t working. All good now
Well, you posted and have a username so you must have done something right. Welcome!
Thanks! I’m actually posting from kbin not lemmy, but honestly I guess that’s what’s really cool here, we can connect from different platforms all the same
It’s really awesome here. Welcome.
Thanks! I’m actually pretty excited about this, I was sad about the demise of Reddit but honestly this feels fresh and new. And like we’re at the start of something great
@MudSkipperKisser @MiddleWeigh Welcome. You only need one account. With one account you can talk and see post and everywhere. Best thing about having a local account is having your own frontage of all the communities you follow. Just like Reddit in it’s own way
It’s possible it timed out. Try just logging in on the instance with the username and password you tried to create. I had that happen.
EDIT: If you tried to make the same username as your kbin on lemmy.world, it doesn’t look like the account exists by going to the /u/.
It could be a few things.
See the following. https://lemmy.pub/comment/14557
Good thing that my instance has them already on their block list 🙌
Wow I do remember the time of BBS’s, my older brother was in there from the beginning and it was exciting to watch and explore from there. This does feel like that, just without the deafening dial up noises
Yesterday the administrators tried to update the server, something got wrong and they rolled the update back but now this is a bit botched. When I reply, the spinner also does not go away but the content was posted. I guess they just need a bit of time to figure that out.
Yes, sort of! When I was a little kid, before our family had access to the internet, I was dialing into BBS (Bulletin Board System) servers that random people self-hosted around the world. Some were sort of secret and grew from word of mouth. Many of them were small communities, not too different from a lemmy instance, except it was all text-based. There was something so addicting and novel to suddenly be able to chat and contact random people all over the world.
Then when we did get the internet I would stay up finding all kinds of random homemade websites and web communities. I learned to code and built my own websites. verything was much more decentralized back then and it really did make the internet more interesting and full of unknown gems. People would put each other’s website links on their websites, which formed endless paths to discover new places. For a while, the internet really was just random individuals with very little corporate/commercial content.
