Reddit is starting to suck more and more everyday so here I am. A couple of questions -

  1. I created my account at lemmy.ca, but most people I have seen have lemmy.world accounts. Am I missing out on anything by not having a lemmy.world account?

  2. Reddit has an offical subreddit for Reddit news. Does Lemmy have any offical communities?

  3. On Reddit, you can’t post on some subreddits if you do not have enough karma or if your account is not old enough. Are there any rules like that on Lemmy?

Thank you!

  • Admiral PatrickEnglish
    24•1 month ago

    First, welcome!

    1. No, that’s the beauty of federation. That said, some instances do not federate with others for a number of reasons (most admins try to keep the number of instances they “defederate” from to a minimum and only for good reasons).

    So if lemmy.ca doesn’t federate with badlemmy.xyz, you won’t see any content from users from badlemmy.xyz from your lemmy.ca account.

    1. Most instances have “meta” or announcement communities where the admins post instance-specific news (announcing downtime, updates, etc). You can follow most of those communities on other instances, if you want.

    For lemmy.ca, their announcement community is [email protected] and they also have [email protected] and [email protected]

    1. There’s no official capability for that in Lemmy, but some communities do have "automod"s that may limit new users’ abilities to post there. You’ll still be able to post, but it may get auto-modded. I don’t have a list of those, unfortunately.