I’m in Lemmy.world, but I’ve seen there are others. Do I have to switch in between them (if so, how?) or is it fine the way I have it?

Thanks a lot.

    • @Quickswitch79OP
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      61 year ago

      That’s brilliant, thanks a lot 🙂

    • @Juzexo
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      41 year ago

      Thank you for this explanation! It helped a lot

    • @[email protected]
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      You also have to keep in mind that openly federating forces instance admins to, on some level, moderate the content from other instances too. Lemmy.world was forced to block some instances because it was proving too hard to moderate the content from them. You should also consider this when choosing an instance.

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    • @seeCseas
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      151 year ago

      hey you’re the guy who didn’t shit, how did that go!

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        • @ydieb
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          Kinda pointless comment from me since its over , but I’d do it regardless. The solution is just to fast. 3 day fasts are surprisingly simple to do and makes you easily not poop.

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      There’s also some feature differences between instances. Some instances disable downvotes, don’t allow creating communities, or have stricter rules about communities that are allowed.

      I chose my current instance because I wanted downvotes (I see them as critical for quality control) and also wanted to be federated with beehaw.

      As an aside, LW made massive performance improvements the other day. They seem to be in a good position to keep growing, currently. There’s certainly some benefits to being on the biggest instance, because of how the /all feed works. It’s not actually all. It’s “all communities someone on my instance subscribes to”, so the bigger your instance, the more correct /all is.

  • Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!
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    @Quickswitch79 Due to the magic of the Fediverse you don’t even need to be on Lemmy!

    Kbin is another similar system that interacts with Lemmy, and this reply has come from Mastodon!

    Although in general I wouldn’t recommend using Mastodon to interact with Lemmy communities, it works but it’s not what either system is optimised for so it’s a bit clunky.

    But it’s still pretty amazing to me: it’s like using Twitter or Instagram to read and reply to Reddit!

  • Treedrake
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    As of now, it does matter. I’m on kbin.social, but atm I can’t see most content and comments from lemmy instances. Something is not federating correctly.

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      Yeah, lemmy and kbin have had issues syncing up for me and posts I made on a kbin instance not showing up despite waiting days.

      So until that gets resolved or if, it’s best to have a lemmy and kbin account.

  • @aslaii
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    31 year ago

    I can see other instances but somehow I can’t subscribe or comment to a community from another instance beside .world? Idk.

    • @seeCseas
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      71 year ago

      yes, you can! you just have to search for “all” instead of “local” under Communities!

    • DingDongBell
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      11 year ago

      thats weird you should be able to unless defederated

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    If you’re using the web-ui, you can change the scope of your searches to include external results as well. You can subscribe to any community without leaving your home instance.

    search

  • Bradamir
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    Why are there multiple Lemmy websites lol. So confusing.

    • Kichae
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      Because Lemmy isn’t a website. It’s software that runs social content aggregation sites.

      It’s like what WordPress is for blogs and other unidirectional content serving websites.

      The fun thing is, though, that any website running Lemmy can share content posted to it with any other website running Lemmy.

      It’s only confusing because corporate social media has taught us that “service = place”.

    • @pinwurm
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      Same reason there are multiple phone companies. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Google Fi, Cricket Wireless, Mint Mobile, etc.

      They all allow you to communicate with your friends no matter what provider they use. But the companies are all slightly different. You might choose one due to better coverage, or customer support, or corporate ethics, or simply cause a friend recommended it.

      Phones are redundant. So if Verizon fails, you can always sign up for another provider and still talk to your friends. Or if you have a bad experience, you’re not stuck using something you hate.

      Plus, if one company ruled all of phones, it would be a bad thing. Monopolies aren’t good.

      Lemmy isn’t the only thing out there with ‘multiple websites’ online. Email - there is more than just gmail, outlook, yahoo, proton, etc.

      It’s not confusing to you that there are multiple email companies, that all work together, right? You don’t need a gmail account to send a message to a gmail user.

      So don’t think it Lemmy like a website owned by one company. It’s not. Just like nobody owns “email”. Think of it like a protocol.

      But I get it. Lemmy is an emerging technology. People are expecting it to be new Reddit. And it is on the front end. But it’s closer to new email.

    • Th4tGuyII
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      Because that’s the whole point of being decentralised. Nobody gets everything.

      If there was just one “Lemmy”, we’d be back to another monolithic Reddit again.

    • r00ty
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      There really needs to be a fediverse primer that everyone can read before signing up. It would make all this stuff clear.

    • NotAPenguin
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      That’s the basis of the whole system, they use the same protocol to communicate(activity pub) and share content.

      It allows anyone to run their own version of reddit and they can decide which other servers they want to have content from